Dead Sea Scrolls Meeting Groningen-Leuven-Helsinki-Göttingen at the Qumran Institute
Wanneer: | ma 14-10-2013 |
Waar: | Drents Museum Assen & Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies |
Prophecy, Transmission, Fortschreibung and Rewriting in Sectarian and Non-Sectarian Contexts
The meeting being of an informal nature with presentations by students, junior and senior scholars, we are unfortunately not able to compensate for any costs. However, we will gladly assist you in preparing your travel to Groningen and suggesting accommodation. For any questions concerning the programme, registration, travel or accommodation, please contact m.popovic rug.nl
Please register before 7 October with m.popovic rug.nl
Programme:
Monday 14 October, Drents Museum, Assen, Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition
9.00 Opening
9.15 Hanne von Weissenberg (Helsinki), Is Scripture Sacred at Qumran?
10.00 Jacques van Ruiten (Groningen), The Impact of Deuteronomy 7 and Related Texts in Early Jewish Literature
10.45 Katri Antin (Helsinki), 'That the Simple May Understand?' Composing Hodayot Psalms as Prophecy
11.15 Jeremy Penner (Leuven), History Remembered in the Words of the Luminaries and the Damascus Document
12.00 Lunchtime
13.30 Bernice Brijan (Groningen), Creative scribe, prophetic interpreter, and inspired sage: Exploring the 'Voice of the Teacher'
14.00 Jelle Verburg (Groningen), Greek in Judaea: The Use of Greek in the Texts from the Judaean Desert
14.30 Mladen Popovic (Groningen), When Urban and Rural Culture Meet: Copying, Writing and Rewriting Texts near the Dead Sea and Beyond
15.00 visit the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition made by the Qumran Institute, the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Drents Museum
17.00 Travel to Groningen
Tuesday, 15 October, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, Groningen
9.00 Ingo Kottsieper (Göttingen), seminar: Do you really understand what you read? The importance of re-evaluating linguistic sources in the light of new texts
10.00 Reinhard Kratz and Annette Steudel (Göttingen), Techniques of Rewriting in the Dead Sea Scrolls
10.45 Break
11.15 Arjen Bakker (Leuven), The purpose and function of the hierarchical system in the Serekh ha-Yahad
11.45 Charlotte Hempel (Birmingham), Religious Worldviews in the Serekh Tradition
12.30 Lunchtime
14.00 Jutta Jokiranta (Helsinki), seminar: Cognitive Perspectives to Covenant Renewal Ritual of the Community Rule
15.00 Eibert Tigchelaar (Leuven), Three Piety Scrolls Texts
15.45 Shani Tzoref (Göttingen), Reading 4Q175 as a 'proto-Petihta' on the Leadership Pericope of Deuteronomy 17-18