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Centre for Scottish Thought

William Robertson Smith
Conference

Thursday 6th December 2007, from 4.15pm, Humanity Manse Seminar Room

Please notify jon.cameron@abdn.ac.uk if you plan to attend this event

An event in conjunction with the
Centre for Scottish Thought

Papers:

4.15pm
William Robertson Smith: Social Scientist or Theologian?
Professor Robert Segal (University of Aberdeen)

Robert A. Segal is Sixth Century Chair in Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen.  He writes on theories of myth and on theories of religion.  His publications include: Myth:  A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2004), and the Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion (Blackwell 2005).  He has also written a long introduction to a reprint of William Robertson Smith’s Lectures on the Religion of the Semites (Transaction Publishers 2002).

5.00pm
William Robertson Smith and J. G. Frazer: 'genuit Frazerum?'
Professor Robert Ackerman

Robert Ackerman is the author of J. G. Frazer: His Life and Work (1987), an acclaimed biography, and is the editor of Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer (2005).   He is also the author of a pioneering study of the Cambridge Ritualists: The Myth and Ritual School (2002).   

5.45 - 6.00pm Tea

6.00pm
Wellhausen, Robertson Smith and the Sociology of early Arabia and ancient Israel
Professor J.W. Rogerson (University of Sheffield)

John W. Rogerson is Professor of Biblical Studies Emeritus at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of, among many other books, Anthropology and the Old Testament (1978), Chronicle of the Old Testament Kings (1999), Old Testament Criticism in the Nineteenth Century:  England and Germany (1984), and The Bible and Criticism in Victorian Britain:  Profiles of F. D. Maurice and William Robertson Smith (1995).

6.45pm
From Pietism to Totemism:William Robertson Smith and Tübingen
Professor Bernhard Maier (University of Tuebingen)

Bernhard Maier is Professor of Religious Studies, General and European religious history at the University of Tübingen. His publications include:The religion of the Germans (2003); Small lexicon of the names and words of Celtic origin (2003);Stonehenge: archeology, history, myth (2005).

7.30pm Wine Reception

The symposium will continue on Friday 7th at 9.30am with:

William Robertson Smith's early Work on Prophecy - the Beginnings of Social Anthropology?
Professor Joachim Schaper (University of Aberdeen)

Joachim Schaper is professor of Hebrew, Old Testament and Early Jewish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. His publications include: Priester und Leviten im achämenidischen Juda (2000), and "Wie der Hirsch lechzt nach frischem Wasser . . ." (Biblisch-theologische Studien 63, 2004).

… followed by a general discussion of the work and influence of Robertson Smith.

 

In order to assist with the catering arrangements please email riiss@abdn.ac.uk if you plan to attend

 

 


Location:

The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 4.15 p.m. Further information from Professor Cairns Craig, on 01224 273681 or email cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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