the
BYZANTINE
LITURGY
and
THE JEWS
Institute of Ecumenical Research Conference Program
Lucian Blaga University Sibiu July 9-11, 2019
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the
BYZANTINE
LITURGY
and
THE JEWS
Conference Program
July 9-11, 2019
Conference venue: Sibiu Ramada Hotel
Organizers: Alexandru Ioniță, Antoaneta Sabău, Stefan Tobler
Institute of Ecumenical Research, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania
The conference is part of the research project Jewish-Christian Dialogue
between Religious Tolerance and Anti-Semitism: Documents, Interpretations,
Perspectives in the Christian Orthodox Context, funded by the UEFISCDI as
PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0699.
Institute of Ecumenical Research
Lucian Blaga University
30 Mitropoliei St.
Sibiu, Romania
www.ecum.ro
www.ddic.ecum.ro
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MONDAY, JULY 8
16.00-18.00 City Tour (meeting point: Ramada ground floor hall)
18.30-20.00 Conference registration (Ramada first floor hall)
TUESDAY, JULY 9
08.30-09.00 Conference registration (Ramada first floor hall)
09.00-09.30 OPENING ADDRESS (Ramada Alfa Room)
09.30-11.00 Session I – Chair: Stefan Tobler
MICHAEL AZAR
Israel: The People of God in Byzantine Liturgy
BOGDAN BUCUR
Missing the (Theophanic) Point: A Blind Spot in Patristic Scholarship and Its Consequences for Understanding Anti-
Jewish Texts in Byzantine Festal Hymns
ALEXANDRU IONIȚĂ
Mapping the Anti-Jewish Topoi of the Triodion
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Session II – Chair: Bronwen Neil
PATRICK ANDRIST
Le De Paschα de Méliton et son contexte: existait-il, dans l’Antiquité, une tradition chrétienne de polémique antijudaïque
dans les liturgies de la période de Pâques? / Contextualising Melito’s De Paschα: Was There, in Antiquity, a Christian
Tradition of Polemics Adversus Iudaeos in the Liturgies Around Easter?
HARALD BUCHINGER
Anti-Judaism at the Origins of the Byzantine Liturgical Year: “Israel” and “the Jews” in Severian of Gabala’s Festal
Homilies
ISTVÁN PERCZEL
Is Saint John Chrysostom the Father of Byzantine anti-Semitism? In Memoriam Zvetlana-Mihaela Tanasă
13.00-15.00 Lunch Break
15.00-17.00 Session III – Chair: Harald Buchinger
ELIANE POIROT
Les seize Discours liturgiques de Grégoire de Nazianze dans la liturgie byzantine
RADU GHEORGHE GÂRBACEA
“Consider with me…the Jews’ Folly”: the Image of the Jews in the Patristic Homilies and the Hymnography on Lazarus
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BRONWEN NEIL
Mary and the Jews in the Byzantine Liturgy in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries
BASILIUS GROEN
The Strained Relationship between Venerating Old Testament Saints and Singing anti-Jewish Hymns
17.00-17.30 Coffee Break
17.30-19.00 Session IV – Chair: Partick Andrist
DORU CONSTANTIN DOROFTEI
Christ, Christians, and Christianity in the Palestinian Aramaic Poetry of Late Antiquity
RUTH LANGER, DEMETRIOS E. TONIAS
The Self through the Other in Byzantine and Jewish Liturgies: A Comparative Exercise
BARBARA CROSTINI
The Objects of Jewish Cult from a Christian Perspective: Materiality and Mediation in Faith and Worship
19.30 Conference festive dinner (Ramada Hotel)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10
09.00-11.00 Session V – Chair: Alexandru Ioniță
SANDRINE CANERI
La prière liturgique au regard de l’Évangile: comment les juifs sont-ils présentés?
