Friday, 08/15/2025
Please note that the program is currently still preliminary and may be subject to change.
Sessions 6
| Panel | Chair | Paper 1 | Paper 2 | Paper 3 |
| Jeremiah 1 | Jeremiah’s Archival Body (Ian D. Wilson) | From Textual Criticism to Editorial Work : New Insights in LXX-Jer (Avital Cohen) |
Jeremiah 14:10: a Hoseanic Lens on Jer 14:2–12 (Nehara Meinemer) |
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| The Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ) Project 1 | Attila Bodor (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft) | Kritische Würdigung der Edition des Buches Hiob in der Biblia Hebraica Quinta (Markus Witte) | Hapax Legomena in the BHQ Apparatus of 1–2 Samuel (Leonardo Pessoa da Silva Pinto, Craig E. Morrison) | Reading Psalm 5:13: Textual and Literary Implications (Innocent Himbaza) |
| Representation and Idealisation of Power 1 (ERC DEMBIB) | Petra Schmidtkunz (Humboldt University of Berlin), Robert Kade (Humboldt University of Berlin) | Foreign Powers in the Service of Royal Propaganda: Memory and Ideology in the Hasmonean Representation of the Persian Period and the Roman Empire (Davide D’Amico) | tba (Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum) | |
| Resilience: Prayer texts in Poetical Literature | Judith Gärtner (University of Rostock) | God is my strength and has become my salvation (Isa 12:2): Resilience transcends trauma (Elizabeth Esterhuizen, Alphonso Groenewald) | From remembering to resilience in the songs of thanksgiving (Judith Gärtner) | “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?“ (Mk 15:34 // Ps 22:1) – biblical perspectives on resilience in the Passion narratives (Hannah Clemens) |
| Digital Humanities and Computational Approaches to the Bible 3 | Frédérique Rey (University of Lorraine), Sophie Robert Hayek (University of Lorraine), Davide D’Amico (University of Lorraine) | Topical Distribution of LXX-versions of Ezechiel the Tragedian (Christian Vrangbæk) | The uBIQUity of Sacred Texts between Past and Future: Methodological Challenges and New Tools (Anna Mambelli) | Resilient Septuagint and uBIQUity: Case Studies of Intertextuality in the Digital Age (Davide Dainese) |
| ISLP 4 | 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) |
| Ezekiel 1 | Traumatisierter Exulant oder prophetische Idealgestalt? Ezechiels Zeichenhandlungen (Andrea Beyer) | From the Strong Came Something Sweet: Sweetness as an Indicative of Authentic and Reliable Oracles in Ancient Israel (Luiz Gustavo Assis) | Some observations on the Hebrew and Greek texts in Ezekiel 40-48 and their religious and cultural background (Siegfried Kreuzer) | |
| Anthropology of the Old Testament 1 | Bernd Janowski (Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen), Andreas Wagner (University of Bern), Jürgen van Oorschot (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg) | Leiblichkeit und Weltbezug. Zu einem zentralen Aspekt des alttestamentlichen Personbegriffs (Bernd Janowski) | Berührungen im Spannungsfeld von Sinneswahrnehmung und metaphorischer Kommunikation (Andreas Wagner) | Kontinuität und Wandel – die Suche nach dem Konstanten in der altt. Anthropologie (Jürgen van Oorschot) |
| Reception History 3 | The Prince of Tyre and the Politics of Early Modern Ezekiel Commentary (Andrew Mein) | Eve in Dystopian Literature (Hanne Løland Levinson) | ||
| Philological and Linguistic Variety in Northwest Semitic Languages | Jonathan Stökl (Leiden), Anna Elise Zernecke (Kiel) | Identifying Northern Hebrew in the Epigraphic Corpus and Hebrew Scribal Culture: A Response to Na'ama Pat-El (Jeremy M. Hutton) | Moab without Meša: Moabite forays from a perspective of doubt (Reinhard G. Lehmann) | |
| IOVS 3 | Wilhelm Tauwinkl (University of Bucharest) | Elijah in the Vulgate (Benedikt J. Collinet) | The Book of Joshua in the Vulgate. Examples of Translation Technique (Dionisio Candido) | Jeromian revisions and versions of Ecclesiastes (Sincero Mantelli) |
| Pentateuch 6 | Tautological Statements about God in the Book of Exodus:Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects (Rainer Kessler) | Sintflut and Sinai: Genesis 6-8's Allusion to Exodus 24-40 (Zara Zhang) | Slave Transaction, Magic Competition, and Holy War: Three Ways to Read the Plague Cycle (Exodus 7-12) (Zhaoyu Yan) | |
| Dead Sea Scrolls 1 | Florian Oepping (Tel Aviv University) | The Authority of God's Law at Qumran (Peter Altmann) | The Temple Tax and the Tyrian Silver Coin Hoard: Considering Currency Debasement and Circulation (Lindsey Davidson) | x |
