Thursday, 08/14/2025
Please note that the program is currently still preliminary and may be subject to change.
Sessions 4
| Panel | Chair | Paper 1 | Paper 2 | Paper 3 | Paper 4 |
| The State of Archaeology and Inscriptions 1 | James D. Moore (Ohio State University) | "Galilee of the Nations": the Western Upper Galilee as a Phoenician Borderland (Hayah Katz) | Evidence for Phoenician Magic: An inventory of excavated amulets from Persian period Levantine contexts (Helen Dixon) | From the Iron Age to the Persian Period: Preliminary Results of the Excavations at Tell Bleibil in the South-Eastern Jordan Valley (Alexander Ahrens) | |
| Monumentality and the Hebrew Bible 1 | Eric Jarrard (Wellesley College) | The Judean Tomb as a Communal Monument (Alice Mandell) | Monuments and the Torah in Israel and Judea (Simeon Chavel) | The Ark of Yhwh as a material and Imaginary Monument (Thomas Römer) | |
| Israel and Egypt in the Persian and Hellenistic Periods 1 (ERC DEMBIB) | Jonathan Jakob Böhm (Humboldt University of Berlin) | The Persian Period Transport jars from House k/G of the “Judaic/Aramaic quarter” of Elephantine in the Egyptian Museum Berlin (Stefanie Eisenmann, Gunnar Lehmann, Sabine Kleiman) | ΙΣΡΑΕΛΕΙΤΑΙ: The birth and evolution of early Samari(t)an identity between the Persian and Ptolemaic empires (Gad Barnea) | Iconographic Evidence: Display for the living, display of the dead: the Egypto-Levantine mortuary stelae in context (Melanie Wasmuth) | |
| Empathy and body-imagination 1 | Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps University of Marburg), Katherine Southwood (University of Oxford) | Reading the Minor Prophets From the Body’ (Johanna Stiebert) | Words travel worlds – Empathy in the shared history of the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint (Nancy Rahn) | The compassion of God in the Old Testament - not just a feeling, but an action! (Achim Behrens) | |
| Digital Humanities and Computational Approaches to the Bible 1 | Frédérique Rey (University of Lorraine), Sophie Robert Hayek (University of Lorraine), Davide D’Amico (University of Lorraine) | Natural Language Processing, AI, and the Origins of the Ethiopic Bible (Timothy Lee) | Toward a Visual Exegesis: Interpreting Distant Reading Results in Biblical Scholarship (Timo Glaser) | Uncovering Old Testament Intertextuality in Coptic Literature: A Computational Analysis using TRACER and Passim (So Miyagawa) | Unlocking the Potential of Open Old Testament Research Data: An HTR Workflow for Coptic Manuscripts (Eliese-Sophia Lincke) |
| Brothers and Aliens 1 | Ruth Ebach (University of Lausanne), Cynthia Edenburg (The Open University of Israel) | Emic and Etic Approaches to Constructions of Israelite Ethnicity (Marc Brett) | Expertise as Identity Marke (Angelika Berlejung) | Complex Tribal Identities: Aramaeans and Patriarchal “Israel” without the Bible (Adrianne Spunaugle) | |
| IOQS 5: Manuscripts and Materiality | Arjen Bakker (University of Cambridge) | A New Aramaic Inscription from the Cave of the Swords near Ein Gedi (Asaf Gayer and Jonathan Ben Dov) | Cryptic, Not So Cryptic: Paleographic Considerations on the Term ‘Cryptic’ to Describe Some Qumran Manuscripts (David Hamidovic) | The Material Significance of the 4Q82 Stick and a Reconstructed Reading of its Fragments (Joshua M. Matson) | The Material Culture of Writing at Qumran: Inkwells as a Case Study (Dennis Mizzi) |
| Writing Commentaries on Psalms 1 | Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher (Catholic Private University Linz), Marianne Grohmann (University of Vienna) | International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament (Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher, Marianne Grohmann) | The Jewish Publication Society Bible Commentary (Benjamin Sommer) | Commentaire de l'Ancien Testament (Innocent Himbaza, Sophie Ramond) | |
