SYMPOSIUM SYRIACUM

PROGRAM
SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2012 18:00-19:30 Inaugural Mass in Syriac Presided by H.B. Patriarch Mor Ignatius Joseph Yunan

MONDAY, JULY 16, 2012 Registration starts at 8am. 08:00-09:00 Prayer at Our Lady of Damascus SESSION ONE Chairperson: Prof. Rifaat Ebied (University of Sydney) Syriac Lexicography Daniel King, (University of C): The early verses of Genesis in the hands of Translators in antiquity. Michael Sokoloff, (Bar Ilan University): Syriac Lexicography in the Present. Terry Falla, (University of Melbourne): Syriac Lexicography in the Future. Tea/coffee Dr. Lucas Van Rompa (La Trobe University Melbourn): Syriac Lexicography: Past, Present and Future. Anne Thompson, (University of Cambridge): John Chadwick's Lexicographica Graeca. Contributions to the Lexicography of Ancient Greek and its Implications for Syriac Lexicography: A Review of the Lexicographic Principles. Alison Salvesen, (University of Oxford): The lexicon of the Tabernacle accounts in the Syrohexapla of Exodus. Wido van Peursen, (Leiden University): How much grammar should be stored in the lexicon? Lunch

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Chairperson: Dr. Lucas Van Rompa (La Trobe University Melbourn) 15:00-15:30 Beryl Turner Who commits adultery with whom, and why it matters in a lexicon
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David Andersen, (Wycliffe Bible Translators) Identifying Bilinguals in First Century Palestine Jonathon Loopstra, (Capital University, Ohio): Accent on Accents: Exploring Patterns of Accentuation in the Syriac Bible. Tea/coffee Mark R. Meyer, (Capital Bible Seminary, Maryland) Ways of Translating the Hebrew Infinitive Construct by Peshitta Exodus. Marketta Liljestrom, (University of Helsinki): Syriac readings and the Septuagint. Reception hosted by the University of Malta: Addresses: 1) University President 2) Conference Committee: Prof. Rifaat Ebied 3) H.B. Patriarch Mor Ignatius Joseph Yunan Excursion SESSION TWO

Chairperson: ??????????????????????????????????? Barhebraeus Dr. Jan J. van Ginkel (Leiden University) Michael the Great as a Source for Bar `Ebroyo Dr Hidemi Takahashi (University of Tokyo) Barhebraeus on Psychology: An Overview of His Writings on the Soul St Ephrem Dr. Rosa Hunt (International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague) The mystery of the divine self-giving: reading Genesis with Ephrem Syrus Tea/coffee Dr. Thomas Kollamparampil (Dharmaram College, Christ University, Bangalore, India) Ephrems Vision of the Church from the People and the Peoples for a Theology of World Religions Mrs Flavia Ruani (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris - La Sapienza, Roma). La place dphrem de Nisibe dans la littrature syriaque antimanichenne Dr. Kunjumon Alxander Plathottathil (academic institute???) Captivity/Slavery Imagery and Syriac Technical Terms in St. Ephrem, Narsai, Jacob of Sarug Dr. Emidio Vergani (Pontificio Istituto Orientale - Roma) Mt 27,52 dans luvre dphrem: exgse et rlaboration littraire

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13:00-15:00 Lunch Chairperson: ??????????????????????????????????? Manuscripts and Codicology : Codicologie 15:00-15:30 Alain Desreumaux (CNRS Paris) Les encres dans les manuscrits syriaques. 15:30-16:30 Youssef Dergham (Bibliothque patriarcale, Charfet, Liban) et Franois Vinourd (Centre de conservation du livre, Arles), Les reliures syriaques conserves Charfet. Comparaisons des techniques avec celles des autres reliures orientales: byzantines, armniennes, islamiques. 16:30-17:00 Tea/coffee 17:00-17:30 Franoise Briquel Chatonnet (CNRS Paris), Le passage du parchemin au papier dans les manuscrits syriaques : premires constatations. 17:30-18:00 Ewa Balicka-Witakowska (University of Uppsala), Preliminary Observation on the Layouts Applied in Syriac Manuscripts. 18:00-19:00 Reception hosted by the University of Malta: Addresses: 1) University President 2) Conference Committee: Prof. Rifaat Ebied 3) H.B. Patriarch Mor Ignatius Joseph Yunan 19:00-21:00 Excursion SESSION THREE Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Shabo Talay Contemporary Syriac Christianity 09:00-09:30 Mr. Nicholas Al-Jeloo (University of Sydney): From Syriac to Neo-Aramaic and Assyrian: Language, script and identity in modern Assyrian inscriptions from Iran. 09:30-10:00Dr. Marta Wozniak (University of Lodz) The modern Arameans: In search for national identity 10:00-10:30 Mrs. Naures Atto (Leiden University) We have come here and left all the shame and sin behind there: Changes in the understanding of Shame and Sin among Suryoye in Europe 10:30-11:00 Tea/coffee 11:00-11:30 Mr. Simon Birol (University of Muenster) Baselios Shem'un Malke and his poem Lavij 11:30-12:00 Prof. Sargon Donabed (Roger Williams University) Ethnic Shifts in an Ecclesiastical Community: A Visual Dialogue of the Nomenclature of the Jacobites in 20th and 21st Century Israel/Palestine 12:00-12:30 Heleen Murre-van den Berg (Leiden University)

