Later this month, if you happen to be in Cambridge, you’re welcome to attend this two-day conference on the literature around characters with claimed apostolic connections.
The conference is part of the British Academy Visiting Fellowship project “At One Remove: The Reception of the Literature Attributed to Early Christian Figures with Claimed Apostolic Connection” (VF2\100327), hosted in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. Contact: Dan Batovici (db500@cam.ac.uk or dan.batovici@kuleuven.be).
Imagining Apostolic Connections in Late Antiquity | Alternative Lines of Authority and Pseudepigraphy
26th and 27th January | The Lubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge
Friday 26th January | Traditions on apostles’ followers and pseudepigraphy
13.00 Welcome & lunch
14.00 Madalina Toca (Vienna)
Acquaintances of the Apostles in Eusebius, Jerome, and Photius
15.00 Jos Verheyden (Leuven)
Pseudo-Ignatius and the Apostolic Constitutions: More of the Same?
16.00 Coffee break
16.30 Markus Vinzent (Erfurt/London)
Invoking Apostolic Authority. Pseudonymous Intellectual Property Claims
17.30 Mina Monier (Oslo)
Apostolic Traditions in ibn al-Assal’s Introduction to the Gospels
Saturday 27th January | The reception of individual early Christian figures
9.30 Caroline Macé (Hamburg)
Dionysius the Areopagite without the Corpus Dionysiacum
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Dan Batovici (Cambridge/Leuven)
The Polycarp Connection and the Followers of the Apostles
12.00 Greg Given (Harvard)
Will the Chain be Unbroken?
Fixing the Letters of Ignatius from Ussher to Lightfoot
13.00 Lunch break
14.00 Timothy Sailors (Tübingen)
De Christo et Ecclesiis: An Early Christian Writing Pseudepigraphically Attributed to “St Barsabas, Archbishop of Jerusalem”
15.00 Coffee break
16.30 Adrian Pirtea (Vienna)
Apostolic Authority and the Origins of Monasticism in the Syriac Liber Graduum
17.30 Jacob Lollar (Regensburg)
“If that is a woman, as you say”: Imitating Thekla in the Syriac Tradition
reception matters & manuscripts 
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