| Reception History 1 | Law, History and the Spirit of the Age. Biblical Politics beyond the Hebrew Republic (Daniel Weidner) | Amos in Reception: Elusive and yet Pervasive (Paul Joyce) | The Legacy of 19th-Century Travelogues of the Holy Land in the Historiography of Ancient Israel in the 20th Century (Emanuel Pfoh) | ||
| Ezekiel and the Priestly Texts of the Pentateuch 1 | Reettakaisa Sofia Salo (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg), Walter Bührer (Ruhr University Bochum) | Ezekiel’s Alignment with Leviticus: The Case of the Purity Laws (Christophe Nihan) | Between Lev 21 and Num 19: A Text-historical Analysis of the Instruction on Corpse Impurity (Ezek 44:25–27) (Martin Tscheu) | Assessing the Relationship between Ezek 44 and Num 16-18 (Michael Lyons) | |
| IOVS 1 | Michael Fieger | Chanukah in the Vulgate (Matthew Kraus) | Jerome’s Text-Critical Practice: What can the biblical commentaries tell us? (Simone Rickerby) | What makes an interpretation a good exegesis? (Bernhard Klinger) | |
| Between Foreign Politics and Scribal Theology 1 | Meike Röhrig (Humboldt University of Berlin), Helge Bezold (Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt) | Political Threat and Scribal Interpretation: Jeremiah’s Emergence as Prophet to the Nations (Christl Maier) | The Importance of the OAN in Jeremiah (Jordan Davis) | Against the nations? Outward-oriented and inward-oriented perspectives in the oracles against the Ammonites, Moab, Edom, and the Philistines in Ezekiel 25 (Markus Saur) | Philistia, Phoenicia and Edom in the Oracles Against the Nations (Yigal Levin) |
| Pentateuch 4 | Linguistic Dating and Pentateuchal Criticism as Complementary Methods: The Case of a Priestly Inclusio (Exod 40:34-38; Num 9:15-23) (Nili Samet) | The Composition of the Torah in the Book of Exodus (Reinhard Achenbach) | Deuteronomy and the Pentateuch: A Re-Evaluation of Their Literary-historical Relation (Stefan Schorch) | ||
| Former Prophets 4 | Personal Names in the Biblical 'United Monarchy' Prose and Lists: Do They Reflect the Same (Onomastic) Reality? (Shira Golani / Mitka Golub) | The Solomon Accession Narrative: Contours, Artistry, Politics (Raanan Eichler) | Solomon’s enthronement in the light of ANE enthronement rituals (Peter Dubovsky) | ||
| XII 2 | Die Fremdvölkerpolemik im Buch Hosea (Christoph Levin) | Am 3–6 neu aufgelegt. Das judäische Profil von Am 6,1–7 (Kristin Tröndle) | Four Visions and a Narrative: Remarks on the Redaction History of Amos 7:1-8:3 (Bob Becking) | ||
| Religions of Ancient Israel and the Ancient Near East 4 | Prophecy and the Brain: A Neuroscientific Perspective on the Prophetic Ritual in Ancient Israelite Religion (Ville Mäkipelto) | Prophetic Bodies in the Ancient Near East (Martti Nissinen) | |||
| Theology, Ethics, and Hermeneutics 4 | Glad Tidings of Divine Fury?: The Value of Trauma Theory for Reading Nahum 1 (Juliana Claassens) | Murderous Intent? Toward a New Poetics of Violence in Biblical Law (David Lambert) | The Legal Language of Esther: An Exploration of the Hermeneutics of Interpretation in the Traditions of Esther (Rahel Lampérth) | ||
| Wisdom Literature 1 | Is Job Among the Wise? Rethinking the Concept of Wisdom in the Book of Job (Rachel Frish) | Sapientia Discursiva - The Hermeneutics of Sapiential Thinking (Yannik Ehmer) | The “Death of the Self” in the Book of Lamentations: A Philosophical Account (Pia Regensburger) |
