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IOSOT 2022

Tuesday, 9 August 2022 – Overview Short Papers

Part I (14.30-16.00)

  14.30-15.00 15.00-15.30 15.30-16.00

109-40
Between Fiction and Facts: Historicity and Religiosity in the Books of Samuel / Zwischen Fiktion und Fakten. Historizität und Religiosität in den Samuelbüchern

Chairs: Johannes Klein, Walter Dietrich

Room KOL-E-18

Ilse Müllner
Ebenen des Erzählens und die Glaubwürdigkeit der Erzählung
Jeremy Hutton
Split Identities and Fragmented Texts: Text, Source and Materiality in 1 Samuel 17–18 MT and OG
Yigal Levin
Samuel, Saul, and the Founding of the Monarchy: Between Historical
Reality and Literary Ideology

109-41
Bible and Women: An International Project of Exegesis, Reception History and Cultural History

Chair: Irmtraud Fischer

Room KOL-G-217

Irmtraud Fischer (University of Graz, A), Núria Calduch-Benages (Pontifical University Gregoriana, I)
Presentation of the Series “Bible and Women” (www.bibleandwomen.org)
Silvia Schroer (University of Bern, CH)
The Variant Ways Iconography Contributes to a Gender-Oriented Reading of Biblical Texts
Angela Berlis (University of Bern, CH), Irmtraud Fischer (University of Graz, A)
The Role of the Bible in the Women’s Movements of the Nineteenth Century

109-42
Conceptual Thinking in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Organizers: Hindy Najman, Jan Dietrich
Chair: George Brooke

Room KOL-F-101

Friedhelm Hartenstein (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
The Countability of the Stars of Heaven: On a Case of Thinking the Infinite in the Hebrew Bible
Arjen Bakker (University of Groningen)
Time as a Cosmic Principle in Jewish Wisdom of the Greco-Roman Period
Phillip Lasater (University of Oxford)
The Orderliness or Disorderliness of Justice: Reflections on Mishpat

109-43
Intersections of Law, Wisdom, and Justice

Chair: Peter Altmann

Room KOL-G-204

Lida Panov (University of Zurich)
Die Bedeutung der älteren Weisheit für die Theologisierung des Rechts
Dylan Johnson (University of Zurich)
Miscarriages of Justice: Widowed, Wronged, and Wise Women in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Legal History
Peter Altmann (University of Zurich)
Viewing Persian Authorization of Torah through a Wisdom Lens

109-50
Books of Kings (1)

Chair: Walter Bührer

Room KOL-H-320

Martijn Beukenhorst (Université catholique de Louvain)
What is Wisdom? The Development of Solomonic Wisdom in Kings
Alicia R. Hein (University of St Andrews)
Prophet, Remnant, Mother, Child: Four Angles to Elijah’s Portrait in 1 Kings 19
 

109-51
HB/OT Theology / Hermeneutics / Ethics (1)

Chair: Jenna Kemp

Room KOL-E-13

Juan Cruz (University of Aberdeen)
Lament and Cultural Memory in Psalm 77
Andrea Hugill (Independent Scholar)
“One of a City and Two of a Family”: Historical Consciousness, Election
Theology and the Tale of Two Sisters
Matan Orian (Tel Aviv University)
A New Perspective on Gentile Impurity in the Bible

109-52
Pentateuch (1)

Chair: Noam Mizrahi

Room KOL-G-203

Reinhard Achenbach (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
The Pentateuch as Early Second Temple Literature
Bill T. Arnold (Asbury Theological Seminary)
Deuteronomy’s Justice Manifesto: The Significance of ‘Correct Decision(s)’ in Deuteronomy 16:18
Phil Reid (University of the Free State)
The Samaritan Pentateuch as an Intra-lingual Translation

109-53
Pentateuch (2)

Chair: Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger

Room KOL-G-210

 

Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger (Universität Wien)
Der Sündenfall (Genesis 3) eine Befreiungsgeschichte? 

