I will be in Helsinki on 8 May 2019 for a workshop on virtue from Qumran to the Quran and beyond.

Papers will cover ancient Jewish, early Christian, Roman, and early Islamic virtue discourses.

Here is the program:

9.15 Welcome
Session 1: Translating Virtue
9.30-11.00 Keynote 1: Sophia Vasalou (Birmingham), Between Scripture and Philosophy: Approaches to the Virtues in the Islamic World
10.15 Response by Ritva Palmén
10.25 Discussion
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.00 Elisa Uusimäki, In Search of Virtue: Ancestral Inheritance in the Testament of Qahat
12.00-12.30 Andrew Crislip, Disgust as a Virtue in Late Antique Egypt: Moral Purity and the Ascetic Good Life
12.30-14.00 Lunch at Sunn (for the speakers)

16.00-16.30 Siiri Toiviainen Rø, Joy Before Joy, Gladness Before Gladness: Hope as a Positive Anticipatory Emotion in Philo of Alexandria and Gregory of Nyssa
16.30-17.00 Anna-Liisa Rafael, Competence in the Highest Virtue: The Mother of Seven Sons in Lamentations Rabbah
17.00 Light dinner at HCAS (for registered participants)

You can register here.

SEE ALSO

First Qumran Residency, 9–19 Sept 2019 IOSOT Congress in Aberdeen, 4-9 August 2019 Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting, Rome, 1–5 July 2019 Was the Shapira Deuteronomy a Forgery? Harvard, 3 June 2019 The Scribe in the Biblical World, 17-19 June 2019 in Strasbourg Study tour in Israel, May 2019 Biblical and Archaeological Tour of Ancient Judea, 12-13 April 2019 The Qumran scrolls after 70 years