The Canadian Society of Biblical Studies’ multi-year seminar on travel and religion continues this spring with a nice set of papers. The schedule is as follows, and Ryan Schellenberg’s full paper (in pdf) is already available:

Session: Hellenistic, Judean, and Early Christian Travelers (Chair: Richard Ascough)

(Monday May 28, 1:30-4:30, THORV 110)

Click here for the seminar abstracts for 2007 (available in pdf)

Ellen Bradshaw Aitken (McGill University)
“To Encounter a Hero: Localization and Travel in Hellenistic Hero Cults.”

Response: Steven C. Muir (Concordia University College of Alberta)

Wayne O. McCready (University of Calgary)
“Pilgrimage, Place and Meaning-Making by Jews in Greco-Roman Egypt.”

Response: John W. Marshall (University of Toronto)

Ryan Schellenberg (Toronto School of Theology)
“‘Danger in the Wilderness, Danger at Sea’ (2 Cor 11:26): Paul and the Perils of Travel.”

Response: Rene Baergen (Toronto School of Theology)

Lincoln H. Blumell (University of Toronto)
“Christians on the Move: Travel and Social-Networking in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus.”

Response: Michele Murray (Bishop’s University)