Jeffrey Stackert (University of Chicago)
On the Relation between Textual Criticism and Source Criticism in the
Pentateuch
Christoph Levin (Universität München)
Die Niedrigkeits-Bearbeitung in der Urgeschichte
109-53 Paper Joze Krazovec (PDF, 422 KB)    

109-54
Prophets (1)

Chair: Martin Leuenberger

Room KOL-H-322

Alphonso Groenewald (University of Pretoria), Liza Esterhuizen (University of Pretoria)
A Study of the Tension between Experiences of Nothingness and Hope in the Name-Giving of the Children in Isaiah 7 and 8: A Trauma- Hermeneutical Perspective
Bob Becking (Utrecht University)
Divine Jealousy as an Answer to Trauma: Notes on the Book of Nahum
Todd Hibbard (University of Detroit Mercy)
Scribal List-Making and Isaiah’s Early Composition

109-55
Psalms (1)

Chair: Jordan Davis

Room KOL-G-212

Nina Beerli (Universität Zürich)
Streiten mit Menschen und Gott. Ein Beitrag zur Analyse von Konflikten in den Psalmen

Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg (Philipps Universität Marburg)
“Break the Arm of the Wicked!” (Psalm 10:15): Power and Violence in Psalms 9–10

Edgar Kellenberger (Universität Basel)
Hellenistic Epigraphica as Comprehension Aids for the Psalms of Lamentation and Thanksgiving?

109-56
Second Temple / Deuterocanonical Literature (1)

Chair: Hans-Peter Mathys

Room KO2-F-172

Michael Avioz (Bar-Ilan University)
The War between Ahab and Aram (1 Kings 20) According to Josephus
Veronika Bachmann (Universität Luzern)
The King as God and God as King: On the Theologically Significant Ambiguity of the Term mɛlɛḵ in the Hebrew Esther Narrative
Alma Brodersen (Universität Bern)
No Canon in Ben Sira

109-57
Social Anthropology, Disability Studies, and HB/OT

Chair: Katharina Pyschny

Room KOL-F-103

Heather McKay (Edge Hill University)
How Does Mephibosheth’s Disability Affect His Life and Death?
Pieter van der Zwan (Universität Wien; North-West University, South Africa)
Grotesque Bodies in the Book of Job
 

109-58
Translation of the Hebrew Bible, Ancient and Modern

Chair: Dominik Markl

Room KOL-H-321

Shlomi Efrati (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
The Importance of Being Different: Reconsidering the European Textual Tradition of Targum Onqelos
Arnim Janssen (Universität Wien)
“Remember!”: Emotivity in the Transmission of the Book of Lamentations
S. C. Daley (SIL International; Triapla Research Institute)
Aspects of Text-Critical Decision Making: Correlating MT Soundness and Variant Strength

Coffee break (16.00-16.30)


Part II (16.30-18.00)

  16.30-17.00 17.00-17.30 17.30-18.00

109-40
Between Fiction and Facts: Historicity and Religiosity in the Books of Samuel / Zwischen Fiktion und Fakten. Historizität und Religiosität in den Samuelbüchern

Chairs: Johannes Klein, Walter Dietrich

Room KOL-E-18

Hannes Bezzel
Charismatic Leadership? Concepts of the “Spirit” in the Books of Samuel
Cha-Yong Ku
Dramatisierung der konsequenten Erfahrungstheologie des Buches Kohelet in der Thronfolgegeschichte Davids
Stephen Germany
Reconsidering the Religio-historical Background of the “Uncircumcised Philistine” Motif in the Book of Samuel

109-41
Bible and Women: An International Project of Exegesis, Reception History and Cultural History

Chair: Irmtraud Fischer

Room KOL-G-217

L. Juliana M. Claassens (Stellenbosch University, SA)
On Prophecy and Gender in the Hebrew Bible
Martti Nissinen (University of Helsinki, FI)
Comparing Women Prophets in the Bible and in Mesopotamia
Christl M. Maier (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Transcultural Biblical Interpretation: Strategies and Challenges

109-42
Conceptual Thinking in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Organizers: Hindy Najman, Jan Dietrich
Chair: George Brooke

