OCABS hosts an intensive Bible seminar each year, in August. This summer's program is being offered August 22 - 24, in St. Paul, MN.
 

2008 PROGRAM

Friday, August 22

Evening check-in

Saturday, August 23

8:00 AM – Breakfast

9:00 AM – Lecture 1

(Breaks and Q&A at the speaker’s discretion.)

12:00 PM – Lunch

1:00 PM – Lecture 2

4:00 PM – Break

4:30 PM – Panel Discussion / Q&A

5:30 PM – Great Vespers

6:00 PM – Dinner

Sunday, August 24

10:00 AM – Divine Liturgy (at the convent chapel)

Homilist: Very Rev. Dr. Paul N. Tarazi

11:30 AM – Fellowship / Informal Q&A

OCABS SEMINAR 2008

LOCATION

The Carondelet Center
http://www.carondeletcenter.org/

1890 Randolph Ave., St. Paul, MN, 55105

The Carondelet Center, built in 1912 by French-born architect Emmanuel Louis Masqueray, is a stately stone and brick building that originally served as the Novitiate for the Sisters of St. Joseph. Today it provides a quiet place of rest, prayer, and reflection for individuals and groups on retreat and as a conference center for small to mid-sized groups. Carondelet Center is a ministry of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, St. Paul Province. (www.csjstpaul.org)

TOPICS

Lecture 1: Food Offered to Idols in Roman Corinth

Dr. John Fotopoulos (Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame) examines temples and cults in Roman Corinth to ascertain locations, attractions, and meanings for formal sacrificial food consumption. He also uses ancient rhetorical theory to argue that St. Paul's instructions in 1 Cor. 8:1-11 are a coherent prohibition of intentional idol-food consumption.

Lecture 2: When Worlds Collide: Archaeology and the Bible and the Case of Bethsaida-Tzer

Dr. Nicolae Roddy (Creighton University) discusses his work at the Bethsaida Excavations, the site of a recently rediscovered city located near the northern shore of the biblical Sea of Galilee. Bethsaida lay abandoned and in ruins, covered over by the dust of the ages until its rediscovery and identification in the early 1990s.

Panel Discussion: Biblical Scholarship for Non-scholars

Panelists: Very Rev. Dr. Paul N. Tarazi (St. Vladimir's Seminary) Dr. John Fotopoulos, Dr. Nicolae Roddy

Who should attend?

• Anyone interested in learning more about the Orthodox Faith

• Those seeking a deeper understanding of Scripture

• Clergy, church school teachers, educators, parish council members and lay leaders

• Scholars and academics

What is the cost?

Registration fees and boarding costs to be announced. Participants are responsible for their own travel arrangements.

For additional information, please  email: [info@ocabs.org].
 

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