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Thursday, July 20th 2023
09:00 – 09:10
Welcome
Joseph Faragalla (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Christian-Arabic Bible Interpretation
Session 1: Text and Manuscripts
09:10 – 09:40
BL, Arundel Or. 15 – A very modern mediaeval Bible project
Miriam Hjälm (University College Stockholm)
09:40 – 10:10
The skin of text: Explanatory translation strategies in the ‘arcaic section’ of the Gospels (Cod. Vat. Ar. 13)
Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala (University of Cordoba)
10:10 – 10:40
Coffee Break
Session 2: Commentators
10:40 – 11:10
Sāwīrus b. al-Muqaffaʿ: Exegesis of the Bible in his canons and theological works
Rocio Daga Portillo (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
11:10 – 11:40
Seeking the Star: Unveiling the Magi Narrative in the Gospel of Matthew through Ibn Kalīl’s Commentary
Joseph Faragalla (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
11:40 – 12:10
Divine Adoption in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures: Al-Jāḥiẓ’s View
Nathan Gibson (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
12:10 – 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 – 14:30
Ibn al-Ṭayyib Exegetical Works on Psalms: Sources, Classification, and Genres
Zakka Labib (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
14:00 – 15:00
Hidden Commentaries: The Introduction of al-Muʼtaman ibn al-ʻAssāl to the Arabic translations of the Pauline Epistles
Vevian Zaki (Hill Museum & Manuscript Library / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break
Session 3: Biblical Books
15:30 – 16:00
Reciting and Writing: Ritualization and Biblical Interpretation in the Christian Arabic Guide to the Psalms
Stephen Davis (Yale University)
16:00 – 16:30
Translation Techniques of Christian Arabic Versions of Isaiah. An Analysis of the Servant Songs’ Pluses and Minuses
Peter Gadalla (Pontifical Biblical Institute)
16:30 – 17:00
The Bible in Early Christian Arabic Monastic Multiple-Text-Manuscripts: The Example of the Book of Job
Peter Tarras (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Friday, July 21st 2023
Judeo-Arabic Bible Interpretation
Session 1: Commentators
09:00 – 09:30
Yaʿqūb al-Qirqisānī’s Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Kitāb al-Riyāḍ wa-l-Ḥadāʾiq)
Miriam Goldstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
09:30 – 10:00
Narrative expansion in Qaraite exegesis – some examples from Sahl ben Maṣliaḥ’s (10th c. CE) commentary on Genesis
Friederike S. Schmidt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
10:00 – 10:30
The intellectual historical setting of Yeshuʿah ben Yehudah’s (11th c.) scriptural hermeneutics
Gregor Schwarb (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
Session 2: Commentary and Language
11:00 – 11:30
Judaeo-Arabic Exegesis of Psalm 68
Joseph Habib (University of Cambridge)
11:30 – 12:00
Study of Language in the Service of Theology: Linguistic Justifications of Theological Conundrums in Medieval Karaite Bible Commentaries
Marzena Zawanowska (University of Warsaw)
12:00 – 14:30
Lunch break
Samaritan-Arabic Bible Interpretation
Session 3
14:30 – 15:00
Leader, Head and Pious Man: The Verses on Joseph (Gen 49:22–26 and Deut 33:13–17) as a Reference Point for the Formation of Samaritan Religious Identity
Jasper Bernhofer (Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg)
15:00 – 15:30
Centralism of Mount Gerizim in the Samaritan Arabic commentary to the Book of Exodus (Šarḥ Sifr al-Ḫurūǧ) of the Samaritan Thinker Ġazāl ad-Duwayk (13th c.)
Haitham Ismaeil (Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg)
