Dear Christian,

I am writing to introduce you to some of Gorgias Press’s academic publishing programs. At the last SBL meeting, we released ca. 65 new titles, some of which are listed below under my signature. During the past nine months, we refined our acquisitions and production processes in order to meet scholarly needs, and release books very efficiently within months.

During this holiday season, we are running a 40% sale on all books. This is the perfect time to get any Gorgias book at a discount. If you would like to learn about new releases, I encourage you to sign up here. You can opt out any time.

You can download our most recent PDF catalog where you can see a list of special sale items at up to 60% discount.

Please find below some of the titles we released for SBL, as well as information on how to submit your work for publication. If you have a publication project, please write to us at submissions@gorgiaspress.com.

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George A. Kiraz, President

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Some of the Titles Released for SBL

	A Syriac Lexicon by By Michael Sokoloff ISBN 978-1-60724-620-6, $149.50
The second edition of Carl Brockelmann’s Lexicon Syriacum, published in 1928, is the best dictionary of Syriac ever written. However, its Latin language and the ordering of words according to triliteral Semitic roots make its use difficult for most students and scholars. This revised edition by Sokoloff renders meanings in English, arranges words alphabetically, and includes many useful tools on a CD.
	Qumran through (Real) Time by By Robert Cargill ISBN 978-1-60724-058-7, $82 (Your price $49.20)
This book proposes a new occupation model for the remains of Khirbet Qumran, the site associated with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Using the latest in virtual reality technology, the author reconstructs the site of Qumran and demonstrates that the site was initially built as a Hasmonean fortress, and was later expanded into a residence for a self-sufficient community responsible for the Dead Sea Scrolls.
	A Palimpsest: Rhetoric, Ideology, Stylistics, and Language Relating to Persian Israel, Edited by Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana Edelman, and Frank Polak > ISBN 978-1-60724-584-1, $121.16 (Your price $72.70)
A collected-essays volume that explores what we can learn by looking into the matters of language, rhetoric, style, and ideology about the producers and readers of biblical books. Contributors include P. Guillaume, J-D Macchi, R. Rezetko, D. Rom-Shiloni, F. Stavrakopoulou, I. Young and the three editors.
	Dischronology and Dialogic in the Bible’s Primary Narrative by David Bergen ISBN 978-1-60724-105-8, $105 (Your price $63.00)
How ought the Bible to be read? A dialogical struggle between Moses and God results in the publication of a lawbook within the storyworld. Observing how characters read this lawbook, the reader uncovers a surprising answer to this hermeneutical question.
	The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Sanandaj by Geoffrey Khan ISBN 978-1-60724-134-8, $158.12 (Your price $94.87)
This volume presents a description of the Neo-Aramaic dialect that was spoken by the Jews of Sanandaj in western Iran, but which is now virtually extinct. The material for the volume was gathered firsthand in fieldwork conducted with the last remaining speakers in Israel. The volume consists of a detailed grammatical description, a corpus of transcribed texts, including folktales, historical accounts and portrayals of customs, and an extensive glossary.
	In the Wake of Tikva Frymer-Kensky Edited by Steven Holloway, JoAnn Scurlock, and Richard Beal ISBN 978-1-59333-977-7, $111.32 (Your price $66.79)
This volume consists of 14 papers delivered by Assyriologists and biblical specialists at the 2007 Society of Biblical Literature congress in sessions devoted to the scholarly legacy of the late Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.