VADIM WITTKOWSKY
Das Bild der „Juden“ in der orthodoxen Karwochenliturgie vor dem Hintergrund der „antijüdischen“ Stellen des Neuen
Testaments
ALEXANDRU MIHĂILĂ
Quoting Scripture against the Jews in the Holy Week Orthodox Cult
PETER EBENBAUER
„Mein Volk, was habe ich dir getan?“ Die Karfreitags-Improperien in den gegenwärtigen Ordnungen des byzantinischen
und des römisch-katholischen Ritus
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Session VIa - Alfa Room Session VIb - Betta Room
Chair: Stephen Shoemaker Chair: Pablo Argárate
EVELINA MINEVA ALEXANDRU PRELIPCEAN
The Jews in the Hymns of John Damascus, Marcos Eugenikos and Andrew of Crete’s Anti-Jewish Hymnography of the Triodion
in the South Slavic Translations of Byzantine Hymns
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NADIESZDA KIZENKO EIRINI ARTEMI
The Long Shadow of Byzantine Anti-Jewish Liturgical Texts: the The Psalms, the Hymns and the Texts of the Old Testament and
Church Slavonic Service to Martyr Gavriil of Bielostok in Late Their Use in Holy Monday and Tuesday
Imperial Russia
VICTORIA LEGKIKH PARASKEVI TOMA
Christians as the New People through the Images of Old Testament Politically Correct or Just not Anti-Jewish: Reconstructing the Profile
in Byzantine and Russian Orthodox Hymnography of the Middle Byzantine Hymnographer
13.00-15.00 Lunch Break
15.00-17.00 Session VII – Chair: Reinhart Ceulemans
BERNARD OUTTIER
L'image des Juifs dans l'hymnographie arménienne et géorgienne ancienne
STEPHEN J SHOEMAKER
Passion Piety and Anti-Judaism in Late Ancient Jerusalem: Hymns for the Holy Week from the Jerusalem Georgian
Chantbook
BABY VARGHESE
Cult of the Old Testament Saint and Anti-Judaic Polemics in the Syrian Orthodox Liturgy
PABLO ARGÁRATE
Israel and the Jews in the Kontakia of Romanos Melodos
17.00-17.30 Coffee Break
17.30-19.00 Session VIII – Chair: Ruth Langer
GAGA SHURGAIA
Nέα Ιερουσαλήμ: Holiness and Royalty Transplanted
CĂTĂLIN POPA ȘTEFAN
Encountering the Other in the Holy City. Anti-Jewish Literary Constructions in Syriac and Arabic Sources on the
Muslim Conquest of Jerusalem
RĂZVAN PERȘA
The Jews in the Canonical Tradition of the Orthodox Church
THURSDAY, JULY 11
9.00-11.00 Session IX – Chair: Barbara Crostini
NATALIIA KOSTIUK
Images of the Old Testament in a Liturgy of the 18th – Early 19th Centuries: Some Aspects of Use of Texts of «The
Book of Psalms»
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AGNIESZKA GRONEK
Representations of the Sanhedrin in Post-Byzantine Art
TEREZA SINIGALIA
The Image of the Jews at the Last Judgement - Case Studies in Some Murals in Northern Moldavia in the 16th Century
CHARALAMPOS MINAOGLOU
The Byzantine Liturgy and the Post-Byzantine Anti-Jewish Literature
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Session X – Chair: Doru Doroftei
REINHART CEULEMANS
Anti-Jewish Measures from Macedonian Emperors: the Role of the Bible
ANA-MARIA RĂDUCAN
Jewish Authors in the Patriarch' Bibliotheke
ALEXANDER ZANEMONETS
“I reject Every Jewish Custom”: Byzantine Formulas of Renouncing Judaism in the 11th Century
13.00-15.00 Lunch Break
15.00-17.00 SESSION XI – Chair: Bogdan Bucur
IONUȚ BILIUȚĂ
“Through Their Sacrifice, They Silenced the Shameless Jews!”: Antisemitic Tropes in the Liturgy of the Saints of the
Communist Prisons in Contemporary Romania
MARIAN PĂTRU
The Liturgical Construction of Jewishness. The Image of the Jew and Judaism in the Homiletical Discourse of the
Romanian Orthodox Church in the Interwar Period.
IOAN CHIRILĂ, CĂTĂLIN VARGA
“The Glory of Your people Israel” (Lk. 2:32). The Nunc dimittis in the Romanian Orthodox Vespers of the 20th
century and Israel’s Dilemma in the Oral Liturgical Tradition
ALINA PĂTRU
Reception of Liturgical Hymns by Christian Orthodox Service Attenders
17.00-17.30 Coffee Break
17.30-19.00 Session XII – Conclusive discussion – Chairs: Stefan Tobler & Alexandru Ioniță
JULY 12-13, CONFERENCE TRIP
July 12, 09.00 Departure for the conference trip (Ramada Parking)
July 13, 21.00 Arrival back to Sibiu (Ramada Parking)
