IOSCS Congresses
2024 IOSCS Sessions at the SBL in San Diego (November 23–26)
Septuagint within the History of Greek Network
Chair: Barbara Schmitz
120’
· Andrew T. Keenan [co-presenter Marieke Dhont], An Introduction to the Septuagint within the History of Greek Network
· Ellen De Doncker, A Hearing God: ἐπακούω Reinvented in the LXX
· William A. Ross, Flouted Conventions in Septuagint Translation
· Ryan Comins, Future-Subjunctive Interchange in Greek Ecclesiastes
Glosses and Hellenistic context
Chair: Felix Albrecht
150’
· Alison Salvesen: The Greek glosses of ‘John Joseph’ to LXX Jeremiah
· Jean Maurais, Septuagint Origins and Development: The State of the Question
· Camilla Recalcati, A Hellenistic job title? An analysis of the term πρεσβύτερος in the LXX-Pentateuch and Hellenistic papyri
· Gideon R. Kotzé, The Septuagint as Representative of the Content of Ecclesiastes 6:7–9
· S.C. Daley, The Text-critical Use of the Septuagint in Modern Bible Translations: Examples from Ezra-Nehemiah
Text, manuscripts and citations
Chair: Beatrice Bonanno
150’
· Felix Albrecht, Chapter Divisions in the Septuagint: Analysing Capitulation in the Wisdom Books
· Peter J. Gentry, Sebastian Brock and Origen’s Aristarchean Signs: Three Psalms Scholia from RA 1175 Reconsidered
· Matthew R. Miller, The Development of the Metobelus in Origen’s System According to Codex Colbertinus-Sarravianus (Ra G)
· Reinhart Ceulemans, Septuagint Citations in Middle Byzantine Hagiography
· Daniel Olariu, Reconstructing Semitic Original(s): Possibilities and impossibilities Using the Greek Versions of Daniel
Lexicon and composition
Chair: Alison Salvesen
150’
· Beatrice Bonanno, “Life” in the Septuagint: A Study on the Terms ζάω, ζωή, ζῳογονέω, ζωοποιέω, ζωοποίησις in the Greek Version of the Hebrew Bible
· J. Alberto Paredes, How Much Did They Know? Neologisms vs Early Attestations of Medical Terms in Leviticus LXX
· Timothy A. Lee, Greek Composition or Semitic Source?
Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
[co-sponsored by IOSCS]
Chair: Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum
150’
· Joel Korytko, How Greek Exodus 22:7(8), 10(11) Might Indicate an New and Earlier Reading of the Hebrew Text
· Laura Locke Estes, Strong and Little Horns: Translation and the Constraint of Exegetical Possibilities
· Gary P. Klump, Exegesis Across the Textual Traditions of Sirach
· Jae Min Lee, Writing a Song/Prayer: An examination of the song/prayer-writing traditions of Moses, Tobit, and David
· B.E. Bruning, Not on Its Own Terms: Shared OG and MT Reinterpretations in the Tabernacle Account