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 2 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 3 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 4 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 5 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 6 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 7 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 8 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.