12th Congress of the International Organization for Qumran Studies
Berlin, 11−14 August 2025
Monday
15:30–17:00 Session 1
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| IOQS 1:
Manuscripts and Materiality
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Writing Sectarian Texts on Papyrus (Oren Ableman)
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Materiality and the Provenance of the Nabataean Manuscripts: The Case of 4Q343 (Ayhan Aksu)
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Qumran Tefillin Rehearsed: Regular Recitation as Apotropaic Practice (Arjen Bakker)
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The Two-sided (Opisthograph) Writing Technique in Tefillin from Qumran (Ariel Schwarz and Esther Eshel)
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Tuesday
14:30–16:00 Session 2
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| IOQS 2 | Exhortations, Laws, and Implied Speakers: Understanding the Damascus Document as a Textualized Performance of the Mebaqqer (Jeffrey Cross) | Scribal Culture Features of Organisation and Memory in 4QInstruction: The Elusive Structure of a Fragmentary Sapiential Text (Lindsey A. Davidson) | The Adaption of Sapiential Phrases to Create Halakha in 4QMMT (Ananda Geyser-Fouché) | Anonymity in the Hodayot (Michael B. Johnson) |
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Mystery and Esotericism 1 (IOQS-IOSOT-Joint Session) |
Ethicisation of Ritual and Esotericism in the Levi Traditions (Christoph Nihan) | Holiness and Mystery: A Reexamination of their Relation in Priestly Texts (Annie Calderbank) | (A Hymn) Pregnant with Meaning: Life and Death of the inner self in Hodayot Column XI (Christine Rosa De Freitas) | Grasping the Unfathomable: Hidden Knowledge in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice (Noam Mizrahi) |
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30–18:00 Session 3
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| IOQS 3 | Sovereignty and Dominion in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls (Robert E. Jones) | אמת as a Framing Principle at Qumran and Beyond (James Nati) | Enslavement in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Embodied, Metaphorical, and Debt (Carmen Palmer) | DJD XVII Twenty Years Later (Andrea Ravasco) |
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Mystery and Esotericism 2 (IOQS-IOSOT-Joint Session) |
Unsearchable Light: The Quest for Knowledge in 4Q392 (“Works of God”) and Second Isaiah (Ruthanne Brooks ) | In Praise of Darkness – rituals of mystery and initiation from Ancient Egypt (Robert Kade) | The Spirit of the Sofer and the Gathering of the Lost Tribes: Scriptural Mysteries in the Pesher on Psalms (4Q171) and 4 Ezra (Florian Neitman) | Secrets of Prayer: Esotericism in the Book of Daniel (Sarah Wisialowski) |
Wednesday
14:30–16:00 Session 4
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| IOQS 4:
Manuscripts and Materiality
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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) |
Thursday
13:45−14:30 IOQS Business Meeting
14:30–16:00 Session 5
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| IOQS 5:
Manuscripts and Materiality
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A New Aramaic Inscription from the Cave of the Swords near Ein Gedi (Asaf Gayer and Jonathan Ben Dov) | Cryptic, Not So Cryptic: Paleographic Considerations on the Term ‘Cryptic’ to Describe Some Qumran Manuscripts (David Hamidovic) | The Material Significance of the 4Q82 Stick and a Reconstructed Reading of its Fragments (Joshua M. Matson) | The Material Culture of Writing at Qumran: Inkwells as a Case Study (Dennis Mizzi) |
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30–18:00 Session 6
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| IOQS 6:
Manuscripts and Materiality
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Philology in a Material World: Constructions, Reconstructions, and Deconstructions of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Matthew P. Monger) | The New Materiality and the Dead Sea Scrolls: 1QS-1QSa-1QSb as a Case Study (Dermot Nestor and Gareth Wearne) |
The Scrolls of Cave 6 as a Literary Collection (Anna Shirav Hamernik) |
1QS V, 13: Misplaced or Deliberate? (Kamilla Skarström Hinojosa) |