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Wednesday, March 14 2012
10.00-10.35 Registration and coffee
10.35-10.45 Welcome by Vivian Liska (Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Antwerp) and Klaas Smelik (Ghent University)
10.45-11.00 Introduction by Karolien Vermeulen (Ghent University & University of Antwerp)
Session I: What Constitutes the 'Literary'? - Part I
11.00-12.00 Keynote lecture I: Ellen van Wolde (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
'Bridging the Gap between Linguistics and Literary Studies of Ancient Biblical and Jewish Texts - A Proposal Exemplified by a Study of Genesis 9: 9-17'
12.00-12.30 Fabien Nobilio (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
'"Literary" versus "Literal"? Reflections upon an Ambivalent Saying of Isaiah (6:10) and its Translation in the Septuagint'
12.30-14.00 Lunch
Session II: Literature as Means or the Implications of the Literary Approach
14.00-14.30 David Dessin (Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Antwerp)
'How Job became Kafka. A Literary-Philosophical Reading of the Book of Job and its Modern Variations'
14.30-15.00 Lennart Lehmhaus (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
'Between Tradition and Innovation - Seder Eliyahu Zuta's Literary Strategies'
15.00-15.45 Klaas Smelik (Ghent University)
'Biblical Narrative and the History of Ancient Israel - The Concept of Eye Witness Account in the Books of Samuel'
15.45-16.15 Coffee break
Session III: What Constitutes the 'Literary'? - Part II
16.15-16.45 Tamar Kadari (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies & Bar Ilan University)
'Rabbinic Interpretations of Song of Songs'
16.45-17.45 Keynote Lecture 2: Wilfred Watson (Newcastle University)
'The Language and Poetry of the Song of Songs: Work in Progress'
19.00 Conference dinner
Thursday, March 15 2012
Session IV: What Constitutes the 'Literary'? - Part III
9.30- 10.00 Eibert Tigchelaar (KULeuven)
'Assessing the Poetical Character of the Wile of the Wicked Women'
10.00-10.30 Anne-Laure Zwilling (University of Lausanne)
'Literary Tricks?'
10.30-11.00 Wout Van Bekkum (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
'Early Jewish Hymnography and the Literary - An Investigation'
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.30 Keynote Lecture 3: Robert Gordon (Cambridge University)
'A Battle of Wits and Words: The Absalom Rebellion'
12.30-14.00 Lunch
Session V: Literature: Means or Goal? Challenging the Literary Approach - Part I
14.00-14.30 Dina Stein (University of Haifa)
'Reading Rabbinic Narrative: Philology, Semiotics and Intertextuality'
14.30-15.00 Rebecca Kneller (Tel Aviv University)
'Intertextuality and Bible Interpretation according to Samuel Ibn Tibbon'
15.00-15.30 Hanneke Van Loon & Johan de Joode (KULeuven)
'Cognitive Linguistics, Metaphor and the Literary'
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
Session VI: Literature: Means or Goal? Challenging the Literary Approach - Part II
16.00-16.30 Karolien Vermeulen (Ghent University & University of Antwerp)
'The Intentional Use of Polysemy - Literary or Linguistic?'
16.30-17.00 Angela Roskop (Xavier University & University of Cincinnati)
'Literary Theory and the Composition History of the Torah'
20.00-21.00 Keynote Lecture 4: Scott Noegel (University of Washington)
'Literary Craft and Performative Power in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament'
21.00 Reception
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