Wednesday, 08/13/2025
Please note that the program is currently still preliminary and may be subject to change.
Sessions 3
| Panel | Chair | Paper 1 | Paper 2 | Paper 3 | Paper 4 |
| Apocalyptic Thinking in Antiquity | Moritz Adam (University of Zurich) | A Utopian Imagination? Exploring the Intersection of Utopia and Apocalyptic Thought in Second Temple Judaism (Madhavi Nevader) | Revealing Plato: Platonic Influence Upon the Origins and Development of Apocalyptic (George Athas) | The Apocalyptic Job: On the Contribution of Job’s Latest Editors (Urmas Nõmmik ) | The Parasitic Apocalyptic: Instability of Genre in Job, 4 Ezra, and Daniel (Mateusz Kusio) |
| Boschwitz on Wellhausen: Interdisciplinary Book Review Panel | Bernard M. Levinson (University of Minnesota) | ||||
| Myth and Mythmaking | Guy Darshan (Tel Aviv University) | Myth and Mythmaking Across Media: Theoretical Considerations and a Case Study (Christoph Uehlinger) | Late Developments of the Storm-god vs. Sea in the Eastern Mediterranean: Echoes from Ascalon, Jaffa and Beirut (Noga Ayali-Darshan, Guy Darshan) | Saul, David and the Myth of the Servant (Christopher Metcalf) | |
| Labor as an approach to the Persian Empire in the Southern Levant (ERC WORK-IT) | Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki) | SOURCE-IT: forced labour and indirect taxation in the Southern Levant (Lucia Cerullo, Filippo Pedron, Mitchka Shahryari, Daniele Soares) | Towards Rethinking Economy and Society in the Persian Levant through Informal Taxation and Bourdieu (Jeremy Land, Jason Silverman) | The Babylonian perspective: a response to papers on sources and methods in the WORK-IT project on informal taxation in the Southern Levant during the Achaemenid period (Odette Boivin) | Response: Informal Taxation in Context (Rhyne King) |
| ISLP 3 | Richard A. Taylor (Dallas Theological Seminary) | Reception of ‘Charisma’ in the Early Arabic Translations of the New Testament (Srećko Koralija) | Context-Sensitive Parsers for Syriac: Benchmarks (Zhan Chen) | Evidence for Syriac Bilingualism and Language Contact in the Aramaic Magic Bowls (James Nathan Ford) | |
| IOQS 4: Manuscripts and Materiality | Esther Chazon (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | Analysing Conjoined Texts: A Material Study of 4Q414 (4QRitual of Purification A) and 4Q415 (4QInstructiona) (Charles P. Comerford) | New Joins and Ancient Debates in the Aramaic New Jerusalem (Shlomi Efrati) | Material observations on 1QIsaa and 1QS/1QSa/1QSb (Torleif Elgvin) | The Great Isaiah Scroll: Bisection and Unity (Marcello Fidanzio) |
| Representation and Idealisation of Power 1 (ERC DEMBIB) | Petra Schmidtkunz (Humboldt University of Berlin), Robert Kade (Humboldt University of Berlin) | Joshua the Law-bearer: Torah as Imperial Power in the Conquest Narrative (Sophia Johnson) | Representing the King When Requesting It (Hananel Shapira) | Gender and Power in Translation in Daniel 5 (Aubrey Buster) | |
| Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah, Esther, Daniel 3 | Yehudit According to Nehemiah (Philip Yoo) | Räume, Grenzen und Grenzüberschreitungen im Esterbuch (Lara Mayer) | Dan 8:27 is Dan 7:28b (David Forward) | ||
| History of Ancient Israel within the Ancient Near East |
Shuichi Hasegawa (Rikkyo University)
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How views of the afterlife influenced the adoption of death penalty laws in ancient Israel compared to Egypt (Alex-David Baldi) | Die Renaissance der biblischen Statthalter im politischen Diskurs des späten 2. Jh. v. Chr. (Sarah Schulz) | The Origins of the Amalekite Ban (Yair Segev) | |
| Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature 1 | The Origins and Functions of the Additions to Old Greek and Theodotion Daniel 3 (Michael Segal) | Was Nabouchodonosor alone or only a (hu)man? ὡς ἀνὴρ εἷς in Jdt 1:11 as the Expression of Quality (Martina Korytiaková) | On Ideal Rulership. Simon’s Eulogy in 1 Macc 14:4–15 (Barbara Schmitz) | ||
| Pentateuch 3 | The Literary Profile of the Priestly Writing: A New Perspective (Hila Dayfani) | The seven + one Sequence in Lev 9:1 and the End of Priestly Writing in Lev 8:35–36. Textual and Literary Criticism Study (Domenico Lo Sardo) | The Role of Inference in Reading the Pentateuchal Priestly Work (Jeffrey Stackert) | ||
| Former Prophets 3 | The Death of Saul: The Biblical Double Narrative (1Sam 31:1-6 and 2Sam 1,5-10) and Its Reception (Daniela De Panfilis) | AN INCESTUOUS CONGRESS: THE CASE OF TWO SIBLINGS TAMAR AND AMNON (2 SAM 13:1–22) (Luis Quinones-Roman) | Marriage to Widows in the Old Testament (Menard Musendekwa) | ||
| XII 1 | Hosea 1's Use of Exodus (Derek Bass) | Vom Ort des ungestörten Beisammenseins zum Haus der Sklaverei. Die Exodus-Bezüge in Hosea (Szabolcs-Ferencz Kató) | Puns, Ambiguities and Rhizomorphic Text Structures in the Book of Hosea (Anna Maria Bortz) | ||
| Religions of Ancient Israel and the Ancient Near East 3 | The Collective Godhead the Deity IL and the History of Israelite Religion (David Toshio Tsumura) | The Art of Not Collapsing: Zion as the Center of the World (Matthew Arakaky) | Visual Power Networks: The Semiotics of the Solar Imagery in the Iron Age Levant (Bruno Biermann/Dylan Johnson) | ||
| Theology, Ethics, and Hermeneutics 3 | The relationship between HB/OT theology and philosophy (Jaco Gericke) | Realistic Hamartology and Narrative Theodicy: Remarks on the Origin of Human Violence and Free Will in Gen 4 (Jörg Lanckau) | “They are in the morning like grass that is renewed” (Ps 90:5): Vegetable Anthropology in the Hebrew Bible (Tobias Häner) |