Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - IOSOT 2025

09:00–10:40

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IOSOT Main Papers III

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Chair: Markus Witte (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Room: UL6 2094 (in person), UL6 2091 (livestream), online via Zoom

Isaiah in Asia (Maggie Low)

Can Body-Imagination Help Us to Overcome Epistemological Injustice when We Encounter Job? (Katherine Southwood)

11:20–13:00

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IOSOT Main Papers III

40

Chair: Markus Witte (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Room: UL6 2094 (in person), UL6 2091 (livestream), online via Zoom

How Are We Meant to Understand the Story of Ruth? (Ed Greenstein)

Das Urdeuteronomium und sein historischer Ort (Reinhard Müller)

14:30–16:00

Short Paper Sessions

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Pentateuch 4

41-001

Chair: David Carr (Union Theological Seminary)

Room: DOR24 1.101

Linguistic Dating and Pentateuchal Criticism as Complementary Methods: The Case of a Priestly Inclusio (Exod 40:34-38; Num 9:15-23) (Nili Samet)

The Composition of the Torah in the Book of Exodus (Reinhard Achenbach)

Deuteronomy and the Pentateuch: A Re-Evaluation of Their Literary-historical Relation (Stefan Schorch)

Former Prophets 4

41-002

Chair: David Tsumura (Japan Bible Seminary)

Room: DOR24 1.102

Personal Names in the Biblical 'United Monarchy' Prose and Lists: Do They Reflect the Same (Onomastic) Reality? (Shira Golani / Mitka Golub)

The Solomon Accession Narrative: Contours, Artistry, Politics (Raanan Eichler)

Solomon’s enthronement in the light of ANE enthronement rituals (Peter Dubovsky)

Book of the Twelve 2

41-034

Chair: Kirsten Schäfers (University of Bonn)

Room: DOR24 1.103

Die Fremdvölkerpolemik im Buch Hosea (Christoph Levin)

Am 3–6 neu aufgelegt. Das judäische Profil von Am 6,1–7 (Kristin Tröndle)

Four Visions and a Narrative: Remarks on the Redaction History of Amos 7:1-8:3 (Bob Becking)

Wisdom Literature 1

41-042

Chair: Annette Schellenberg-Lagler (University of Vienna)

Room: DOR24 1.205

Is Job Among the Wise?  Rethinking the Concept of Wisdom in the Book of Job (Rachel Frish)

Sapientia Discursiva - The Hermeneutics of Sapiential Thinking (Yannik Ehmer)

The “Death of the Self” in the Book of Lamentations: A Philosophical Account (Pia Regensburger)

Religions of Ancient Israel and the Ancient Near East 4

41-007

Chair: Adrian Marschner (Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen)

Room: DOR24 1.201

Prophecy and the Brain: A Neuroscientific Perspective on the Prophetic Ritual in Ancient Israelite Religion (Ville Mäkipelto)

Prophetic Bodies in the Ancient Near East (Martti Nissinen)

From the Strong Came Something Sweet: Sweetness as an Indicative of Authentic and Reliable Oracles in Ancient Israel (Luiz Gustavo Assis)

Theology, Ethics, and Hermeneutics 4

41-009

Chair: Sarah Wisialowski (University of Oxford)

Room: DOR24 1.204

Glad Tidings of Divine Fury?: The Value of Trauma Theory for Reading Nahum 1 (Juliana Claassens)

Murderous Intent? Toward a New Poetics of Violence in Biblical Law (David Lambert)

The Legal Language of Esther: An Exploration of the Hermeneutics of Interpretation in the Traditions of Esther (Rahel Lampérth)

Reception History 1

41-010

Chair: Hannes Bezzel (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)

Room: UL6 3053

Law, History and the Spirit of the Age. Biblical Politics beyond the Hebrew Republic (Daniel Weidner)

Amos in Reception: Elusive and yet Pervasive (Paul Joyce)

The Legacy of 19th-Century Travelogues of the Holy Land in the Historiography of Ancient Israel in the 20th Century (Emanuel Pfoh)

14:30–16:00

Invited Panels

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Between Foreign Politics and Scribal Theology: Prophecy Concerning the Nations 1

