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XII SYMPOSIUM SYRIACUM 2016

AUGUST 19, MORNING SESSIONS

9.00-09.30

Welcome by a Franciscan Authority of the Collegio San Lorenzo

Welcome by Fr. David E.Nazar sj, Rector of Pontifical Oriental Institute,

and presentation of the scientific Committee

Prof. Emidio Vergani introduces the «Lectio magistralis» of Prof. Sebastian Brock

INAUGURAL LECTURE

9.30-10.30 BROCK Sebastian

Melkite Writings in Syriac: A Neglected Field

Coffee Break

ROOM 1: EARLY CHRISTIAN ART

11.00-11.30 BADWI Abdo

La représentation de la Sainte Vierge dans les manuscrits syriaques à peinture

11.30-12.00 DERGHAM Youssef

Les miniatures du manuscrit Charfet Armalet SYR 5/14

12.00-12.30 FREIDMANN Zaraza

What is the Realm in the Sailing of Jonah and What Type of Ship he did he Sail as Depicted in

Roman-byzantine Arts.

ROOM 2: THE SYRIAC NEW TESTAMENT

11.00-11.30 TAYLOR David

A Critical Synopsis of the Old Syriac and Peshitta Gospels: An Introduction

11.30-12.00 SZYMCZAK Tomasz

La nascita di Gesù Cristo nella «Vetus Syra» di Matteo (Mt 1, 18-25)

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12.00-12.30 MERCZ Andras

Moses of Mardin and the First Printing of the Syriac New Testament

ROOM 3: SYRIAC TRADITION IN CYPRUS AND PERSIA

11.00-11.30 H.E. Youssef SOUEIF Maronite Arch. of Cyprus

The Syriac Tradition in Cyprus

11.30-12.00 TAMCKE Martin

Reform from Inside of the Church of the East? The Ideas and Life’s Work of Yuhannon Pera

12.00-12.30 GUCHA Vincent

The Orphanage of the Syrian Orphans of the German Orient Mission in the Northwest Iran,

from its Foundation to its End, during the First World War.

ROOM 4: SYRIAC TRADITION IN INDIA

11.00-11.30 MUSTATA Radu

Praising St. Thomas in Malabar: Syriac Theological Writing and Textual Accommodation in

the Aftermath of the Synod of Diamper (1599)

11.30-12.00 PIEPER Lukas

Paulos Mar Gregorios: (Dis)continuity of the Syriac Tradition in an Indian Context

12.00-12.30 ALUMKAL Sunish George

The Influence of Social Media and the Increasing Awareness of Syriac Language and

Traditions in Kerala

12.30-13.00 ANTONY Martin Thomas

Reviving the Sound, Sentiments, and Melodies of the Syriac Aramaic Chants in India

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19, AFTERNOON SESSIONS

ROOM 1: SYRIAC HAGIOGRAPHY IN LATE ANTIQUE MESOPOTAMIA

15.00-15.30 RUANI Flavia

Panel Presentation

15.30-16.00 DEBIÉ Muriel

St Stephen in Late Antique Amida: Christianity vs Zoroastrianism in a Clash of Religious

Shrines in an Unedited «Mimro» of Jacob of Serugh

16.00-16.30 DI RIENZO Annunciata

Pope Sylvester: The Construction of a Saint. The Syriac Contribution to the Sylvestrian

Hagiography

Coffee Break

17.00-17.30 DURMAZ Reyan

Hearing sanctity: Oral Performance and Aural Consumption of Hagiographical Stories in the

Late Antique and Medieval Syriac Milieu

17.30-18.00 MELLON SAINT-LAURENT Jeanne-Nicole

Prologues in Syriac Hagiographies

18.00-18.30 MINOV Sergey

The Syriac Life of mar Yareth the Alexandrian: Promoting the Cult of a Local Holy Man in

the Late Antique Mesopotamia

18.30-19.00 GROSS Simcha, PAZ Yakir

The Making of a Persian Martyr Act Cycle: The Case of the Spinoffs of Simon bar Sabba'e

ROOM 2: CLASSICAL CULTURE IN THE SYRIAC CONTEXT

15.00-15.30 ARZHANOV Yury

Syriac Collections of Moral Sentences and their Place in Rhetorical Education

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15.30-16.00 AYDIN Sami

A Unique Zoological Text in Syriac and the Physiologus Versions

16.00-16.30 VAN GINKEL Jan

Exploiting the Exploits of Alexander the Great. A Literary Motif and its Werdegang in Syriac

Literature

Coffee Break

17.00-17.30 VILLEY Emilie

À propos de la section 11 de la Somme astronomiques syriaque inédite (fin 6ème siècle)

17.30-18.00 VOIGT Rainer

On the Fifth Book of the Rhetoric of Antun Retor

18.00-18.30 HAWLEY Robert

Were Sergius’ Syriac Translations of Galen Good or Bad?