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Al-Hikma (Jerusalem) and the revival of Classical Syriac among the Syriac Orthodox Syriac Linguistic Semitic and Greek Analysis Dr. Satoshi Toda (Tokyo) Some Observations on Earliest Syriac Translations

13:00-15 :00 Lunch Chairperson: ??????????????????????????????????? 15:00-15:30 Mr. Aaron Michael Butts (Yale University) Contact-Induced Change in Syriac due to Greek: Moving Beyond Lexical Borrowing History, Archaeology & Arts of Syriac Christianity Dr. Mark Dickens (University of Alberta, Canada) Syriac inscriptions from a medieval Christian community in Urgut, Uzbekistan Dr. Zaraza Friedman (Haifa University): Fishing from Boats Jesus or the Apostles - State of Salvation; the Church of Beit Loya, Israel, and the Church of St. Stephen in Umm alRasas, Jordan. Tea/coffee Dr. Bas Snelders (Leiden University): Saints, monks and martyrs in the Syriac artistic tradition. Dr. Alexei Savchenko (The Society for the Exploration of Eurasia): The monastery of Urgut (Warkudah), and other Syriac Christians in Beth Turkaye. Reception hosted by the University of Malta: Addresses: 1) University President 2) Conference Committee: Prof. Rifaat Ebied 3) H.B. Patriarch Mor Ignatius Joseph Yunan Excursion SESSION FOUR Chairperson: ??????????????????????????????????? Severus of Antioch 09:00-09:30 Dr. Frdric Alpi (Institut Franais du Proche-Orient) : Svre dAntioche et la lgislation ecclsiastique de Justinien 09.30-10.00 Dr. Youhanna Nessim Youssef (Australian Catholic University): The Lost Manuscripts of the Arabic Version of the Life of Severus of Antioch 10:00-10:30 Dr. Pauline Allen (Australian Catholic University and University of Pretoria) Severus of Antioch, the Monk-Bishop: Monastic and Epistolary Networks.
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Tea/coffee Dr. Dominique Gonnet, (Sources Chrtiennes & CNRS-Universit de Lyon) : Pourquoi lHomilia Cathedralis 77 de Svre dAntioche a-t-elle t galement en grec ? 11:30-12:00 Prof. Harald Suermann (University of Bonn) berlieferungen in den Hymnen des Severus und im Koran - ein Vergleich The Syriac Bible 12:00-12:30 Prof. Aryeh Kofsky (Haifa University) & Dr. Serge Ruzer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Theology and Hermeneutics in Theodore of Mopsuestias Commentary on John in Syriac 12:30-13:00 Mr. Francesco Celi (Belgium): Quelques versets du Nouveau Testament inadquatement traduits en langues vernaculaires. 13:00-15 :00 Lunch Chairperson: ??????????????????????????????????? 15:00-15:30 Dr. Jeff W Childers (Abilene Christian University) Embedded Oracles: Sortilegium in a Syriac Gospel Codex 15:30-16:00 Dr. Johan D. Hofstra (Free University of Amsterdam) Towards a new edition, translation and re-sourcing of Isho`dad of Merws commentary on the Gospel of St. John. 16:00-16:30 Dr. Jerome Lund (Norway) The Hebrew as a Text Critical Tool in Restoring Genuine Peshitta Readings in Isaiah 16:30-17:00 Tea/coffee 17:00-17:30 Dr. George Kiraz (Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute): A bilingual edition of the Peshitta Bible. 17:30-18:00 Professor Bas ter Haar Romeny (Leiden University): Contributions from Syriac Biblical interpretation to our understanding of the Peshitta Old Testament. 18:00-19:00 Reception hosted by the University of Malta: Addresses: 1) University President 2) Conference Committee: Prof. Rifaat Ebied 3) H.B. Patriarch Mor Ignatius Joseph Yunan 19:00-21:00 Excursion

TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2012 08:00-09:00 Prayer at Our Lady of Damascus SESSION ONE Chairperson: ??????????????????????????????????? 09:00-09:30 Samer Yohanna (Pontifical Biblical Institute): Between two millennia: Assessing the Syriac arklean TetraEuangelion manuscript C 25 from the depository of the Chaldean Antonian Order of St Hormizd-Iraq. 09:30-10:00 Craig E. Morrison, O.Carm., (Pontifical Biblical Institute): When God Intervenes in History: the theological function of dYt (as a translation for in the Syriac Gospels 10:00-10:30 10:30-11:00 Prof. Mats Eskhult (Uppsala University) Syriac h as corresponding to Hebrew hinn and Greek Tea/Coffee Syriac Christianity & Western Churches Mr. Jean Fathi (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France) : Don Elias Fatalla and the Fathi family of Amid Ioan Andrei Dumitru (Centre dEtudes Byzantines PARIS) La transmission du savoir au VIe sicle entre Syrie, Byzance et Occident : Paulos le Syrien et la fascination de lOrient. Dr. Paolo Maggiolini (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan): The Agreement between the Syriac and Chaldean Patriarchs and the Civil Head of the Armenian Catholic Church in Constantinople. Bringing together Eastern Catholics under a Common Civil Head Recognized by the Ottoman Government. 1833-1871

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Jacob of Serough 12:30-13:00 Dr. Jacob Thekeparampil (SEERI - Kerala): Soliloquy as a literary genre in the Homilies of Jacob of Sarug on Apostle Simon 13:00-15:00 Lunch Chairperson: ??????????????????????????????????? 15:00-15:30 D. Saliba Saliba (University of Cardiff): Baptism in the homilies of Jacob of Serugh and Narsai of Nisibis. Syriac Christianity & Oriental Churches Prof Marika Chachibaia (Tbilisi State University)

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Zachariah Rhetor, Zachariah Kartveli (Georgian) and the life of Peter the Iberian. 16:00-16:30 Dr. Serge Kim (?????): The Syriac Version of the Capita Ascetica of Diadochus, bishop of Photice, studied alongside with an Arabic and an old Georgian translation Tea/coffee Maximus the Confessor Mr. Zahari Konkyov (Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome) The Synod of Cyprus (634) described by Giorgio Reschaina in Syriac Life of Maximus the Confessor: sources compared and critical inquiry Rev, Elia N. Khalif (Oxford): Saint Maximus the Confessor (c.580-662): Life and Works in Syriac, Garshuni, and Arabic. General Assembly Reception hosted by the Archbishops Seminary SESSION TWO Chairperson: ?????????????????????????????????? Manuscripts and Codicology : Les Manuscrits et leurs Textes 09:00-10:00 Emilie Villey et Flavia Ruani (ANR Syrab): Traditions manuscrites syro-occidentale et syro-orientale de lHistoire de laptre et vangliste Philippe Ioan Andrei Dumitru, Books, treaties and notebooks. Some considerations regarding the transmission of Syriac scholastic texts Tea/Coffee A. Binggeli, F. Briquel-Chatonnet, Muriel Debi, Alain Desreumaux, Stphane Ipert (CNRS, Paris et Centre de conservation du Livre, Arles), An electronic database for Syriac manuscripts