41-103

Chairs: Meike Röhrig (Humboldt University of Berlin), Helge Bezold (Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt)

Room: UL6 3075

Political Threat and Scribal Interpretation: Jeremiah’s Emergence as Prophet to the Nations (Christl Maier)

The Importance of the OAN in Jeremiah (Jordan Davis)

Against the nations? Outward-oriented and inward-oriented perspectives in the oracles against the Ammonites, Moab, Edom, and the Philistines in Ezekiel 25 (Markus Saur)

Philistia, Phoenicia and Edom in the Oracles Against the Nations (Yigal Levin)

Brothers and Aliens: Negotiation of Identities in the Ancient World 1

41-106

Chairs: Ruth Ebach (University of Lausanne), Cynthia Edenburg (The Open University of Israel)

Room: UL6 2095A

Emic and Etic Approaches to Constructions of Israelite Ethnicity (Mark Brett)

Complex Tribal Identities: Aramaeans and Patriarchal “Israel” without the Bible (Adrianne Spunaugle)

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Digital Humanities and Computational Approaches to the Bible 1

41-108

Chair: Frédérique Rey (University of Lorraine) et al.

Room: UL6 2094

Natural Language Processing, AI, and the Origins of the Ethiopic Bible (Timothy Lee)

Toward a Visual Exegesis: Interpreting Distant Reading Results in Biblical Scholarship (Timo Glaser)

Uncovering Old Testament Intertextuality in Coptic Literature: A Computational Analysis using TRACER and Passim (So Miyagawa)

Unlocking the Potential of Open Old Testament Research Data: An HTR Workflow for Coptic Manuscripts (Eliese-Sophia Lincke)

Empathy and body-imagination in the study of the Hebrew Bible 1

41-109

Chairs: Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps University of Marburg), Katherine Southwood (University of Oxford)

Room: UL6 2093

Reading the Minor Prophets From the Body’ (Johanna Stiebert)

Words travel worlds – Empathy in the shared history of the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint (Nancy Rahn)

The compassion of God in the Old Testament - not just a feeling, but an action! (Achim Behrens)

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Ezekiel and the Priestly Texts of the Pentateuch 1

41-110

Chairs: Reettakaisa Sofia Salo (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg), Walter Bührer (Ruhr University Bochum)

Room: UL6 3059

Ezekiel’s Alignment with Leviticus: The Case of the Purity Laws (Christophe Nihan)

Between Lev 21 and Num 19: A Text-historical Analysis of the Instruction on Corpse Impurity (Ezek 44:25–27) (Martin Tscheu)

Assessing the Relationship between Ezek 44 and Num 16-18 (Michael Lyons)

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Monumentality and the Hebrew Bible 1

41-113

Chair: Eric Jarrard (Wellesley College)

Room: UL6 1072

The Judean Tomb as a Communal Monument (Alice Mandell)

Monuments and the Torah in Israel and Judea (Simeon Chavel)

The Ark of Yhwh as a material and Imaginary Monument (Thomas Römer)

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The State of Archaeology and Inscriptions in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Persian Period 1

41-120

Chair: James D. Moore (Ohio State University)

Room: UL6 1070

"Galilee of the Nations": the Western Upper Galilee as a Phoenician Borderland  (Hayah Katz)

Evidence for Phoenician Magic: An inventory of excavated amulets from Persian period Levantine contexts (Helen Dixon)

From the Iron Age to the Persian Period: Preliminary Results of the Excavations at Tell Bleibil in the South-Eastern Jordan Valley (Alexander Ahrens)

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Writing Commentaries on Psalms 1

41-122

Chairs: Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher (Catholic Private University Linz) and Marianne Grohmann (University of Vienna)

Room: UL6 2097

International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament (Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher, Marianne Grohmann)

The Jewish Publication Society Bible Commentary (Benjamin Sommer)

Commentaire de l'Ancien Testament (Innocent Himbaza, Sophie Ramond)

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Israel and Egypt in the Persian and Hellenistic Periods 1

41-126

Chair: Jonathan Jakob Böhm (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Room: UL6 2091

