IOQS 9th meeting

CONFERENCE:

Announcement of the Ninth Meeting of the
International Organization for Qumran Studies (IOQS)
July 17-20, 2016 in Leuven
(Joint meeting of the EABS and IOQS)


The ninth meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies will take place in Leuven (Belgium) together with the meeting of European Association of Biblical Studies, on July 17-20, 2016. The sessions of the IOQS will be scheduled on July 18-20.

The secretary and steering committee of the IOQS have selected as special topic for this meeting:

Halakhic Texts and Rule Texts

We are inviting papers on halakhic and rule texts such as the Temple Scroll, MMT, the Damascus Document, the Serekh ha-Yahad, etc. We solicit papers on any aspect of those texts, or on halakha and rules related to the scrolls. We encourage papers that correlate such texts to conceptualizations or constructions of a Yahad community, to contemporaneous Jewish or non-Jewish rules, to rabbinic halakhah, or that otherwise address larger issues.

As usual, paper proposals on any topic relating to Dead Sea Scrolls are welcome, but preference may be given to papers related to the special topic. Paper proposals can be submitted to the secretary of the IOQS, Eibert Tigchelaar.

Full details on the joint EABS-IOQS meeting, on registration, deadlines, and other practical matters will follow.

Eibert Tigchelaar
Secretary IOQS
eibert.tigchelaar@theo.kuleuven.be