CONFERENCE PROGRAM AND ITINERARY
ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies
Fifty-Second International Conference:
History, Literature, and Archaeology
Programme
MONDAY, JULY 5, 2023
(Venue: The Institute for Asian & Middle Eastern Studies)
Chairperson: Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
09:00-10:00 Prof. Giuseppe Petrantoni (University of Enna, Kore, Italy)
“Subject to be defined.”
10:00-11:00 Dr. Giulia Francesca Grassi (University of Göttingen, Germany)
“Aramaeans and Aramaean Culture in Achaemenid Egypt.”
11:00-11:30 Tea/Coffee
11:30-12:30 Prof. Rüdiger Schmitt (University of Münster, Germany)
“The Aramean Pantheon of Tell Deir Alla and the Panthea of Ancient Palestine in the First millennium BCE: A comparative perspective.”
12:30-13:30 Prof. Elene Giunashvili (G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies/Ilia State University, Georgia) & Prof. Gaby Abou-Samra (Lebanese University)
“Aramaic (Arameographic) inscriptions on silver golden objects from Armazi and Bagineti. (II-IIIcc. ad”
13:30-15:30 Lunch
15:30-16:00 Tea/coffee
Chairperson: Prof. Daniel Bodi (Sorbonne Université University of Paris)
16:00-17:00 Prof. Krzysztof Jakubiak (University of Warsaw)
“The end of all things. What was behind the horizon of life – Aramean concept of the death.”
17:00-18:00
18:00-19:00 Prof. Dr. Rafaella Pierobon Benoit (University of Napoli, Italy)
“Subject to be defined.”
19:00-22:00 Banquet
TUESDAY, JULY 6, 2023
(Venue: The Institute for Asian & Middle Eastern Studies)
Chairperson: Prof. Emeritus John Healey (Manchester University)
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10:00-11:00 Prof. Daniel Bodi (University of Paris 4 – La Sorbonne, Paris)
“The Aramean Homer: Ancient Near Eastern Background of the Proverbs of Aḥiqar.”
11:00-11:30 Tea/Coffee
11:30-12:30 Prof. Dan Shapira (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
“New Lights on Aramaic in the Achaemenid Empire.”
12:30-13:30 Dr. Kenneth Silver (independent scholar) and Prof. Minna Silver University of Oulu, Finland)
“The conflict zone between Rome/Byzantium and Persia.”
13:30-15:30 Lunch
15:30-16:00 Tea/coffee
Chairperson: Dr. Giulia Francesca Grassi (University of Göttingen, Germany)
16:00-17 :00 Prof. Ben Zion Rosenfeld (Bar Ilan University)
“Josephus on the Arameans – reality and utopia.”
17:00-18:00 Dr. Haim Perlmutter (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
“Subject to be defined.”
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13:30 Conference ends.
Syriac Christianity
(including Syriac Christianity in Kerala)
10th – 12th July 2023
Programme
MONDAY, JULY 10, 2023
(Venue: The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane)
Chairperson: Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (University of Oxford)
09:00-09:45 Dr. Ayelet Dayan & Dr. Diego Barkan (Israel Antiquities Authority)
“An agricultural settlement at Gan Ha-Darom (Israel) in the Byzantine and Middle Ages: A farmhouse or a monastery.”
09:45-10:30 Dr. Lihi Habas (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
“The Early Byzantine period mosaic floor at Gan Ha-Darom, Israel.”
10:30-11:15 Prof. Yaron Z. Eliav (University of Michigan, USA)
“Rabbis and Syriac Church leaders on attending public Roman bathhouses.”
11:15-11:45 Tea/Coffee
11:45-12:30 Dr. Željko Paša (Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome)
“Subject to be defined.”
12:30-13:15 Prof. David G. K. Taylor (University of Oxford)
“Subject to be defined.”
13:15-14:00 Dr. Luise Marion Frenkel (Goette Universität Frankfurt, Germany)
“An early fifth century Syriac ‘Theophany’ and the reception of Eusebius of Caesarea.”
14:00-15:30 Free Lunch in the Oxford City Centre
15:30-16:00 Tea/coffee at the Institute of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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Theme: The Liturgical Music of Syriac Christianity
16:00-16:45 Revd. Dr. Youssef Tannous (Université Saint Esprit, Kaslik, Lebanon)
“La musique liturgique syriaque de l’église Maronite: (Subject to
be defined.)”
16:45-17:30 Dr. Gabriel S. Aydin (Syriac Music Institute, Cumberland, RI, USA)
“The Liturgical music of the Syriac Orthodox Church. (Subject to be defined.)”
