Eröffnung des Kongresses

Grussworte (Video):

• Gabriele Siegert, Vizerektorin der Universität Zürich
• Sylvie F. Matter, Vizepräsidentin des Zürcher Kantonsrats

14.30-15.20

 

Moderation: Hindy Najman (Oxford)

Jutta Jokiranta (Helsinki):
The Lure or Relief of Ritualized Behavior: Cognitive and Cultural Readings of Scrolls (Video)

16.40-17.30
 

Moderation: Christl Maier (Marburg)

Peter Dubovský (Rom):
Neo-Assyrian Archival Texts and the Bible (Video)

• Ralph Lewin, President of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities
• Franziska Driessen-Reding, President of the Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich
• Michel Müller, President of the Reformed Church in Zurich
• Ulrich Knoepfel, Council of the Protestant Church in Switzerland

19.10-20.00 

 

Chair: Annette Schellenberg (Wien)

Presidential Address: Konrad Schmid (Zurich):
The Composition of the Pentateuch as a Historical and a Hermeneutical Problem (Video)

09.00-09.50

  

Moderation: David Carr (New York)

Steed Davidson (Chicago):
Imperial Desires: Constructions and Maintenance of Race in Biblical Interpretation (Video)

11.10-12.00

 

Moderation: Louis Jonker (Stellenbosch)

Judith Newman (Toronto):
Time, Text, and Ancestors in the Memories of Israel: A New Perspective (Video)

09.00-09.50 

 

Moderation: Corinna Körting (Universität Hamburg)

Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher (Linz):
“Our Fathers Have Told Us…” (Psalm 78:3): Remembered History in the Psalms Reflected through the Centuries (Video)

11.10-12.00 
 

Moderation: Thomas Römer (Paris)

Shuichi Hasegawa (Tokyo):
Past, Present and Future: The Redaction History of 2 Kings 17 (Video)

09.00-09.50

 

Moderation: Jacqueline Vayntrub (Yale)

Bernd Schipper (Berlin):
From Empirical Knowledge to Critical Wisdom: The Composition and Intention of the Book of Proverbs (Video)

11.10-12.00

 

Moderation: Christoph Uehlinger (Zürich)

Manfred Oeming (Heidelberg):
Die Bedeutung der Numismatik für das Studium des Alten Testaments (Video)

09.00-09.50

 

Moderation: Corinna Körting (Hamburg)

Friedhelm Hartenstein (München):
Cosmization of Chaos: New Insights into a Central Figure of Thought of Biblical and Early Jewish Wisdom Traditions (Video)

11.10-12.00 

 

Moderation: Martti Nissinen (Helsinki)

Martin Prudký (Prag):
YHWH, a God Who Speaks: Remarks on the Rhetoric of Direct Speeches of God in Biblical Narratives (Video)