New Discoveries and New Directions in Biblical, Hebrew, and Theological Studies

11:00 — Dr. Daniel Vainstub — Israel

A New Canaanite Inscription from Lachish: Bʿlšlṭ, the Root ŠLṬ, and the Development of Alphabetic Writing

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

12:00 — Bryan Windle, M.A. — United States of America

Recent Excavations at Biblical Shiloh: Archaeological Evidence for the Israelites

Director of Marketing and Public Relations, Associates for Biblical Research (ABR)

13:00 — Tim Lopez, MA — Spain

The Monumental Building at Shiloh: Archaeological Evidence for the Israelite Tabernacle?

Archaeologist and Area Supervisor, Shiloh Excavations, Associates for Biblical Research (ABR)

14:00 — Prof. Dr. Volker Henning Drecoll — Germany

Incarnation in Nicaea: How Did the Divine and Human in Jesus Interact in Early Fourth-Century Christology?

15:00 — Cyrill von Büttner, PhD — Russia

Revisiting the Orthography of the Great Isaiah Scroll: the Rendering of Plural Forms Ending in -ot

16:00 — Prof. Dr. Shmuel Bolozky — United States of America

My Lexicographic Work on Dictionaries of Modern and Biblical Hebrew: Experiences, Difficulties, Uncertainties, Final Decisions Regarding Selected Lexical Entries, and Initial Ideas Regarding Changes that took place in the Transition from Biblical Hebrew to Later Phases of the language

17:00 — Prof. Dr. Aaron Koller — United Kingdom

Abraham Ibn Ezra and his Hebrew poetry in Italy, France, and England

18:00 — Joshua Seth Houston, PhD — United States of America

Did Israel Leave Egypt—or Did Egypt Leave Israel?

New Directions in Understanding the Exodus and the Formation of Israelite Identity

19:00 — Dr Tsehay Ademe Belay — Ethiopia

Ethiopic Bible and Manuscript Traditions: Textual Transmission, Interpretation, and Reception

Assistant Professor, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University

20:00 — Prof. Dr. Benjamin Kilchör — Switzerland

Was there a writing culture in the heartland of Israel during the Iron Age I?

21:00 — Prof. Gabriele Boccaccini, PhD — United States of America

From Enochic Judaism to Early Christianity: Why the Book of Enoch Matters

22:00 — Janice F. Baca — United States of America

Unsealing The Scroll of Mysteries: Revelation and the Cochin Hebrew New Testament from India

23:00 — Dr. Adam J. Howell — United States of America

Sharing God's Word in the Age of Social Media: What I Have Learned from Bringing Biblical Hebrew to Digital Audiences

Associate Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, Boyce College / The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

11:00 — Dr. Mark A. Hassler — United States of America

Theophany in Genesis 2: Yahweh God as the Original Potter

Old Testament Scholar and Biblical Archaeologist | Lancaster Bible College | Associates for Biblical Research (ABR)

12:00 — Yaniv Elijah d'Or — Portugal

The New Sephardi Identity (Why Does Every Religion Need Music? The Hidden Power of Sound in Faith and Worship)

PhD Candidate in Music, University of Aveiro, INET-md, Portugal

13:00 — Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alexandra Palantza — Greece

The Patriarchal Narratives as Background for Understanding the Term "My People, ʿAmmî" in the Book of Exodus (3:7): A Theological Aspect

14:00 — Senkoris Ayalew Kassa, PhD — Ethiopia

The Twenty-Two Alphabetic Sections (ʾAlefat) of Psalm 118 (119) in the Ethiopic Andəmta Tradition

15:00 — Dr. Martijn Naaijer & Associate Professor Martin Gustaf Ehrensvärd, PhD — Denmark

Joint Presentation

One Lexeme at a Time: Rethinking Full Spelling as Lexical Diffusion

A computational investigation of full spelling and orthographic variation in the Hebrew Bible

16:00 — Associate Professor Vivien Bello-Osagie, PhD & Yusuf Zakariya Abdullahi — Nigeria

Joint Presentation

YHWH, ELOHIM, ALLAH, GOD: CAN THE NAME OF GOD REALLY BE TRANSLATED?