18.30-19.00 TAKAHASHI Hidemi

The Syriac Marginal Notes in the Arabic Euclid Manuscript Chester Beatty Arabic 3035 and

some Related Matters

ROOM 3: EPHREM AND HIS TIMES

15.00-15.30 VERGANI Emidio

L'episodio della tempesta sedata (Mt 8, 23-27 par) in Efrem: teologia e natura, poesia e

paradossi.

15.30-16.00 POSSEKEL Ute

How Can we Talk about God? Ephrem's Theory of Divine Names in Context

16.00-16.30 GRIFFIN Carl

Cyrillona and an Anonymous Homily on Pentecost

Coffee break

17.00-17.30 ROUX René

La data di composizione del Liber Graduum riconsiderata

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17.30-18.00 CHIALÀ Sabino

Metodo teologico e divisione tra cristiani secondo Giovanni il Solitario

18.00-18.30 BUMAZHNOV Dmitrij

Syriac anti-Jewish Narratives in the 4-6 century. Some Soundings

ROOM 4: MANUSCRIPTS AND INSCRIPTIONS

15.00-15.30 HUNTER Erika

MIK III/45. A Unique Hudra from Merv?

15.30-16.00 BAARDA Tijmen

Syriac Manuscripts in Twentieth-Century Iraq: Modernizing Manuscripts Production and

Syriac Revival Movement

16.00-16.30 BALICKA-WITAKOWSKA Ewa, LISZEWSKA Weronika

A Rare Syriac Manuscript in Danger: The Bilingual Lectionary in the Library of the St.

Saviour Monastery in Old Jerusalem

Coffee Break

17.00-17.30 DESREUMAUX Alain

Lottin de Laval et le Sinaï : une inscription syriaque retrouvée

17.30-18.00 GOREA Maria

Une coupe magique syriaque inédite

18.00-18.30 ABOU SAMRA Gaby

Syriac Inscriptions on Tablitos

18.30-19.00 MOUKARZEL Joseph

Syriac Inscriptions on Tablitos

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AUGUST 20, MORNING SESSIONS

ROOM 1: BIBLE AND EXEGESIS

09.00-09.30 CARBAJOSA Ignacio Perez

A (pre-Philoxenian) Missing Link in the History of the Syriac Translations of the Bible? The

Case of Peshitta Baruch

09.30-10.00 NIETEN Ulrike-Rebekka

The Syriac and the Hebrew Masora Similarities and Differences in Reciting the Bible and

Chanting the Liturgical Poetry

10.00-10.30 FORNESS Michael

Tools for Biblical Exegesis and Syriac Collections of Homilies in Late Antiquity

Coffee Break

11.00-11.30 HAAR ROMENY Bas Ter

Greek Exegesis in the Syriac Tradition

11.30-12.00 HOFSTRA Johan D.

Manuscript Tradition of Isho'dad of Merv's Commentary on the Gospel of St. John

12.00-12.30 SHEMUNKASHO Aho

The Resurrection of the Dead according to John of Dara's Commentary on 1 Cor 15

12.30-13.00 GOLDBERG Maya

The Place of Theodore of Mopsuestia in the Anonymous Commentary Preserved in MS (olim)

Diyarbakir 22

ROOM 2: GREEK WRITERS IN THE SYRIAC TRADITION

09.00-09.30 BENELMOUFFOK Shahnez Soumaya

Impact et portées spirituelle et dogmatiques des pères Grecs dans la transmission du

patrimoine culturel syriaque

09.30-10.00 HOFFMANN Carsten

"When the World was Flat" about the World View of Theodore of Mopsuestia

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10.00-10.30 NESSEM Youssef Youhanna

Between Gregory the Theologian and Severus of Antioch

Coffee Break

11.00-11.30 STEWART Columba

The Syriac Version of Evagrius' Gnostikos

11.30-12.00 PIRTEA Adrian

Babai the Great and Dionysius bar Salibi on Evagrius' Theory of 'Spiritual Perception'

12.00-12.30 PERCZEL Istvan

The Syriac Translation of the Ecclesiastic Hierarchy of Pseudo-Dionysius by Sergius of

Reshʻayna: Notes on an Edition in the Making

12.30-13.00 PAPOUTSAKIS Manolis

Romanos the Melode and the Syriac Literary Tradition

ROOM 3: THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE EASTERN SYRIAC TRADITION: ISAAC OF NINEVEH AND HIS TIMES

09.00-09.30 DUCA Valentina

Una luce che si leva, per Grazia: fede, fiducia e patimento in Isacco di Ninive

09.30-10.00 VESA Valentin

The Christology of St. Isaac of Nineveh and the East Syriac Theology of the 7-8 Century

10.00-10.30 KESSEL Grigory

The Fifth Part of Isaac of Nineveh: First Soundings about a Rediscovered Manuscript Witness

Coffee Break

11.00-11.30 METSELAAR Marijke

The East Syrian Catholicos Isho'yahb (c. 649-c. 659) and the End Times.

