At the May meeting of the The Patristics Research Seminar at the Newman Institute in Uppsala I presented my paper “The Concept of Repentance in Second Clement.” A good and very constructive discussion with seminar participants followed.
Publication, in March 2019, of J. A. Kelhoffer, “How Did Second Clement Originally End? A Study of 2 Clement 19–20 and the Imitation of Both First and Second Clement.” Early Christianity 9/4 (2018): 432–483. ISSN 1868-7032. DOI 10.1628/ec-2018-0031. Abstract: A philological analysis of 2 Clement 19–20 in comparison with the style and tendencies of 2 Clement 1–18 reveals in chapters 19–20 significant
More music, this time together with my wife. We played and sang (yes, even I did sing) in a Service of Carols and Readings in two small countryside churches.
Some concert venues are more festive than others. The Christmas Concert by Kungliga Akademiska Kapellet was held in the Rikssalen/Hall of State in Uppsala Castle. Very fun music to play, not least for the trumpet section!
Today’s Festive Sunday Service in St. Ansgar Church, included a brass ensemble, a solo trumpet and a tired boy.
The Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature took place in Denver this year. As always there were many occasions to catch up with scholars and friends, and many interesting papers. Program Book and Abstracts can be found on the SBL Meetings Page.
I was happy to be invited to attend The Krister Stendahl Memorial Lecture. This year’s lecture was given by Paula Fredriksen, Aurelio Professor of Scripture emerita at Boston University and since 2009 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Her interesting lecture was entitled Messy Monotheism and Interfaith Pluralism: Gods and Humans
My doctoral student Daniel Gustafsson has now completed his “slutseminarium”, i.e. the pre-examination of his dissertation: “Aspects of Coherency in Luke’s Composite Christology”. The external examiner was Birger Olsson (Prof. Em. Lund University).
The general meeting of the SNTS 2018 took place in Athens, Augusti 7-10. As usual it was good to meet colleagues and listen to inspiring papers and seminars. I had the opportunity to give a Short Paper: “How Did Second Clement Originally End? A Study of 2 Clement 19–20.” and also a response to Cilliers
In April I read that a museum and a memorial were opening, on one of the darkest parts of our history: “about the legacy of racial inequality and for the truth and reconciliation that leads to real solutions to contemporary problems”. The museum and memorial are in Montgomery, Alabama, and during this year’s travel to