Theme: Ritual, Magic, Therapy, and Healing

Cynthia Villagomez, Presiding
Susan Myers, University of Saint Thomas (Saint Paul, MN)
Addressees of Prayer in the Acts of Thomas (30 min)
Dr. Erica C. D. Hunter, School of Oriental and African Studies
Prayer-Amulets from the Christian Library at Turfan (30 min)
Cornelia B. Horn, Saint Louis University
Healing the Sick and Disabled in the Service of the Future: Intersections between Religion, Gender, Age, and Family Life in Syriac and Greek Texts (30 min)
Gaby Abou Samra, Holy Spirit University, Kaslik, Lebanon
Three Syriac Magic Bowls (30 min)
Discussion (30 min)

Theme: Apocrypha in the Syriac Context

F. Stanley Jones, California State University-Long Beach, Presiding
Nicholas J. Zola, Baylor University
How Many Times Did the Cock Crow in Mark? Neglected Evidence from Tatian’s Diatessaron (30 min)
Liv Ingeborg Lied, MF Norwegian School of Theology
Authoritative at Easter Sunday and at the Sunday of the Departed? The Sometimes-Authoritative Status of 2 Baruch in West Syrian Monasticism (30 min)
Aaron Overby, Saint Louis University
Addai as a Missionary to the Jews (30 min)
Jesse Rainbow, Harvard University
The Genealogy of Jesus in the Book of the Cave of Treasures (30 min)

Richard A. Taylor, Dallas Theological Seminary, Presiding
James K. Aitken, University of Cambridge
Alphabetical Versus Root-based Lexicons (30 min)
David J. A. Clines, University of Sheffield
How my (Lexicographical) Mind Has Changed, Or Remained the Same (30 min)
Michael Sokoloff, Bar-Ilan University
The Lexicographical State of Christian Palestinian Aramaic (30 min)
Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, Groningen University
The Greek-Spanish Dictionary of the New Testament (DGENT): Method, Approach and Purposes (30 min)

Theme: Heresies, Sin, and Sacrifice

Mark Whitters, Eastern Michigan University, Presiding
Robert J. Morehouse, The Catholic University of America
Dueling Lyres: Prophets and Heretics as Instruments in Ephraem of Nisibis (30 min)
Jeffrey Wickes, University of Notre Dame
The Poetics of Villainization: Ephrem's Reading of Ritual Transgression (30 min)
Yifat Monnickendam, Johns Hopkins University
Lot, Judah and the Concept of Sin in Patristic Exegesis (30 min)
James D. Moore, Brandeis University
The Syriac’s Rendering of Hebrew Sacrificial Terminology in Lev 1-9 and its Implications (30 min)
Tammie R. Wanta, University of Pennsylvania
Satan Whispered: Considering Qur’anic Accounts of Adam’s Fall in Light of Syriac-Christian Tradition (30 min)

Theme: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Aaron Overby, Saint Louis University, Presiding
Jeff Childers, Abilene Christian University
Mapping the Syriac Chrysostom: The Topography of His Exegetical Legacy in the Syriac Tradition (30 min)
Adam C. McCollum, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Prolegomena to a New Edition of Eliya of Nisibis’ Kitab al-turjuman fi ta‘lim lughat al-suryan (30 min)
Kristian S. Heal, Brigham Young University
The Syriac Electronic Corpus and the Study of Syriac Literature (30 min)
Ulrike-Rebekka Nieten, Freie Universität Berlin
The Recitation of Sacred Texts in the Syriac, Hebrew, and Samaritan Tradition (30 min)
Cornelia Horn, Saint Louis University, Presiding
Business Meeting (30 min)

Theme: Exegesis and the Literature of Asceticism

Marilyn Kincaid, Saint Louis University, Presiding
Jason Scully, Marquette University
Babai the Great’s Exegesis of Paul as Corrective to Evagrian Eschatology (30 min)
Blake Hartung, Saint Louis University
Christ the Foundation: John of Tella’s Profession of Faith and 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 (30 min)
Cornelia B. Horn, Saint Louis University
Interpreting Jesus’ Miracles of Healing as Proof of Divine Agency and Identity in Early Syriac Literature (30 min)
Cynthia Villagomez, Winston-Salem State University
Animals, Animal-imagery, and Holy Men in Early Medieval East Syrian Monastic Literature (30 min)
Discussion (30 min)

Theme: Cultural, Social, and Religious Contexts

Cornelia Horn, Saint Louis University, Presiding
Ilaria Ramelli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Bardaisan of Edessa: A Syriac Theologian between Christian Middle Platonism and Judaism (30 min)
James E. Walters, Princeton Theological Seminary
The Living Soul: Aphrahat's Anthropology in Context (30 min)
Marilyn Kincaid, Saint Louis University
Syriac Perspectives on Mixed Marriages (30 min)
Yoseph Mengistu, SOAS
Reading Cyril through Syrian Glasses: Dïrsanä Qerellos and Its Place in Ethiopian Ecclesial History (30 min)
Discussion (30 min)