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IOTS 2010 Programme Announced

Published June 10, 2010 in IOTS. 0 Comments

The 2010 International Organization for Targumic Studies conference is nearly here! Held triennially as part of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, this year’s conference is in Helsinki, Finland during the first week in August. The programme has just been posted at the conference website and is posted below as well.

International Organization for Targumic Studies (IOTS) will have
its 6th congress. Person in Charge: Dr. Willem F. Smelik, President of IOTS. For more information of IOTS, see here.

Programme of IOTS

Wednesday 4 Aug, 9:00–10:30, Main Building Hall 10

Keynote Lecture: Steven Fraade, Targum and Multilingualism in Late Antique Judaism and Jewish Society

Wednesday 4 Aug, Session A (11:00–13:00)
Main Building Hall 10

Philology & Methodology
11:00 Shamma Friedman, The Dating of Targum Onqelos
11:30 Shai Heijmans, About the ‘Unreliability’ of the Vocalization of Western Targum-Manuscripts
12:00 Margaretha Folmer, Forms and Uses of the Demonstrative Pronouns in Targum Onqelos
12:30 James K. Aitken, Septuagint and Targum Studies: Historical and Methodological Relations

Wednesday 4 Aug, Session B (14:30–18:00)
Main Building Hall 10

Genre
14:30 Alex Samely, The Targums within a New Description of Jewish Text Structures in Antiquity
15:15 Robert Hayward, ‘Targum a Misnomer for Midrash’? A new typology of the Second Targum of Esther

Afternoon coffee break 16:00

16:30 Philip Alexander, ‘Translation and Midrash Completely Fused Together’? The Form of the Targums to Canticles, Lamentations and Eccleasiastes
17:15 Rocco Bernasconi, A Literary Analysis of the Genesis Apocryphon

Thursday 5 Aug, 9:00–10:30, Main Building Hall 10

Keynote Lecture: Avigdor Shinan and Yair Zakovitch, Avoiding Anonymity in the Bible and Beyond

Thursday 5 Aug, Session A (11:00–13:00),
Main Building Hall 10

Exegesis
11:00 Willem Smelik, Targum in Talmud
11:30 Beatrice Lawrence, Jethro and Jewish Identity in Targumic Interpretation
12:00 Chris Brady, The figure of Boaz in TgRuth
12:30 Craig Morrison, dyt[/dyt[and the World to Come in the Syriac New Testament and Targum Neophyti

Thursday 5 Aug, Session B (14:30–18:00),
Main Building Hall 10

Translation Strategies
14:30 Dmytro Tsolin, The Transformation of Poetical Lines of the Song at the Sea (Ex. 15:1–18, 21) in the Targum Onqelos
15:00 Bjørn Olav Kvam, Genesis 14 as Key-text for the Balaam Texts – A Case study of Text-immanent Exegesis in the Targumim
15:30 Gudrun Lier, Translation Techniques in Malachi according to Targum Jonathan

Afternoon coffee break 16:00

Identifying Targum
16:30 Paul Flesher, Identifying the Palestinian Targums: The Case of the Cairo Geniza Manuscripts
17:00 David Shepherd, Can Anything Targumic Come from Qumran? Revisiting Klaus Beyer’s ‘Targums’ of Tobit and Isaiah
17:30 Announcements: NTCS-website

Thursday 5 Aug, 18:00, Main Building Hall 10

IOTS Business Meeting

Friday 6 Aug, 9:00–10:30, Main Building Hall 13

Keynote Lecture: Dineke Houtman, The Use of Paratextual Elements in Targum Research

Friday 6 Aug, Session A (11:00–13:00), Main Building Hall 13

Manuscripts, Reception and Edition
11:00 Luis Díez Merino, A New Complete Aramaic Bible
11:30 Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman, ‘Christian’ Targums in a Targum edition?
12:00 Hector Patmore, The Italian Textual Tradition of Targum Jonathan
12:30 Hans Van Nes, “Rome” in Targum Jonathan and its European Reception

Call for papers: International Organization for Targum Studies

Published July 13, 2009 in IOTS. 0 Comments

We are only a year away from the triennial IOSOT meeting and its associated meetings which includes the IOTS. The Congress will be held at the University of Helsinki and the associated meetings will overlap a bit more this time which should help to reduce costs, 10 days in Slovenia was great, but tough on the budget.