17:30-18:15 Dr. Eve G. Sada (University of Oklahoma, USA)
“The Assyrian liturgical chants of the Church of the East: (Subject to be defined.)”
18:15-19:00 Discussion Forum: The Liturgical Music of Syriac Christianity.
TUESDAY, JULY 11, 2023
(Venue: The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane)
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Theme: Incantation Bowls and Magical Texts
09:00-09:45 Prof. Ali Faraj (Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
“An incantation Bowl for Asmandad son of Ḥātōī.”
09:45-10:30 Dr. Erica Hunter (SOAS – University of London)
“Subject to be defined.”
10:30-11:15 Dr. Julia Furman (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany) and & Ms. Anna Cherkashina
(Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, USA)
“Magic in-and-out: Magical texts and other textual witnesses in Syriac intellectual culture.”
11:15-11:45 Tea/Coffee
11:45-12:30 Dr. Silvio Roggo (University of Frankfurt, Germany)
“The ‘Pagan affair’ of 580 reconsidered.”
12:30-13:15 Mr. Charles Carman (Catholic University of America, USA)
“The ecclesiology of Narsai: A review of scholarship regarding the ecclesiology of the Church of the East.”
13:15-14:00 Revd. Paul Vinu Karamel (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome)
“Martyrdom in west Syriac liturgical tradition.”
14:00-15:30 Free Lunch in the Oxford City Centre
15:30-16:00 Tea/coffee at the Institute of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Chairperson: Dr. Alison Salvesen (University of Oxford)
16:00-16:45 Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (University of Oxford)
“The identity of Isaac the hermit in Bedjan’s Homiliae S. Isaaci Syri Antiocheni.”
16:45-17:30 Dr. Simon Brelaud (University of California, Berkeley) & Dr. Simon Pierre (Université de la Sorbonne/Institut français du Proche-Orient, Paris)
“Post-Sassanian monasticism: A reappraisal of textual and archaeological evidence in early Islamic northern Iraq (7th-8th cent.)”
17:30-18:15 Prof. Dr Mateusz Rafał Potoczny (University of Opole, Poland)
“Syriac liturgy as a mean expressing genuine Syriac identity.”
18:15-19:00 Mr. Kerwin Holmes (University of Virginia, USA)
“Linear and cyclical time in Islamic and Christian preaching: A brief comparative investigation into the aspects of rhetoric and temporal reality in Islamic and Christian homily.”
19:00-1945 Dr. Hanan Issa (Cairo University, Egypt)
(Muslims in the Syriac historical writings during the second and third centuries AH/eight-ninth cent. AD)
20:00-22:00 Banquet
WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 2023
(Venue: The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane)
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09:00-09:45 Dr. Nicholas Al-Jeloo (Independent scholar, Mardin, Turkey)
“Build me a house: Architecture and Hagiography in Late Antique Hakkari, 200-500”
09:45-10:30 Prof. Dr. Thomas Kremer (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany)
“Subject to be defined.”
10:30-11:15 Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
“Recovering local history: ordination and other records in Syriac manuscripts.”
11:15-11:45 Tea/Coffee
11:45-12:30 Dr. Alexander Humphries (SOAS, University of London, UK)
“Political Patriarchs: Examining the political role of Christian Patriarchal leadership in the development of Iraq.”
12:30-13:15 Dr. Ashoor Yousif (Tyndale University, Canada)
“The Caliph and the Patriarch: The Abbasid Caliph’s involvement in Christian Ecclesiastical affairs.”
13:15-14:00 Mr. Robert-Louis Isaf (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg Germany)
“Barhebraeus’ verse within his own canon.”
14:00-15:30 Free Lunch in the Oxford City Centre
15:30-16:00 Tea/coffee at the Institute of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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16:30-17:15 Dr. Borja W. González Fernández (Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey)
“The mystical model in Syriac: Hindiyya al-‘Ujaymi, Rafqa al-Rayyis, and the Maronite Church (18th-20th cc.)”
17:15-18:00 Rev. Dr. Moon Yuen Garry Pang (Independent scholar, Hong Kong)
“From the text of Jingjiao monument for the priest of Jingjiao Yisi and the Tang Sangai figurine of foreign military officer to analysis the status of the foreign military soldiers during the Tang dynasty of ancient China.”
18:00-18:45 Dr. Martin Thomas Antony (Independent Scholar, England, UK)
“Open space crosses of Saint Thomas Christians: A comparative analysis of worship pattern of ancient Dravidians and the Saint Thomas Christians.”
19:00 Conference ends.
