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IOSOT 2022

Thursday, 11 August 2022 – Overview Short Papers

Part I (14.30-16.00)

  14.30-15.00 15.00-15.30 15.30-16.00

111-40
Between Fiction and Facts: Historicity and Religiosity in the Books of Samuel (Zwischen Fiktion und Fakten. Historizität und Religiosität in den Samuelbüchern) (2)

Chairs: Johannes Klein, Walter Dietrich

Room KOL-E-18

Rachelle Gilmour
Saul’s Idolatry and the Rhetoric of Prophetic Judgment
Thomas Naumann
Mit Gott auf der Flucht. Davids Glaube und Frömmigkeit im Kontext seiner Flucht vor Saul und vor Abschalom / With God in Migrations: David’s Piety and Faith in the Context of His Flight from Saul and from Absalom

Walter Dietrich
Davids Frömmigkeit. Religiöses Phänomen und historisches Problem / David’s Piety: Religious Phenomenon and Historical Problem

111-41
Beyond the “Biblical World” Paradigm: New Approaches to
Religion, Mediality, and Gender in the Southern Levant

Chair: Christoph Uehlinger

Room KOL-G-217

Christoph Uehlinger (University of Zurich, SSSL project)
Introduction to the Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant Project

Panel: Beyond the Image-Text Divide

15:00–15:15
Silas Klein Cardoso (Universities of Bern and Zurich, SSSL project)
Beyond the Image-Text Divide: In Search of a Multidimensional Approach
to Visual Artifacts and Biblical Texts

15:15–15:30
Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme (University of Oslo)
The Agency of an Altar: A Material Semiotics-Inspired Investigation of the
Relationship between Incense Altars and Texts about Incense Altars

Panel: Beyond Ethnicity

15:30–15:45
Fabio Porzia (University of Zurich, SSSL project)
Beyond Ethnicity: Outline of a Renewed Approach to the Levantine
Religious Landscape

15:45–16:00
Katharina Pyschny (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
Cultural Hybridity Rather Than Ethnicity: The Persian and Early
Hellenistic Woman and Child Figurines as a Test Case

111-42
Martin Noth’s Legacy: Seventy-Five Years after Die Welt des Orients

Chair: Jeffrey Stackert

Room KOL-G-204

Erhard Blum
Martin Noths kritische Aktualität
Cynthia Edenburg
Evaluating Noth’s Deuteronomistic History Hypothesis as a Popperian Thought Experiment
Dominik Markl
“Die großen abschließenden Katastrophen”: Martin Noth’s Interpretation of Deuteronomistic Historiography

111-43
The BHQ Project: Principles, Progress and Perspective

Chair: Martin Rösel

Room KOL-G-209

To Zoom-Link

Innocent Himbaza
The BHQ Leviticus as a Critical-Diplomatic Edition
Thomas Hieke
The Material Basis of Scholarship and Faith: The “Leviticus” Fascicle of the Biblia Hebraica Quinta Prepared by Innocent Himbaza
David Marcus
The Benefits of the BHQ Masorah Notes for Students of the Hebrew Bible

111-50
Deuteronomistic History (1)

Chair: Bernd U. Schipper

Room KOL-F-103

Jack Kawira (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
The Evaluation of the Nature of the Israelites’ Covenant with the Gibeonites
Daniela De Panfilis (Pontifical Biblical Institute)
Double Narrative in the Book of Samuel: The Case of Michal (1 Samuel 19:11–17)
 

111-51
Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles (1)

Chair: Michael Pietsch

Room KOL-E-13

Shui Ki Fong (University of Aberdeen)
“Official Letters” in Ezra 4: Memory, Place, and Resistance
Jean-Daniel Macchi (Université de Genève)
Les mentions de Sukkot dans le livre d’Esdras-Néhémie
Michael Segal (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Reconstructing the List of Returnees: A Text-Critical Solution to Ezra 2 // Nehemiah 7 //
1 Esdras 5

111-52
HB/OT Theology/ Hermeneutics/Ethics (2)

Chair: Nesina Grütter

Room KO2-F-172

L. Juliana M. Claassens (Stellenbosch University)
Entertaining Contradictions: Continuing the Conversation on Irony in the Book of Jonah
Bernard Levinson (University of Minnesota)
Why Did Gerhard von Rad Co-nominate a Former Nazi (Karl Georg Kuhn) to Admission in the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences? A Conundrum in the History of the Discipline
 

111-53
Hebrew Poetry (1)

Chair: Andreas Wagner

Room KOL-G-212

Martin Leuenberger (Universität Tübingen)
Die nachexilische Zion-Segen-Theologie des Wallfahrtspsalters (Psalm 120–134)
Kevin Chau (University of the Free State)
Lyric and Allusion in Psalm 118
Tova Ganzel (Bar-Ilan University)
Language and Gestures in the Book of Ezekiel