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Manuscripts and Codicology : Collections et Entreprises de Catalogue 12:00-12:30 Dr. Kristian Heal (Brigham Young University): Report on the Syriac Projects of the Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts. Dr. Ayda Kaplan (CECO : Centre dtude sur les Chrtiens dOrient, Bruxelles-Belgique): La palographie syriaque l'ge digital.
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13:00-15:00 Lunch Chairperson: ??????????????????????????????????? 15:00-16:00 Dr. Columba Stewart & Dr. Adam McCollum (Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Saint Johns University, USA) & Fr. Nageeb Michaeel (Centre Numrique des Manuscrits Orientaux, Iraq), (double session): Manuscript digitization and cataloguing work in the Middle East and India. Amulets/Syriac Magic 16:00-16:30 Dr. Gaby Abousamra (Universite de Kaslik) The Syriac Amulets of the Grotto of Asi el-Hadath 16:30-17:00 Tea/coffee 17:00-17:30 Dr. Erica C.D. Hunter (University of London SOAS): Syriac Prayer-Amulets from Turfan 17:30-18:00 P. Yousif Thomas Mirkis, (la Revue La Pense Chrtienne , Bagdad): Une amulette assyrienne illustre de la rgion de Hakkari 18:00-19:00 General Assembly 19:30-21:00 Reception hosted by the Archbishops Seminary SESSION THREE Chairperson: Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (Oxford University) Syriac Theology 09:00-09:30 09:30-10:00 10:00-10:30 Dr. Sebastian Brock (Oxford University) Divine titles in Syriac writings: some approaches Dr. Emiliano Fiori (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): Theodore of Mopsuestia on Paul: the Place of the Interpreters Pauline Commentary within the East Syrian Commentary Tradition. Prof. Dr. Theresia Hainthaler (Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen Frankfurt): What do we know about the Persian Huzites and their dyophysite t heology? Tea/coffee Mr. Ephrem Ishac (University of the Holy Spirit Kaslik, Lebanon): Jacob of Edessas Hexaemeron: A primitive comparison with Basil of Caesareas Hexaemeron. Dr Nestor Kavvadas (Tbingen University) The apocalyptic section of Joseph Hazzayas on divine providence Dr. Aho Shemunkasho (Paris-Lodron Universitt Salzburg) John of Daras concept of Creation Mr. Maros Nicak (Gttingen Univesrity):
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The figure of Mary in understanding of Warda in its historical context (till the 13th century) 13:00-15:00 Lunch Chairperson: ??????????????????????????????????? 15:00-15:30 15:30-16:00 Dr. Mikael Oez (University of Oxford): Cyriacus of Tagrit (d. 817), on Eschatology. Mr. Gabriel Rabo, (University of Gttingen) The commentaries on the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed and on the Confession of the Syrian Orthodox by Dionysius Bar Salibi Lucas Van Rompay (Duke University) Teacher of Dogma (Rabban d-dogma) as an academic title in the Syriac Orthodox Church in the 8th-9th century. Tea/coffee Dr. Nadira Khayyat (Iraq & France) La Maternit de Dieu le Pre Mr. Yury Arzhanov (Ruhr-Universitat-Bochum, Germany) Syriac collections of sentences On the soul General Assembly Reception hosted by the Archbishops Seminary

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SESSION FOUR Chairperson: ??????????????????????????????????? Syriac Christianity and Islam 09:00-09:30 Dr. Peter Cowe (UCLA) Preliminary Investigation of the Earliest Extant Version of the Dialogue between Patriarch Timothy I and Caliph al-Mahdi 09.30-10.00 Prof. Rifaat Ebied The Syriac Encyclical Letter of Athanasius II of Balad, Patriarch of Antioch, which forbids the partaking of the sacrifices of the Muslims. 10:00-10:30 Mr. Nathan Gibson (The Catholic University of America): Abraham as a point of departure in the Monk of Bet Hale text 10:30-11:00 Tea/coffee 11:00-11:30 Dr. Emmanouela Grypeou ()xford University) Syriac apocalyptic literature on the eve of the rise of Islam 11:30-12:00 Dr. Cornelia Horn, (University of Tbingen, Germany) Satan and his troops in early Arabic literature and Syriac traditions: An intertextual symbiosis 12:00-12:30 Dr Gabriel Said Reynolds (University of Notre Dame) The Jews as killers of the prophets in the Qurn
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Prof. Herman Teule (Institute of Eastern Christian Studies): The Book of the Evident Truth by Jacob bar Shakko, an attempt at recosnstructing its contents. Lunch

Chairperson: ??????????????????????????????????? 15:00-15:30 Mr. Lev Weitz (Princeton University) The Image of the good wife between Christianity and Islam Syriac Philosophy 15:30-16:00 Maya Goldberg (Leiden Institute for Religious Studies, Leiden University) Between Aristotle and Evagrius:A Reassessment of the Spiritual Epistemology of Simeon d'Taibutheh 16:00-16:30 Tea/coffee 16:30-17:00 Prof. Dr. Ilaria Ramelli (Catholic University of Milan): The Syriac version S2 of Evagrius Kephalaia Gnostica. Toward a New Edition, Translation, and Commentary 17:00-17:30 Mr. Sami Aydin (Uppsala University) Sergius of Reshainas shorter Commentary on Aristotles Categories a critical edition 17:30-18:00 Dr. Daniel King (University of Cardiff) The significance of philosophy within Syriac literature and theology. 18:30-19:00: General Assembly 19:30-21:00 Reception hosted by the Archbishops Seminary WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 2012 08:00-09:00 Prayer at Our Lady of Damascus SESSION ONE Chairperson: ??????????????????????????????????? Asceticism & Monasticism 09:00-09:30 Dr. Dan Chioiu (Romanian Academy, Iai Branch): St. Isaac the Syrian`s description of rapture: Radical anthropology and reality levels. 09:30-10:00 Fr. John D'Alton (Monash University): Sons of the Resurrection: Realised eschatology as a structural key to Aphrahats Demonstrations. 10:00-10:30 Ms. Claire FAUCHON (Universit Lyon)

