7th International Organization for Targumic Studies – Call for Papers

Passing along this announcement from Wilem Smelik. Please propagate amongst the Biblioblogospheroid.

International Organization for Targum Studies
Seventh Meeting
Munich/München, Germany
Wednesday – Friday, August 7-9, 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 7th meeting of the IOTS will cover a wide range of topics related to Targum Studies:

Philology;
Translation Strategies and Theory;
Exegesis;
Theology;
Text-criticism and Manuscript Studies;
Relationship to  Rabbinic Literature;
Targum and NT.

We are pleased to announce a call for short papers in any of these categories.  Papers should be of twenty-minutes length, allowing ten additional
minutes for discussion. The deadline for paper proposals is December 31, 2012, including written abstracts.

DATE
The seventh meeting of the IOTS will be held from August 7-9, 2013 in conjunction with the XXIst Congress of IOSOT, the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, and other specialized congresses (IOQS, IOSCS, IOMS), to be held from 4th to 9th August 2013 in Munich/München, Germany. All information on these congresses, registration, accommodation, etc. can be found on http://www.en.iosot2013.evtheol.uni-muenchen.de/welcome/index.html.

PAPER PROPOSALS
If you are interested in participating and presenting a paper, please send your proposal (title and/or subject of paper) to:

Dr Willem Smelik,
willem.smelik@ucl.ac.uk
Dept. of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
University College London
Foster Court, Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT

Please forward this call for papers to any student or scholar you think may be interested.

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