Programme

>Monday 9 July, 2007

Session 1: Nicholas de Lange

14.00-14.30: Nicholas de Lange (Cambridge), Introductory Words

14.30-15.30: David Jacoby (Jerusalem), The Jewish Communities of the Byzantine World, Tenth – Fifteenth Centuries

15.30-16.00: Tea Break

Session 2: Graham Davies

16:00-16:45: Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis (Berlin), History of research

16:45-17:30: Alison Salvesen (Oxford), The relationship of the versions of the 'Three' in Exodus 1-24

Tuesday 10 July

Session 3: James Aitken

10:00-10:30: Silvia Cappelletti (Milan), Biblical quotations in Greek Jewish Inscriptions of the Diaspora

10.30-11.15: Patrick Andrist (Bern/Geneva), The Bible used by “the Jews” in the Greek dialogues Contra Iudaeos

11.15-11.45: Coffee Break

Session 4: Scott Mandelbrote

11.45-12.15: Ben Outhwaite (Cambridge), A world apart? Byzantium and Byzantines in the Genizah

12.15-12.45: Shifra Sznol (Jerusalem), Traces of the Targumim in the Greek Bible Translations in Hebrew Characters

12.45-14.00: Lunch

14.15-15.15: Manuscript Exhibition at Cambridge University Library

15.30-16.00: Tea Break

Session 5: Alison Salvesen

16.00-16.45: Peter Gentry (Louisville), The Greek Genizah fragment of Ecclesiastes and its relation to the LXX Ecclesiastes

16.45-17.15: Natalie Tchernetska (London), Glosses in Greek script and language in Hebrew Biblical manuscripts

17.15-17.45: Timothy Michael Law (Oxford), A Life of their Own. "Hexaplaric" Readings from 1 Kings in Byzantine Judaism

19.00-19.30: Drinks Reception

19.30-20.30: Dinner

20.30-21.00: William Horbury (Cambridge), The Study of the Greek Bible in Cambridge

Wednesday 11 July

Session 6: Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis

10.00-10.30: Saskia Dönitz (Berlin), Sefer Yosippon and the Greek Bible

10.30-11.00: Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (Paris), Judah Hadassi and the Greek Bible [N. de Lange]

11.00-11.30: Coffee Break

Session 7: Julia Krivoruchko

11.30-12.00: Dries De Crom (Leuven), The Book of Canticles in Codex Graecus Venetus VII

12.00-12.30: Georges Drettas (Paris), The Linguistic Features of the Constantinople Pentateuch

12.30-13.00: Nicholas de Lange, Concluding Words

13.00-14.00: Lunch