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Kick-off Meeting 6 June 2025, Åbo/Turku

09:00–09:15 Introduction to the project

09:15–10:00: Antti Laato: „Isaiah’s reception in Justin Martyr “

10:00–10:30: Discussion

10:30–11:00 Break

11:00–11:45 Lukas Bormann: „Isaiah’s reception in Luke-Acts“

11:45–12:15 Discussion

12:15–14:00 Break

14:00 Round-Table-discussion (Online participants first)

Presentation and discussion of possible fields of research by the participants. Discussion about the involvement of other scholars in the project.

1. Catalin-Stefan Popa (Online): The Reception of Isaiah in Syriac Patristics and Manuscript Culture: Selected Motifs and Case Studies

2. Timo Felkel (Online): Doukas Divine Drama

3. Beatrice Bonanno (Online): The Reception of the Jewish Minor Versions of Isaiah in the Church Fathers (3rd–4th c. CE) with a special emphasis on Eusebius of Caesarea

4. Guido Baltes: Blindness, Sight and the Servant of God in Isaiah and Luke-Acts

5. Lukas Bormann: From Luke-Acts to Justin Marty: “Hellenization” (W. Jaeger) or “Intellectualization” (H. Leppin) of Early Christianity?

6. Harri Huovinen: Sketching the Contours of Cyril of Jerusalem’s Reception of Isaiah

7. Simon Johansson: ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me’ – The Descent of the Spirit and Its Effects in Early Christian Isaiah-Reception

8. Anni Maria Laato: The Christ of Isaiah or the Christ of Marcion? The Use of the Book of Isaiah in Tertullian’s Adversus Marcionem

9. Martin Meiser: References and Allusions on Isaiah in Acts

10. Timo Nisula: ”Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing” (Isa 52:11): Isaiah and the other Old Testament prophets in the Donatist controversy

11. Joona Salminen: Reception of Isaiah in The Rule of St. Benedict

12. Lisa Sunnus: Isaiah in Luke’s dialogues: Is 53:12d (καὶ μετὰ ἀνόμων ἐλογίσϑη) in Luke 22:37

13. Lotta Valve: Influence of the Book of Isaiah on the Shepherd of Hermas

14. Christian Wetz: Salvation for the Nations as a Connecting Theme in Isaiah and in Joseph and Aseneth?

and others