Room KOL-F-101

Annie Calderbank (University of Oxford)
Seeing Sanctification: The Perceptibility of Holiness and its Status as an Interpretive Concept
Hindy Najman (University of Oxford), Jan Dietrich (Universität Bonn)
Heavenly Paradigms and Earthly Models: A Comparative Study of Conceptual Thinking
Discussion

109-43
Intersections of Law, Wisdom, and Justice

Chair: Peter Altmann

Room KOL-G-204

Phillip Lasater (University of Oxford)
Legal Poetics: How the Self Illuminates Law and Law Illuminates the Self
Anna Angelini (University of Zurich)
An Unbreakable Order: Cosmic Justice and Natural Law in Jeremiah 31
Matthias Hopf (University of Zurich)
The “Legal” Function of Holiness

109-60
Books of Kings (2)

Chair: Christian Frevel

Room KOL-H-320

Mario Tafferner (Tyndale Theological Seminary)
The Divine Warrior Motif in 2 Kings 18:1–8
Francisco Martins (University of Notre Dame)
“Showing” and “Seeing” the Treasures: Towards a New Understanding of 2 Kings 20:12–19 // Isaiah 39:1–8
Itzhak Amar (Bar-Ilan University)
A Reflection of Yehu’s Rise to Power in the Division between Jehoram and Joash in the Book of Chronicles (2 Chronicles 21–24)

109-61
HB/OT Reception History (1)

Chair: Jaeyoung Jeon

Room KOL-E-13

Hanne Løland Levinson (University of Minnesota)
God of the Father, God of the Daughter: God in Octavia E. Butler’s Novel Parable of the Sower
Mark Sneed (Lubbock Christian University)
From Chaos Dragon to Hegemonic Monster of Order: Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan in Reception Historical Perspective

109-62
Pentateuch (3)

Chair: Joachim J. Krause

Room KOL-G-203

Jonathan Ben-Dov (Tel Aviv University)
Spiritual Aspects of the Tabernacle Materials
Attila Bodor (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Documentary Evidence of the Growth and Change of the Torah: Methodological Considerations
 

109-63
Pentateuch (4)

Chair: Michael A. Lyons

Room KOL-G-210

Domenico Lo Sardo (Pontifical University of Antonianum, Rome)
The Place of the Incense Altar and the End of P: Textual and Literary Criticism Study of Exodus 30:1–10; 37:25–28, Leviticus 4, 16; and the Role of the Vetus Latina

Esias Meyer (University of Pretoria)
The Restitution/Guilt Offering in Leviticus and Numbers

 

 

109-64
Prophets (2)

Chair: Martin Leuenberger

Room KOL-H-322

Hugh Williamson (University of Oxford)
Unravelling Isaiah 17
David J. A. Clines (University of Sheffield)
A Dietary Upgrade for Eschatological Animals (Isaiah 30:24)
Mirjam Bokhorst (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
Zweiter Exodus oder Nachfolge Gottes? Beobachtungen zur Rückkehr des Volkes bei Deuterojesaja

109-65
Psalms (2)

Chair: Jean-Daniel Macchi

Room KOL-G-212

To Zoom-Meeting

Christophe Nihan (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Sacrificial Metaphors in the Psalms: A Preliminary Report
Innocent Himbaza (University of Fribourg)
yhwh roi dans le Psaume 68
Sophie Ramond (Institut Catholique de Paris)
Esthétique de la résilience dans le psaume 79

109-66
Second Temple / Deuterocanonical Literature (2)

Chair: Hans-Peter Mathys

Room KO2-F-172

Min-Su Oh (Daeshin University, Daegu)
Eine kritische Lektüre der nachexilischen theologischen Strömungen, fokussiert auf Prediger 4,17–5,6
Frank Ueberschaer (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
Literary Adaptations of Conflicts between Jews and Their Rulers in Second Temple Period Literature
 

109-67
The Religions of Ancient Israel and Judah

Chair: Timothy H. Lim

Room KOL-F-103

Florian Oepping (Universität Osnabrück)
Mythos Tempelbibliothek
Brent Strawn (Duke University)
“The Human Being before God” in Southern Levantine Seals
David Toshio Tsumura (Japan Bible Seminary)
Was El Elyon the Canaanite God El?