IOSCS Congress

IOSCS Congresses

Session 1 (chair: Reinhart Ceulemans)

Sat, November 22, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Hexaplaric Versions and Scholia

1. Alison Salvesen: Symmachus and his Revisions of the Megillot

2. John Meade: Biblia Hebraica Quinta Job and the Greek Editions of Job

3. Bradley Marsh Jr: How should we translate γρύψ in Lev 11.13 and Deut 14.12? A clue from a scholion in the Hexaplaric tradition

Explaining Translational Choices in LXX

4. Matthew Albanese: Greek Pentateuch as Literary-Scriptural Encyclopedia

5. Ryan Francis: The Literary Greek Background of OG Isaiah 53’s Substitutionary Language

Session 2 (joint with Asian and Asian-American Hermeneutics PU) (chair: Alison Salvesen)

Sun, November 23, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM

East-Asian Reception and Translation of the LXX and Jewish Literature

6. UnSung Kwak: The Translation of the LXX into Korean and Research on the LXX in South Korea

7. Jonathan Lo: The Names of God in Chinese Translations of the Hebrew Bible and Implications for Translating the Septuagint

8. Grace Wing-Yi Au: Reconsidering the Translation of Divine Peace (εἰρήνη) in Chinese: A Case Study of Romans 16:20a

- (paper from other PU) A History of the Reception of early Jewish Texts in China/Chinese

session 3 (joint with Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics PU) (chair: Xiaxia Xue)

Mon, November 24, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Grammar, Lexicon and NT Use of the LXX

- (paper from other PU) Toward a Taxonomy of Middle Voice in Koine Greek: A Case Study of the LXX of Esther

9. Chris Fresch: Sins against Native Greek?: Semitisms in Light of Linguistics

10. Courtney Veasey: A Classical Understanding of καταστολή and the Resultant Implications Toward its Meaning and Function in Isaiah 61:3 LXX

11. Joshua Parker & Andrew Keenan: A Greek Origin of Ἀκροβυστία

- (paper from other PU) The 'Classical' Septuagint: New Testament Use of the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint in the Context of the Atticism Movement

Session 4 (chair: Beatrice Bonanno)

Mon, November 24, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Psalms

12. Seth Whitaker: Psalms for the End? εἰς τὸ τέλος Psalms Unique to the LXX Tradition

13. Nathan Kreider: Case Variation in the LXX Psalms Superscriptions: Authorial Attestation, Synonymy, or Case Alternation?

14. Ryan Sikes: Stichography and Stichometry in the Old Greek Psalter and its Vorlage

15. Vadim Vitkovskiy: “Death of the Son“ or “Mysteries of the Son”? Patristic discussion on the sense of Ps 9:1

16. Felix Albrecht: Commenting on Psalm 42 LXX (43 MT): Philological and Theological Perspectives in Light of Theodoret of Cyrrhus’ Interpretation

Session 5 (chair: Joshua Harper)

Tue, November 25, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Law and Theology

17. Joel Korytko: The Rhetorical Function of Terms for Slaves in Septuagint Exodus 21:26-27 and its Implications for the Septuagint Pentateuch

18. Beatrice Bonanno: Jewish messianic readings of Isaiah 7–9 in the Church Fathers: Preliminary Remarks and First Results

LXX in the East and West

19. Justin Myers: “Harmonious Diversity: The Septuagint in Augustine’s Hermeneutic”

20. Anna Kharanauli: What Does the Old Georgian Translation of the Dodecapropheton Reveal about Post-Origenian Biblical Philology?

21. Tamari Magrakvelidze: The Prophecy of Jonah in the Georgian Lectionary