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SBL Meeting Schedule Published

This year’s SBL Schedule of session is now up!

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)

 

NTCS – Wiki & Bibliography

From the NTCS site:

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!

 

Welcome to NTCS!

Some of you may know that for the last six years I have been the online editor for the Newsletter for Targumic and Cognate Studies. This site is now located at http://targum.info and we are now taking the newsletter to an online only format. As part of the change we are redoing the site and adding new features. The main entrance to and content of the site will managed through WordPress so that there is an RSS feed that you an subsribe to for up to date notices of changes to the site and upcoming events or news of interest to those in Targumic and cognate studies. It also means that others can collaborate! If you are interested in helping with the site, please let me know. (The header, for example, looks remarkably like the one on this site. ;-) I have limited visual arts skilz.)

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

(Via NTCS.)

 

Vth Congress of the International Organization for Targumic Studies

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

 

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)