8:45      Welcoming Remarks:  Professor A. van der Kooij, President, IOSOT

                                             Paul V.M. Flesher, IOTS President

9:00      Keynote Address #1

            Chair:  Paul V.M. Flesher

Willem smelik, London

The Rabbinic Use for Translations

10:00    Targums and Christianity

Martin McNamara, Dublin

Targum and Testament (1973) Revisited

Craig Morrison, Rome

The "Hour of Anguish" in Targum Neofiti and the "Hour" in the Gospel of John

11:00    Coffee/Tea

11:30    Targumic Exegesis

Alberdina Houtman, Kampen

The Role of Abraham in Targum Isaiah

Rimon Kasher, Ramat Gan

The Palestinian Targums to Gen. 4:8. A New Approach to an Old Controversy

Laura Lieber, Middlebury

"Open Door, Shut Door": A Rhetorical Analysis of the Shared Exegetical Motifs
of Genesis 49 in Targum Neofiti and the Poetry of Yannai

13:00    Lunch

14:00    Studies in Targum Jonathan

Elisabeth Giralt-Lopez, Barcelona

Reward and Punishment in the Targum to Amos

Josep Ribera, Barcelona

Aspects of the Targum of Joel

Pere Casanellas, Barcelona

Translational techniques in  the Targum of Zechariah

15:30    Coffee/Tea

16:00    Pentateuchal Targums & their Literary Relationships

Harry Freedman, London

The Halakhic Sources for Targum Pseudo-Jonathan

Harry Sysling, Kampen

Early Citations of Targum Jonathan to the Prophets in the
Palestinian Targums to the Pentateuch

Jan-Wim Wesselius, Kampen

The Literary Relation between Targum Onkelos and Targum Jonathan
of the Former Prophets

17:30    Break

17:45      Business Meeting — TEEC Report and Proposal

20:00      Banquet

Friday, July 30 2004

9:00       Keynote Address #2

                  Chair:  Willem Smelik

Edward Cook, Cincinnati

The Vocabulary of Targum Onkelos and its Implications

10:00      Targums and Computers

Stephen Kaufman, Cincinnati

Using the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon for Targumic Research: New Tools

Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman, Kampen

The Role of Vocalization in Stemmatology

11:00      Coffee/Tea

11:30      Translations & Manuscripts

Yona Sabar, Los Angeles

The Five Scrolls In Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialects : A Comparative Study with
Ancient Aramaic Translations

Luis D’ez Merino, Barcelona

The Oldest Aramaic Bible according to the Manuscripts

David Kroeze, Kampen

The Description of Medieval Targum Manuscripts: MS Gs¹ttweich 11

13:00      Lunch

14:00      Aramaic Linguistics

Renaud Kuty, Leiden
The expression of Determination in Targum Jonathan to Samuel

David Talshir, Beer Sheva
Semantic Shifts of the root sna  (Aleph-Nun-Samekh) in Aramaic and Hebrew

Paul V.M. Flesher, Laramie
Jewish Aramaic in Palestine

15:30      Coffee/Tea

15:45      Business Meeting — Election of Officers

             Concluding Remarks

At the 2001 Congress, the IOTS established the Targum Edition Exploratory Committee (TEEC) to explore the feasibility of a project to create text editions for all the rabbinic-era targumim and to draw up a plan for such a project. The TEEC will submit its report and recommendations to the 2004 Congress. All participants should receive a copy of the report at registration. The Thursday evening business meeting will be devoted to a debate and vote concerning it. The IOTS (i.e., all members present) will decide whether or not to adopt the committee"s recommendation and to pursue their implementation. Please plan to be present for this important discussion and decision.

The International Organization for Targumic Studies would like to thank the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament for allowing us to meet in conjunction with them.  We would also like to thank Dr. Konrad Jenner, Congress Secretary, and the Leiden Organizing Committee for all the hard work they put in to make the arrangements for our meetings.  Finally, we would like to congratulate Professor Arie van der Kooij on his election to the Presidency of the IOSOT and to express our appreciation to him for his welcoming remarks.