Hebrew, Arabic, English, and the Theology of Divine Names

17:00 — Rev. Dr Bruk Ayele Asale — Ethiopia

Why Was 1 Enoch Preserved Only in Ethiopia? Reception, Identity, and the Making of an Ethiopian Biblical Tradition

18:00 — Dr. Eran Gluska — Israel

Why Did the Chronicler Refuse the Language of Empire?

Hebrew, Aramaic, and the Spaces of Identity in the Biblical Book of Chronicles

19:00 — Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Motta — Italy

Jewish Refugees and the International Community Between the Two World Wars — Debate

Beyond the State

20:00 — Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D. — United States of America

Isaac La Peyrère and the Question of the Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch

21:00 — Dr. Arie Shaus — United States of America

Hebrew Iron Age Inscriptions: New Opportunities for Machine Learning Analysis

22:00 — Associate Professor Iqbal Akhtar, PhD — United States of America

From Navi' to Nabī: The Theological Work of Prophecy in Judaism and Islam

11:00 — Prof. Yosef Garfinkel — Israel

Excavations at Tel Lachish and the List of Rehoboam's Fortifications in 2 Chronicles 11

Yigael Yadin Chair in Archaeology of Israel

Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

12:00 — Dr Marc Michaels — United Kingdom

MST 1431: The Torah That Took the Long Way Round

13:00 — Jossi Fresco Benaim — Spain

"The Model Proposes, the Scholar Disposes: Building Trustworthy AI Instruments for Biblical and Hebrew Studies"

14:00 — Dr. Joe Uziel — Israel

Iron Age Destructions in Jerusalem: Archaeological Evidence, Written Sources, and a Brief Look at New Discoveries in 2026

15:00 — Prof. Rivka Halevy — Israel

The use of insubordinate infinitive and infinitive construct in a non-subject-oriented language like Hebrew (Biblical and Modern Hebrew)

16:00 — Prof. Joshua Schwartz — Israel

"Morning Sleep … Drives a Person from the World" (Mishnah Avot 3:10): Aspects of Sleep and Sleeping in Jewish Society throughout the Ages

17:00 — Prof. Dr. Yigal Levin — Israel

Why was the Book of Chronicles Written

18:00 — Prof. Dr. Avraham Faust — Israel

The Archaeology of the Return to Zion and the Achaemenid Economic Revolution

19:00 — Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. Eckart Otto — Germany

Deuteronomy in the Pentateuch and Enneateuch. New Horizons for Deuteronomy and Pentateuch Research after the Completion of My Herder Commentary in 2017.

20:00 — Prof. Eyal Regev — Israel

The purpose of the War Scroll (1QM) cols. 2-9: Text and Ritual

21:00 — Dr. Barak Sober — Israel

AI, Statistics, and the Hebrew Bible: Computational Directions in the Study of Ancient Hebrew Texts and Philological Limits of AI

22:00 — Matthew Montgomery, PhD — United Kingdom

Neither Story or Arbitrary: The Rhetoric of Juxtaposition in the MT Psalter

10:00 — Dr. Carlo Yehuda Meloni, M.A. — Germany

The Resh Riddle – Identifying the Biblical Hebrew Rhotic

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Passau

11:00 — Michael Eisenberg, PhD — Israel

The Unique Photisteria of the Cathedral of Hippos above the Sea of Galilee: New Evidence for Early Byzantine Christian Initiation

Department of Archaeology, School of Archaeology & Maritime Cultures, The Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Israel

12:00 — Sivan Nir, PhD — Austria

Job, Satan, and Sympathy for the Devil: How Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions Rewrote the Biblical Story

Department of Jewish Studies, University of Vienna, Austria

13:00 — Prof. Mony Almalech, Ph.D., D.Sc. — Bulgaria

Zechariah's Donkey and the Gospel Entry into Jerusalem: Hebrew Semantics, Messianic Prophecy, and New Testament Reception

New Bulgarian Studies, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria

14:00 — Prof. Dr Dimitrije Popadić — Serbia

My Experiences in the Ongoing Process of Translating the New Testament into Contemporary Serbian

Founding President of Protestant Theological Seminary, Novi Sad, Serbia

15:00 — Dr. Filip Vukosavović — Israel / Montenegro

Assyrians, Babylonians, and the City Wall of Jerusalem

Director, Publications Department, Israel Antiquities Authority | Israel / Montenegro

16:00 — Prof. Dr. Andrei Desnitsky — Lithuania

Reinterpreting Isaiah 6:9–10 in the New Testament and in Modern Translations

Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, Lithuania

17:00 — Rev. Prof. Dr. Vasile Mihoc — Romania

Exodus in Paul: Baptism, the Rock, and Eucharistic Typology in 1 Corinthians 10

Working title — final title to be confirmed by the speaker.