Sessions 5
| Panel | Chair | Paper 1 | Paper 2 | Paper 3 | Paper 4 |
| The State of Archaeology and Inscriptions 2 | James D. Moore (Ohio State University) | Epigraphs and Empire: Texts from Persian Mediterranean Coast and Transjordan in the OSU DLATO Project (James Moore) | NIR Multispectral Image Fusion Technique for Epigraphic Analysis of Persian and Hellenistic Period Ostraca from Tel Maresha (Ariel Schwarz/Esther Eshel) | The Aramaic Idumean Corpus in its Imperial Context (Mitchka Shahryari) | |
| Monumentality and the Hebrew Bible 2 | Eric Jarrard (Wellesley College) | Cutting in Line: Achaemenid Monumental Architecture in the Book of Esther (Timothy Hogue) | Jeremiah’s Sign-Act at Tahpanhes and its Imperial Foundations (Eric Jarrard) | The Enactment of a Monumental Temple Complex in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Judith Newman) | |
| Israel and Egypt in the Persian and Hellenistic Periods 1 (ERC DEMBIB) | Jonathan Jakob Böhm (Humboldt University of Berlin) | Shu, Thoth and Anubis at the Coast. Egyptian Amulets in the Southern Levant during the Persian Period (Laura Gonnermann) | Egyptians in the southern Levant (Jonathan Jakob Böhm) | Was there an Egyptian influence on southern Levantine imagery during the Persian period? An examination of 4th century BCE coins and sealings (Patrick Wyssmann) | |
| Empathy and body-imagination 2 | Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps University of Marburg), Katherine Southwood (University of Oxford) | Feel the Power! Body-imagination and the senses in Hebrew Bible Royal Texts (Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme) | Upstanding Speech, Upstanding Bodies: Ephemerality and Endurance in Biblical Textuality (Jacqueline Vayntrub) | ||
| Digital Humanities and Computational Approaches to the Bible 2 | Frédérique Rey (University of Lorraine), Sophie Robert Hayek (University of Lorraine), Davide D’Amico (University of Lorraine) | Visualizing Overlooked Syntactic Alternatives in the Greek New Testament (Tony Jurg) | Out of Darkness, Light: Illuminating Biblical Hebrew with Interpretable Machine Learning (David Smiley) | Quantitative Approaches to Biblical Translations : Comparing the Syriac and Hebrew Verbal Systems in Genesis (Matthias Benabdellah) | The Concept of Love in the Latin Vulgate (Eva Elisabeth Houth Vrangbæk) |
| Brothers and Aliens 2 | Ruth Ebach (University of Lausanne), Cynthia Edenburg (The Open University of Israel) | "Khnum is against us": The Rise and Fall of Ḥananiah and the Persecution of the Yahwists in Egypt (ca. 419–404 BCE) (Gad Barnea) | Revisiting the ‘lists of pre-Israelite nations’ in the Enneateuch in Light of Recent Research on Identity Discourses in the Persian period (Stephen Germany) | ||
| IOQS 6: Manuscripts and Materiality | Michael Johnson (Orion Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | Philology in a Material World: Constructions, Reconstructions, and Deconstructions of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Matthew P. Monger) | The New Materiality and the Dead Sea Scrolls: 1QS-1QSa-1QSb as a Case Study (Dermot Nestor and Gareth Wearne) | The Scrolls of Cave 6 as a Literary Collection (Anna Shirav Hamernik) | 1QS V, 13: Misplaced or Deliberate? (Kamilla Skarström Hinojosa) |
| Writing Commentaries on Psalms 2 | Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher (Catholic Private University Linz), Marianne Grohmann (University of Vienna) | Illuminations Commentary Series (Melody D. Knowles) | Apollos Old Testament Commentary (David Firth) | Biblischer Kommentar. Altes Testament (Friedhelm Hartenstein, Bernd Janowski, Judith Gärtner) | |