11.30-12.00 FIORI Emiliano

Like a Brightest Star in the Heaven of the Earth: Towards a Critical Edition of Joseph

Hazzaya. Questions and Answers

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12.00-12.30 ZELAZNY Jan

Il primato della Chiesa appartiene agli orientali: studio delle lettere di Timoteo I

ROOM 4: BARHEBRAEUS AND THE MONGOL PERIOD

09.00-09.30 PRATELLI Simone Isacco Maria

A New Critical Edition of Barhebraeus's Chronography. Preliminary Notes

09.30-10.00 MAZZOLA Marianna

Barhebraeus Ecclesiastical History: A Study on Textual Tradition and Literary Aspects

10.00-10.30 FARINA Margherita

Barhebraeus's Metrical Grammar in the Context of 13th Century Syriac Linguistic Thinking

Coffee Break

11.00-11.30 ISAF Robert

A Snare of Lights: An Examination of Gregory Bar Hebraeus' Poem on Divine Wisdom

11.30-12.00 RASSI SALAM

The Role of Islamic Thought in Barhebraeus’ Theory of God and the Contingency of the

Universe

12.00-12.30 PRITULA Anton

East Syriac Poetry Collections of the Mongol Time, according to the Earliest Existing

Manuscripts: A General Typology

20, AFTERNOON SESSIONS

ROOM 1: BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION: JACOB OF SARUG AND NARSAI OF NISIBIS

15.00-15.30 KITCHEN Robert

I, Memra: Personification of Literary Genre as Independent Actor in Jacob of Sarug

15.30-16.00 MACABASAG Nora

Comparison of Jacob of Serugh's Memre in Vat. Syr 118: Author and Context

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16.00-16.30 BIROL Simon

Some Approaches to Jacob of Serugh's Remarks about Pagan Cults

Coffee Break

17.00-17.30 MORRISON Craig

Narsai's Exegesis of the Story of David in his Homily on David and Saul (Memra 74)

17.30-18.00 PUGLIESE Paolo

Il Nuovo Testamento nella mani di Narsai. Uso del NT nell'omelia 74.

18.00-18.30 RODRIGO GOMEZ Eva Maria

La libertà umana di fronte al peccato. Un approccio alla teologia morale di Narsai di Nisibe in

base al memra 74

18.30-19.00 FOMICHEVA Sofia

Jewish Exegetical and Literary Traditions in Narsai’s Memra “Against the Jews”

ROOM 2: LITURGICAL TRADITIONS

15.00-15.30 HORN Cornelia

Baptism on Stage: Literary or Cultural Constructions of Cult Rituals in Syriac Apocrypha

and Hagiography?

15.30-16.00 NEROTH VAN VOGELPOEL Alex

The Preparation of the Eucaristic Gifts in the East Syriac Tradition

16.00-16.30 SALIBA ER Saliba

Eucharistic Theology in West Syriac Tradition

Coffee Break

17.00-17.30 THEKEPARAMBIL Jacob

Msih as Ga(n)boro in West Syriac Liturgical Tradition

17.30-18.00 HABBABE Dibo, SHBEIR Ghada

Eléments fondamentaux et structure du chant sacré des Eglises syriaques occidentales

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ROOM 3: THEOLOGY AND CHRISTOLOGY

15.00-15.30 MASPERO Giulio

John 16,14 in Syriac Tradition: Trinitarian Perspective

15.30-16.00 OVIDIU Ioan

Imago Dei in Liber Heraclidis

16.00-16.30 RAMELLI Ilaria

The body of Christ as Imperishable Wood: Hippolytus and Bardaisan of Edessa's Complex

Christology

Coffee Break

17.00-17.30 HAINTHALER Theresia

Sahdona, Liber De perfectione II 2 - Remarks on his Christology

17.30-18.00 POPA Stefan Catalin

Christological Imagery in Narsai's and Jacob of Sarugh's Homilies on the Resurrection

18.00-18.30 EBEID Bishara

The Two-qnome Christology prior to 612 AD and its Relation to the Greek-speaking

Nestorians: An Analysis of Habib's Chapters and the Nestorian Doctrine in Leontius of

Byzantium and Leontius of Jerusalem.

