S17-52

The Freer Biblical Manuscripts
11/17/2006
12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Room: Auditorium - Freer Gallery of Art, National Museum
of Asian Art
Larry Hurtado, University of Edinburgh, Presiding
Kent Richards, Society of Biblical Literature
Welcome and Introduction (0 min)
Larry Hurtado, University of Edinburgh
The Freer Biblical Manuscripts: The Significance, Reception,
and Neglect of an American Scholarly Treasure Trove (25 min)
Kent Clarke, Trinity Western University
Paleography and Philanthropy: Charles Lang Freer and His
Acquisition of the Freer Biblical Manuscripts (25 min)
David Trobisch,
Bangor Theological Seminary
Reading a Page of the Freer Gospels Codex (25 min)
Break (10 min)
Timothy Brown, Franconia, NH
Image-Editing Techniques for Recovering Manuscript Texts.
(25 min)
Thomas Wayment, Brigham Young University
Advantages and Disadvantages of Working with Multi-Spectral
Images. (25 min)
Break (10 min)
Malcolm Choat, Macquarie University
The Scribes and Texts of Freer MS V (25 min)
Leonard Greenspoon, Creighton UniversityThe Freer Joshua:
Its Role in Constructing a Family Tree for the Greek Texts of
the Book of Joshua (25 min)
Break (10 min)
Jean-Francois Racine, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Some Parallels between Manuscript Appreciation and Wine
Tasting Using W032 and B03 in Matthew as a Test Case (25
min)
James Royse, Graduate Theological Union
The Corrections of the Freer Gospels Codex (W, 032) (25
min)
Ulrich Schmid, Free University, Amsterdam
Re-considering Paleographical Judgments about the Freer
Gospels Codex (25 min)