111-54
Pentateuch (5)

Chair: Christoph Levin

Room KOL-H-322

Hélène Grosjean (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Die Komposition von Numeri 19 innerhalb der Priesterschrift. Ein neuer Vorschlag
Kishiya Hidaka (Universität Zürich)
The Historical Development of the Political Theology between P and the Book of Ezekiel
 

111-55
Postcolonial Studies and HB/OT

Chair: Melanie Köhlmoos

Room KOL-H-321

To Zoom-Link

Yan Okhtavianus Kalampung (University of Leeds)
The Insidious Trauma of Oppression in the Book of Ecclesiastes
Joachim J. Krause and Helge Bezold (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Das exegetisch-analytische Potential postkolonialer Kritik. Am Beispiel des Buches Josua
Ludwig Noya (Vanderbilt University)
Sabbath Matters? Revisiting the Reform in Nehemiah 13

111-56
Prophets (3)

Chair: Sonja Ammann

Room KOL-G-203

Allison Hurst (Harvard University)
Enslaved in Egypt? Remembering Deliverance from Egypt in the Book of Jeremiah
Lyndon Drake (Oxford)
Jeremiah 32 as a Microcosm of the Book of Jeremiah: Economic Writing and Transcendent Hope
 

111-57
Prophets (4)

Chair: Madhavi Nevader

Room KOL-G-222

Cristiana Conti (Austin Community College)
“He Shall Be Buried with the Burial of a Donkey”: On the Dehumanizing Burial of Jehoiakim in Jeremiah 22:18–19 and Its Possible Connection to the Disposal of the Witch in Maqlû
Andrea Beyer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Polyvalenz der Zeichenhandlung. Kritik an „Prophetenbiographien“
 

111-58
Wisdom Literature (1)

Chair: Phillip Lasater

Room KOL-H-320

Walter Bührer (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Citations and Allusions in the Book of Job
Hikaru Kumon (Organization for the New Japanese Bible Translation)
ʿālam Epistemology in Qoheleth
Christian Frevel (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Heart and Self: Some Afterthoughts on the Building Blocks of a Theory of Individualisation in the Hebrew Bible

Coffee break (16.00-16.30)


Part II (16.30-18.00)

  16.30-17.00 17.00-17.30 17.30-18.00

111-40
Between Fiction and Facts: Historicity and
Religiosity in the Books of Samuel /
Zwischen Fiktion und Fakten. Historizität und
Religiosität in den Samuelbüchern (2)

Chairs: Johannes Klein, Walter Dietrich
Room KOL-E-18

David Shepherd
“Deliver Me from ‘Bloods’”: The Problem of Bloodguilt in 2 Samuel 11–12 and Psalm 51
Mahri Leonard-Fleckman
From a Samson–Saul Complex to the Creation of Judahite History
Johannes Klein
Kann Zukunft verändert werden, wenn sie bekannt ist? Gedanken zur Relevanz von Gottesbefragungen in den Samuelbüchern / Can the Future Be Changed If It Is Known? Thoughts on the Relevance of Inquiries of God in the Books of Samuel

111-41
Beyond the “Biblical World” Paradigm: New Approaches to
Religion, Mediality, and Gender in the Southern Levant

Chair: Christoph Uehlinger
Room KOL-G-217

Panel: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Gender
16:30–16:45
Bruno Biermann (Universities of Bern and Zurich, SSSL project)
Beyond Binaries in Biblical Studies and Levantine Archaeology
16:45–17:00
Katharina Galor (Brown University)
Fashioning and Self-Fashioning Jewish Women’s Bodies: Roman and
Byzantine Period Visual and Material Identity Markers
Francesca Stavrakopoulou (University of Exeter), Izaak de Hulster (Universities
of Göttingen and Helsinki), Martti Nissinen (University of Helsinki)

Responses
 
Final Discussion
111-42
Martin Noth’s Legacy: Seventy-Five Years after Die Welt des Orients

Chair: Jeffrey Stackert
Room KOL-G-204
Lauren Monroe
A Pre-monarchic League in the Song of Deborah
David Vanderhooft
Martin Noth, G. E. Wright, Überlieferungsgeschichtliche Studien, and the
Founding of Die Welt des Orients Seventy-Five Years Later
Discussion
  16.30-16.45 16.45-17.00 17.00-17.30 17.30-18.00
111-43
The BHQ Project: Principles, Progress and Perspective

