Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - IOSOT 2025

09:00–10:40

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IOSOT Main Papers IV

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Chair: Carly L. Crouch (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Room: UL6 2094 (in person), UL6 2091 (livestream), online via Zoom

Prayer as “Site of Memory” for Israel and Judah: The Psalter of the Sons of Korah Revisited (Jorge Blunda)

“I have opened my doors to the traveler” (Job 31:32): The Social Grammar and Narrative Function of Hospitality in the Hebrew Bible (Anne Katrine de Hemmer-Gudme)

11:20–12:10

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IOSOT Main Papers IV

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Chair: Carly L. Crouch (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Room: UL6 2094 (in person), UL6 2091 (livestream), online via Zoom

Desacralizing Lands and Politics in the Northern Levant (Jan Dušek)

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14:30–16:00

Short Paper Sessions

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Pentateuch 6

51-001

Chair: Corinna Körting (University of Hamburg)

Room: DOR24 1.101

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)

Jeremiah 1

51-032

Chair: Ian D. Wilson (University of Alberta)

Room: UL6 1070

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)

Ezekiel 1

51-033

Chair: Daniel Seifert (Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg)

Room: UL6 2095B

Traumatisierter Exulant oder prophetische Idealgestalt? Ezechiels Zeichenhandlungen (Andrea Beyer)

Turning Back to Justice: A 'Synoptic' Comparison of Ezek 18 and 33 (Adrian Marschner)

Some observations on the Hebrew and Greek texts in Ezekiel 40-48  and their religious and cultural background (Siegfried Kreuzer)

Book of the Twelve 4

51-034

Chair: Kirsten Schäfers (University of Bonn)

Room: DOR24 1.103

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)

Wisdom Literature 3

51-042

Chair: Yannik Ehmer (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Room: DOR24 1.205

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)

Dead Sea Scrolls 1

51-006

Chair: Florian Oepping (Tel Aviv University)

Room: DOR24 1.102

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)

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Theology, Ethics, and Hermeneutics 6

51-009

Chair: ?

Room: DOR24 1.204

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)

Reception History 3

51-010

Chair: Lucas Müller (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Room: UL6 3053

The Prince of Tyre and the Politics of Early Modern Ezekiel Commentary (Andrew Mein)

Eve in Dystopian Literature (Hanne Løland Levinson)

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14:30–16:00

Invited Panels

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Anthropology of the Old Testament 1

51-101

Chair: Jürgen van Oorschot (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg) et al.

Room: UL6 2097

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)

The Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ) Project 1

51-104

Chair: Attila Bodor (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft)

Room: UL6 1072

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. Morison)

Reading Psalm 5:13: Textual and Literary Implications (Innocent Himbaza)

Digital Humanities and Computational Approaches to the Bible 3

51-108

Chairs: Frédérique Rey (University of Lorraine) et al.

Room: UL6 2094

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)

Philological and Linguistic Variety in Northwest Semitic Languages

51-117

Chairs: Jonathan Stökl (Leiden University) and Anna Elise Zernecke (Christian Albrecht University of Kiel)

Room: UL6 3059

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)

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Resilience: Prayer texts in Poetical Literature

51-118

Chair: Judith Gärtner (University of Rostock)

Room: UL6 2093

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)

16:30–18:00

Short Paper Sessions

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Pentateuch 7

52-001

Chair: Kishiya Hidaka (University of Oldenburg)

Room: DOR24 1.101

“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)

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Jeremiah 2

52-032

Chair: Ian D. Wilson (University of Alberta)

Room: UL6 1070

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)

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Ezekiel 2

52-033

Chair: Daniel Seifert (Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg)

Room: UL6 2095B

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)

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Wisdom Literature 4

52-042

Chair: Yannik Ehmer (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Room: DOR24 1.205

Encomiastic Erotic Speech in LXX-Song of Songs (Evangelia Dafni)

"Fürchtet Hiob Gott umsonst? Ja, sogar in seinem Leid" (Cha-Yong Ku)

Reading selected biblical proverbs in the light of corporal punishment in child upbringing (Onyekachi Chukwuma)

Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature 2

52-005

Chair: ?

Room: DOR24 1.201

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)

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Dead Sea Scrolls 2

52-006

Chair: Florian Oepping (Tel Aviv University)

Room: DOR24 1.102

The "Seekers of Smooth Things" and the "simple people of Ephraim" in 4QpNah: Comments on their relationship (Arie van der Kooji)

Moons and First Fruits: Linguistic and Thematic Divisions in Qumran's Calendrical Scrolls (Anna Shirav)

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Theology, Ethics, and Hermeneutics 7

52-009

Chair: ?

Room: DOR24 1.204

The immutability of God in the book of Deuteronomy (Albert Coetsee)

Women, Life and Death in the Books of Samuel (Christel Koehler)

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Reception History 4

52-010

Chair: Lucas Müller (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Room: UL6 3053

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)

16:30–18:00

Invited Panels

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Anthropology of the Old Testament 2

52-101

Chair: Jürgen van Oorschot (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg) et al.

Room: UL6 2097

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)

The Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ) Project 2

52-104

Chair: Innocent Himbaza (University of Fribourg)

Room: UL6 1072

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)