The 2010 International Organization for Targumic Studies conference is nearly here! Held triennially as part of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, this year’s conference is in Helsinki, Finland during the first week in August. The program(me) has just been posted at the conference website and I will share it below as well, but first I thought I would share my abstract with you.
The Figure of Boaz in Targum Ruth
International Organization for Targumic Studies (IOTS) will have
its 6th congress. Person in Charge: Dr. Willem F. Smelik, President of IOTS. For more information of IOTS, see here.Programme of IOTS
Wednesday 4 Aug, 9:00–10:30, Main Building Hall 10
Keynote Lecture: Steven Fraade, Targum and Multilingualism in Late Antique Judaism and Jewish Society
Wednesday 4 Aug, Session A (11:00–13:00)
Main Building Hall 10Philology & Methodology
11:00 Shamma Friedman, The Dating of Targum Onqelos
11:30 Shai Heijmans, About the ‘Unreliability’ of the Vocalization of Western Targum-Manuscripts
12:00 Margaretha Folmer, Forms and Uses of the Demonstrative Pronouns in Targum Onqelos
12:30 James K. Aitken, Septuagint and Targum Studies: Historical and Methodological RelationsWednesday 4 Aug, Session B (14:30–18:00)
Main Building Hall 10Genre
14:30 Alex Samely, The Targums within a New Description of Jewish Text Structures in Antiquity
15:15 Robert Hayward, ‘Targum a Misnomer for Midrash’? A new typology of the Second Targum of EstherAfternoon coffee break 16:00
16:30 Philip Alexander, ‘Translation and Midrash Completely Fused Together’? The Form of the Targums to Canticles, Lamentations and Eccleasiastes
17:15 Rocco Bernasconi, A Literary Analysis of the Genesis ApocryphonThursday 5 Aug, 9:00–10:30, Main Building Hall 10
Keynote Lecture: Avigdor Shinan and Yair Zakovitch, Avoiding Anonymity in the Bible and Beyond
Thursday 5 Aug, Session A (11:00–13:00),
Main Building Hall 10Exegesis
11:00 Willem Smelik, Targum in Talmud
11:30 Beatrice Lawrence, Jethro and Jewish Identity in Targumic Interpretation
12:00 Chris Brady, The figure of Boaz in TgRuth
12:30 Craig Morrison, dyt[/dyt[and the World to Come in the Syriac New Testament and Targum NeophytiThursday 5 Aug, Session B (14:30–18:00),
Main Building Hall 10Translation Strategies
14:30 Dmytro Tsolin, The Transformation of Poetical Lines of the Song at the Sea (Ex. 15:1–18, 21) in the Targum Onqelos
15:00 Bjørn Olav Kvam, Genesis 14 as Key-text for the Balaam Texts – A Case study of Text-immanent Exegesis in the Targumim
15:30 Gudrun Lier, Translation Techniques in Malachi according to Targum JonathanAfternoon coffee break 16:00
Identifying Targum
16:30 Paul Flesher, Identifying the Palestinian Targums: The Case of the Cairo Geniza Manuscripts
17:00 David Shepherd, Can Anything Targumic Come from Qumran? Revisiting Klaus Beyer’s ‘Targums’ of Tobit and Isaiah
17:30 Announcements: NTCS-websiteThursday 5 Aug, 18:00, Main Building Hall 10
IOTS Business Meeting
Friday 6 Aug, 9:00–10:30, Main Building Hall 13
Keynote Lecture: Dineke Houtman, The Use of Paratextual Elements in Targum Research
Friday 6 Aug, Session A (11:00–13:00), Main Building Hall 13
Manuscripts, Reception and Edition
11:00 Luis Díez Merino, A New Complete Aramaic Bible
11:30 Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman, ‘Christian’ Targums in a Targum edition?
12:00 Hector Patmore, The Italian Textual Tradition of Targum Jonathan
12:30 Hans Van Nes, “Rome” in Targum Jonathan and its European Reception
3 thoughts on “IOTS 2010 Schedule Posted”
That IOTA conference looks interesting. Keep us posted.
My Biblical Aramaic, Targumic Aramaic, and Syriac prof, Rick Taylor, is also presenting a paper.