	Two Sides of a Coin: Juxtaposing Views on Interpreting the Book of the Twelve / the Twelve Prophetic Books by Ehud Ben Zvi and James D. Nogalski; Introduction by Thomas Römer ISBN 978-1-60724-303-8, $29 (Your price $17.40)
A conversation between James D. Nogalski and Ehud Ben Zvi on the question of The Twelve and its implications for the historically oriented study of the prophetic books in the Hebrew Bible and for the reconstruction of the intellectual history of ancient Israel.
	Enlivening the Past by J. Jayakiran Sebastian ISBN 978-1-60724-103-4, $102.92 (Your price $61.75)
This collection of essays offers an innovative exploration by an Asian theologian of various issues and themes that engaged the early teachers of faith, with a special focus on their ongoing relevance to Christian theological discourse and praxis today.
	Psychology of Prophecy in Early Christianity by Alan Humm ISBN 978-1-60724-618-3, $114.68 (Your price $68.81)
Dr. Humm tries to identify the psychological states associated with early Christian prophecy in the context of the Greco-Roman world. Reviewing (generally) Christian reports, he tries to classify them following a set of generally observable practices and claimed mental states.
	Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the Veil on Moses’ Face, Translation and Introduction by Sebastian Brock ISBN 978-1-59333-644-8, $50 (Your price $30.00)
This volume gives a bilingual Syriac-English edition of Saint Jacob of Sarug’s homily, The Veil on Moses’ Face. The Syriac text is fully vocalized, and the translation is annotated with a commentary and biblical references. The volume constitutes a fascicle of Gorgias’s Complete Homilies of Saint Jacob of Sarug.
	Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on Elijah, Translation and Introduction by Stephen Kaufman ISBN 978-1-59333-942-5, $88 (Your price $52.80)
This volume gives a bilingual Syriac-English edition of Saint Jacob of Sarug’s homilies on Elijah. The Syriac text is fully vocalized, and the translation is annotated with a commentary and biblical references. The volume constitutes a fascicle of Gorgias’s Complete Homilies of Saint Jacob of Sarug.
	Fatima, Daughter of Muhammad by Christopher Clohessy ISBN 978-1-59333-979-1, $113.24 (Your price $67.94)
This work, based almost entirely on the primary Arabic texts of Sunnî and Shîca Islam, offers a fresh examination of the life of Fatima, Muhammad’s only surviving child, and reveals for the first time her distinctive and fascinating personality.
	Speaking on the Brink of Sheol by Bryan Cribb, Foreword by Daniel Block ISBN 978-1-60724-671-8, $123.44 (Your price $74.06)
A groundbreaking form critical study of a previously unidentified Old Testament genre, the death story. By modifying traditional methodology, the work forges new paths in form criticism, while also providing exegetical insights into these important biblical accounts.
	Bardaisan of Edessa: A Reassessment of the Evidence and a New Interpretation by Ilaria Ramelli ISBN 978-1-60724-074-7, $128.24 (Your price $76.94)
This comprehensive study offers a critical, comparative analysis of the sources available on Bardaisan and a reinterpretation of his thought. In this connection, special attention is paid to many parallels with Origen, to the possible relationship between Origen, Bardaisan, and their schools, and to the implications of the valuable fragments preserved by Porphyry.
	Further Biblical Hebrew by Fiona Blumfield ISBN 978-1-59333-948-7, $123.56 (Your price $74.14)
This is a coursebook for intermediate – advanced students of Biblical Hebrew. Constant reference is made to modern reference grammars and to the grammatical comments of medieval Jewish exegetes. All exercises are based on actual Biblical verses, with translations and explanations throughout.

