John’s Gospel and Intimations of Apocalyptic

20-22 July 2010

Bangor University, Wales, UK

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

Tuesday, 20 July
12.00 – 2.30 Registration and lunch

2.30 – 3.00 Welcome

Professor Christopher Rowland and Dr. Catrin Williams

3.00 – 4.00 John and Intimations of Apocalyptic: Looking Back and Looking
Forward
Dr. John Ashton (University of Oxford)

4.00 – 4.30 Tea/coffee

4.30 – 5.30 Text and Authority in John and Apocalyptic

Professor Judith Lieu (University of Cambridge)

5.30 – 6.00 Reception (sponsored by the School of Theology and Religious Studies)

6.00 – 7.30 Dinner

7.30 – 8.30 Why are the Heavens Closed? The Johannine Revelation of the Father
Professor April DeConick (Rice University)

Wednesday, 21 July
7.00 – 8.45 Breakfast

9.00 – 10.00 From the Apocalypse of John to the Johannine ‘Apocalypse in Reverse’:
Intimations of Apocalyptic and the Quest for a Relationship
Mr. Ian Boxall (University of Oxford)

10.00 – 11.00 The Divine Dwelling in Revelation 21 and in the Johannine Prologue
Professor Jörg Frey (University of Munich)

11.00 – 11.30 Tea/coffee

11.30 – 12.30 John Among the Apocalypses: Rethinking the Gospel of John’s Genre
Dr. Benjamin Reynolds (Tyndale University College)

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch

2.00 – 3.00 Bringing the Revelation to Remembrance: Interpreting the Johannine

Spirit-Paraclete in the Light of Jewish Apocalyptic Angelus Interpres
Traditions
Dr. Catrin Williams (Bangor University)

3.00 – 3.30 Tea/coffee

3.30 – 4.30 The Reader as Apocalyptist in the Gospel of John

Dr. Robert G. Hall (Hampden-Sydney College)

4.30 – 5.30 Apocalyptic Mystagogy: Rebirth-from-above in the Reception of John's

Gospel
Revd. Robin Griffith-Jones (Temple Church, and King’s College,
London

5.45 – 6.15 Reception

6.15 – 7.45 Dinner

8.00 – 9.00 The Gospel of John as ‘an Apocalypse in Reverse’: A Perspective from
the History of Interpretation’
Professor Christopher Rowland (University of Oxford)

Thursday, 22 July
7.00 – 8.45 Breakfast

9.00 – 10.00 The Ruler of the World, Antichrists and Pseudo-Prophets: Johannine
Variations on an Apocalyptic Motif
Dr. Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen)

10.00 – 11.00 The Devil, Satan, and the Ruler of this World in the Fourth Gospel
Professor Loren Stuckenbruck (Princeton Theological Seminary)

11.00 – 11.30 Tea/coffee

11.30 – 12.30 Concluding Session

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch