Codex Judas Congress Schedule
March 13-16, 2008
Rice University
Houston, TX 77005
Thursday, March 13th
Farnsworth Pavilion
3-3:25 pm Registration and Coffee
Congress Convened
Farnsworth Pavilion
3:25-3:30 pm Welcome (5 mins.)
Paula Sanders, Dean of Graduate Studies, Rice University
3:30-5 pm Session One: A New Codex – Prospects and Possibilities
April DeConick, Rice University, Presiding
James Robinson, Institute for Antiquity & Christianity, Claremont Graduate University, “Codex Tchacos: A Codicological Inquiry” (20 mins.)
Alastair Logan, University of Exeter, “The Tchacos Codex: Another Document of the Gnostics?” (20 mins.)
Riemer Roukema, Protestant Theological University, “The Historical Setting of the Gospel of Judas and its Presentation to a Broad Public” (20 mins.)
Discussion (30 mins.)
5:00-7 pm Dinner break
No formal dinner plans for Congress participants
Evening Public Lecture
Duncan Hall, 1055, the McMurtry Auditorium
7:00-8 pm Marvin Meyer (Chapman University) and Gregor Wurst (University of Ausburg), “Reconstructing an Ancient Papyri Book: How the Gospel of Judas was Restored and the Questions It Raises”
8:00-9 pm Champagne reception; book signing for authors with books on the table
Friday, March 14th
Farnsworth Pavilion
7:30-8:30 am For Congress participants: Continental breakfast
Congress Convened
Farnsworth Pavilion
8:30-10 am Session Two: The Challenges of the Gospel of Judas
Kelley N. Coblentz Bautch, St. Edward’s University, Presiding
Gregor Wurst, University of Ausburg, “The Challenge to Find a Sound Interpretation of the Gospel of Judas” (20 mins.)
Johannes van Oort, University of Utrecht/ University of Nijmegen/University of Pretoria, “Quaestiones Disputatae ad Evangelium Iudae pertinentes: From Irenaeus to Marvin Meyer and April DeConick” (20 mins.)
Pierluigi Piovanelli, University of Ottawa, “Yehuda ‘ish Bartôtâ versus Judas Iscariot: The Gospel of Judas among Second Century Apocryphal Passion Stories” (20 mins.)
Discussion (30 mins.)
10-10:30 am Coffee and tea break
10:30-12 Session Three: Portraits of Judas in the Gospel of Judas
George Nickelsburg, University of Iowa, Presiding
Birger Pearson, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Judas Iscariot in the Gospel of Judas” (20 mins.)
Ismo Dunderberg, University of Helsinki, “Judas, Other Disciples, and Ancient Anger Management” (20 mins.)
Kevin Sullivan, Illinois Wesleyan University, “The Thirteenth Daimon: The Spiritual Realm in the Gospel of Judas” (20 mins.)
Discussion (30 mins.)
12-1:30 pm Lunch break
For Congress participants: served lunch at the Faculty Club
1:30-3 pm Session Four: Mythology and the Gospel of Judas
Jeffrey Kripal, Rice University, Presiding
Marvin Meyer, Chapman University, “When the Sethians were Young: The Gospel of Judas in the Second Century” (20 mins.)
John Turner, University of Nebraska, “The Sethian Myth in the Gospel of Judas” (20 mins.)
Gesine Schenke Robinson, Episcopal School of Theology, “The Gospel of Judas:Its Protagonist, Composition, and Community” (20 mins.)
Discussion (30 mins.)
3-3:30 pm Coffee and tea break
3:30-5 pm Session Five: Salvation and Ritual in the Gospel of Judas
Elias Bongmba, Rice University, Presiding
Elaine Pagels, Princeton University, “Baptism and the Gospel of Judas” (20 mins.)
Johanna Brankaer, Catholic University of Louvain, “Whose Savior? Soteriology and Protology in the Gospel of Judas, (20 mins.)
Bas van Os, Cycnos, “Stop Sacrificing! Eucharist and Baptism in the Gospel of Judas” (20 mins.)
Discussion (30 mins.)
5:00-7:00 Dinner Break
No formal dinner plans for Congress participants
Evening Public Lecture
Duncan Hall, 1055, the McMurtry Auditorium
7:00-8 pm Elaine Pagels (Princeton University) and Karen King (Harvard University), “What Else Didn’t We Know about the Early Christians?”
