Lectures and Conference Papers by DEMBIB Members
2024
01/2024 Lecture by Lilian Uhlig at the Alttestamentliche Sozietät of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: "An Archive of Trauma - entstehungsgeschichtliche und traumatheoretische Überlegungen zu 2 Kön 19,20-34".
2023
01/2023 Lecture by Joseph Cross at the Alttestamentliche Sozietät of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: "Multiple Endings, Not Expansions in MT Esther"
02/2023 Lecture by Robert Kade at the Alttestamentliche Sozietät of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: "The Art of Knowing Knowledge – The Tradition(s) of the Great Demotic Wisdom Book"
03/2023 Paper by Joseph Cross at the Fachgruppentreffen of the Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft für Theologie (Fachgruppe Altes Testament), held at the Theologische Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (March 4th-5th): "Rethinking the Ending of Esther in Light of Demotic Egyptian Papyri"
03/2023 Public Keynote by Prof. Bernd U. Schipper at the conference "Wisdom at the Interface between God and Humans," University of Hamburg (March 20th-23rd): "From Empirical Knowledge to Critical Wisdom: Concepts of Wisdom in the Book of Proverbs" [conference site »]
06/2023 Lecture by Robert Kade as part of the interreligious lecture series "Quint.Essenz - Wasser in den Religionen" at the Gustav-Lübcke-Museum Hamm (Westfalen): "Aqua vitae - die Erschaffung der Welt aus dem Wasser nach ägyptischen Vorstellungen"
07/2023 Paper by Petra Schmidtkunz at the conference (Anti-)Apocalypticism in Antiquity, University of Zurich (July 16th-19th): “'When the snake does not bite': How the notions of an ideal Urzeit and Endzeit belong together and what this tells us about apocalypticism."
07/2023 Paper by Prof. Bernd U. Schipper at the conference (Anti-)Apocalypticism in Antiquity, University of Zurich (July 16th-19th): "Apocalypticism in Ancient Egypt? – The Case of Prophetic Literature from the Ptolemaic Period"
07/2023 Paper by Joseph Cross and José Rafael Saade at the 2023 European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Conference (July 10th-13th) for the research unit "Comparing Ancient Chronographic Historiographies from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Judah, and Greece in the Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods": "Egypt as Garden in the (Post-)Achaemenid Conceptualization of Space and History" [DEMBIB blog post »]
07/2023 Paper by Petra Schmidtkunz at the 2023 European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Conference (July 10th-13th) for the research unit "Comparing Ancient Chronographic Historiographies from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Judah, and Greece in the Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods": "'And I will take you to a land like your own land...' (2Kgs 18:32/Isa 36:17)" [DEMBIB blog post »]
11/2023 Paper by Joseph Cross at the 2023 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting (November 11th-21st, San Antonio, TX, USA) for the program unit "Philology and Biblical Studies": "Philology as Leisure in the Novella of Ruth"
11/2023 Paper by Joseph Cross at the 2023 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting (November 11th-21st, San Antonio, TX, USA) for the program unit "Hebrew Scriptures and Cognate Literature": "Are All Texts Rivers? The Ending of MT Esther and the Multitextuality of Prose Fiction in the Hellenistic Period"
2022
03/2022 Lecture by Prof. Bernd U. Schipper at Columbia University New York: "Egyptian Wisdom and the Hebrew Bible. A Case Study on Prov 22-24 and Demotic Wisdom Literature"
03/2022 Lecture by Prof. Bernd U. Schipper at Harvard University, Divinity School: "From Amenemope to Anksheshonqi. Prov 22:17-24:22 and Egyptian Wisdom"
03/2022 Paper by Robert Kade at the CIERA and HAROC workshop ‘The hands of the scribes in Antiquity: Scribal practices and the social place of scribes from the Old Assyrian to the Hellenistic Period’, Nanterre University, France: "The many hands on the kalamos – A survey through the scribal habits of Graeco-Roman Egypt"
04/2022 Lecture by Prof. Bernd U. Schipper at Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences: "The Demotic Literature and the Hebrew Bible"
06/2022 Paper by Robert Kade at the workshop ‘Transformations in plant uses during the Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt’, Università di Pisa, Italy: "Carob-cabbage on the pigeon-bean-tree:
herbal entanglements in Demotic and beyond"
07/2022 Invited Paper by Petra Schmidtkunz at the Annual Conference of the European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS), Toulouse/France: "Reigning like an Achaemenid: On the ideological foundations of YHWH’s rule in Isa 45"
07/2022 Paper by Robert Kade at the 12th International Congress of Coptic Studies (ICCS), Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium: " Newspeak in Narmouthis, or: How Coptic is Demotic?"
07/2022 Paper by Robert Kade at the workshop ‘Bridges in Antiquity’, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster: "Bridges over troubled etymologies – On the lexical semantics of crossing rivers"
08/2022 Main Paper by Prof. Bernd U. Schipper at the 24th Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT), University of Zurich/Switzerland: "From Empirical Knowledge to Critical Wisdom: The Composition and Intention of the Book of Proverbs"
09/2022 Paper by Robert Kade at the 14th International Congress of Demotic Studies (ICDS), Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg: "Toss a Dime to your Sobek - oh Data aplenty!"
09/2022 Paper by Joseph Cross at the 14th International Congress of Demotic Studies (ICDS), Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg: "A 'Veritable Cycle Romanesque?' The Relationship Between P. Krall And P. Spiegelberg Reconsidered"
11/2022 Paper by Robert Kade at the ‘Berliner Papyrologisches Kolloquium’, Humboldt-Universität Berlin: "Ways of Wisdom -- The Many Traditions of the Great Demotic Wisdom Book"