Chair: Martin Rösel
Room KOL-G-209
Craig E. Morrison
The Peshitta and the Targum in the Critical Apparatus of the BHQ in 1
and 2 Samuel
Leonardo Pessoa da Silva Pinto
The Formulae of the Ark and Textual Criticism in 1 Samuel
Stephen D. Ryan, Łukasz Popko
The Characterization “Literary” in BHQ 1 Kings in Light of Recent
Scholarship
Martin Rösel, Rolf Schäfer
Questions and Answers: Responding to Reviews of BHQ
  16.30-16.55 16.55-17.20 17.20-17.45 17.45-18.00

111-44
Book Review Session: Michael P. Steinberg, The Afterlife of Moses:
Exile,
Democracy, Renewal (Stanford University Press, 2022)

Chair: Steed V. Davidson

Room KO2-D-54

Omri Boehm (New York)
Book Review 1
Elisabeth Bronfen (Zurich)
Book Review 2
Carl S. Ehrlich (York University, Canada)
Book Review 3
Michael P. Steinberg (Brown)
Response to Book Reviews
  16.30-17.00 17.00-17.30 17.30-18.00

111-60
Deuteronomistic History (2)

Chair: Bernd U. Schipper

Room KOL-F-103

Shira Golani (Gordon Academic College of Education / Hebrew University
Bible Project)

The Historiography of the ‘United Monarchy’ in Light of Personal Names
Benedikt J. Collinet (Universität Innsbruck)
Beersheba: A City between Cult and Awakening
 

111-61
Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles (2)

Chair: Michael Pietsch

Room KOL-E-13

Philip Yoo (University of British Columbia)
Revisiting Chronistic Influences in Ezra-Nehemiah
Louis C. Jonker (University of Stellenbosch)
Chronicles and a Levitic Redaction? Re-opening the Diachronic Question
Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham)
Ezra’s Temple and Dürer’s Rhinoceros: The Obscured View from Far Away

111-62
Gender Studies and HB/OT

Chair: Christl M. Maier

Room KOL-H-321

Orit Avnery (Shalem College and Shalom Hartman Institute)
The Judgment of Solomon (1 Kings 3) and the Visit of the Queen of Sheba (1 Kings 10): Intertextual and Feminist Reading
Mathias Winkler (Universität Siegen)
Sexual Violence against Men in the HB/OT
 

111-63
HB/OT Theology/Hermeneutics/Ethics (3)

Chair: Nesina Grütter

Room KO2-F-172

Jacqueline Vayntrub (Yale University)
Paths Unseen: Anxieties of Transmission in Biblical Literature
Moritz F. Adam (Universität Zürich / Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Hermeneutics and Internal Dialogue: Qoheleth, Bakhtin, and the Rhetoric of Critical Wisdom
 

111-64
Hebrew Poetry (2)

Chair: Andreas Wagner

Room KOL-G-212

Stefan Fischer (Universität Wien)
The Space for Lovemaking in the Song of Songs
Timothy H. Lim (University of Edinburgh)
The Canonization of the Song of Songs
 

111-65
Pentateuch (6)

Chair: Markus Witte

Room KOL-H-322

Irena Avsenik Nabergoj (University of Ljubljana)
The Force of Love and Hate in the Story of Joseph (Genesis 37–50)
Jürg Hutzli (Université de Lausanne)
Tracing the Origins of the Figure of Aaron
Marcel Krusche (Universität Hamburg)
The Rite of Imposition of Hands: Some Text-Critical and Philological Remarks

111-66
Prophets (5)

Chair: Christophe Nihan

Room KOL-G-203

Michael A. Lyons (University of St Andrews)
From Punishment to Restoration? The Logic of Ezekiel 14:10–11
Reettakaisa Sofia Salo (Universität Göttingen)
Textentstehung im Alten Testament am Beispiel von Ezechiel 33,23–29
Avital Cohen (Sorbonne Université / Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
L’importance de Jér.-LXX pour l’histoire rédactionnelle du texte hébreu

111-67
Prophets (6)

Chair: Núria Calduch-Benages

Room KOL-G-222

Bruno Clifton (University of Oxford)
A Bad Artisan Blames the Tools: Did the Latter Prophets Use Instrumental Divination?
Ruth Ebach (Université de Lausanne)
«Ich habe geträumt!» Zur Konnotation des Traumes in der Prophetenkritik
Csaba Balogh (Protestant Theological Institute of Cluj-Napoca)
Following the Course of the Sun Backwards: Tracing the Original Significance of the Famous Prophetic Omen in Isaiah 38:8 within Its Context

111-68
Wisdom Literature (2)

Chair: Anna Angelini

Room KOL-H-320

Bertrand Rolin (Université de Strasbourg)
Lire le livre de Job du point de vue des animaux. Approche écopoétique des textes bibliques
Markus Saur (Universität Bonn)
Gelassenheit. Zur Pragmatik des Koheletbuches
Rebecca Wolfs (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Die Anthropologie des Traumes in der alttestamentlichen Weisheit