Professor Emeritus of New Testament
Faculty of Orthodox Theology "Andrei Șaguna"
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania

18:00 — Prof. Boaz Zissu — Israel

From Stone to Story: Revisiting the Ossuary of Miriam, Granddaughter of Caiaphas

Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Head, Jeselsohn Epigraphic Center of Jewish History

19:00 — Prof. Florentina Badalanova Geller, PhD — United Kingdom

2 Enoch in Slavia Orthodoxa: Jewish Apocalyptic Traditions and the World Behind the New Testament

Senior Honorary Research Fellow, University College London, United Kingdom

20:00 — Pamela Lutzker — United States of America

Hebrew-Script New Testament: 43 Manuscripts and a Rediscovered Textual World

Independent Scholar | San José, California, United States of America

21:00 — Prof. Dr. Markus Zehnder — Germany / Belgium

Innerbiblical Reception History: The Case of the Regulations Concerning the Conquest of Canaan

IHL / ETF Leuven

22:00 — Prof. Dr. Marwa Ibrahim Eid — Egypt

The Ge'ez Language and Literature: From Biblical Tradition to Digital Memory

Department of Oriental Studies, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, Egypt

11:00 — Jonathan Howard — Israel

The Qameṣ Shift in Palestinian and Tiberian Hebrew

PhD Candidate, Department of Hebrew Language and Sociolinguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

12:00 — Prof. Adina Moshavi — Israel

From Classical to Late Biblical Hebrew to Qumran Hebrew: Diachronic Change in Numerical Calendrical Constructions

Associate Professor, Department of Hebrew Language, Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

13:00 — George Perendia, PhD — Independent Researcher, United Kingdom

The Symbolism of Menorah, Hanukkah, Shemesh … and Noël (A Visual Semiotic Investigation)

14:00 — Dr. Hanna David — Israel

The Literary Work of A.B. Yehoshua, Amos Oz, David Grossman, Yoram Kaniuk, Benjamin Tammuz and Zeruya Shalev in Israeli Cinema

Hebrew Literature Research Institute, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University — Emeritus

15:00 — Prof. Dr. Mihai Valentin Vladimirescu — Romania

And YHWH Said to His Heart — Divine Interiority and the Limit of Judgment in Genesis 6–9

Faculty of Letters, University of Craiova

16:00 — Prof. Gary A. Byers — United States of America

The Amarna Letters and the Biblical World of Canaan: Ḫabiru, City-States, and the Historical Context of Joshua

Co-Director, Shiloh Excavations, Associates for Biblical Research (ABR) | Dean, College of Archaeology, Trinity Southwest University

17:00 — Iglika Nikolova-Stoupak — France

Classifying Word-Level Variants in Biblical Hebrew Manuscripts: New Computational Tools for Textual Criticism

Research Engineer in Natural Language Processing, LORIA, Université de Lorraine

18:00 — Katie Chin

How to Publish with an Academic Press

Sr. Acquisitions Editor, De Gruyter Brill — Ancient Near East, Jewish Studies and Dead Sea Scrolls / Qumran

19:00 — Dr. Alexander Johannes Edmonds — Germany

Three New Kings of Assyria

University of Münster, Germany

20:00 — Dr. Keith T. Knox & Michael Phelps — USA

Joint Presentation

Recovery of Lost Writings on Codex H and other Manuscripts

Early Manuscripts Electronic Library (EMEL)

21:00 — Prof. Željko Stanojević — Serbia

Challenges and Possible Solutions in Teaching Biblical and Modern Hebrew as a Foreign Language, with Particular Reference to Speakers of Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian

Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature Serbia

22:00 — Jordan McClinton — United States of America

Ritual Deposits at Biblical Shiloh: New Archaeological Perspectives from Area D

Area Supervisor, Shiloh Excavations — Area D, Associates for Biblical Research