For additional titles, go to the Gorgias Just Published page.

Call for Submissions

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What we now need is scholars willing to contribute articles to the wiki. I have used the same software as Wikipedia so it should be familiar to folks, but I have set it up so that I have to create an account for each contributor. This should help to ensure the quality of the contributions. If you are interested in contributing please either leave a comment here or email be at cbrady AT targuman.org.

But to get started I wondered about importing the relevant articles from Wikipedia itself. (BTW most of the articles related to our subjects are actually fairly good.) The information there is, by definition, open and free for dissemination (or it is supposed to be.) There are even guidelines for “mirroring” here and how to deal with inappropriate use. But I wonder what the community thinks of this. Shall we just start again, on our own?

 

Welcome to the Silver Anniversary of the BSC! I am a day late and a dollar short (and a modest listing from a lot of great blogs this month) but I hope this will help slake your thirst for biblical studies related information. Here and there I included posts from November since we there was no official BSC (you are forgiven James), but do see the superb “little unofficial Biblical Studies carnivalette” by Doug Chaplin. (I would hate to see what a venti official Biblical Studies Carnival from Doug would look like!)

This is in no way complete. It is, in fact, a mere morsel, a simple mutt jumping through a little girl’s hula-hoop with the little brother making arm-pit noises behind a sheet marked “Amazing Pig Boy” rather than a full-fledged carnival. So if you have suggestions of additional December posts worthy of inclusion please either put them in the comments, or better yet, email me with the permalink to the post and a brief description and I will include it in the body of the post.

Now, ladies and gentlemen! Allow me to draw your attention to the center ring!

Hebrew Bible

Smaller is Bigger
A number of bloggers noted the news story announcing the “nano Bible.” Scientists at The Technion in Israel, “were able to pack the 308,428-word Hebrew Bible – known to most as the Old Testament – on a 0.5 millimetre square.” Cool. It is pointed, but no cantillation. At least I don’t think so. Where are my glasses….

P is for Parsimony (the Law of)
Kevin Wilson of Blue Cord posted a series of articles on P. One is in response to an article by John Hobbins at Ancient Hebrew Poetry regarding parallel structures in Gen. 1 and 3. This thread continued here and here. He posted further thoughts (here) on the priestly narrative Numbers while reading and reviewing Christopher Nihan’s From Priestly Torah to Pentateuch.

Reading and Riting
Duane Smith with Abnormal Interests just sent me an email with some great links and commentary:

Charles Halton at Awilum did two helpful bibliographical posts on ancient authorship and literacy. His post on “Names in the Study of Biblical History” was also very helpful, especially his two concluding questions, “What do you think of evidence of this kind when used to date the composition of biblical books? How should we view spelling conventions with respect to literary provenance?” These questions deserve a lot of discussion.

James Getz at Ketuvim continued the discussion of the origin of the Hebrew language with a most interesting post, “A Different Angle on the Hebrew Question.”

The Election of the Messiah

In keeping with both the upcoming US election and Christmas (more on that below) John Hobbins of Ancient Hebrew Poetry has an interesting post, to be expanded or continued I am sure, on Isaiah 11:1-9 as a passage for an election year.

With an election year upon us in the United States, it is appropriate to hold up a passage like Isaiah 11 or Psalm 72 to the face of those who would be president, as if it were a mirror, and see whether any features of any candidate are recognizable in its reflection.

War, what is it good for?
According to John Hobbins, “The larger question is, who decides what war means? Those who refuse to fight it, or those who do?” In a similar vein, following John’s but developed independently, Doug Chaplin’s Justice in war and the love of neighbor.

Early Judaism

Tis the Season
Given the time of Advent there were a variety of posts dealing with Christmassy type items. (Such as kitsch creches.) Michael Barber of Singing in the Reign (cute, eh?) has a very nice and thoroughly footnoted series on Jesus and the Eschaton, Parts 1, 2, and 2.1.

Jim Davila who, let’s face it, provides his own constant “Best Of” set of links for any and every story relating to biblical studies and particularly early Judaism, notes a story about Mary from Syriac traditions.

Breaking News
Jim just emailed me this follow up from last month as well. Both posts worthy of noting again:

The first is on Richard Bauckham’s retirement. It was actually posted on October 31st, but it wasn’t noted in the last Carnival, it’s been updated in November, and it’s important for the field. I would be grateful if you would include it. [Done!]

Second is my review of the San Diego Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition.

Thanks Jim!

Jesus might have played with a dreidel?

Stephen Cook posted an encore from 2006, arguing that without Hanukkah there would be no Christmas.

In 2006, Newsweek online had a great Hanukkah meditation by Rabbi Marc Gellman, celebrating the Maccabees without apology.
One thing I liked about the piece is Gellman’s stress that without the Maccabees, Christianity would never have happened. That’s right: We Christians owe this little Jewish family of antiquity a very great deal. Without the Maccabees we would have no Hebrew Bible / Old Testament, and without the Old Testament, there could be no Christianity.

