Symposium
The Hebrew Bible / Old Testament and Scribal Scholarship in Antiquity on the Occasion of the Eightieth Birthday of Arie van der Kooij
- Date
- Friday 28 March 2025
- Time
- Address
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Herta Mohr
Witte Singel 27A
2311 BG Leiden - Room
- 1.80
Arie van der Kooij
Arie van der Kooij has been professor for Hebrew Bible / Old Testament studies at Leiden University from 1989 until 2010. During this period he has played a prominent role in leading the faculty of theology (now Leiden University Centre for Study of Religion), founding the Leiden Institute for the Study of Religion, supervising several doctoral dissertations, endorsing the study of the Hebrew Bible internationally as secretary of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, general editor of the leading journal in the field, Vetus Testamentum, and many other prominent positions in the field. At his retirement friends and colleagues honored him with a colloquium at the Klein Auditorium at the Rapenburg and a Festschrift entitled Isaiah in Context: Studies in Honour of Arie van der Kooij on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, ed. Michaël N. van der Meer, Percy van Keulen, and Bas ter Haar Romeny, Vetus Testamentum Supplements 138; Leiden: Brill, 2010. After his retirement he continued to play a major role in the field as editor of the new critical edition of the Hebrew Bible, contributor to many handbooks in the field and stimulating the study of the Hebrew Bible and its ancient versions (Septuagint, Peshitta). Hence, his friends and students have deemed it appropriate to prepare a Festschrift in his honor on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, March 8, 2025. We will present the first copy to the honoree on a small colloquium at Leiden University on Friday afternoon, the 28th of March, 2025. See also Arie van der Kooij’s website.
Programme (provisional)
13.00 Word of Welcome by academic director of LUCSoR, professor Ab de Jong
13.15 Paper by Innocent Himbaza (Dominique Barthélemy Institute, University of Fribourg): Psalm 114-115(M) and 113(G) as Two Distinct Editions
13.45 Discussion
14.00 Paper by Martin Rösel (University Rostock/Stellenbosch University): Rechnende Schreiber: Die Chronologien in Genesis 5 und 11
14.30 Discussion
15.00 Break with coffee and tea
15.15 Paper by Craig Morrison (The Gregorian University, Rome): The Character of the Oldest Peshitta Manuscripts for First Samuel and Their Notation in the Apparatus of the BHQ
15.45 Discussion
16.00 Presentation of the volume to Arie
16.15 Reactions by Arie
16.45 Drinks
Participation is free and no registration is required.
Organisation
For questions about the programme, please contact Michaël van der Meer.
For practical questions about the venue, you may contact Markus Davidsen.