8:00-9 pm Champagne reception; book signing for authors with books on table
Saturday, March 15th
Farnsworth Pavilion
7:30-8:30am For Congress participants: Continental breakfast
Congress Convened
Farnsworth Pavilion
8:30-10 am Session Six: Astrology and Cosmic Spaces in the Tchacos Tractates
David Capes, Houston Baptist University, Presiding
Nicola Denzey, Harvard University, “Fate and the Wandering Stars: Debates on Determinism in the Gospel of Judas and other Early Christian Texts” (20 mins.)
Niclas Förster, Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum, “The Astrological Implication of the Concept of Redemption in the Gospel of Judas: Codex Judas 57” (20 mins.)
Majella Franzmann, University of Otago, “Personal and Cosmic Spaces of Salvation in the First Apocalypse of James and the Gospel of Judas in Codex Tchacos” (20 mins.)
Discussion (30 mins.)
10-10:30 am Coffee and tea break
10:30-12 Session Seven: Authority and Polemics in the Tchacos Tractates
William Parsons, Rice University, Presiding
April DeConick, Rice University, “Apostles as Archons: The Emergence of Gnosticism and the Fight for Authority in the Gospel of Judas, First Apocalypse of James, and Other Literature” (20 mins.)
Ann Graham Brock, Iliff School of Theology, “The ‘Twelve Apostles’: Authoritative for Whom?” (20 mins.)
Wolf-Peter Funk, Laval University, “The Significance of the Tchacos Codex for Understanding the First Apocalypse of James” (20 mins.)
Discussion (30 mins.)
12-1:00 pm Lunch break
For Congress participants: served lunch on patio
1-2:30 pm Session Eight: Conflicts and Controversies in the Tchacos Tractates
Matthias Henze, Rice University, Presiding
Fernando Bermejo Rubio, University of Barcelona, “Laughing at Judas: An Argument for a New Interpretative Paradigm of the Third Tractate of Codex Tchacos” (20 mins.)
Karen King, Harvard University, “Marytrdom and its Discontents in the Tchacos Codex” (20 mins.)
Einar Thomassen, University of Bergen (read in abstentia by Birger Pearson), “Is James Valentinian?”
Discussion (30 mins.)
Coffee and tea available (but no break)
2:30-3:30 Session Nine: Graduate Student Posters
David Cook, Rice University, Presiding
Grant Adamson, Brigham Young University, “The Significance and Location of Bonner D. 188” (5 mins.)
David A. Creech, Loyola University, “When Bad News is Good News” (5 mins.)
Chad Day, Rice University, "Subverting the Apostolic Kerygma: The Letter of Peter to Philip as a Gnostic Missionary Tract?" (5 mins.)
Franklin Trammel, Rice University, “The Cosmic Axis in the First Apocalypse of James in Light of Related Traditions” (5 mins.)
Claire Villarrael, "Technologies of Transition: Gnostic and Tibetan Instructions for the After-Death Journey." Rice University, (5 mins.)
Discussion (30 mins.)
Excursion and special event for Congress participants
Sunday, March 16th
Farnsworth Pavilion
7:30-8:30 am Continental breakfast
Congress Convened
8:30-10 am Session Ten: Exegetical Studies
Werner Kelber, Rice University, Presiding
Louis Painchaud, Laval University, “`What is the advantage?’ (ou pe peHouo…) (Gos. Jud. 46.16): Translation, Context and Intertext” (20 mins.)
Matteo Grosso, University of Torino, “`During eight days, three days before he celebrated Passover’: Chronological Marks in the Gospel of Judas” (20 mins.)
Madeleine Scopello, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, “De la souillure: The Notion of Pollution in the Gospel of Judas and Gnostic Thought” (read in abstentia) (20 mins.)
Discussion (30 mins.)
10-10:30 am Coffee and tea break
10:30-12 am Session Eleven: Exegetical Studies
April DeConick, Rice University, Presiding
Simon Gathercole, University of Cambridge, “Paradise, Kingdom and the Thirteenth Aeon in the Gospel of Judas” (20 mins.)
Antti Marjanen, University of Helsinki, “The Relationship between the Codex Tchacos and the Nag Hammadi Versions of the So-Called First Apocalypse of James: Seven Women as a Test Case” (20 mins.)
Tag Petersen, University of Copenhagen, “The Gospel of Judas as Dialogue” (20 mins.)
Discussion (30 mins.)
12-12:05 pm Final remarks
April DeConick
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