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Ambrosiana Codex and Syriac Traditions

Full day workshop in association with the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Seminar

9:30–10:00      Coffee BreakCoffee and tea will be provided in the Harris Seminar Room

10:00–12:30    Morning Session

Chair: Hindy Najman (Oriel)

10:00   Opening Remarks

10:15   Emidio Vergani (Pontifical Oriental Institute)
On the Ambrosiana Codex: The Organization of the Manuscript and Some Other General Aspects

11:00   Johan Lundberg (AMES)
The Ambrosiana Dots in Context

11:45   Tareq Moqbel (Regent’s Park)
Grounding Grammar in Scripture: References to the Peshiṭta in Some Syriac Grammatical Works

12:30–13:30    Lunch BreakA light lunch will be provided in the Harris Seminar Room

13:30–15:00    Early Afternoon Session

Chair: Sebastian Brock (Wolfson)

13:30   Alison Salvesen (AMES)
‘For No one Knows the Day or the Hour, Not Even the Angels’: Scripture, History and Chronography in Jacob of Edessa

14:15   David Taylor (AMES)
What a Difference Five Centuries Can Make! Text and Paratext in the Buchanan Pandect Bible (12a1)

15:00–15:30    Coffee BreakCoffee and tea will be provided in the Harris Seminar Room

15:30–17:00    Late Afternoon Session

Chair: Meron Piotrkowski (Wolfson)

15:30   Hindy Najman (Oriel)

Prayer as an Organising Principle in 4Ezra

16:15   Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham)
 The Lost Tribes of Israel in Colonial Discourses: The Influence of 4 Ezra

17:00   Light Reception

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