Wednesday, 08/13/2025
Main Papers II (09–13:00)
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09:00–10:40 |
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IOSOT Main Papers II 30 Chair: Nili Samet (Bar Ilan University) Room: UL6 2094 (in person), UL6 2091 (livestream), online via Zoom |
Miriam and the Cushite Woman: Africana Biblical Hermeneutics and the Quest for Liberation after Liberation (Kenneth Ngwa) |
Dalit Feminist Hermeneutics and Biblical Interpretation (Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon) |
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11:20–13:00 |
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IOSOT Main Papers II 30 Chair: Nili Samet (Bar Ilan University) Room: UL6 2094 (in person), UL6 2091 (livestream), online via Zoom |
Measuring Variance in Textual Traditions (Frédérique Michèle Rey) |
The Temple Scroll as a Continuation of Priestly Thought (Molly Zahn) |
Sessions 31 (14:30–16:00)
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14:30–16:00 |
Short Paper Sessions |
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Pentateuch 3 31-001 Chair: Julia Rhyder (Harvard University) Room: DOR24 1.101 |
The Literary Profile of the Priestly Writing: A New Perspective (Hila Dayfani) |
The seven + one Sequence in Lev 9:1 and the End of Priestly Writing in Lev 8:35–36. Textual and Literary Criticism Study (Domenico Lo Sardo) |
The Role of Inference in Reading the Pentateuchal Priestly Work (Jeffrey Stackert) |
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Former Prophets 3 31-002 Chair: Veronika Bibelriether (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg) Room: DOR24 1.102 |
The Death of Saul: The Biblical Double Narrative (1Sam 31:1-6 and 2Sam 1,5-10) and Its Reception (Daniela De Panfilis) |
An Incestuous Congress: The Case of Two Siblings Tamar and Amnon (2 Sam 13:1–22) (Luis Quinones-Roman) |
Marriage to Widows in the Old Testament (Menard Musendekwa) |
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Book of the Twelve 1 31-034 Chair: Kirsten Schäfers (University of Bonn) Room: DOR24 1.103 |
Hosea 1's Use of Exodus (Derek Bass) |
Vom Ort des ungestörten Beisammenseins zum Haus der Sklaverei. Die Exodus-Bezüge in Hosea (Szabolcs-Ferencz Kató) |
Puns, Ambiguities and Rhizomorphic Text Structures in the Book of Hosea (Anna Maria Bortz) |
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Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemia, Esther 3 31-043 Chair: Louis C. Jonker (Stellenbosch University) Room: UL6 3053
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Räume, Grenzen und Grenzüberschreitungen im Esterbuch (Lara Mayer) |
Dan 8:27 is Dan 7:28b (David Forward) |
The Literary Role of the Philistines in the Book of Chronicles (Itzhak Amar) |
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Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature 1 31-005 Chair: Florian Oepping (Tel Aviv University) Room: UL6 3075 |
The Origins and Functions of the Additions to Old Greek and Theodotion Daniel 3 (Michael Segal) |
Was Nabouchodonosor alone or only a (hu)man? ὡς ἀνὴρ εἷς in Jdt 1:11 as the Expression of Quality (Martina Korytiaková) |
On Ideal Rulership. Simon’s Eulogy in 1 Macc 14:4–15 (Barbara Schmitz) |
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Religions of Ancient Israel and the Ancient Near East 3 31-007 Chair: Martti Nissinen (University of Helsinki) Room: DOR24 1.201 |
The Collective Godhead the Deity IL and the History of Israelite Religion (David Toshio Tsumura) |
The Art of Not Collapsing: Zion as the Center of the World (Matthew Arakaky) |
Visual Power Networks: The Semiotics of the Solar Imagery in the Iron Age Levant (Bruno Biermann/Dylan Johnson) |
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History of Ancient Israel within the Ancient Near East 1 31-008 Chair: Shuichi Hasegawa (Rikkyo University) Room: UL6 3059 |
How views of the afterlife influenced the adoption of death penalty laws in ancient Israel compared to Egypt (Alex-David Baldi) |
Die Renaissance der biblischen Statthalter im politischen Diskurs des späten 2. Jh. v. Chr. (Sarah Schulz) |
The Origins of the Amalekite Ban (Yair Segev) |
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Theology, Ethics, and Hermeneutics 3 31-009 Chair: Rebekah Van Sant (University of Oxford) Room: DOR24 1.204
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The relationship between HB/OT theology and philosophy (Jaco Gericke) |
Realistic Hamartology and Narrative Theodicy: Remarks on the Origin of Human Violence and Free Will in Gen 4 (Jörg Lanckau) |
“They are in the morning like grass that is renewed” (Ps 90:5): Vegetable Anthropology in the Hebrew Bible (Tobias Häner) |
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14:30–16:00 |
Invited Panels |
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Apocalyptic Thinking in Antiquity 31-102 Chair: Moritz Adam (University of Zurich) Room: UL6 1070 |
A Utopian Imagination? Exploring the Intersection of Utopia and Apocalyptic Thought in Second Temple Judaism (Madhavi Nevader) |
Revealing Plato: Platonic Influence Upon the Origins and Development of Apocalyptic (George Athas) |
The Apocalyptic Job: On the Contribution of Job’s Latest Editors (Urmas Nõmmik ) |
The Parasitic Apocalyptic: Instability of Genre in Job, 4 Ezra, and Daniel (Mateusz Kusio) |
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Boschwitz on Wellhausen: Interdisciplinary Book Review Panel 31-105 Chair: Bernard M. Levinson (University of Minnesota) Room: UL6 1072 |
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Labor as an approach to the Persian Empire in the Southern Levant 31-112 Chair: Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki) Room: UL6 2094 14:30–16:00 |
SOURCE-IT: forced labour and indirect taxation in the Southern Levant (Lucia Cerullo, Filippo Pedron, Mitchka Shahryari, Daniele Soares) |
Towards Rethinking Economy and Society in the Persian Levant through Informal Taxation and Bourdieu (Jeremy Land, Jason Silverman) |
The Babylonian perspective: a response to papers on sources and methods in the WORK-IT project on informal taxation in the Southern Levant during the Achaemenid period (Odette Boivin) |
Response: Informal Taxation in Context (Rhyne King) |
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Myth and Mythmaking 31-115 Chair: Guy Darshan (Tel Aviv University) Room: UL6 2091 |
Myth and Mythmaking Across Media: Theoretical Considerations and a Case Study (Christoph Uehlinger) |
Late Developments of the Storm-god vs. Sea in the Eastern Mediterranean: Echoes from Ascalon, Jaffa and Beirut (Noga Ayali-Darshan, Guy Darshan) |
Saul, David and the Myth of the Servant (Christopher Metcalf) |
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Representation and Idealisation of Power 31-125 Chairs: Robert Kade, Yannik Ehmer (Humboldt University of Berlin) Room: UL6 2093 |
Joshua the Law-bearer: Torah as Imperial Power in the Conquest Narrative (Sophia Johnson) |
Representing the King When Requesting It (Hananel Shapira) |
Gender and Power in Translation in Daniel 5 (Aubrey Buster) |
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) |
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