| Reception History 2 | "A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping." Rahel's tomb and Rahel's tears, and the appropriation of text and land (Johanna Erzberger) | A History of the Reception of Early Jewish Texts in China/Chinese (Gerbern Oegema) | Hld 1,2 in zwei mittelalterlichen Quellen (Manuela Gächter) | ||
| Ezekiel and the Priestly Texts of the Pentateuch 2 | Reettakaisa Sofia Salo (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg), Walter Bührer (Ruhr University Bochum) | The Ezekiel Priestly Covenant: Between Fatalism to Agency (Gili Kugler) |
Ezekiel and the Priestly Texts of the Pentateuch: Current Debates and Future Directions (Reettakaisa Sofia Salo/Walter Bührer) |
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| IOVS 2 | Bernhard Lang (Paderborn University) | Jerome’s Psalterium iuxta Hebraeos: translation technique and Hebrew Vorlage (Martijn Jaspers) | cum carbonibus iuniperorum/desolatoriis. Psalm 120:4 (Vg 119:4) (Michael Fieger) | Psalms 14 (Vg 13) and 53 (Vg 52) in the Vulgate: A Comparative Analysis of the iuxta hebraeos and iuxta LXX Translations in Relation to the Original Texts and Other Ancient Translations (Wilhelm Tauwinkl) | |
| Between Foreign Politics and Scribal Theology 2 | Meike Röhrig (Humboldt University of Berlin), Helge Bezold (Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt) | Justice for the Fugitive: Foreign Politics and Scribal Theology in Isaiah 16:3-5 (Alicia Hein) | All nations over whom my name has been proclaimed” (Am 9:12). The Levantine Restoration in the Masoretic Text of Amos 9 and Its Extension to All Nations in the Septuagint (Hervé Gonzalez) | “... and It Shall Consume the Palaces of Ben-Hadad” (Am 1:4b; Jer 49:27b): The Formation and Historical Background of Jeremiah 49:23–27 and the Oracles Against the Nations (Friederike Neumann) |
Responses: Anselm Hagedorn (Session 1), Terry Iles, (Session 2) |
| Pentateuch 5 | Rites of passage in Numbers 6 and 8 (Esias Meyer) | The Double Water-from-a-Stone Narratives and Bekhor Shor’s Innovative Reading (Jonathan Jacobs) | The ‘Contagiousness’ of Forbidden Worship in the Pentateuchal Imagination (Jesse Mirotznik) | ||
| Former Prophets 5 | The blood of Nabot and the wine of the vine: the stakes and risks of land ownership in 1 Kings 20 – 22 (Emanuelle Pastore) | Historical synchronism and literary structure of the Book of Kings (Gunnar Begerau) | Politics in Judah? Royal mothers and “the people of the land” in the book of Kings (Rachelle Gilmour) | ||
| XII 3 | The Prophet as Hired Worker? The Role of Wages in Zechariah 11 (Anita Dirnberger) | Mournful Judah (Zech 12:10-14) (Noam Mizrahi) | Zech 13:7–9; 14:2–5, Onias III, and the Trials of the 160s (Torleif Elgvin) | ||
| Religions of Ancient Israel and the Ancient Near East 5 | Priester als Universalgelehrte? (Florian Oepping) | The High Priest - How High Is His Standing? (Hananel Shapira) | |||
| Theology, Ethics, and Hermeneutics 5 | Human and Divine Emotions in the Hebrew Bible: Jealousy as a Test-Case (Ariel Seri-Levi) | Staying in the sanctuary – a danger to life (Edgar Kellenberger) | De la célébration des fêtes bibliques à la réflexion sur la légitimité des traditions abrahamiques: ancienneté, messianité et foi en Dieu (Yolande François) | ||
| Wisdom Literature 2 | “What Brightens the Eye Gladdens the Heart; Good News Puts Fat on the Bones” (Prov 15:30): The Interrelationship between Body and Soul in Aphoristic Rhetoric (Tova Forti) | The Body and the Immaterial Person in Proverbs and Egyptian Iconography (Emily Page) | The Dark Side of Wisdom in Proverbs: An Intersectional Perpsecitve (Mark Sneed) |