Aramaic and Syriac Inscriptions and Literature -10/07/2019, Durham (England)

FECHA CONGRESO/CONGRESS DATE/DATA CONGRESSO: 10/07/2019

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Department of Classics & Ancient History (Ritson Room), Durham University (Durham, England)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Alberto Rigolio

INFO: alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk

INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Gratis / Free / Gratuito

PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:

Coffee from 9am

9.20am welcome by convenors

9.30am Konstantin Klein (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg)

Corpus Inscriptionum Palmyrenarum - towards a digital corpus of Palmyrene Aramaic inscriptions

10.15am Jeremy Hutton (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Two recently published Palmyrene forgeries: what did the forgers think they were doing?

11.00am coffee

11.30am John Healey (Manchester University)

Edessan/Old Syriac inscriptions: some loose ends

12.15pm Marco Moriggi (Università di Catania)

Hatran Aramaic and Old Syriac: parallelisms and differences in Aramaic epigraphy of Late Antique Jazirah

1.00pm lunch

2.30pm Françoise Briquel Chatonnet (CNRS, Paris)

Considerations about Syriac inscriptions from the limestone massif in Syria

3.15pm Alison Ewins (Durham University)

‘Religious bilingualism’ among the Palmyrenes

4.00pm coffee

4.30pm Hanna Lucas (Durham University)

Theodore of Mopsuestia and the ‘breadly’ Fittingness of the Sacraments: linguistic choices in the Syriac translation of Theodore’s mystagogical homilies

5.15pm Jan Dochhorn (Durham University)

Palestinian Onomastic Material in the Revelatio Stephani (AD 415)

5.45pm drinks followed by dinner