So with the Congress only a year away it is time to announce the call for papers. It is shaping up to be a very good IOTS meeting with Steven Fraade and Dineke Houtman confirmed for two of our three keynote addresses.

Please forward this call and feel free to this link to the Newsletter for Targumic and Cognate Studies site.

International Organization for Targum Studies

Sixth Meeting
HELSINKI, FINLAND
August 4-6, 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 6th meeting of the IOTS will cover a wide range of topics related to Targum Studies:

Philology;
Typology and Genre;
Translation Strategies and Theory;
Exegesis;
Theology;
Text-criticism and Manuscript Studies;
Relationship to  Rabbinic Literature.

We are pleased to announce a call for short papers in any of these categories.  Papers should be of twenty-minutes length, allowing ten additional minutes for discussion. The deadline for paper proposals is September 15, 2009, and March 1, 2010  for the submission of written abstracts.

DATE
The sixth meeting of the IOTS will be held from August 4-6, 2010 in conjunction with the XXth Congress of IOSOT, the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, and other specialized congresses (IOQS, IOSCS, IOMS), to be held from 1st to 6th August 2010 in Helnsinki, Finland. All information on these congresses, registration, accommodation, etc. can be found on http://www.helsinki.fi/teol/pro/iosot/abstracts/iosot.htm.

PAPER PROPOSALS
If you are interested in participating and presenting a paper, please send your proposal (title and/or subject of paper) to:

Dr. Willem Smelik,
willem.smelik @ ucl.ac.uk / willem.smelik @ gmail.com

Dept. of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
University College London
Foster Court, Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT

Please forward this call for papers to any student or scholar you think may be interested.

The 20th Congress of IOSOT 1-6 August 2010

Published January 15, 2009 in IOTS. 2 Comments

The website for the next IOSOT is now up! I will certianly be going for IOSOT and of course IOTS, the International Organziation for Targum Studies. Details of the IOTS program including a call for papers will appear here in due course.

President of the IOSOT Professor Raija Sollamo

Raija Sollamo

Welcome to IOSOT-congress

The International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) is happy to celebrate its 60th anniversary and its 20th meeting on 1-6 August 2010 in Helsinki. Scholars from all over the world are invited to attend the lectures, participate in the discussions, and give papers. We also invite you to take part in associated specialized congresses to be held from 29th July to 6th August 2010 in Helsinki.

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Targum Sigla Project

Published October 8, 2008 in IOTS, MSS and Targumic Texts. 0 Comments

From our beloved IOTS President Willem Smelik:

Dear members of the IOTS and other interested parties,

The IOTS has long discussed the desirability of new editions of (most of) the Targums. A first task, the collection of data on targumic manuscripts, has already started and has come to a promising, even if partial, conclusion at the Theologische Universiteit of Kampen, the Netherlands. Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman came with a proposal for a system of sigla which, if agreed upon and endorsed by the IOTS, could be used in any future studies and editions of the Targums, similar to the sigla nowadays common in the study of the Peshitta. The advantages of a common system are clear to everyone.

At the last meeting of the IOTS it was agreed that we should establish a committee to discuss the format for the sigla of manuscripts, starting with the afore-mentioned proposal. We would therefore like to invite interested scholars to come forward and express any interest that they might have in contributing to this task. The executive body of the IOTS will then discuss the options and decide upon a representative and suitable committee, who will hopefully be able to report their findings at the next meeting of the IOTS in Helsinki 2010.

The contact address is:

Willem Smelik
willem.smelik AT ucl.ac.uk
26 Tenison Road
Cambridge CB1 2DW
UK

With kind regards,
on behalf of the IOTS

Willem Smelik

IOSOT – IOTS 2010

Published May 12, 2008 in IOTS. 0 Comments

I just realized I never posted my final report from the IOSOT conference, including the announcement of where the next conference in 2010 will be. So, cross-posting from my blog:

Today was the final day of the XIXth IOSOT Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia. A few notes from the meeting.
Vetus TestamentumLjubljana

  • Carol Newsome is the editor to receive submission from North America.
  • In the last three years (since the last report to IOSOT) there were 80 some articles and additional short notes for a total just over 120 (sorry, I missed the exact figures).
  • Of those articles 30 were from the US, 30 from Israel, just under that from the UK and so on…
  • VT is going to add an additional 20 pages per issue to accommodate additional articles.
  • They will soon being using Arabic instead of Roman numerals (Yeah!)
  • There will be a theme issue one/year. This fall: “Prophecy in Greece, Ugarit, and Israel.”

