Daniel A. Werning has put up a useful Digitale Einführung in die hieroglyphisch-ägyptische Schrift und Sprache complete with short lessons and exercises.
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Monday, April 25, 2022
Friday, April 15, 2022
TCI Easter Series on Isaiah 53
The Text and Canon Institute has put out an Easter series on a number of interesting variants in Isaiah 53.
Aitken Grinfield Lectures Online
I just saw that the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies has put Jim Aitken's 2021-2022 Grinfield Lectures online here. Jim gives a fascinating exploration of how the Septuagint fits within contemporary Egyptian Greek writing culture and the ramifications for Septuagint research. Highly recommended!
EPHE-PSL Seminars on Ancient Scripts
On the Scriptish mailing list Andreas Stauder announces French-language program of seminars on a wide range of ancient scripts. The recorded sessions are also available on YouTube. See below details from the email.
Cycle « Les écritures dans les mondes anciens »,
de l’Institut des langues rares (Ilara) de l’EPHE-PSL (Paris) :
- Le programme :
https://ilara.hypotheses.org/files/2022/02/Conferences-ecritures-anciennes.pdf
- La prochaine conférence :
« Observations sur les écritures d’Asie Centrale au Ier millénaire de notre ère »,
par Georges-Jean Pinault, le mercredi 20 avril, à 18h30 (inscription gratuite, obligatoire, sur eventbrite) :
- La chaîne YouTube, avec les sept conférences déjà données :
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT__n1OePD2jGdJTR0hNVdUrYYF-Nl3c5
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Le papyrus dans tous ses États, de Cléopâtre à Clovis
Jean-Luc Fournet has put up online a wonderful virtual tour of the Collège de France exhibition on the history of papyrus (in French) here.
Thursday, March 3, 2022
The Editio critica maior of the Greek Psalter catalogue
I just noticed that the Editio critica maior of the Greek Psalter project has put a catalogue online that includes images to many Greek manuscripts.
Friday, January 7, 2022
NYU DSS Conference Recordings Online
New York University has now uploaded the recordings of sessions from their June 2021 Dead Sea Scrolls public conference. Here is the program from the website:
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS: A SECOND PUBLIC CONFERENCE Sponsored by: Global Network for Advanced Research in Jewish Studies Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies |
The Israel Antiquities Authority Sunday June 6, 2021 11:00 - 11:30 AM EDT [6:00 - 6:30 PM IDT]: Opening Session Presiding Chair and Opening Remarks Greetings Andrew D. Hamilton, President New York University 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM EDT [6:30 - 8:00 PM IDT]: Report on the Judean Desert Caves Archaeological Project |
Chair: Ilit Cohen-Ofri, Israel Antiquities Authority The Judean Desert Caves Archaeological Project: Goals, Methodology and Achievements Eitan Klein, Israel Antiquities Authority Excavations in Murabba`at Cave 4: Preliminary Insights Haim Cohen, Israel Antiquities Authority |
“And I will bring them to dwell in Jerusalem”: New Fragments of the Greek Minor Prophets Scroll (8HevXII gr) Oren Ableman and Beatriz Riestra, Israel Antiquities Authority 1:00 - 1:30 PM EDT [8:00 - 8:30 PM IDT]: Break |
1:30 - 3:30 PM EDT [8:30 - 10:30 PM IDT]: Major Issues in Dead Sea Scrolls Research Chair: Angela Kim Harkins, Boston College |
Scribal Text Groups among the Bible Manuscripts Found in the Judean Desert Emanuel Tov, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Evidence for Scribal Apprenticeship and Education at Qumran Sidnie White Crawford, University of Nebraska
What Do We Know about the Teacher of Righteousness? John J. Collins, Yale University
Troops of Light: Militant Prayer and Ritual Cursing in the Dead Sea Scrolls Daniel Falk, Penn State University
9:00 - 10:30 AM EDT [4:00 - 5:30 PM IDT]: Archaeology of Qumran
Chair: Molly Zahn, University of Kansas
Qumran in the Late Hellenistic Period: An Archaeological Reassessment. Dennis Mizzi, University of Malta
