Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - IOSOT 2025

International Syriac Language Project (ISLP)

Berlin, 12–15 August 2025

Tuesday

14:30–16:00 Session 1

  Chair Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3
ISLP 1: Syriac Bible Richard A. Taylor (Dallas Theological Seminary) The Bible of Edessa: Translating and Annotating the Peshitta of Exodus (R. B. ter Haar Romeny) Framing the Use of the Syriac Particle ܕܶܝܢ in the Peshitta Psalms (Godwin Mushayabasa Mhuriyashe) The Peshitta in the Apparatus of the BHQ of 1–2 Samuel (Craig E. Morrison)

16:00–16:30 Coffee Break

16:30–18:00 Session 2

  Chair Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3
ISLP 2: 
Lexicography and Linguistics
Richard A. Taylor (Dallas Theological Seminary) Ghosts, Spirits and Winds – Lexical Gleanings from Mandaic Magic Texts (Matthew Morgenstern) A Treatise on Homographs attributed to Elias of Nisibis (Sinai Syr X41N) (Nicolas Atas) Cicero’s Greek: A Lexicographical Bridge to the New Testament (Michael P. Theophilos)

Wednesday

14:30–16:00 Session 3

  Chair Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3
ISLP 3: 
Lexicography and Linguistics
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)

Friday

14:30–16:00 Session 4

  Chair Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3
ISLP 4: 

Syriac Bible

Richard A. Taylor (Dallas Theological Seminary) The Translation of Adverbs in the Peshiṭta of Deuteronomy (Logan Copley) The Syro-Hexaplaric Psalter: A Linguistic and Literary Reassessment (Willem Th. van Peursen) The Function of the Paronomastic Infinitive in Peshitta Jeremiah (Jerome A. Lund)

16:00–16:30 Coffee Break

16:30–18:00 Session 5

  Chair Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3
ISLP 5: 
Hebrew Bible
Richard A. Taylor (Dallas Theological Seminary) Grammatical Parallelism in Job – from a Diachronic Perspective (Mats Eskhult) A Variationist Sociolinguistic Approach for the Study of Ancient Hebrew Varieties: Potential and Obstacles (Kengoro Goto) A Semantic Study of יצא in Isaiah: A Dialogic Linguistic Approach (Tiantang Ren)