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Exegesis and Reception of the Psalms

1st International
Göttingen Conference on the Septuagint

Die Editio critica maior des griechischen Psalters

Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen

September 2–5, 2026

Programme

Wednesday, 2 September 2026
16:30–18:00
Registration and Welcome
18:00–19:30
Welcome Addresses (including Academy President Daniel Göske)
Opening Keynote Lecture Reinhard G. Kratz
Das kleine Hallel: Hebräisch und Griechisch
19:30–21:00
Reception
Thursday, 3 September 2026
Parallel Morning Sessions (9:00–13:00)
9:00–10:30
Parallel Sessions A & B
Session A
Theological Approaches to the LXX Psalms
Chair: Martin Karrer
9:00–9:30
Jan Dochhorn – The Book of Psalms and Its Versions as Mythopoetic Texts. How Psalms Generated Central Theological Concepts of Ancient Judaism
9:30–10:00
Innocent Himbaza – The Septuagint as Witnessing to Alternative Theologies in the Proto-Masoretic Text. Some Examples in the Psalms
10:00–10:30
Martin Rösel – Greek Psalms and Eschatology?
Session B
LXX Psalms in Christian Exegesis I
Chair: Uta Heil
9:00–9:30
Cordula Bandt – Eusebius and Hesychius on the Attribution of the Psalms
9:30–10.00
Reinhart Ceulemans – The Psalter Exegesis of Hesychius of Jerusalem: Views from the Manuscript Tradition
10:00–10:30
Maria Tomadaki – The Exegetic Homilies on the Psalms by Basil of Caesarea
10:30–11:00
Coffee Break – Book Exhibition
11:00–13:00
Parallel Sessions C & D
Session C
Linguistic and Translational Perspectives on the LXX Psalms
Chair: Ryan Sikes
11:00–11:30
Reinhard Müller – The Titles of the Psalms in Light of the Septuagint
11:30–12:00
Michaël N. van der Meer – The Geographical Horizon of the Old Greek Psalter
12:00–12:30
Michael Segal – On the Phenomenon of Harmonization in LXX Psalms
12:30–13:00
Drew Longacre – How the Hebrew Vorlage Places Positive Constraints on Editing the Greek Text
Session D
Textual and Exegetical Dimensions of the LXX Psalms
Chair: Jean Maurais
11:00–11:30
Jannes Smith – Tapping Into the Text-as-Produced: Some Challenges from LXX Psalm 17
11:30–12:00
Tuukka Kauhanen – The Greek Translations of David’s Song of Deliverance (2 Sam 22 // Ps 18)
12:00–12:30
Bronson Brown-deVost – Some Observations on the Exegetical/Translational Nature of Psalm 42 (LXX 41) in the Versions
12:30–13:00
Stefan Schorch – Psalm 78/77 in der Überlieferung der Septuaginta
13:00–14:00
Lunch Break
Parallel Sessions E & F (14:30–16:00), and Afternoon Session G (16:30–18:00)
14:30–16:00
Parallel Sessions E & F
Session E
Coptic Daughter Versions of the LXX Psalms
Chair: Malte Rosenau
14:30–15:00
Frank Feder – The Coptic Versions of the Psalter: Textual Diversity or Unity?
15:00–15:30
Chrysi Kotsifou – A Survey of the Sahidic Psalter Manuscripts and Their Associated Sub-literary Material
15:30–16:00
Uwe-Karsten Plisch – Textual Variants in the Mesokemic Psalter
Session F
LXX Psalms in Christian Exegesis II
Chair: Luciano Bossina
14:30–15:00
Barbara Villani & Jacopo Marcon – The Use and Interpretation of the Psalms in Cyril of Alexandria: The Case of the Glaphyra in Pentateuchum
15:00–15:30
Christa Müller-Kessler – The Attestation of the Eusebian Hypotheseis/Periochae in a Christian Palestinian Aramaic Palimpsest Witness from the Monastery of St Catherine, Mt Sinai (5th–7th cent.)
15:30–16:00
Anna Kharanauli – The Preface to the Psalter Catenae by Ephrem Mtsire
16:00–16:30
Coffee Break – Book Exhibition
16:30–18:00
Joint Session G
Session G
Presentation of Latest LXX-Publications
Chair: Reinhard Müller
16:30–17:00
Felix Albrecht & Reinhard G. Kratz – Supplements to the Göttingen Septuaginta (SGS)
17:00–17:30
Martin Karrer & Wolfang Kraus– Septuaginta Deutsch (LXX.D) 3. Auflage
17:30–18:00
Wolfgang Kraus – Sirachsynopse (V&R 2026)
18:30–19:15
Main Evening Lecture
Emanuel Tov The LXX Translations of the Songs in the Pentateuch
Friday, 4 September 2026
Morning Session H (9:00–10:30), and Parallel Sessions I & J (11:00–13:00)
9:00–10:30
