10th Mainz International Colloquium on Ancient Hebrew

In charge of the Research Unit on Ancient Hebrew & Epigraphy / Ak. Dir. Dr. Reinhard G. Lehmann, and Dr. Anna E. Zernecke, Faculty of Protestant Theology, in collaboration with Dr. Johannes F. Diehl, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, and with assistance of Kwang Cheol Park, Karoline Ehinger, Anna M. Schneider and Editha Lafebre (Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Mainz).

Ocotber 2011, Friday, 28th – Sunday, 30th

Topics cover the Ancient and Classical Hebrew, i. e. Epigraphic and Biblical Hebrew, Qumran Hebrew, Ben Sira, and its subsequent effect on later or different language, as well as adjacent languages and epigraphics, for instance Ugaritic, Phoenician-Punic, Old and Imperial Aramaic, Moabite and Edomite.
Also matters of general epigraphy, palaeography and general linguistics in correlation with these languages are welcome.
Postgraduates, or PhD. doctorate students are explicitly invited to present their projects where they might benefit from collegial discussions.

Participation and registration:

For participation, we request a fee of 30 Euro, which is due onsite. This includes the conference binder, abstracts, badge, free WLAN access onsite, and refreshments. We are sorry that because of misuse by certain alien cadgers at the last meetings, free tea, coffee & refreshments etc will only granted to those who wear an authentic conference badge. For proper preparation, we request a simple pre-registration e-mail to micah@uni-mainz.de . Looking forward to meeting you in Mainz soon.