THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON

THE HEBREW
OF THE DEAD
SEA SCROLLS
& BEN SIRA
APRIL 9-11, 2019

Conference Program
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THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE
HEBREW OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS & BEN SIRA
April 9-11, 2019 Ontario, Canada

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Monday April 8
Arrive and check into Madison Manor Boutique Hotel

Tuesday April 9 - University of Toronto

The 10th Annual Scrollery Colloquium: A Joint McMaster 9:00 - 11:45 AM
University-University of Toronto meeting on the Dead Sea Scrolls
and related literature (Music Room, Hart House)

Women and divination in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Hanna Tervanotko, 9:30 - 10:30 AM
McMaster University)

Coffee break 10:30 - 10:45 AM

Scribes and scrolls at Qumran: a new synthesis (Sidnie White 10:45 - 11:45 AM
Crawford, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Lunch (University College, Rm 240) 12:00 - 1:30 PM

Session 1 (Music Room, Hart House) 1:30 - 5:00 PM
Sarianna Metso (University of Toronto), chair

Welcome 1:30 - 2:00 PM

What is ‫פש ר‬
ׁ of ‫פש ר‬
ׁ ? (Takamitsu Muraoka, Leiden University) 2:00 - 2:30 PM

Saturation, that is, drunkenness: language and interpretation 2:30 - 3:00 PM

of 1QpHab 11:8–16 (Noam Mizrahi, University of Tel Aviv)

Revisiting the periphrastic construction ( ‫היה‬ + participle) in 3:00 - 3:30 PM

the Temple Scroll (Molly Zahn, University of Kansas)

Coffee break 3:30 - 4:00 PM

Linguistic register and rhetorical technique in CD and 4:00 - 4:30 PM
4QMMT (Alec Kienzle, University of Toronto)

Thoughts on the language of Sirach 36 (Eric D. Reymond, 4:30 - 5:00 PM

Yale Divinity School)

Dinner at Bistro Grande 5:30 PM

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April 9-11, 2019 Ontario, Canada

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Wednesday April 10 - McMaster University

Bus leaves hotel for McMaster University 8:00 AM
Coffee (Ceremonial Room, Wilson Hall) 9:30 - 10:00 AM

Session 2 (Ceremonial Room, Wilson Hall) 10:00 - 12:00 PM

Dan Machiela (McMaster University), chair

Classicizing in DSS Hebrew (Jan Joosten, Oxford University) 10:00 - 10:30 AM

Drift, contact, and dialect formation in the Hebrew of the
10:30 - 11:00 AM
Second Temple Period (Edward M. Cook, The Catholic
University of America)

Nif‘al with nota accusativi in the Masoretic and the 11:00 - 11:30 AM
Samaritan text of the Torah (Stefan Schorch, Martin Luther
University Halle-Wittenberg)

Historical depth of the Tiberian reading tradition (Aaron 11:30 - 12:00 PM

Hornkohl, University of Cambridge)

Lunch (Great Hall, University Club) 12:00 - 1:30 PM

Session 3 (Ceremonial Room, Wilson Hall) 1:30 - 5:00 PM
Eileen Schuller (McMaster University), chair

Is ‫דבר‬ a negative polarity item in DSS Hebrew? (Adina 1:30 - 2:00 PM

Moshavi, Bar Ilan University)

Negative polarity in quantification constructions in Qumran 2:00 - 2:30 PM

Hebrew (Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé and Jacobus A. Naudé,
University of the Free State)

Double-object constructions in DSS Hebrew: the case of ntn 2:30 - 3:00 PM

(Femke Siebesma-Mannens, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Coffee break 3:00 - 3:30 PM

Secondary predicates in DSS Hebrew (Jacques Boulet, 3:30 - 4:00 PM
University of Toronto)

Verb complementation in Ben Sira (Vladimir Olivero, 4:00 - 4:30 PM

University of Oxford)

Verb complementation in the War Scroll (John Screnock, 4:30 - 5:00 PM

University of Oxford)

Dinner (Adas Israel Synagogue, Hamilton)

5:30 PM
Bus returns to hotel in Toronto 7:30 PM
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THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE
HEBREW OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS & BEN SIRA
April 9-11, 2019 Ontario, Canada

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Thursday April 11 - University of Toronto

Session 4 (Music Room, Hart House) 8:30 - 12:00 PM
Robert Holmstedt (University of Toronto), chair

Qumran scribal practice: Won Moore Thyme (Martin G. 8:30 - 9:00 AM

Abegg, Jr., Trinity Western University)

Puzzling words in the DSS: an orthographic inquiry (Alexey 9:00 - 9:30 AM

Eliyahu Yuditsky, Academy of Hebrew Language)

Dealing with double-entendre and semantic innovation in 9:30 - 10:00 AM

the language of self-deprecation at Qumran (Nicholas
Meyer, McMaster University)

Coffee break 10:00 - 10:30 AM

Are there pausal forms in pause in Qumran Hebrew? (Steve 10:30 - 11:00 AM
Fassberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Evidence for Hebrew phonology from the biblical DSS (Ken 11:00 - 11:30 AM
Penner, St. Francis Xavier University)

The stylometric clustering of the DSS (Pierre Van Hecke, KU 11:30 - 12:00 PM
Leuven)

Lunch (University College, Rm 240) 12:00 - 1:30 PM