SBL – Aramaic Studies Session

I hope I am not breaking any rules by releasing this information now, but… Here is the lineup for the Aramaic Studies session for this year’s SBL conference in San Diego. It will be on Monday afternoon, not in the heart of the conference but not on the Sabbath or Sunday either, so hopefully many will be able to attend!

If all speakers are willing, I have permission to record our sessions for distribution as podcasts as well! So although we hope for your physical presence if you just can’t make it be sure to check back here for the podcasts after the conference.

S19-53 Aramaic Studies
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
11/19/2007
Room TBD

Michael Segal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
From Joseph to Daniel to Antiochus: The Literary Development of Daniel 2 (20 min)
Discussion (10 min)

Robert R. Phenix, Jr., Saint Louis University
Investigation of Ezra 4.12 in light of syntax of Aramaic of Ezra (20 min)
Discussion (10 min)

Alejandro F. Botta, Southern Methodist University
Looking for Some Satisfaction: Egyptian Antecedents of ybbl by+ (20 min)
Discussion (10 min)

Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Yale University
The Syriac Translation of the Book of Ben Sira: Differences between the Hebrew and the Syriac Texts Reconsidered (20 min)
Discussion (10 min)

Elitzur avraham Bar-Asher, Harvard University
Syriac and the other Eastern Aramaic Dialects (20 min)
Discussion (10 min)

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