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Programme of IOQS Congress

Monday16 July

9.00 -12.30 Lecture Room (Predavalnica 1)
  Chair: Eibert Tigchelaar
   
9.00   Florentino García Martínez, Reconsidering the Cave 1 Texts Sixty Years
after Their Discovery: An Overview
9.30   Sarianna Metso, The Place of 1QS in the Legal Corpus of the Essenes
10.00   Devorah Dimant, The Volunteers in the Rule of the Community--A
Pesher-Epithet?
10.30   Refreshments
11.00   John Kampen, Knowledge, Truth, and “Wisdom” in the Cave 1 Texts?
11.30   Joshua Ezra Burns, The Pre-history of the Essene Hypothesis: Recovering
the Intellectual Foundations of the Earliest Descriptions of the Qumran
Community
12.00   Paul Heger, Against a Theory of Cosmic Dualism in 1QS
12.30   Lunch


14.30 -18.20 Session A - Lecture Room (Predavalnica 1)
  Chair: Sarianna Metso
   
14.30   Kamilla Skarström, The Spirit(s) in 1QS: A Socio-Rhetorical Reading of
the “Treatise of the Two Spirits” in the Context of 1QS
14.55   Albert Hogeterp, The Eschatology of the Two Spirits Treatise Revisited
15.20   Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, Qumran Cave 1 Revisited: A Fresh Reading of Sacrifice in 1QS (The Rule of the Community) in Light of Its Later Literary Findings
15.45   Bilhah Nitzan, A Pattern of a Decalogue in the Qumran Rule of the
Community
16.10   Refreshments
16.40   Alison Schofield, Rereading 1QS: New Paradigms of Textual Development in Light of the Cave 4 Serekh Copies
17.05   Mila Ginsburskaya, The Right of Counsel and the Idea of Purity in the
Community Rule (1QS) and the Rule of the Congregation (1QSa)
17.30   Bill Loader, Issues of Sexuality in 1QSa
17.55    


20.00   Plenum and Cultural Programme (Cathedral)


14.30 -18.20 Session B - Lecture Room (Predavalnica 2)
  Chair: Marty Abegg
   
14.30   Mika Pajunen, The Use and Function of Scriptural Quotations and Allusions in 4Q381
14.55   Nóra Dávid, Death in Qumran
15.20   Ingo Kottsieper, ????? ???? ????????: Remarks on Halakhic Exegesis inCD XII 2–3
15.45   Michael Thomas Davis and Scott Haile, The Reconstruction of 11Q20: A
Reassessment
16.10   Refreshments
16.40   Henryk Drawnel, Moon Computation in 4Q208 and 209
17.05   Helen Jacobus, Duqah/duqo(h) in the mishmarot Texts: Yet Another
Suggestion
17.30   Simone Paganini, Königsgesetze, Fluch und Segen: Auf der Suche nach
Vorlagen für TR 57,1-59,20
17.55   Jan Dušek, Forthcoming Edition of the Wadi Daliyeh Manuscripts


20.00   Plenum and Cultural Programme (Cathedral)


Tuesday 17 July

9.00 -12.30 Lecture Room (Predavalnica 1)
  Chair: Esther Chazon
   
9.00   Geza Vermes, Reminiscences of the Early Days of Qumran: The Impact of Cave 1 Then and Sixty Years On
9.30   Marty Abegg, Kutscher and the Great Isaiah Scroll: Where Are We Now?
9.55   Donald Parry, The Qumran Biblical Texts and Ketib-Qere Readings of the Masoretic Text
10.30   Refreshments
11.00   Matthew Morgenstern, Language of the Genesis Apokryphon after 60 Years
11.30   Mikael Winninge, From Gnosticism to a Controversy within Judaism: Texts from Qumran Cave 1 and Recent Interpretations of the Gospel of John
12.00   Jutta Jokiranta and Cecilia Wassen, Brothers, Fathers and Children: Familial
Metaphors in the Dead Sea Scrolls
12.30   Lunch