To Sit or to Squat? The Qumran Toilet Revisited Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina
Searching for Qumran Cave 6Q
Marcello Fidanzio, Faculty of Theology, Lugano
10:30 - 11:00 AM EDT [5:30 - 6:00 PM IDT]: Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT [6:00 - 7:30 PM IDT]: Archaeology and Sectarianism
Chair: Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina
The Archaeology of Sectarianism: Social Analysis of Khirbet Qumran Eyal Regev, Bar-Ilan University
The Gate of the Essenes in Jerusalem
Timothy H. Lim, University of Edinburgh
A Comprehensive Analysis of the Tefillin (Phylacteries) Assemblage from the Judean Desert: A Work-in-Progress
Yonatan Adler, Ariel University
12:30 - 1:00 PM EDT [7:30 - 8:00 PM IDT]: Break 1:00 - 3:00 PM EDT [8:00 - 10:00 PM IDT]: Launching the Qumranica (SQE) Virtual Scholarly Environment Chair: Esther Chazon Scripta Qumranica Electronica: The Vision, Concept, and Challenges of a New Online Platform for the Dead Sea Scrolls Reinhard Kratz, University of Göttingen and Pnina Shor, Israel Antiquities Authority A Short Tour of the Qumranica Platform |
Bronson Brown deVost, University of Göttingen Digital and Material Reconstruction of Highly Fragmentary Scrolls Towards a New Edition of 4QInstruction: The Case of the Prologue Asaf Gayer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Tuesday, June 8, 2021 9:00 - 11:00 AM EDT [4:00 - 6:00 PM IDT]: Manuscript and Text Chair: Eileen Schuller, McMaster University Do 11Q19 and 11Q20 Represent Different Recensions of the Temple Scroll? Methodological Considerations Andrew Gross, Catholic University of America 4QpaleoExodm (4Q22) and the ‘Samaritan’ Tenth Commandment. Hila Dayfani, University of Oxford, Oriel College Pesher Habakkuk: From Behind the Scenes of a Forthcoming New Commentary Noam Mizrachi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Dead Sea Scrolls and Authorship 11:00 - 11:30 AM EDT [6:00 - 6:30 PM IDT]: Break 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM EDT [6:30 - 9:00 PM IDT]: Aramaic and Parabiblical Texts Chair: Joseph Angel. Yeshiva University A God’s-Eye View: The Perception of Sacrifice in Aramaic Levi Liane Feldman, New York University Is There 'Poetry' in the 'Prose' of the Genesis Apocryphon? Moshe J. Bernstein, Yeshiva University Books and Writings in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran Devorah Dimant, University of Haifa What Did Levi Do? 'Seal the Words of the Scroll until the Time of the End' (Daniel 12:4): Hidden Manuscripts and the Search for a New Biblical Past Eva Mroczek, University of California, Davis Wednesday, June 9, 2021 'Bringing the Messiah(s) Through Law': Reflections upon Completing a New Commentary to the Damascus Document Steven Fraade, Yale University Inter-sectarian Polemic in Miqsat Ma`asei Ha-Torah (4QMMT) Vered Noam, Tel Aviv University On Timing and Law: A Multimodal Analysis of the Maskil in 4Q259 James M. Tucker, University of Toronto The Temple Scroll and Mishnah Middot: A Literary Comparison Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM EDT [6:30 - 8:00 PM IDT]: Scripture, Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism Chair: Alison Schofield, University of Denver Why Did Moses Stay for Forty Days and Forty Nights on Mt. Sinai? Ariel Feldman, Brite Divinity School Lived Wisdom in Early Judaism Are the Dead Sea Scrolls Authentic? Insights from Early Qumran Scholarship Michael Langlois, University of Strasbourg 1:00 - 1:30 PM EDT [8:00 - 8:30 IDT]: Break 1:30 - 2:30 PM EDT [8:30 - 9:30 PM IDT]: War and Violence in the Scrolls Chair: Liane Feldman, New York University “Deep into that darkness peering “: New Light on the War Scroll (1QM) Guy Stiebel, Tel Aviv University The Origins of Violence in the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Sociological Perspective Alex Jassen, New York University 2:30 - 3:00 PM EDT (9:30 - 10:00 PM IDT]: Closing Remarks and Thanks Emily Master, Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority Joe Uziel, Israel Antiquities Authority |
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