The Christian East in the Latin West
Assemani’s Bibliotheca Orientalis (1719-2019) 300th Anniversary
The Christian East in the Latin West Assemani’s Bibliotheca Orientalis (1719-2019) 300th Anniversary
Vatican City – Rome, 7-8 November 2019 Beirut – Kaslik, 28-30 November 2019
Rome Conference: Vatican Apostolic Library (BAV) [email protected] Pontifical Oriental Institute (PIO) Lebanon Conference: Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ) [email protected] Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) [email protected] Italian Society of Syriac Studies (Syriaca) Vatican Apostolic Library (BAV) Pontifical Oriental Institute (PIO) Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ) Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) Italian Society of Syriac Studies (Syriaca)
The Christian East in the Latin West Assemani’s Bibliotheca Orientalis (1719-2019) 300th Anniversary
Vatican City – Rome Beirut – Kaslik 7-8 November 2019 28-30 November 2019
The Conference in VATICAN CITY (BAV) – ROME (PIO) 7-8 November 2019
Day One Thursday, November 7
VATICAN LIBRARY (BAV) – VATICAN CITY Cortile del Belvedere, Vatican City
Participation in this part of the Conference is possible only by personal invitation
SALA BARBERINI
15:00 -16:00 OPENING SESSION
Welcome by His Eminence José Card. TOLENTINO DE MENDONÇA Archivist and Librarian of the Holy Roman Church Greetings by His Eminence Scientific & Organizing Committee: Leonardo Card. SANDRI Željko Paša (PIO) – coordinator; Abdo Badwi (USEK); Riccardo Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches Contini (Syriaca); Emiliano Fiori (Syriaca); Ronney el Gemayel (USJ); Joseph Obeid (USEK); Ambrogio M. Piazzoni (BAV); Youssef Tannous (USEK); Emidio Vergani (PIO) Greetings by His Excellency Msgr. Youhanna-Rafiq WARCHA Rector of the Pontifical Maronite College in Rome Procurator for the Patriarch to the Holy See Representative of His Eminent Beatitude Bechara Boutros Card. RAI Patriarch of Antioch and All the East
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KEYNOTE LECTURE PONTIFICIO COLLEGIO MARONITA
Paolo BETTIOLO (Università degli Studi di Padova) Via di Porta Pinciana, 18, Rome Cartografia della letteratura siriaca tra IV e VII secolo nella Bibliotheca Orientalis 18:15 Departure to the Pontificio Collegio Maronita di Giuseppe Simone Assemani. Una proposta di lettura 19:00 SPIRITUAL PROGRAM
SESSION TWO Welcome by His Excellency Msgr. Youhanna Rafic EL WARCHA Rector of the Pontifical Maronite College in Rome 16:00 Martin TAMCKE Procurator for the Patriarch to the Holy See (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) How and Why German Protestant Theologians Used Vespers According to the Syro-Maronite Rite Assemani’s Bibliotheca Orientalis in Syriac and Arabic
16:30 Andreas ELLWARDT (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) 19:30 CULTURAL PROGRAM Josephus Simonius Assemani und seine Bibliotheca Orientalis in der eschichte er christlichen arabischen Presentation of the College iterat r von Georg Graf
17:00 Giacomo CARDINALI (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Città del Vaticano) The End of Day One Il “Museo di monsignor Giuseppe Simone Assemani”. Una prima ricostruzione dalle carte d’archivio
SALONE SISTINO
17:30 CULTURAL PROGRAM
“The Assemani’s Heritage” – Exhibition of Documents
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Day Two SESSION FOUR Friday, November 8 11:30 Ugo ZANETTI THE PONTIFICAL ORIENTAL INSTITUTE (PIO) (Monastère de Chevetogne) Le ms. atican arabe et l’influence des missionnaires ia a i aria a iore 7 ome catholiques en Égypte dans le premier quart du XVIIIe siècle Aula Magna 12:00 Elie KALLAS
(Università degli Studi di Trieste) Welcome by R.P. David NAZAR, S.J. Il ruolo di Simone Assemani nella demistificazione Rector of the Pontifical Oriental Institute del famoso falso manoscritto arabo sul Consiglio d’Egitto
confezionato dal maltese abate Vella
SESSION THREE 12:30 Cesare SANTUS (FNRS – Université Catholique de Louvain) 09:00 Hubert KAUFHOLD Giuseppe Simone Assemani consultore del Sant’Uffizio (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Die Rechtsliteratur in der Bibliotheca Orientalis 13 00 nch Brea 09:30 Alessandro MENGOZZI (Università di Torino) The Bibliotheca Orientalis and the Construction SESSION FIVE of (East-)Syriac Literature 14:30 Robert J. WILKINSON 10:00 Annunziata DI RIENZO (Wesley College Bristol) (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”) The Maronite Contribution to Early Syriac Studies in Europe Assemani and Hagiography: the Acta anctor m artyr m Orientali m et Occi entali m (1748) 15:00 Manuel CAPOMACCIO and the Hagiographic Manuscripts in the BAV (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”) Catalogue (1758-1759) Tashīl al-naḥw in the 18th-Century Syriac and Arabic Grammars: The Cases of Josephus Simonius Assemani 10:30 Ephrem A. ISHAC and Ğirmānūs Farḥāt (FSCIRE Bologna | Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz) 15:30 Margherita FARINA Assemani and the Syrian “Orthodox” Church Fathers (CNRS Paris – Histoire des théories linguistiques)
Stephanus Evodius Assemani and the Oriental Collection 11 00 o ee Brea of the Bibliotheca e icea a rentiana in Florence
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16:00 Juan Pedro MONFERRER SALA The Conference in (Universidad de Córdoba) Three Hundred Years Later... Assemani and the BEIRUT (USJ) AND KASLIK (USEK) van elior m harmoni arabice: Notes on the “Parable of 28-30 November 2019 the Tares among the Wheat” (Mt 13:36-43) Day One 1 30 o ee Brea Thursday, November 28
17:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT (USJ) Center of the Arabic Christian Documentation and Researches Herman TEULE (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) ( CEDRAC ) Josephus Simonius Assemani: Scholar, Poet, and Man of the Church Gulbenkian Amphitheater (Social Sciences Campus, Huvelin Street)
09:00-10:30 OPENING SESSION
Greetings & Welcome COLLEGIO MARONITA MARIAMITA BMV ia a i an ietro in incoli ome Greetings by R.P. Salim DACCACHE, S.J. Rector of the Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ)
18:00 Departure to the olle io aronita ariamita B
Greetings by R.P. Talal HACHEM, O.L.M. 18:15 CULTURAL PROGRAM Rector of the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK)
Welcome by R.P. Charbel BTEICH, O.M.M.
Rector of the Collegio Maronita Mariamita BMV Greetings by His Excellency
Msgr. Maroun Nasser GEMAYEL Greetings by R.P. Abbot Maroun CHIDIAC, O.M.M. Bishop of the Maronite Eparchy of Notre-Dame du Liban de Paris General Superior of the Mariamite Maronite Order and Apostolic Visitor for the Maronites
of Western and Northern Europe “A Journey into the Past” Representative of Presentation and Visit of the College His Eminent Beatitude
Bechara Boutros Card. RAI Patriarch of Antioch and All the East The End of Day Two
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KEYNOTE LECTURE 15:00 Youssef TANNOUS (Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik) R.P. Abbé Élie KHALIFÉ-HACHEM Assémani et la liturgie maronite (Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik) 15:30 Najem CHAHWAN La tradition syriaque conservée dans la Bibliotheca Orientalis (Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik) d’Assémani Les trois manuscrits ( atican syria