14.30 -18.20 Session A - Lecture Room (Predavalnica 1)
  Chair: Annette Steudel
   
14.30   James H. Charlesworth, Prolegomenous Reflections on an Unknown Copy of Genesis Perhaps from Qumran
14.55   Peter Flint, Non-Masoretic Variants in the New DJD Edition of the Smaller Isaiah Scroll from Cave One (1QIsa-b)
15.20   John P. Flanagan, The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) and the LXX Isaiah: A
Critical Reassessment
15.45   Heinz-Josef Fabry, Abschreiben oder Fortschreiben -- eine Re-Analyse
der Varianten in 1QIsa-a
16.10   Refreshments
16.40   Andrew Fincke, The Reconstruction of 1QSam in DJD 1
17.05   Andrea Ravasco, Reflections about the Textual Transmission of Samuel
17.30   Bennie H. Reynolds, Arrogance as Virtue or Vice? The Expression beyad ramah in the Hebrew Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls
17.55   Daniel Stoekl Ben Ezra, Paleographical Observations Regarding 1Q5–One or Several Scrolls?


20.00   Plenum and Cultural Programme (Cathedral)


14.30 -18.20 Session B - Lecture Room (Predavalnica 2)
  Chair: Matthew Morgenstern
   
14.30   Esti Eshel, The World Map of the Genesis Apocryphon and Related Texts
14.55   Daniel Falk, Divergence from Genesis in the Genesis Apocryphon
15.20   Dan Machiela, Enoch the Revealer, Noah the Seer, Abram the Transmitter: Probing the Apocalyptic Character of the Genesis Apocryphon
15.45   Dorothy Peters, The Re-combination and Evolution of Noah Traditions as
Found in the Genesis Apocryphon and Jubilees: The DNA of Fraternal Twins
16.10   Refreshments
16.40   Matthias Weigold, Mysteries Revealed: Noah’s Visions in the Genesis
Apocryphon
17.05   Beate Ego, The Figure of Abraham in the Genesis Apocryphon and Other Texts from Qumran
17.30   Benjamin Ziemer, The Literary Relationship between the Abram Stories in Genesis and the Genesis Apocryphon
17.55   Ida Fröhlich, Embryology and Healing in Genesis Apocryphon


20.00   Plenum and Cultural Programme (Cathedral)


Wednesday 18 July

9.00 -12.30 Lecture Room (Predavalnica 1)
  Chair: Armin Lange
   
9.00   Eileen Schuller, Revisiting the Cave l Hodayot Manuscripts
9.30   Esther Chazon, Liturgical Function in the Cave 1 Hodayot Collection
9.55   Angela Harkins, Sixty Years of Scholarship on the Community Hymns from 1QHa
10.30   Refreshments
11.00   Dwight Swanson, The Reception of Isaiah at Qumran
11.30   Hannah Harrington, Purification Concepts of Qumran and John the Baptist: Innovation or Scripture?
12.00   Presentation projects by: Reinhard G. Kratz / Annette Steudel;
Heinz-Josef Fabry; Christophe Batsch; Katell Berthelot
12.30   Lunch


14.30 -18.20 Session A - Lecture Room (Predavalnica 1)
  Chair: Katell Berthelot
   
14.30   Christophe Batsch, La place des pretres est-elle au combat ? 1QM ou l’anti-Pinhas
14.55   Brian Schultz, Compositional Layers in the War Scroll (1QM)
15.20   Rony Yishay, The Model for the Eschatological War Description in Qumran
Literature
15.45   Hanan Eshel, Sixty Years After the Discovery of Cave 1–How Many
Fragments Are Still Out There?
16.10   Refreshments
16.40   Lawrence H. Schiffman, The Laws of War in 1QM
17.05   IOQS meeting
17.30   Benjamin Ziemer, The Literary Relationship between the Abram Stories in Genesis and the Genesis Apocryphon
20.00   Reception (Atrium)


14.30 -16.10 Session B - Lecture Room (Predavalnica 2)
  Chair: Henryk Drawnel
   
14.30   Matthew A. Collins, “Perceived” Qumran History and the Legacy of the
Cave 1 Discoveries
14.55   Gabriele Boccaccini, Sons of Zadok, Sons of Phinehas: Questioning the
Zadokite Origins of the Scrolls
15.20   Torleif Elgvin, Mystical Communion between Earthly and Heavenly Temple in Presectarian Texts
15.45   David Hamidovic, 1Q34+1Q34bis, une priere pour une fete de début de
trimestre?
16.10   Refreshments
     
16.40   Continuation for all - Lecture Room (Predavalnica 1)
20.00   Reception (Atrium)

 

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