Program IOSCS

Abstracts IOSCS (PDF, 165 KB)

Friday, 5 August

	405-40 SBL Commentary on the Septuagint Chair: Robert Hiebert Room KIR-2-200	405-41 Versions and Reception (1) Chair: Alison Salvesen Room KIR-2-201
14.00-14.30	Felix Albrecht (Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen) A Commentary on Psalm 71 LXX (Psalm 72 MT)	Martijn Jaspers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Nimia novitate: A Polysystemic Approach to Jerome’s Latin Bible Translations
14.30-15.00	Sarah Yardney (University of Chicago) Preliminary Results from SBLCS 1 Reigns	Peter Gentry (Phoenix Seminary) Mercati’s Analysis of the Hexaplaric Colophons
15.00-15.30	Johann Cook (Stellenbosch University), Bryan Beeckman (KU Leuven/UC Louvain) An Exegetical Commentary of LXX Proverbs: Women in LXX Proverbs	Martijn Beukenhorst (Université catholique de Louvain) The Quedlinburg Itala
15.30-16.00	Michaël N. van der Meer (Independent Scholar) Achan’s Sin according to the Septuagint	Anna Kharanauli (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbislisi State University) The Old Georgian Translation of Michaeas and the Textual Character of its Greek Vorlage
	405-42 IOSCS Keynote Chair: Alison Salvesen Room KIR-2-200
16.30-17.30	Cécile Dogniez (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) Le « parler » de la Septante dans ses approches culturelles. Retour sur les travaux de Marguerite Harl (1919–2020)

Saturday, 6 August

	406-30 Translation Technique (1) Chair: Reinhart Ceulemans Room KIR-2-200	406-31 Translation Technique and Textual Criticism Chair: Cécile Dogniez Room KIR-2-201
09.00-09.30	Robert Walker (University of Cambridge) Dative Alternation within the Septuagint Pentateuch in Light of Postclassical Greek	Theo van der Louw (SIL) Translation Theory and Translation Techniques in the Septuagint and Their Relevance for the Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
09.30-10.00	Christa Müller-Kessler (Universität Jena) Translation Technique from the Greek Bible into Aramaic	Jean Maurais (Faculté de Théologie Évangélique - Acadia University) Papyrus Fouad inv. 266 (Ra 848) and the Text of Old Greek Deuteronomy: Time to Reassess Their Relationship?
10.00-10.30	Camilla Recalcati (Université catholique de Louvain) Egyptian “Retro-Corrections” in the LXX Greek of Genesis 37–50	S. C. Daley (Triapla Research Institute) The Common Text Project: Some Essential Features
	Coffee break
	406-32 Thematic Studies (1)	406-33 Translation Technique (2) Chair: Eberhard Bons Room KIR-2-200
11.00-11.30	–	Marieke Dhont (University of Cambridge) Periphrastic ποιέω in the Septuagint To Zoom-Meeting
11.30-12.00	–	Joshua Alfaro (Universität Salzburg) The Original Language of the Greek Esther Additions
12.00-12.30	–	Kristin Klaus (University of Tartu) Possibilities of Dividing the Speeches of Old Greek Job into Thematic-Formal Units

	406-44 Lexicographical and Semantic Studies (1) Chair: William A. Ross Room KIR-2-200	406-45 Versions and Reception (2) Chair: Peter Gentry Room KIR-2-201
14.00-14.30	Eberhard Bons (Université de Strasbourg) Observations on the Use of ἐλπίς and ἐλπίζω in the Greek Text of Sirach	Kyle Young (Trinity College Dublin) Aquila’s ‘Second Edition’: Evaluating the Appropriation and Evolution of a Concept
14.30-15.00	Nesina Grütter (Universität Basel) Religionshistorische Diskurs-Forschung im Zeitalter von Big Data und Crowing Corpora: Eine Fallstudie	Timothy Lee (University of Cambridge) Kaige Revision of the Septuagint and Ancient Jewish Education
15.00-15.30	Lorenzo Cuppi (Sapienza University of Rome) The Correspondence between רפאים and γηγενεῖς in Proverbs 9:18	Alison Salvesen (University of Oxford) Symmachus and Caesarea
15.30-16.00	J. Alberto Paredes (Reformed Theological Seminary) The Gileadite Password in Greek Judges: Text and Semantics	Reinhart Ceulemans (KU Leuven) The Pentateuch Text of the Nomos Mosaikos
	Coffee break
	406-46 Hellenistic World (1) Chair: Natia Mirotadze Room KIR-2-200	406-47 Thematic Studies (2) Chair: Nesina Grütter Room KIR-2-201
16.30-17.00	Jonathan Thambyrajah (Australian Institute of Theological Education) Intertextuality in the Versions of Esther	Robert Hiebert (Trinity Western University) The ‘Israel in Egypt’ Motif in Septuagint Genesis

Sunday, 7 August

	407-30 Lexicographical and Semantic Studies (2) Chair: Felix Albrecht Room KIR-2-200	407-31 Thematic Studies (3) Chair: Jean Maurais Room KIR 2-201
09.00-09.30	Andrew Daniel (African Christian University) The Coreferential Genitive Absolute as a Parasitic Mirative Structure: Evidence from LXX Greek	Beatrice Bonanno (Université catholique de Louvain) Theological Accents in the Septuagint of the Book of Ruth
09.30-10.00	William A. Ross (Reformed Theological Seminary) Donkeys and Dating the Greek Pentateuch	Daniel Olariu (Adventus University from Cernica) Thematic Resonance in Septuagint-Daniel
10.00-10.30	Travis Wright (University of Cambridge) Negation and (Non)veridical Contexts in the Greek Pentateuch To the Zoom-Meeting	Dirk Büchner (Trinity Western University) Animals in LXX Leviticus 11
	Coffee break
	407-32 Hellenistic World (2) Chair: Michaël N. van der Meer Room KIR-2-200	407-33 Translation Technique (3) Chair: Felix Albrecht Room KIR-2-201
11.00-11.30	Carson Bay (Universität Bern) The Language of Exemplarity between the Greek Jewish Scriptures and Other Ancient Mediterranean Literature	Natia Mirotadze (Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg) LXX Esther as Reflected by the Old Georgian II Translation of Esther
11.30-12.00	Raphaëlle Berterottière (Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier-III) L’hybridité stylistique du Livre de la Sagesse en fait-elle un OVNI littéraire? Une confrontation de Sg aux théories hellénistiques du style	Andrew Keenan (University of Cambridge) Neologisms in LXX Jeremiah