Joint Session H
Session H
LXX Psalms within the Biblical Tradition
9:00–9:30
William A. Ross – The Use of the Greek Psalms within the Septuagint Corpus
9:30–10:00
Sr. Bonifatia Gesche – Faithful Curses: Interpreting the Imprecatory Psalms Across Translation and Tradition
10:00–10:30
Siegfried Kreuzer – Psalmenzitate in Lukasevangelium und Apostelgeschichte als Quelle für die Textgeschichte
10:30–11:00
Coffee Break – Book Exhibition
11:00–13:00
Parallel Sessions I & J
Session I
Theodoret of Cyrrhus’s Psalms Commentary
Chair: Annette von Stockhausen
11:00–11:30
Vadim Wittkowsky – The Slavonic Translation of Theodoret of Cyrrhus’ Commentary on Psalms and Its Source in the Byzantine Manuscript Tradition
11:30–12:00
Natia Dundua – The Georgian Translation of Theodoret of Cyrrhus’ Commentary on Psalms
12:00–12:30
Eva Tivelli – Classical Categories for Christian Concepts: The Role of Grammar and Rhetoric in the Commentary on the Psalms by Theodoret of Cyrus
12:30–13:00
Jonathan Groß – Geography and Exegesis in Theodoret’s Commentary on the Psalms
Session J
LXX Psalms in Liturgy and Tradition
Chair: Alexa F. Wilke
11:00–11:30
Gert J. Steyn – LXX Psalm 90 and the Greek Magical Papyri
11:30–12:00
Martin Meiser – Zur Rezeption von Ps 104[105]
12:00–12:30
Simone Oelke – The Liturgical Reception of the Psalms and Its Background in Patristic Exegesis
12:30–13:00
Kirill (Filipp) Porubaev – Greek Psalter History From the Earliest Manuscripts to Modern Liturgical Editions: Methodology and Some Examples
13:00–14:00
Lunch Break
Afternoon Sessions (14:30–18:00)
14:30–16:00
Joint Session K
Session K
Psalms Hexapla, and Related Textual Traditions I
Chair: Alison Salvesen
14:30–15:00
Benjamin Kantor – The LXX, the Secunda, and Ancient Hebrew Reading Traditions of Psalms
15:00–15:30
Peter J. Gentry & John Meade – The Relation of the Sixth Column in the Hexapla of Psalms to Theodotion
15:30–16:00
José Manuel Cañas Reíllo – Kaige in Judges and the Greek of Psalms
16:00–16:30
Coffee Break – Book Exhibition
16:30–18:00
Parallel Sessions L & M
Session L
Psalms Hexapla, and Related Textual Traditions II
Chair: Peter Gentry
16:30–17:00
Kyle Young – Aquila Anonymous: Acknowledging the Difference Between Identifying and Identifying With Aquila
17:00–17:30
Robert J. V. Hiebert – Diversity of Textual Traditions within the So-Called Syrohexaplaric Psalter
17:30–18:00
Piotr Jutkiewicz – The Marginal Explanatory Notes in the Syro-Hexapla Version of the Book of Psalms
Session M
LXX Psalms in Syriac and Latin Reception
Chair: Marco Pavan
16:30–17:00
Alison Salvesen – The Psalms Citations in the Hexaemeron of Jacob of Edessa (d. 708): The Influence of His Exegesis on Their Text Form
17:00–17:30
Frank Ueberschaer – The Psalter in the Septuagint and in the Peshitta: Observations on Translation Technique
17:30–18:00
Oliver W. E. Norris – The Text of the Verona Psalter and What It Can Teach Us about the Reception of the Septuagint Psalms in the Latin West
18:30–19:15
Main Evening Lecture
Luciano Bossina The History of Psalms Interpretation in the Light of an Unpublished Source: The Catena Attributed to Peter of Laodicea
19:30
Conference Dinner
Saturday, 5 September 2026
Final Session (9:00–10:30), Closing Lecture and Round Table (11:00–13:00)
9:00–10:30
Session N
Session N
LXX Psalms and the Lucianic-Antiochene Text
Chair: Reinhart Ceulemans
9:00–9:30
Annette von Stockhausen – The Use of Psalms in the Homilies of Severian of Gabala
9:30–10:00
Claudine Cavalier – The Technical Vocabulary of Music in Patristic Exegesis of Psalm 67. From Origen to Diodorus of Tarsus
10:00–10:30
Francesca P. Barone – Interpreting the Psalms in Antioch: John Chrysostom and the Psalter
10:30–11:00
Coffee Break
11:00–11:45
Closing Lecture
Uta Heil Who Is the Enemy? What the Hostile Powers in the Commentaries on Psalms Reveal About the Historical Context of the Exegete
12:00–13:00
Round Table
Conference Poster
Contact
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D-37085 Göttingen