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De ltranger au rfugi ? Considrations sur lemploi du terme aksenaya dans les Vies des Saints orientaux de Jean dEphse Tea/coffee Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (Oxford University): The formation of the liturgical monastic Syrian office before the Council of Chalcedon 451AD. Prof. Dr. Josef Rist (Ruhr University of Bochum) Die Styliten als Personen des ffentlichen Lebens Prof.Dr. Ren Roux (University of Erfurt): "Antimarcionitica in the Syriac Liber Graduum". Dr. Bo Holmberg, (Lund University): The Apophtegmata Patrum in Syriac Manuscripts from the 6 th century Lunch

Chairperson: ??????????????????????????????????? 15:00-15:30 Columba Stewart (Saint Johns University) Antioch, Edessa, and Nisibis: Tracing an Arc of Asceticisms and Monasticisms. 15:30-16:00 Anna Silvas The Syriac translator of Basils Small Asketikon: translation techniques and personal identity. 16:00-16:30 Tea/coffee 16:30-17:00 Ms. Carmen Fotescu Tauwinkl (Nijmegen, Netherlands): The Word that heals the Function of spiritual exhortation in the monastic work of Athanasios Ab Ghlib. 17:00-17:30 Dr. Alexey Muraviev (Russian Academy of sciences and Moscow State University) Medical Imagery and Medical Terms in the Corpus of Mar Ishaq of Nineveh (St Isaac) 17:30-18:00 Miss. Jennifer Griggs (SOAS, University of London): John of Dalyatha: Mystic or Messalian? 18:00-0000 Conference Ends 18:00-20:00 Excursion 20:00-22:30 Banquet

SESSION TWO Chairperson: ??????????????????????????????????? Apologetic Literature 09:00-09:30 Kelli Bryant (PRS, University of Oxford) Telling Others Stories: Historical Narrative in the Apologetic Treatises of Dionysius bar Salibi 09:30-10:30 A. Binggeli, F. Briquel-Chatonnet, M. Debi, Y. Dergham, A. Desreumaux (CNRS Paris et patriarcat Charfeh), Cataloguing Syriac manuscripts in Charfeh (Lebanon)
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Tea/coffee Grigory Kessel (Marburg University), Manuscript Collection of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Meryem Ana in Diyarbakir. 11:30-12:00 Erica Hunter (SOAS, University of London) Syriac Mss from Turfan 12:00-12:30 Dr. Kristian S. Heal, (Brigham Young University): Notes on the Acquisition History of the Mingana Sinai Fragments and other Syriac Manuscripts between 1931-38 (Mingana Syriac 627662) 12:30-13:00 Prof. Amir Harrak (University of Toronto): Mar-Sargis son of Gabriel of Azerbaijan in a Syriac inscription from the Royal Ontario Museum. 13:00-14:30 Lunch Chairperson: ??????????????????????????????????? Neo-Aramaic Dialects 15:00-15:30 Mr Nicholas Al-Jeloo (University of Sydney) From Syriac to Neo-Aramaic and Assyrian: Language, script and identity in modern Assyrian inscriptions from Iran Prof. Dr. Moin Halloun (Bethlehem University): Syriac Elements in the Palestinian Dialects Ms. Roula Skaf (INALCO University Paris): Amnagement dans le syriaque moderne . Tea/coffee Dr. Shawqi Talia (The Catholic University of America): The story of Ahikar in Syriac and Neo-Aramaic. A textual, linguistic and historical comparison. Syriac & Semitic Languages Prof. Dr. Brikha Nasoraia (Mardin Artuklu University & Sydney University): Syriac Christian words in Mandaean sources. Conference Ends Excursion Banquet SESSION THREE Chairperson: ????????????????????????????? Syriac Liturgy Dr. Jean-Paul Deschler (Switzerland): Behind the Veil - The 'Service of Aaron' of the Syro-Antiochene Anaphora Dr. Sr. Jincy Othottil (Chaldean Syrian College, Thrissur, India):
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Descriptive Study of Hudra Manuscripts kept in Metropolitan Palace Thrissur. Fr Baby Varghese (SEERI) The Byzantine occupation of Northern Syria (969-1085) and its impact on the Syrian Orthodox Liturgy Tea/coffee

