Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - IOSOT 2025

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)

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) Representations of Power in the Dual Scribal Systems of Late Bronze Age Emar (John Thames) 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   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) The "Seekers of Smooth Things" and the "simple people of Ephraim" in 4QpNah: Comments on their relationship (Arie van der Kooji)
XII 4   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   Purity, Identity and Safety: Separation from Gentile Practices in the Temple Scroll (Wenyue Qiang) Moons and First Fruits: Linguistic and Thematic Divisions in Qumran's Calendrical Scrolls (Anna Shirav) x
Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature 2   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) x