Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - IOSOT 2025

IOSCS Meeting

Berlin, 11–12 August 2025

Monday

09:00–09:45 Welcome and Keynote Lecture

Christa Müller-Kessler – New Aramaic Text Witnesses for the LXX From the Cairo Genizah and the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus

09:45–10:00 Coffee Break

10:00–11:30 Parallel Sessions 1

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IOSCS 1.1: 
Pentateuch and Samaritan Traditions

Segmentation in the Septuagint Pentateuch: Linguistic, Interpretive, and Cognitive Dimensions (Jean Maurais)

A Section of the Old Greek Text of the Decalogue According to Exodus (P.Oxy 5633) (Kristin De Troyer)

The Samareitikon-Tradition: A Critical Re-Evaluation of the Surviving Fragments in Light of the Historical Transmission of the Samaritan Pentateuch, and Samaritan Translation Culture (Stefan Schorch)

IOSCS 1.2: 
Deuterocanonical Writings 1

Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before: Doublets in the Greek Esther Versions (Joshua Alfaro)

An Examination of the Syriac and Greek Versions of 2 Maccabees 5:1–10 (Davis Sutton)

The Outline of I–IV Maccabees in MS Rahlfs 542 (Laurens Breukeleers & Reinhart Ceulemans)

11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions 2

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IOSCS 2.1: 
Pentateuch & Translation Issues

Thirty-Six Cells on Pharos: Epiphanius’ Story and the Puzzle of Ex 24:11 LXX (Maria Sokolskaya)

OG Job 11.12a

(Claude Cox)

Metathesis in the Septuagint: Different Vorlage or Intentional Transformation (Eszter Csalog)

IOSCS 2.2: 
Deuterocanonical Writings 2

Interpreting Judith Between History, Eschatology, and Fiction (Anna Angelini)

Neither Cultural Veneer nor Systematic Thinking

(Raphäelle Berterottière)

Craftsmanship and Wisdom in the Book of Ben Sira: Text Traditions and Interpretative Perspectives (Bonifatia Gesche)

13:00 – 14:30 Mittagspause

14:30 – 16:00 Parallel Sessions 3

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IOSCS 3.1: 
Prophetic Books
‘The Literal Meaning of the Sacred Text’

(Alison Salvesen)

Of Evil Kings and Tax Collectors: Economic Terminology in Old Greek Isaiah (Rebecca Wolfs)

Textual Stratigraphy of the Old Latin Versions of Hosea (Alfio Giuseppe Catalano)

IOSCS 3.2: 
Psalms and Job

Die Psalterkatenen-handschrift Codex Hierosolymitanus S. Crucis 96 (Rahlfs-Hs. 1070) als Epitome hexaplarischer Lesarten (Felix Albrecht)

Psalm-Headings in Book IV of the Greek Psalter: With Special Emphasis on LXX Ps 92(1 (Gert J. Steyn)

The Earliest Greek Reception of LXX Job (Stephen M. Bay)

16:00 – 17:00 Annual General Meeting IOSCS

18:00 Opening Ceremony IOSOT

Tuesday

14:30 – 16:00 Parallel Sessions 4

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IOSCS 4.1: 
Lexical and Linguistic Studies 1
The Septuagint Use of θλίβω and θλῖψις – Preliminary Observations (Eberhard Bons) Ὅσιος and Cognates in the Septuagint (Dries De Crom) Septuagintal Sycophants: συκοφαντ- in the Septuagint and in Post-Classical Greek (Maximilian Häberlein)
IOSCS 4.2: 
 
LXX Textual Criticism and Revisions 1
Creating a Hebrew–Greek–Hebrew Index of Theodotion in 1–2 Samuel With the Help of AI (Timo Tekoniemi) Diversity and Development Within the Septuagint’s Kaige-Aquila Tradition (Ryan Comins) Otto Thenius and Zacharias Frankel on the Text of the Books of Samuel (Theo van der Louw)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00 Parallel Sessions 5

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IOSCS 5.1: 
Lexical and Linguistic Studies 2
The ‘Imagined Readers’ of the Septuagint: Lexical Choices and Cultural Negotiation (Camilla Recalcati) The Lexical Choice of ἁφή for נגע in OG Leviticus: A Greek-Priority Perspective (Alberto Paredes) Knowledge From the Greek Bible: Lexical Investigations on ἐπιστήμη and Cognates (Laura Bigoni)
IOSCS 5.2: 
LXX Textual Criticism and Revisions 2
The Books of Hosea and Joel in Theodoret of Cyr’s Commentary on the Twelve Prophets (Tiphaine Lorieux) Synoptic Edition of the Old Georgian Versions of the Book of Esther (GeII and GeI): Aims and Challenges (Natia Mirotadze) Continuum, Threshold, and Procession: A Framework for Collaborative Text-Critical Analysis, With Examples From Ezra–Nehemiah (Steve C. Daley)

18:00 Closing Remarks