I am not sure I buy that (and sadly, Newsweek no longer seems to have the article on their site, but Rabbi Gellman’s article for this year is up), but I will be sure to discuss it in my class on Second Temple Judaism this spring. It should generate conversation.

Star of Wonder, Gassy Ball
Duane Smith also brings to my attention a blog that is worthy of any biblioblogger’s newsfeed.

I also think many carnival readers would be interested Alun Salt’s [Clioaudio, "Ancient History, Archaeology and Archaeoastronomy through a Skeptic’s Eyes"]. Alun often writes on things that touch much of what interests bibliobloggers. But he brings a unique and, I think, important perspective to the discussion. For example his post “Nero and the Comets of Doom” on the star of Bethlehem is extremely instructive. He takes his lead from an equally interesting post by Judith Weingarten at Zenobia: Empress of the East on “The Magi and Christmas”
[Folks might also like] Alun’s post “Deep History?” and his very interesting take on “Egypt, Antiquities and Copyright“.

What’s in a Name?
David Miller of גֵּר־וְתוֹשָׁב has an excellent series on the “What’s in a name? On Jews and Judeans, Israelites and Israelis.” David has provided not only a thoughtful series (currently at Part 6: Preliminary Conclusions,” but we all know something more will come of this discussion) but also thoroughly linked to other sources.

“Jewish Christianity”?
In a similar vein, Eungelion, Joel Willitts and Michael Bird, have been considering how one defines these terms. In fact, they have been having a regular civil discourse on it. Joel opens with the first part of a series Definition of “Jewish Christianity”, “Jewish Christian” and “Jewish Believer in Jesus”, Part One (1.1. Introduction). This continues here (with reference to Daniel Boyarin’s work), here, here, and here. Michael prefers Judeo-Christianity and explains why here. Since they use tags and are on the same blog, you can simply go to this link to read their conversation in context and in order.

Miscellany (items to be added as I rediscover them or they are sent in)

New Testament

The thread above could of course fit easily into the NT category as well. Rick Brannan thoughtfully submitted a number of links of his own posts relating to a variety of NT topics, particularly on the Pastoral Epistles. (Which is a good thing, since I don’t follow the NT blogs as closely as I should.) All of his posts are excellent so I will merely link them here, since they should be noted, and as an incentive to other bloggers to self-promote.

From ricoblog:

From PastoralEpistles.com:

Tilting at Windmills
Chris Tilling has generated some discussion about whether or not the “Third Quest” for the historical Jesus is over. He thinks not. James Crossley picks up the conversation on his blog as well.

Justifiable
Ken Schenk and Doug Chaplin both reviewed John Piper’s new book The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright in multiple posts (thanks to Nick Norelli of Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth for sending this along to me).

Ken Schenk’s multipart review is here:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14.

Doug Chaplin offers his review in the form of a comparison with the work of NT Wright.

Unerringly Inerrant
The aforementioned Nick Norelli has brilliantly summarized and collated all the various posts and flames surrounding the notion of inerrancy. If I were to summarized his summary and include the links it would just be silly. Suffice it to say Jim West started it. Nick also provided us with a good roundup of the fundamentalism debate as well. (Sorry for having the wrong the links originally.)

Regarding this whole thread, you know Godwin’s Law? It states, “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” I think the we could establish a similar law in Biblioblogdom. When the terms “inerrancy,” “fundamentalist,” and “liberal” are used in conversations relating to the Bible the volume will increase in diametric opposition to the value of the content. But that’s just my view.

In Memorium

John Strugnell, 1930-2007
David Miller has also provided a near complete set of links to obituaries for John Strugnell. He sums the tone up very well:

John Strugnell, one of the original editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls, passed away on November 30. The obituaries that have appeared since then tell the story of an outstanding but tragically flawed scholar, who never published much but was deeply committed to his students. Many of his students (both Jews and Gentiles), who continued to speak of him with respect even after the scandal of 1990, are now leading scholars in Dead Sea Scrolls research.

