Program 8th Congress of the Société d’Etudes Samaritaines

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Sunday, 15th July 2012 3 pm Opening of the conference bureau for registration 6 pm Opening of the conference and opening lecture: Kartveit, Magnar (Stavanger): The Samaritan Concept of God       Monday, 16th July 2012   ‒ Samaritan Aramaic: Language and Literature ‒ 8:30‒10 am Bonnard, Christophe (Strasbourg): The place of the Language of Asfår Asātīr in the Evolution of Samaritan Aramaic Tarshina, Alina (Halle): Morphological identity of active and passive participles in Samaritan Aramaic     10:30‒12:45 am Stadel, Christian (Leiden): Samaritan Aramaic phraseology or marks of individual style? On some expressions occurring in the poems of Amram and Marqe and in Tibat Marqe Ford, Simon (Oxford): “And Your Brother Aaron Shall be Your Prophet:” Priesthood and Prophecy in Late Antique Samaritan Exegesis ‒ Samaritan Arabic texts ‒ Weigelt, Frank (Berlin): Die Werke des Arztes Śadaqa b. Munağğā (12.Jh.)     2:30‒4 pm Schwarb, Gregor (Berlin): Abū l-Hasan al-Sūrī’s Kitāb fī bāb al-qibla and its Qaraite refutation al-Naqd ʿalā l-Sāmira Wedel, Gerhard (Berlin): Samaritaner und ihre Genealogien     4:30‒6:45 pm ‒ Samaritan amulets ‒ Berger-Lober, Simone (Leipzig): Samaritan amulets and their wearers reconsidered Pummer, Reinhard (Ottawa): Bronze Pendants, Rings and Bracelets with Samaritan  Writing from the Byzantine Period: Religious Jewelry or Amulets? ‒ Samaritan ethnography ‒ Urien, Fanny (Paris): Marriages and transmission in the samaritan community       Tuesday, 17th July 2012 8:30‒10 am ‒ The text of the Samaritan Torah ‒ Moriya, Akio (Tokio): Intentional/unintentional, logical/illogical, or important/unimportant: Which term(s) would be appropriate to characterize the Samaritan Pentateuch? Rebrik, Viktor (St. Petersburg/Tübingen): Correspondences between the Samaritan Tora and the Septuagint in the book of Exodus     10:30‒12:45 am Schorch, Stefan (Halle): A new editio magna of the Samaritan Torah Tal, Abraham (Tel Aviv): The Samaritan Pentateuch ‒ Traditions in Collision Tsedaka, Benyamim (Holon): Changes in research attitude towards the History of the Israelite People and the Israelite Samaritan version of the Pentateuch     2:30‒4 pm Zsengellér, József (Budapest): The Canon of Scripture and the Samaritans ‒ Samaritan epigraphy ‒ Israel, Felice (Genova): Samaritan script and Semitic epigraphy     4:30‒6 pm Book presentation: Jan Dušek, The inscriptions from Mount Gerizim (2012) Mizrahi, Noam: Review of Jan Dušek, The inscriptions from Mount Gerizim Dušek, Jan (Prague): The inscriptions from Mount Gerizim ‒ reaction to Noam Mizrahi’s review       Wednesday, 18th July 2012 8:30‒10 am ‒ The Samaritans in Jewish and Early Christian Literature ‒ Bourgel, Jonathan (Tel Aviv): “On both sides of the borderline:” The portrayal of the Samaritans in the Third Gospel Lehnardt, Andreas (Mainz): “A Cuthean came and challenged Rabbi Meir” - Dialogues with Samaritans in Amoraic Midrashim     10:30‒12:45 am Reiterer, Friedrich (Salzburg): Samaritanische Elemente im Buch Judit Van der Horst, Pieter (Utrecht): The Origins of the Samaritans according to the Paralipomena Jeremiae ‒ The Samaritans in Biblical traditions ‒ Funke, Tobias (Leipzig): Phinehas and Samaria: New aspects in the current debate about Pentateuch/Hexateuch formation     2‒7 pm Excursion       Thursday, 19th July 2012 9‒12 am General assembly of the Société d’Études Samaritaines     2‒3:30 pm Böhme, Martina (Hamburg): 2Kön 17,24-41: Geschichte und Textgeschichte. Ein Streiflicht: V. 33f Hjelm, Ingrid (Copenhagen): Concepts of Exile and Return in Samaritan and Jewish Literature     4‒6:15 pm Knoppers, Gary N. (Penn State U.): Archenemies, Allies, or Affiliates? Samarians and Judeans in the Early Persian Period Serandour, Arnaud (Paris): Pluralistic Yahwism in the 5th through 2nd century and the sources of the Pentateuch Thompson, Thomas L. (Copenhagen): Reiterative Narratives of Exile and Return: Virtual Memories of Abraham in the Persian and Hellenistic Periods     7 pm Public evening lecture: “Die Samaritaner in Geschichte und Gegenwart” (“Kleine Synagoge” Erfurt)       Friday, 20th July 2012 8:30‒10:30 am Closing discussion

Erfurt / Germany, July 15‒20, 2012)