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) -

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) -

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)