ROOM 4: COMPUTER ASSISTED RESEARCH IN SYRIAC STUDIES

15.00-15.30 CRAIG RYANN Elisabeth

The Christian Communities of the Middle east Project: Creating a Cultural Heritage Project

15.30-16.00 GIBSON Nathan

The New Handbook of Syriac Literature: Bringing Syriac Literature into the Digital

Landscape

16.00-16.30 MICHELSON David

Syriaca.org: Frameworks for Digital Research in Syriac Studies

Coffee Break

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17.00-17.30 SCHWARTZ Daniel

Syriac Persons, Events and Religions (SPEAR)

17.30-18.00 TALAY Shabo

Aramaic-Online Project: Didactic Methods and Linguistic Challenges of a Multilingua

Online Course

18.00-18.30 SCHMIDT Andrea

La version digitale du Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium (e-CSCO)

18.30-19.00 KINDT Bastien

La version digitale du Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium (e-CSCO)

AUGUST 21, MORNING SESSIONS

ROOM 1: BETWEEN HAGIOGRAPHY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

09.00-09.30 GONNET Dominique

Dimension politiques et sociales de la Vie de S. Syméon le Stylite (ms de Damas)

09.30-10.00 D'ANNA Alberto

Il tema della fondazione apostolica a Edessa e Roma: strategie parallele nella Dottrina di Addai

e negli Atti di Pietro e Paolo.

10.00-10.30 NOCE Carla

Il tema della fondazione apostolica a Edessa e Roma: strategie parallele nella Dottrina di Addai

e negli Atti di Pietro e Paolo.

Coffee Break

11.00-11.30 TAVOLIERI Claudia

A proposito della presenza di alcune "edifying stories" nelle versioni siriache dell'Historia

Lausiaca di Palladio: un caso letterario?

11.30-12.00 BERTI Vittorio

Strategie narrative di ricomposizione dei conflitti nei sinodi siro-orienali del VI secolo

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12.00-12.30 BARCZOK Ralph

The Vita of Josef Busnaya: A Historical Source for Northern Iraq of the 10th Century

ROOM 2: MODERN HISTORY AND PROSOPOGRAPHY

09.00-09.30 DINNO Khalid

The Impact of Arabic Translation on the Syrian Orthodox Revival of the Twentieth Century

09.30-10.00 MENGOZZI Alessandro

Hybridization of Media, Genres and Cultural Repositories: Mar Qardagh and Yezdandukht

on You Tube

10.00-10.30 WOZNIAK-BOBINSKA Marta

Intergenerational Relations: Exploring Ambivalence within Assyrian/Syriac Families in

Sweden

Coffee Break

11.00-11.30 FATHI Jean

Fathallah Shtamma Known as Phillip Stamma (d. 1755). An International Chess Champion of

Syriac Heritage

11.30-12.00 TURC Joelle

Patriarche Ephrem II Rahmani, un érudit remarquable de l’Orient

12.00-12.30 SAUMA Assad

The Chaldean Bishop of Mardin Israel Audo (1859-1941) and his Syriac Book “The

Persecution of the Christian Armenians and Arameans in 1915"

ROOM 3: SYRIAC TRADITIONS AND OTHER CULTURES: INFLUENCE AND POLEMICS

09.00-09.30 CHACHIBAIA Marika

Some Questions of the Dependence of the Most Ancient Georgian Translation of the Gospel on

the Syriac Source

09.30-10.00 RUDOLF Stefanie

The Nine Saints and the Question of Syriac Influence in Ethiopia

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10.00-10.30 PROOMU Stanislau

Isaac of Nineveh and the Making of Ethiopian Modernity

Coffee Break

11.00-11.30 MURRE- VAN DEN BERG Heleen

Minorities in the Making: Syriac Christians and other Non-Muslim

11.30-12.00 WELTECKE Dorothea

On Violence Against Christians During the Middle Ages

12.00-12.30 HERMAN Geoffrey

Holy Relics in Mata Mehasya: Christian Polemics and Response to the Arab

12.30-13.00 DAGA PORTILLO Rocio

Abu Qurra and his Time: The Concept of Sunna and the Formation of Islamic Law

ROOM 4: LINGUISTICS AND NEO-ARAMAIC DIALECTS

09.00-09.30 WALTISBERG Michael

Aspects of Syriac Information Structure

09.30-10.00 ATTO Naures

Aramaic-Online Project: An Attempt for the Revitalization of Surayt Aramaic (Turoyo)

10.00-10.30 ARNOLD Werner

Animals in the Neo-Aramaic Proverbs of Ma’lula (Syria)