Melkite Christianity
(The Patriarchates of Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem)
Programme
THURSDAY, JULY 13, 2023
(Venue: The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane)
Chairperson: Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (University of Oxford)
09:00-09:45 Dr. Guy D. Stiebel (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
“The renewed excavation at Masada and the phenomenon of Byzantine monasteries at Herodian fortresses.”
09:45-10:30 Dr. Yana Tchekhanovets (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
“Subject to be defined.”
10:30-11:15 Prof. Jacob Ashkenazi (Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee)
“Constructing monastic landscapes of southern Syria in Late Antiquity: text and context in the letter of the Archimandrites of Arabia.”
11:15-11:45 Tea/Coffee
11:45-12:30 Dr. Ioana Feodorov (ISEES, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania)
“Christian Arabic books printed in the 18th century as the focus of recent research..”
12:30-13:15 Dr. Rami Wakim (University of St Joseph Beirut and University of the Holy Spirit, Kaslik)
“The commentary in the Arabic liturgical Gospel Book: Origin, evolution, and theological significance.”
13:15-14:00 Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
“A second “Translation Movement” of Constantinopolitan liturgical texts.”
14:00-15:30 Free Lunch in the Oxford City Centre
15:30-16:00 Tea/coffee at the Institute of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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Theme: The Melkite Byzantine Liturgical Music
16:00-16:45 H.B. Youssef Absi (Patriarch of the Melkite Church)
“Subject to be defined.”
16:45-17:30 Fr. Dr. Michael Saba (Greek Orthodox Antiochian Church, Lebanon)
“Subject to be defined.”
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18:15-19:00 Discussion Forum: The Melkite Liturgical Music.
FRIDAY, JULY 14, 2023
(Venue: The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane)
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09:00-09:45 Revd. Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (University of Oxford)
“The Melkite reform of the Divine Liturgy.”
09:45-10:30 Dr. Samuel Noble ((ISEES, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania))
“Confessionalization and Patristic Resourcement in the Homilies of Mas‘ad Nashw.”
10:30-11:15 Dr. Željko Paša (Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome)
“Subject to be defined.”
11:15-11:45 Tea/Coffee
11:45-12:30 Dr. Antony O’Mahony (Blackfriars, University of Oxford)
“Subject to be defined.”
12:30-13:15 Dr. Konstantinos D. Politis (Hellenic Society for Near Eastern Studies – Greece)
“Early Byzantine churches, monasteries and hermitages of Zoara on the south-east shores of the Dead Sea.”
13:15-14:00 Mrs. Rita Kalindjian (Balamand University, Lebanon)
“In the heart of Byzantine Beirut.”
14:00-15:30 Free Lunch in the Oxford City Centre
15:30-16:00 Tea/coffee at the Institute of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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16:00-16:45 Dr. Hany Kahwagi-Janho (Holy Spirit University, Kaslik, Lebanon)
“The Byzantine religious architecture in high Mount-Lebanon. The case of three basilica churches (Faqra, Ghineh and Hardine)”
16:45-17:30 Prof. Emeritus Nada Helou (Lebanese University)
“The architecture of the Orthodox monasteries of Lebanon and Syria according to the description of Vassily Grigorovich-Barsky (1728) and their current state.”
17:30-18:15 Dr. Nadine Panayot (American University of Beirut)
“Anfeh’s chapels and mazars: Recent finds and significant consideration.”
18:15-19:00 Dr. Souad Slim (Balamand University)
“The Antiochian Greek Orthodox monasteries: from caverns to cloisters.”
19:00-22:00 Banquet
SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2023
(Venue: The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane)
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09:00-09:45 Mr. Zubair Adawi (Israel Antiquities Authority)
“The Monks in Chins from Khirbet el-Messani’ (Ramat Shlomo, Jerusalem.”
09:45-10:30 P. Dr. Ronney el Gemayel, sj (Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth, Lebanon)
“Subject to be defined.”
10:30-11:15 Dr. Habib Ibrahim (Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth, Lebanon)
“Revisiting the Works of Ibn al-Sirrī (9th c.)”
11:15-11:45 Tea/Coffee
11:45-12:30 Ms. Norig Neveu (Independent Researcher, Jordan)
“The contemporary history of the Melkite Church in Jordan.”
12:30-13:10 Fr. Dr. Boniface Carroll (University College London (UCL), UK)
“Subject to be defined.”
13:15-14:00 Dr. Lucy-Anne Hunt (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
“Subject to be defined.”
14:00-15:30 Free Lunch in the Oxford City Centre
15:30-16:00 Tea/coffee at the Institute of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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16:00-16:45 Dr. Patricia Antaki (University of Balamand)
“Take and Eat… Ancient bread stamps from Lebanon.”
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19:00 Conference ends.