Saturday, January 03, 2004

Codex Bezae Study Week

This just received from Jenny Heimerdinger:

"We are writing to let you know that the study week on Codex Bezae planned for 3rd-8th July 2004 at the University of Wales, Bangor, has been postponed. A good number of people expressed an interest in the meeting but it appears that there is a variety of obstacles standing in the way of this year’s proposal.

We are suggesting, therefore, that the meeting be re-scheduled for the summer of 2005 and to that end, in view of the observations some of you have made, we would like to invite comments from any who may be interested in taking part. In particular, we would welcome your thoughts on:

Format —is an informal meeting, with workshops and discussions on aspects of Codex Bezae, preferable to the more usual structure of a formal conference with scholarly papers? Would a combination of the two be best of all?

Content —it was envisaged that all four Gospels and Acts in Codex Bezae would be potential topics. Would you like to see the scope of the meeting restricted to selected books?

Language —which languages would you wish to have represented at the meeting? and which on a equal footing with English?

Dates —possible alternatives to the first week in July are mid-July or mid-September. The duration could be shortened to 3 or 4 days.

Location —Bangor (Wales), London or Dublin are alternatives. Is any more attractive a proposal than the others?

If you would like to comment on any of these points, we would be grateful to have your response within the next month.

Jenny Read-Heimerdinger (University of Wales, Bangor)
Josep Rius-Camps (Facultat de Teologia, Barcelona)"

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