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Mongols-Mamluks Periods 11:00-11:30 Mr. Thomas Carlson (Princeton University) Christian History and Christian Identity in Isaq Shbadnaya and Ishoyahb bar Mqaddam 11:30-12:00 Dr. Ute Possekel (Gordon College - USA): Julian of Halicarnassus in medieval Syriac Christianity. 12:00-12:30 Dr. Anton Pritula (Hermitage Museum, St.Peterburg; University o Gttingen) Two Generations of East Syriac Poets of the Mongol Time: Warda and Khamis 12:30-13:00 Mr. Salam Rassi (University of Oxford, Wolfson College ) To the Scribe of Scribes: Some Preliminary Notes on the Style, Function and Context of the Krnqn attributed to Abdsh of Nisibis 13:00-14:30 Lunch Chairperson: ??????????????????????????????????? Academic Projects Joseph Moukarzel (USEK) et Jean-Baptiste Yon (CNRS) : Le programme du rpertoire des inscriptions syriaques (RIS) Astrology, Astronomy and Medicine 15:00-15:30 Grigory Kessel (Marburg University) A discovery of Gesius of Petras (ca. A.D. 500) Commentary on Hippocrates Sixth Book of Epidemics Dr. Adam McCollum (Saint John's University) Biology and Veterinary Medicine in Ninth Century Baghdad: Job of Edessa's Treatise on Rabies Ms. Emilie Villey (University of Caen) Le Petit Commentaire de Thon dAlexandrie cit dans deux textes astronomiques syriaques des VIe-VIIe sicles Tea/coffee Jimmy Daccache, Robert Hawley, and Linda Herveux (Orient & Mditerrane, Paris) The Botanical Identification of Pulses in unayns Treatise on Dietetics
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Conference Ends Excursion Banquet SESSION FOUR

Chairperson: Dr. Cornelia Horn (University of Tbingen, Germany) Hagiography, Chronicles & Acta Sanctorum Peter Bruns (Bamberg/Eichsttt): Historisch-theologische Erwgungen zum Martyrium des schsabran (BHO 45) Dr. Scott F. Johnson (Georgetown University) The Liber Castitatis of Isho'denah of Basra: Geography and Travel in Late Antique Collective Hagiography Fr. Jobi Patteruparampil (Catholic University of Leuven): The archaic elements in the west Syrian recension. Tea/coffee Dr. Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent (St. Michaels College, Vermont, USA) The Prince and the Monk: Revisiting the tradition of Mar Mattai, Mar Behnam and his sister Sarah. Dr. Asaad Sauma (Stockholm) Some observations about the Syriac story of Mar Behnam Dr. Jack Tannous (George Washington University) The Life of Simeon of the Olives and the West Syrian Church in the Eighth Century. Sassanid & Early Arabic Period Dr. Vittorio Berti, (Theologisches Seminar Universitt Zrich): Ecclesiastical conflicts and logical argumentation: the Synod of enan II (775) and his strategy to smooth out differences. Lunch

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Chairperson: ??????????????????????????????????? Academic Projects 14:30-15:00 Dr. Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent (St. Michaels College, Vermont, USA): Syriac Research Portal Project: Section on Syriac Hagiography. 15:00-15:30 R. Todd Godwin (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) All the Worlds a Stage: East Syrian Patriarch Ishoyahb III and Persian, Arab and Chinese Rule over the Church of the East 15:30-16:00 Dr. Serey Minov, (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem):
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The Life of Mar Yareth the Alexandrian as a Source for the History of Christianity in Late Sasanian Mesopotamia. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Martin Tamcke (University of Gttingen, Germany) Petros the Solitary's account about al-Hira Tea/coffee

Modern Syriac Language and Contemporary Syriac Church 17:00-17:30 Dr. Khalid Dinno (University of Toronto): The Syrian Orthodox Church: Name as marker of identity. 17:30-18:00 Mr. Joseph Saouk (Uppsala University ): Quo Vadis Turoyo? A description of the situation and the needs of Turoyo (or New West-Aramaic) 18:00-0000 18:00-20:00 20:00-22:30 Conference Ends Excursion Banquet

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