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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · 12d

Job opening: An academic in Exegesis of Biblical and Extra-Biblical Texts, UCLouvain jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca...

An academic in Exegesis of Biblical and Extra-Biblical Texts

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · 14d

Virtual Seminar: The Septuagint in Modern Research, October 20, 2025 15:00 BST: Felix Albrecht will present on "The Greek Psalter: Retrospect and Prospect."

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · 24d

Just published (open access): Felix Albrecht and Reinhard Gregor Kratz, eds., Das Erbe der Göttinger Septuaginta Festschrift aus Anlass des 100. Geburtstages von Robert Hanhart (1925–2025). www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/59862/das-er...

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · 26d

Call for Papers: On the Trail of the Bible of Niketas: A Transverse Approach to Catenae, International workshop at KU Leuven, 31 March 2026 www.arts.kuleuven.be/grieks/nieuw...

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · 27d

Conference (on-line and in-person): Anthropology in the Septuagint and its Reception, 19-21 September North-West University, South Africa. DM for information about online participation.

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · 29d

The fourth, revised edition of this edition presents the text in its unaltered form. It is supplemented by a comprehensive scholarly addendum by Felix Albrecht, which summarizes the history of research and current findings on the transmission and study of the Septuagint Psalms.

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · 29d

Just published: Psalmi cum odis. edidit Alfred Rahlfs. supplementum adiecit Felix Albrecht. Bd. 10., 4. Auflage. Septuaginta Vetus Testamentum Graecum (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2025). www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/60065/septua...

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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · Sep 1

"The Digital Edition and Translation of the Coptic Old Testament at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities...has an opening for a one-year paid trainee program, to be filled from January 1, 2026..."

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Job Offer: Trainee position - Blog - CoptOT Public

The Digital Edition and Translation of the Coptic Old Testament at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony is dedicated to digitally describe, edit and analyse the…

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · Aug 26

The latest issue of the Journal of Septuagint and Cognate Studies has just been published! If you are not yet an IOSCS member, consider becoming one so that you can be sure to receive future issues of the journal. poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...

PEETERS ONLINE JOURNALS

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · Aug 22

In memoriam Robert Hanhart (1925–2025) septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/obituary/rob...

In memoriam Robert Hanhart (1925–2025)

Göttinger Septuaginta. Website of the Academy project Editio critica maior of the Greek Psalter

septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · Aug 21

Just published (open access): Jerome’s Sources in His Translation of the Hebrew Bible by Paul Rodrigue www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · Aug 20

Just published: Subordination and Insubordination in Post-Classical Greek: From Syntax to Context, ed. Klaas Bentein, Eleonora Cattafi, and Ezra la Roi www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · Aug 15

New video series: Daily Dose of Septuagint dailydoseofseptuagint.com by Greg Lanier

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · Aug 13

Just published: Vetus Latina Josue, ed. Jean-Claude Haelewyck www.herder.de/theologie-pa...

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · Aug 12

Today we begin the second day of the 2025 IOSCS Congress in Berlin! Yesterday, the keynote lecture was given by Christa Müller-Kessler on New Aramaic Text Witnesses for the LXX From the Cairo Genizah and the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · Jul 28

The schedule & registration link (free for online attendees) for the second meeting of the Septuagint within the History of Greek Network, “Diversity, Change, and the Individual in Postclassical Greek,” 27–29 Aug 2025 at the University of Sydney is now available: www.eventbrite.com/e/1407948645...

SHG25 Diversity, Change, and the Individual in Postclassical Greek

The second meeting of the Septuagint within the History of Greek Network (SHG).

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · Jul 22

Congratulations to IOSCS president Alison Salvesen on being elected a fellow of the British Academy! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/prof...

Professor Alison Salvesen FBA

Early Jewish and Christian translation and reception of the Hebrew Bible (third century BCE – eighth century CE)

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · Jul 17

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Robert Hanhart (1925–2025), director of the Septuaginta-Unternehmen for over 30 years. An obituary can be found on the IOSCS website: septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/ioscs/news/86/

IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · Jul 16

Just published: Studies on the Old Latin of the Book of Esther by Dionisio Candido, CBET 102.2 (Peeters: 2025). www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?s...

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · Jul 3

This is a friendly reminder that submissions for the John William Wevers prize are due September 1, 2025.

IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · Jul 2

Congratulations to Martijn Beukenhorst, who passed his dissertation defense on June 19, 2025 at the UCLouvain! His dissertation, “Unraveling the Mysteries of the Miscellanies. Understanding the origins of 3 Kingdoms 2:35a-o and 2:46a-l” was supervised by Prof. Matthieu Richelle.

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · Jun 18

Congratulations to Jesús Salvador García Ortiz on defending his dissertation “Old Greek Deuteronomy and Jewish Politics in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Socio-Political Implications of the Greek Translation of Deuteronomy” at the Pontifical Biblical Institute! www.biblico.it/tesi/garcia-...

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · Jun 17

Soutenance de la thèse de Mme Jacqueline Richard, "Epithymía dans la Bible grecque," 24 juin 2025 09h00, Palais universitaire, salle Tauler, Université de Strasbourg. ed.theologie.unistra.fr/agenda/evene...

École Doctorale de Théologie et Sciences Religieuses : Soutenance de la thèse de Mme Jacqueline RICHARD - Université de Strasbourg

L'école doctorale de théologie et de sciences religieuses s’appuie sur la recherche et l’enseignement de trois facultés ou instituts relevant de l’Université de Strasbourg : la faculté de théologie ca...

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · Jun 12

Lecture: "Fayumic Explorations: What the Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum might tell us about the birth of the Septuagint," by Camilla Recalcati, hosted by the EABS Monthly Graduate Seminar, 18 June 2025, 19:00 CEST.

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IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · Jun 11

Tagung: Die Septuaginta: Geschichtsbücher, Historiographie, Literatur. 9. Internationale Fachtagung, Wuppertal, 24.-27. Juli 2025. Das Programm finden Sie hier: tinyurl.com/yyahe3dk

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