The Persian Period Transport jars from House k/G of the “Judaic/Aramaic quarter” of Elephantine in the Egyptian Museum Berlin (Stefanie Eisenmann, Gunnar Lehmann, Sabine Kleiman)

ΙΣΡΑΕΛΕΙΤΑΙ: The birth and evolution of early Samari(t)an identity between the Persian and Ptolemaic empires (Gad Barnea) 

Iconographic Evidence: Display for the living, display of the dead: the Egypto-Levantine mortuary stelae in context (Melanie Wasmuth)

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16:30–18:00

Short Paper Sessions

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Pentateuch 5

42-001

Chair: Anne Calderbank (University of Oxford)

Room: DOR24 1.101

Rites of passage in Numbers 6 and 8 (Esias Meyer)

The Double Water-from-a-Stone Narratives and Bekhor Shor’s Innovative Reading (Jonathan Jacobs)

The ‘Contagiousness’ of Forbidden Worship in the Pentateuchal Imagination (Jesse Mirotznik)

Former Prophets 5

42-002

Chair: Veronika Bibelriether (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg)

Room: DOR24 1.102

The blood of Nabot and the wine of the vine: the stakes and risks of land ownership in 1 Kings 20 – 22 (Emanuelle Pastore)

Politics in Judah? Royal mothers and “the people of the land” in the book of Kings (Rachelle Gilmour)

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Book of the Twelve 3

42-034

Chair: Kirsten Schäfers (University of Bonn)

Room: DOR24 1.103

The Prophet as Hired Worker? The Role of Wages in Zechariah 11 (Anita Dirnberger)

Mournful Judah (Zech 12:10-14) (Noam Mizrahi)

Zech 13:7–9; 14:2–5, Onias III, and the Trials of the 160s (Torleif Elgvin)

Wisdom Literature 2

42-042

Chair: Markus Witte (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Room: DOR24 1.205

“What Brightens the Eye Gladdens the Heart; Good News Puts Fat on the Bones” (Prov 15:30): The Interrelationship between Body and Soul in Aphoristic Rhetoric (Tova Forti)

The Body and the Immaterial Person in Proverbs and Egyptian Iconography (Emily Page)

The Dark Side of Wisdom in Proverbs: An Intersectional Perpsecitve (Mark Sneed)

Religions of Ancient Israel and the Ancient Near East 5

42-007

Chair: Adrian Marschner (Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen)

Room: DOR24 1.201

Priester als Universalgelehrte? (Florian Oepping)

The High Priest - How High Is His Standing? (Hananel Shapira)

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Theology, Ethics, and Hermeneutics 5

42-009

Chair: Sarah Wisialowski (University of Oxford)

Room: DOR24 1.204

Human and Divine Emotions in the Hebrew Bible: Jealousy as a Test-Case (Ariel Seri-Levi)

Staying in the sanctuary – a danger to life (Edgar Kellenberger)

De la célébration des fêtes bibliques à la réflexion sur la légitimité des traditions abrahamiques: ancienneté, messianité et foi en Dieu (Yolande François)

Reception History 2

42-010

Chair: Hannes Bezzel (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)

Room: UL6 3053

"A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping." Rahel's tomb and Rahel's tears, and the appropriation of text and land (Johanna Erzberger)

Hld 1,2 in zwei mittelalterlichen Quellen (Manuela Gächter)

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16:30–18:00

Invited Panels

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Between Foreign Politics and Scribal Theology: Prophecy Concerning the Nations 2

42-103

Chairs: Meike Röhrig (Humboldt University of Berlin), Helge Bezold (Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt)

Room: UL6 3075

Justice for the Fugitive: Foreign Politics and Scribal Theology in Isaiah 16:3-5 (Alicia Hein)

All nations over whom my name has been proclaimed” (Am 9:12). The Levantine Restoration in the Masoretic Text of Amos 9 and Its Extension to All Nations in the Septuagint (Hervé Gonzalez)

“... and It Shall Consume the Palaces of Ben-Hadad” (Am 1:4b; Jer 49:27b): The Formation and Historical Background of Jeremiah 49:23–27 and the Oracles Against the Nations (Friederike Neumann)

