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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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‘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
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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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