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) 1
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)
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