Immediately following Strugnell’s death Jim West expressed his frustration that the news media rarely takes notice of the passing of great scholars and when they do, they tend to focus on any lascivious bits they can. In the end, a number of news outlets picked up the story and published thoughtful and respectable obituaries. You can find all of Jim’s posts on Strugnell here, including a link to the Times.co.uk’s notice.

Final Things

Though he is out of the USofA (and some have suggested that we take a collection to enable that state to continue, Chris Tilling is bidding for the opposite) Dr. Jim West should be remembered so…. His posts on Zwingli can be found here.

Upcoming Biblical Studies Carnivals:

Be sure to support them with your nominations! You can submit them via the website http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_203.html or email
address biblical_studies_carnival@hotmail.com

Biblical Studies Writing Month (or so)
Finally, in great optimism of getting work done over the break, I declared December through January “International Biblical Studies Writing Month (or so).” The truth is, I haven’t done much on those articles, but that doesn’t mean I can’t! So, let me know what you have accomplished over the past 3 weeks or so and what you intend to finish by the end of January. I will create another post on this as well and hopefully, by the time BSC XXVI comes along Kevin will have a series of links listing all our goals.

 

PSEUDEPIGRAPHA AND ARAMAIC WATCH: The Odes of Solomon…

PSEUDEPIGRAPHA AND ARAMAIC WATCH: The Odes of Solomon and other ancient Syriac poetry pertaining to the Nativity are discussed in Commonweal Magazine:

The Mary We Never Knew
New Light from the Syrian Tradition

Sally Cunneen

It’s hard to maintain the spirit of anticipation that should mark the season of Advent when Christmas itself has become little more than an occasion for extravagance and consumption. We could all use some fresh inspiration concerning what Advent is preparing us for.

I have found an unexpected source for such insight in the increasing number of English translations from ancient Syriac literature. It turns out that the early Christians pondered the same questions we face. And while Gnostic texts have been widely touted in the mainstream media in recent decades as alternatives to the canonical Gospels, the lesser-known Syrian Christian tradition opens up an equally ancient but orthodox theology and devotionalism that are surprisingly fresh, deeply human, and, despite the differences in time and culture, relevant to our own needs.

Of the three international languages of the early church, Greek, Latin, and Syriac, Syriac was closest to the Aramaic and Hebrew of Jesus and the Bible. It was rich in imagery and imagination, and was widely used in the Middle East until it was supplanted by Arabic, following Islam’s sweeping military conquests in the seventh century. The Odes of Solomon, which translator James Hamilton Charlesworth calls “the earliest Christian hymnbook,” suggests that there was a vital Christian community of Syriac speakers even before the end of the first century. At a time when prayers to Mary did not yet exist in the Western church, the description of the Nativity in The Odes is startling:

[...]

Syriac is clearly “in” this year.

(Via PaleoJudaica.com.)

 

Biblical Studies Carnival XXII

Via SansBlogue.

 

S19-54
Aramaic Studies
11/19/2007
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Anaheim – MM

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)

 

John Hobbins posted this article about Wikipedia and asks whether or not contributors to Targum.info and NTCS will also be making Wikipedia entries on Targum better as well. I personally would hope so. (See my comments here.)

The NTCS Wiki will be controlled, with only registered contributors being able to write and edit articles. While we are on this topic (and even though I do not have the wiki set up yet) I would like to go ahead and issue a call for contributors. Contributors should have an appropriate terminal degree and demonstrated contributions to the field of biblical studies and/or ancient Hebrew and Jewish literature or related fields. I do not want to be too restrictive while at the same time we want to maintain the quality and usefulness of the site. So if you are interested in contributing but have some question about requirements simply drop me an email.

I want to take a moment to thank Kevin Wilson for advice on setting this site up. His Bible Wiki will serve as a model (and his skill should add to the quality of the site as well!).

