International Syriac Language Project (ISLP)
Berlin, 12–15 August 2025
Tuesday
14:30–16:00 Session 1
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| 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) | The Peshitta in the Apparatus of the BHQ of 1–2 Samuel (Craig E. Morrison) |
16:00–16:30 Coffee Break
16:30–18:00 Session 2
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| ISLP 2:
Lexicography and Linguistics
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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) | Cicero’s Greek: A Lexicographical Bridge to the New Testament (Michael P. Theophilos) |
Wednesday
14:30–16:00 Session 3
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| ISLP 3:
Lexicography and Linguistics
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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
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| 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
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| ISLP 5:
Hebrew Bible
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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) |