17 December 2007

13:00h-13:50h

Jan Willem van Henten: “Josephus on Noble Death: Just Rhetoric?”

13:50h-14:40h

Discussion of the lecture

14:40h-15:15h

Coffee break

15:15h-15:40h

Jakob Engberg: “Martyr Narratives and Persecutions”

15:40h-16:10h

Discussion of the paper

16:10h-16:20h

Short break

16:20h-16:45h

Jesper Carlsen: “Exemplary Deaths in the Arena. Gladiatorial Fights and the Execution of Criminals”

16:45h-17:15h

Discussion of the paper

17:15h-17:30h

Short break with fruits

17:30h-18:00h

Anders Klostergaard Petersen: “Ritual Digitalisation in Christian Martyr Texts”

18:00h-18:30h

Discussion of the paper

19:00h

Festive dinner in Århus

18 December 2007

9:30h-12:30h

Research seminar with Jan Willem van Henten: “The Reception of the Maccabean Martyrdoms in Early Christian Literature (predominantly the New Testament”.

12:30h

 Lunch