Responses: Anselm Hagedorn (Session 1), Terry Iles, (Session 2)

Brothers and Aliens: Negotiation of Identities in the Ancient World 2

42-106

Chairs: Ruth Ebach (University of Lausanne), Cynthia Edenburg (The Open University of Israel)

Room: UL6 2095A

Khnum is against us": The Rise and Fall of Ḥananiah and the Persecution of the Yahwists in Egypt (ca. 419–404 BCE) (Gad Barnea)

Revisiting the ‘lists of pre-Israelite nations’ in the Enneateuch in Light of Recent Research on Identity Discourses in the Persian period (Stephen Germany)

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Digital Humanities and Computational Approaches to the Bible 2

42-108

Chair: Frédérique Rey (University of Lorraine) et al.

Room: UL6 2094

Visualizing Overlooked Syntactic Alternatives in the Greek New Testament (Tony Jurg)

Out of Darkness, Light: Illuminating Biblical Hebrew with Interpretable Machine Learning (David Smiley)

Quantitative Approaches to Biblical Translations : Comparing the Syriac and Hebrew Verbal Systems in Genesis (Matthias Benabdellah)

The Concept of Love in the Latin Vulgate (Eva Elisabeth Houth Vrangbæk)

Empathy and body-imagination in the study of the Hebrew Bible 2

42-109

Chairs: Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps University of Marburg), Katherine Southwood (University of Oxford)

Room: UL6 2093

Feel the Power! Body-imagination and the senses in Hebrew Bible Royal Texts (Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme)

Upstanding Speech, Upstanding Bodies: Ephemerality and Endurance in Biblical Textuality (Jacqueline Vayntrub)

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Ezekiel and the Priestly Texts of the Pentateuch 2

42-110

Chairs: Reettakaisa Sofia Salo (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg), Walter Bührer (Ruhr University Bochum)

Room: UL6 3059

The Ezekiel Priestly Covenant: Between Fatalism to Agency (Gili Kugler)

Ezekiel and the Priestly Texts of the Pentateuch: Current Debates and Future Directions (Reettakaisa Sofia Salo/Walter Bührer)

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Monumentality and the Hebrew Bible 2

42-113

Chair: Eric Jarrard (Wellesley College)

Room: UL6 1072

Cutting in Line: Achaemenid Monumental Architecture in the Book of Esther (Timothy Hogue)

Jeremiah’s Sign-Act at Tahpanhes and its Imperial Foundations (Eric Jarrard)

The Enactment of a Monumental Temple Complex in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Judith Newman)

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The State of Archaeology and Inscriptions in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Persian Period 2

42-120

Chair: James D. Moore (Ohio State University)

Room: UL6 1070

Epigraphs and Empire: Texts from Persian Mediterranean Coast and Transjordan in the OSU DLATO Project (James Moore)

NIR Multispectral Image Fusion Technique for Epigraphic Analysis of Persian and Hellenistic Period Ostraca from Tel Maresha (Ariel Schwarz/Esther Eshel)

The Aramaic Idumean Corpus in its Imperial Context (Mitchka Shahryari)

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Writing Commentaries on Psalms 2

42-122

Chairs: Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher (Catholic Private University Linz) and Marianne Grohmann (University of Vienna)

Room: UL6 2097

Illuminations Commentary Series (Melody D. Knowles)

Apollos Old Testament Commentary (David Firth)

Biblischer Kommentar. Altes Testament (Friedhelm Hartenstein, Bernd Janowski, Judith Gärtner)

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Israel and Egypt in the Persian and Hellenistic Periods 2

42-126

Chair: Jonathan Jakob Böhm (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Room: UL6 2091

Shu, Thoth and Anubis at the Coast. Egyptian Amulets in the Southern Levant during the Persian Period (Laura Gonnermann)

Egyptians in the southern Levant (Jonathan Jakob Böhm)

Was there an Egyptian influence on southern Levantine imagery during the Persian period? An examination of 4th century BCE coins and sealings (Patrick Wyssmann) 

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