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Virtual Pilgrimages
Eastertide 2012
Trinity Wall Street
Sunday
mornings at 10 a.m. April 15, 22, 29, May 6, 13 and 20
To understand pilgrimages, it's essential to know the quintessential journey of the ancient world in the Hellenistic period: Homer's Odyssey, the journey of Odysseus from Troy to his home in Ithaca. Therefore, this mini-course will start with Homer's Odyssey so as to identify themes of the journey including hospitality, human identity and deception, and the meaning of home. Then we will continue with journeys in
the Hellenistic period including: 1) Philo's Treatise on the
Preliminary Studies, in which the 1st Century Alexandrian writer
Philo depicts Abraham's journey as the movement of the soul from
bodily passions towards true wisdom and virtue through paideia,
education; 2) real pilgrimages e.g. to the Asklepion in Pergamon and
to the House of John in Ephesus and 3) otherworldly journeys in
apocalypses like Enoch, the Testament of Abraham, and Revelation.
Helpful
text: Pilgrimage
in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity
eds. Jas´
Elsner and Ian Rutherford (OUP 2005)
April
15 Homer's Odyssey—Prof Peter Meineck, New York University
(interactive map of Odysseus' Journey:
http://www.classics.upenn.edu/myth/php/homer/index.php?page=odymap)
April
22 Journey as metaphor: Philo of Alexandria, The
Preliminary Studies (see
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/yonge/book18.html)
April
29 Otherworldly Journeys: Apocalypse of Abraham (see
http://www.cimmay.us/pdf/box_landsman.pdf),
Testament of Abraham (see
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1007.htm),
The Apocalypse of Paul (see
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/ascp.html)
May
6 Pergamon—Professor Brigitte Kahl, Union Theological Seminary
May
13 Ephesus--Professor Katherine Shaner, General Theological Seminary
May
20 Ethos of pilgrimage: mindset and impact—Green
pilgrimages
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