International Research Conference. Social Memory Theory and Conceptions of Afterlife in Early Judaism and Christianity
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The International Conference on Social Memory Theory and Conceptions of Afterlife in Early Judaism and Christianity presented research focused on the emerging field of New Testament methodology that applies the optics of looking through the theory of social/collective memory. The conference explored the theme of the afterlife in various texts and cultures.
Canonical, apocryphal, and pseudepigraphical texts were analyzed, as well as the interpretation of a work of art, the mosaic. The method and its comparison with form criticism and redaction criticism were reflected upon.
The discussion among scholars from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Canada, and Germany, as well as among biblical scholars, religious scholars, Egyptologists, and philosophers, was interdisciplinary and international.