Finally, I need some help figuring out how to incorporate the bibliography. We would like to have a searchable database. We have the info in database format, but we need a way to incorporate it into our WordPress site. Many people have told me we can use php and mySQL for this but no one can seem to point me to a resource or template. Can anyone help with this? Any direction or advice would be gratefully received!

 

Over the coming months we will be updating the site to include all of the information formally available (targumic texts in translation, news, and bibliography) as well as a searchable bibliographic database, Wiki edited by scholars in the field, and hopefully some images of targumic manuscripts.

The Newsletter is also the official organ of the International Organization for Targumic Studies. News and minutes of the IOTS will also be posted at this site.

So please head on over, bookmark the RSS feed, and let me know what else you might like to see at the site!

Welcome to NTCS!

This will be the new Newsletter for Targumic and Cognate Studies! Welcome world! I hope to have most of the content of the old site up by the end of the day week but our goal is to include a searchable database and that will take some time. In the meantime, put this rss into your newsreader and look for updates as new material is uploaded or updated.

The Editor

Christian Brady
cbrady AT targum.info

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The schedule for the Vth Congress of the International Organization for Targumic Studies (IOTS) is now available! The conference will be in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 12-13 July 2007. If you are in the area please stop by! I will probably post the abstracts later, at least mine, so please feel free to offer feedback.

Thursday 12 July

8.45-13.00 Lecture Room
Welcome and Greetings
Keynote
9.00-10.30 Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman, Aramaic Branches Bursting into Leaves: Towards a Critical Edition of Targum Samuel
Chair: Paul V.M. Flesher

10.30 Refreshments

Targum Onqelos, Targum Jonathan, and Targum Presentation
Chair: David Shepherd
11.00 Willem Smelik, A New Edition of Targum Onqelos: The Task Ahead
11.30 Arie van der Kooij, Targum Onkelos and Jonathan and Josephus: A discussion of some parallels
12.00 David Kroeze, Exploring the Targum Manuscripts Database
12.30 Beate Ego, Presentation of the Project Dictionary of the History of the Bible

Studies in Targum Jonathan
14.30 Lecture Room
Chair: Christian Brady
14.30 Pere Casanellas, Some aspects of the ideology of Targum Zechariah
15.00 Alinda Damsma, The Language of the Tosefta-Targums to Ezekiel: JLA and/or LJLA?
15.30 Luis Díez Merino, The Sephardic Targum Tradition and the missing Tosefta in the Antwerpian Polyglot

16.00 Refreshments

Targums of the Writings
16.30 Lecture Room
Chair: Luis Díez Merino
16.30 Jan-Wim Wesselius, Targum Beginnings as Programmatic Introductions
17.00 Andrew Fincke, Targum Lamentations 1:1-4
17.30 Christian M.M. Brady, The Use of “Eschatological Lists” within the Targumim to the Megillot.

18.00 Break

18.10 Business Meeting

Friday 13 July

9.00-13.00 Lecture Room
Keynote
9.00-10.30 Douglas Gropp, The Aramaic of Targums Onkelos and Jonathan
Chair: Robert Hayward

10.30 Refreshments

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and the Palestinian Targums
Chair: Willem Smelik
11.00 Robert Hayward, Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and the Chronology of the Giving of the Torah
11.30 Gudrun E. Lier, Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and the Rendition of Genesis 1:26-27
12.00 Yaacov Azuelos, Are Angels “Flesh and Blood”? A Study in the Pentateuchal Targums
12.30 Martin McNamara, Neofiti revisited: Father in heaven, Shekinah, Memra and Holy Spirit

What is a Targum?
14.30 Lecture Room
Chair: Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman
14.30 David Shepherd, What’s in a name? Targum and Taxonomy in the Caves of Qumran
15.00 Simon Adnams Lasair, Selective Appropriation: A Biblical Phenomenon According to Targumic Eyes
15.30 Paul V.M. Flesher, Defining “Targum”: How do we know one when we see one?

16.00 Refreshments

16.30 Business Meeting

 

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)