THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF QUMRAN STUDIES wins the prize for fastest turnaround of a conference paper proposal, with an acceptance arriving from Florentino Garc�a Mart�nez in under half an hour. The paper is for the July meeting in Groningen (overlapping with the International SBL meeting) and is titled "The Odes of Isaiah: A Newly Discovered Syriac Pseudepigraphon - A Thought Experiment." For now I think I'll hold onto the abstract. I will say that this is part of yet another chapter of the book I'm working on. I look forward very much to seeing the usual suspects in Groningen this summer.