FRIDAY, 2nd |
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| 10:15 | Presidential address & greetings |
Epigraphy |
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| 10:30 | Mitka R. Golub (Jerusalem) A digital onomasticon from Judah, Israel, and neighboring kingdoms |
| 11:30 | Benjamin Sass (Tel Aviv) The low chronology of West Semitic epigraphy in the early first millennium BC – its history, its advantages, and its disadvantages |
| 12:30 | Lunch break |
Aramaic |
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| 14:00 | K. Lawson Younger (Trinity International University) A study of the preposition b- in Samʾalian Aramaic: a cognitive linguistic approach with ramifications for the interpretation of the Katumuwa stela |
| 15:00 | Jeremy M. Hutton (Wisconsin-Madison/University of the Free State) The prefix consonant of the C- and tG-stems in the dialects of Aramaic: a proposal |
| 16:00 | Coffee break |
Epigraphy |
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| 16:30 | Erhard Blum (Tübingen) Die Wandinschrift 4.1 von Kuntillet Ajrud. Eine weitergehende Rekonstruktion und Interpretation im Kontext der israelitischen Schriftkultur |
| 17:30 | Robert S. D. Crellin (Cambridge) Measuring ambiguity in the West Semitic abjad |
| 18:00 | Christian Stadel (Beersheva) On the Mt. Gerizim inscriptions |
| 18:30 | Break |
Public Lecture |
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| 19:00 | Brinthanan Puvaneswaran (Berlin) How Hebrew became mundane – The fall of a sacred language |
SATURDAY, 3rd |
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Hebrew |
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| 9:00 | James Aitken (Cambridge) Hebrew Language Study in Antiquity: The Greek Evidence |
| 9:30 | Agustinus Gianto (Rom) Modality and evidentiality in Hebrew – Some further thoughts |
| 10:00 | Coffee break |
Epigraphy |
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| 10:30 | Paul G. Mosca (Vancouver) The Phoenician inscription from Nebi Yunis (RES 367) reexamined |
| 11:00 | Robert Martin Kerr (Saarbrücken) Richter zu Kanaan und zu Karthago |
| 11:30 | Peter Stein (Jena) Gottesname und Genitivattribut? Altsüdarabische Beiträge zu Yahwe und seiner Aschera |
| 12:00 | Gaby Abou Samra (Lebanese University, Beirut) An unpublished Aramaic bowl |
| 12:30 | Lunch break |
Epigraphy |
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| 14:00 | Abigail R. Zammit (Malta) Taking a closer look at prophetic and military activity in the Lachish letters: an eighty-year rejoinder to Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai (Harry Torczyner) |
| 15:00 | Karoline Totsche (Mainz) Punkt – Punkt – Schaden – Strich. Syntaktisch-epigraphische Überlegungen zur Gliederung der Mescha-Stele unter Berücksichtigung der Setzung graphischer Trennzeichen |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break |
Biblical Hebrew – Syntax |
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| 16:00 | Andrew G. Daniel (Oxford) On the interlocking syntactical structure of verbs, nouns, and the relative clause in temporal prepositional phrases |
| 16:30 | Mats Eskhult (Uppsala) Thoughts on attributive phrases and clauses in Biblical Hebrew |
| 17:00 | Achim Müller (Worms / Mainz) Das Partizip in den Ascher-Sätzen der Genesis |
| 17:30 | Break |
Biblical Hebrew |
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| 18:00 | Isabelle Lieutaud (Paris) The opposition between Qatal and Yiqtol or the issue of the actuality in history |
| 18:30 | Carsten Ziegert (Gießen) Die Lexeme חֵן und חֶ֫סֶד – ein kognitiv-linguistischer Ansatz zur Bedeutungserschließung |
SUNDAY, 4th |
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Aramaic and the Bible |
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| 9:00 | Nili Samet (Bar-Ilan University) Which Aramaic dialect stands at background of the book of Qohelet? |
| 9:30 | Benjamin D. Suchard (Leiden) The origins of the Biblical Aramaic reading tradition: tracking three features through time and space |
| 10:00 | Holger Gzella (Leiden) Der Wechsel ins Aramäische in der Hebräischen Bibel und seine literarische Funktion |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
Syntax and Semitics |
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| 11:30 | Tania Notarius (Halle / Bloemfontein) The passive participle in Ugaritic |
| 12:00 | Alexey Lyavdansky (Moskau) Biblical Hebrew clause-linking conjunction wV-: in search of typological parallels |
Closing address |
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| 12:30 | Presidential Closing Address |