IOSOT International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament XVIIth Congress Basel 2001
IOSOT: 5.-10. August 2001
IOTS International Organization for Targumic Studies III. Kongress: 2.-3. August 2001
IOSCS International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies XI. Kongress: 3.-4. August 2001
IOQS International Organization for Qumran Studies IV. Kongress: 5.-7. August 2001
IOMS International Organization for Masoretic Studies XV. Kongress: 6. August 2001
Organizing Committee
- Prof. Dr. Ernst Jenni, President
- Prof. Dr. Klaus Seybold, Vice President
- Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Mathys, Executive President
- Dr. Beat Huwyler, Congress Secretary
Publication:
A. Lemaire (ed.), Congress Volume Basel 2001. Papers given at the 17th Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, held in Basel from 5 to 10 August 2001 (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, vol. 92), Leiden: Brill 2002. ISBN: 9789004126800. viii, 414 pp. 1 illus.
Main Programme
(All main lectures take place in the university main building unless otherwise stated.)
Sunday, 5 August
- 8 pm Ernst Jenni (Basel): Presidential address (Martinskirche)
Monday, 6 August
- 9 am Michael P. O’Connor (Catholic University of America, Washington, USA): Syntax and Semantics of Biblical Hebrew: Recent Studies
- 10.30 am Stephen A. Kaufman (Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, USA): Recent Contributions of Aramaic Studies to Biblical Hebrew Philology and the Exegesis of the Hebrew Bible
- 11.45 am Andreas Wagner (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany): Die Stellung der Sprechakttheorie in Hebraistik und Exegese
Tuesday, 7 August
- 9 am Eugene Ulrich (University of Notre Dame, USA): The Text of the Hebrew Scriptures at the Time of Hillel and Jesus
- 10.30 am Carmel McCarthy (University College Dublin, Ireland): Moving in from the Margins: Issues of Text and Context in Deuteronomy
- 11.45 am Gilles Dorival (Université de Provence, Aix en Provence, France) : TM et LXX: Le cas des Psaumes
- Open Public Evening Lecture: 7.30 pm Helga Weippert (Villeperdrix, France) : Der Lärm und die Stille. Ethno-archäologische Annäherungen an das biblische Alltagsleben (with illustrations and music) (Martinskirche)
Wednesday, 8 August
- 9 am Udo Rüterswörden (Universität Bonn, Germany): Dtn 13 in der neueren Deuteronomiumforschung
- 10.30 am Helen Schüngel-Straumann (Universität Gesamthochschule Kassel, Germany): Feministische Exegese ausgewählter Beispiele aus der Urgeschichte
- 11.45 am Hans M. Barstad (Universitetet i Oslo, Norway) : Isaiah 40:1-11: Another Reading
Thursday, 9 August
- 9 am Bernd Janowski (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany) : Theologie des Alten Testaments. Standortbestimmung und Zukunftsaufgaben
- 10.30 am Carol L. Meyers (Duke University, Durham, USA): From Household to House of Yahweh: Women’s Religion In Ancient Israel
- 11.45 am Jon D. Levenson (Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, USA): Immortality, Resurrection, and the Construction of Personal Identity in Ancient Israel
Friday, 10 August
- 9 am Israel Finkelstein (Tel Aviv University, Israel): Archaeology and Text in the Year 2000: A View from the Center
- 10.30 am Thomas Römer (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland) : Le pentateuque toujours en question – bilan et perspectives après un quart de siècle de débat
- 11.45 am Thomas Willi (Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität Greifswald, Germany): Hebraica veritas in Basel
Short Papers
Monday, 6 / Tuesday, 7 / Thursday, 9 August
See the detailed programme.
Special Events
Thursday, 9 August, 3-6 pm
New focus on Elephantine: archaeology, history, texts and the Bible
in cooperation with the Swiss Society of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (SGOA)
Lecturers:
- 3 pm Bezalel Porten (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) : Elephantine and the Bible
- 3.45 pm Karl-Theodor Zauzich (University of Würzburg) : Elephantine nach den demotischen Quellen des 6.-1. Jahrhunderts
- 4.45 pm Cornelius von Pilgrim (Schweizerisches Institut für ägyptische Bauforschung und Altertumskunde, Kairo): Elephantine in der Perserzeit: Ein Bericht über die Grabungsergebnisse der letzten Jahre