IOSOT President & the XXth Congress

The new President of IOSOT is the outstanding LXX scholar Prof. Raija Sollamo which means that the 2010 Congress will be held in Helsinki, Finland!

This was an amazing conference and I encourage everyone who can to submit papers and attend. I was particularly encouraged by the number of doctoral students and young scholars (I think I still qualify) who gave excellent papers. So save up your Euros now! Helsinki here we come!

Welcome to NTCS!

Published August 7, 2007 in Blog, IOTS, NTCS and Updates. 1 Comment

This will be the new Newsletter for Targumic and Cognate Studies! Welcome world! This newsletter is intended to be a resource to those interested in Aramaic versions of the Bible and their related studies. It is also the official organ of the International Organization for Targumic Studies.

I hope to have most of the content of the old site up by the end of the day week but our goal is to include a searchable database and that will take some time. In the meantime, put this RSS into your newsreader and look for updates as new material is uploaded or updated.

The Editor

Christian Brady
cbrady AT targum.info

IOTS Conference 2007 – Good Times!

Published August 7, 2007 in IOTS and Updates. 0 Comments

Ljubljana TargumistsToday ended our two day conference of the IOTS. We were very sorry that Paul Flesher, our President, and Robert Hayward, a distinguished Targum scholar, were unable to join us because of illness. We wish them all the very best.

It has been a wonderful conference with many excellent papers. (And mine wasn’t bad either! :-) ) In particular I wanted to let everyone know about a few new or perhaps under-consulted resources in the field of Targumic and cognate studies.

  • Targum Manuscript Database – David Kroeze, Kampen, presented on the state of the new database of targumic manuscripts. This is a tremendous project and is due to go live (although you can consult it now) in August. The funding has run out for the project at this point, with only MSS of Tg Jonathan (to the Prophets) catalogued, but that still includes several thousands MSS. The database can be found at the site http://targum.nl/. They are looking for additional funding and information on MSS. Please contact him at the website if you are able to help. David also reminded us of a few other useful databases available online: IMHM – Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts; GOLD – Genizah On-Line Database.
  • Critical Edition of Targum Samuel – Our keynote address on Day One was by Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman, Kampen. This project, also found at http://targum.nl/ is an ongoing project to create a critical edition of TgJon to Samuel. At the moment only 1 Sam 1-3 is available. This work represents and amazing amount of work. It is a beautiful site and resource. Sadly it too was part of the grant that was funding the manuscript database and its funding has ended as well. Both of these projects are part of the ongoing ITTEP, International Targum Text Edition Project.

    • Ljubljana StreetsAt our business meeting yesterday we also discussed the Newsletter for Targum and Cognate Studies. This has been housed at http://targum.info/ and is primarily a source of bibliography as well as information concerning the IOTS. There has not a been a lot of activity on the site for the last two years, but fear not! We are going to revamp and transform the site! So stay tuned… I promise you will hear it here first!

    BTW, judging from the videos on the TV in my hotel, Slovenian music seems to  involve quite a lot of accordians, even in heavy metal!
    And if you want to see more of my pictures from the trip, click on any of the above pictures to go to my Flickr account.

    Settling into Slovenia and IOTS Abstracts

    Published August 7, 2007 in IOTS and Updates. 0 Comments

    Hotel LevWell after a delayed flight I arrived in the capital of Slovenia, safe and sound. The room is very nice at Hotel Lev and I am settling in to finish my paper (with my socks and “things” hanging to dry in the bathroom; they wanted €2,80 to wash a pair of socks!). I have been hunting on Google maps to see where our conference will be. Why the first listed hotel, the one I choose, assuming that like the SBL that would mean it is closest to the conference, is the farthest from the university is beyond me. So here is my Google Map with the Hotel Lev an the Law School located on it.

    I just received the abstracts from Willem Smelik who will be our acting chair since Paul Flesher will be unable to attend. These are posted below, just follow the link. The schedule of the papers can be found here.

    Continue reading ‘Settling into Slovenia and IOTS Abstracts’

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