Welcome addresses (Video):

• Gabriele Siegert, Vice President of the University of Zurich
• Sylvie F. Matter, Vice President of the Parliament of the Canton of Zurich

14.30-15.20

 

Chair: Hindy Najman (Oxford)

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

Nathan MacDonald (Cambridge):
Turbulent Priests? Rethinking the History of the Israelite Priesthood (Video)

16.40-17.30
 

Chair: Christl Maier (Marburg)

Peter Dubovský (Rome):
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

 

Chair: David Carr (New York)

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

11.10-12.00

 

Chair: Louis Jonker (Stellenbosch)

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

09.00-09.50

 

Chair: Corinna Körting (University of Hamburg)

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

Gillmayr Handout, english (PDF, 132 KB)

11.10-12.00
 

Chair: Thomas Römer (Paris)

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

09.00-09.50 

 

Chair: 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

 

Chair: Christoph Uehlinger (Zurich)

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

09.00-09.50 

 

Chair: 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)

Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango (Salisbury NC):
A Gendered Venture: The Devaluing and Dispossession of Israelite Women in the Book of Numbers (Video)

11.10-12.00

 

Chair: Martti Nissinen (Helsinki)

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