| XII 4 | Kirsten Schäfers (University of Bonn) | The Same over All the Earth: Semantic Nuances of אחד in Zech 14:9 (Giorgio Paolo Campi) | Some oblique undercurrents in Hab 1 (Anna Mátiková) | The Supposed Literary History of the Twelve Minor Prophets and the Book of Malachi (Isaac Kalimi) |
| Theology, Ethics, and Hermeneutics 6 | Trial, Temptation, and Ethical Dilemmas in Biblical Narratives: Abraham (Gen 22:1–19) and Jephthah (Judg 11:29–40) (Irena Avsenik Nabergoj) | Joseph, saviour or slave master? (Arie Versluis) | Beyond Eden: Rethinking the AI Dilemma through Insights from the Genesis Creation Narrative (Young Gil Lee) | |
| Wisdom Literature 3 | Alienable and inalienable possessions in the narrative frame of the book of Job (Stefan Fischer) | The Rhetorical Function of the Figure Elihu in the Book of Job (Tobias Siegenthaler) | Re-Imagining the Gattung of Job (Hiyab Tsige) |
Sessions 7
| Panel | Chair | Paper 1 | Paper 2 | Paper 3 |
| Jeremiah 2 | The Magical Background of Jeremiah’s Tripartite Expressions: The Case of “O Land, Land, Land” in Jer 22:29 (Cristiana Conti-Easton) | Disintegrating Israelite Identity in Jer. 42-44: Reverse Exodus, Curse, and Ideology (Keith Pinckney) | ||
| The Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ) Project 2 | Arie van der Kooij (Leiden University) | BHQ Daniel: Preliminary Observations (Marco Settembrini) | The Samaritan Pentateuch in the Biblia Hebraica Quinta (Attila Bodor) | The Forthcoming BHQ Edition of Ezekiel: Some Challenging Aspects of Its Preparation (Matthieu Richelle) |
| ISLP 5 | 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) |
| Ezekiel 2 | Ein Gott, der über Leichen geht. Raumkonzeption in Ez 8–11 (Philipp Seinsche) | Divine Violence and Ezekiel 16: An Analysis of Metaphor (Asia Lerner-Gay) | Turning Back to Justice: A 'Synoptic' Comparison of Ezek 18 and 33 (Adrian Marschner) | |
| Anthropology of the Old Testament 2 | Bernd Janowski (Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen), Andreas Wagner (University of Bern), Jürgen van Oorschot (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg) | Emotion und Handlung. Überlegungen zu kulturellen Modellen in der Hebräischen Bibel und im Alten Orient (Sara Kipfer) | Körperwelten –Zum Paradigma des Körpers in der Alttestamentlichen Anthropologie (Christian Frevel) | Kann ein Kuschit seine Haut(farbe) wandeln? Funktionen der optischen Beschreibung von nichtisraelitischen Menschen in der Hebräischen Bibel (Ruth Ebach) |
| Reception History 4 | Sheol and Hades in the Hebrew and Greek Psalms (Philipp Brandenburg) | What is his son's name? (Prov 30:4b). Reception of Prov 30 through the ages (Frederique Dantonel) | Gen 30:25-43: Its reception in Rashi's commentary and in Luther's translation (Jonathan Hirschberger) | |
| IOVS 4 | Michael Fieger (Theologische Hochschule Chur) | Zur Wirkungsgeschichte der verschiedenen Textformen von Ps 22 (Vg 21) (Andreas Vonach) | ablactata or retributio? The meaning of גמל in Ps 131 [Vg 130]:2b and its influence on the overall interpretation of the Psalm (Konrad Kremser) | x |
| Pentateuch 7 | “Stretch out your hand”: The Neo-Babylonian Origin of the Root מ–ו–ך in the Holiness Legislation (Lev. 25:25, 35, 39, 47; 27:8) (Tommaso Bacci) | Enjeux de la représentation de la bénédiction en Dt 7,12b-16a (Joël Mambe) | x | |
| Dead Sea Scrolls 2 | The "Seekers of Smooth Things" and the "simple people of Ephraim" in 4QpNah: Comments on their relationship (Arie van der Kooji) | Moons and First Fruits: Linguistic and Thematic Divisions in Qumran's Calendrical Scrolls (Anna Shirav) | x | |
| Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature 2 | Florian Oepping (Tel Aviv University) | The Need to Explain Evil - The Problem of Monotheism in the Enoch Traditions (Mirjam Bokhorst) | Ben Sira, Rhetoric, and Memory in Hellenistic Judaism (Lindsey Davidson) | x |
| Theology, Ethics, and Hermeneutics 7 | The immutability of God in the book of Deuteronomy (Albert Coetsee) | Women, Life and Death in the Books of Samuel (Christel Koehler) | x | |
| Wisdom Literature 4 | Encomiastic Erotic Speech in LXX-Song of Songs (Evangelia Dafni) | "Fürchtet Hiob Gott umsonst? Ja, sogar in seinem Leid" (Cha-Yong Ku) |
Reading selected biblical proverbs in the light of corporal punishment in child upbringing (Onyekachi Chukwuma) |