Programme
for the conference of the
South African Society
for Near Eastern Studies
on 5 and 6 September 2011
at the
University of the Western Cape
MONDAY 5 SEPTEMBER
09:30-10:40
REGISTRATION
in the foyer of the Library Auditorium
10:40-10:50
WORD OF WELCOME
10:50-11:00
by the Chairperson of the Department of Religion and Theology: Prof Christo Lombard
OPENING OF THE SASNES CONFERENCE
(Chairperson of SASNES: Prof Johann Cook)
11:00-11:45
Session 1
TWO PLENARY SESSIONS
(Chair: Hans van Deventer)
A New Biblical Hebrew Teaching Grammar for African Bible Translators: A Typological Approach
11:50-12:35
(CL Miller-Naudé and JA Naudé)
University of the Free State
“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go anywhere”: on the lure of Interdisciplinarity
12:35-13:30
(I Gous)
UNISA
LUNCH
14:00-15:40
14:00-14:30
14:35-15:05
15:10-15:40
15:40-16:00
16:00-18:15
16:00-16:30
16:35-17:05
Session 2a
MATTERS OF LITERARY FORM, HISTORY
AND PHILOSOPHY
(Chair: JP van der Westhuizen)
An oracle on the mountains of Israel: matters of
genre and textual criticism in Ezekiel 6
Session 2b
ON VIOLENCE, BULLS AND
FURNITURE LEGS
(Chair: Fanie Vermaak)
Trampling the Enemy as an Act of Violence in
Ancient Near Eastern Iconography
(G Mushayabasa)
North-West University
Daniël 1 in a second century BCE context
(I Cornelius)
University of Stellenbosch
Bull-leaping in the Ancient Near East
(HJM van Deventer)
North-West University
Philosophical translations of Exodus 3:14 – a
historical overview
(RM van Dijk)
UNISA
A chronological study of Ancient Egyptian
furniture legs
(J Gericke)
North-West University
TEA/COFFEE
(M Harcombe)
UNISA
Session 3a
INTERPRETIVE APPROACHES
(Chair: Gudrun Lier)
A theoretical analysis of authenticity of Ancient
Near Eastern artefacts
Session 3b
ALL ABOUT PSALMS
(Chair: Christo van der Merwe)
Mapping the spatial narrative of Psalms 3-14
(C Basson)
UNISA
Evangelism of Young Children: Towards an
Evolutionary Alternative to a Reading of
“Original Sin” in Gen 1-4
(A Evans)
University of the Free State
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(G Prinsloo)
University of Pretoria
Who Were The Korahites?
(J Schäder)
University of Pretoria
17:10-17:40
‘Abd-Allah ibn Mas’ud and his contribution to
Qur’anic exegesis
(I E Jaffer)
UNISA
17:45-18:15
The Rising of Dawn – An Investigation of the
Spatial and Religious Background of “Dawn” in
Psalm 139:7-12
(L Sutton)
University of Pretoria
A survey of the study of Imprecatory Psalms
The African Wife of Jeroboam (ANO?): An
African Reading of I King 14:1-18
(D Simango)
North-West University
(DT Adamo)
Kogi State University, Nigeria
Session 4
VAN SELMS MEMORIAL LECTURE
(Chair: Johann Cook)
“Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord!”
Assyrian Royal Ideology as Perceived in the Hebrew Bible
18:30-19:30
(Arie van der Kooij)
University of Leiden
19:30-20:30
FINGER SUPPER
TUESDAY 6 SEPTEMBER
08:00-10:00
08:00-08:30
Session 5a
ABOUT GOD-IMAGE, GODDESSES, KINGS
AND ASTRONOMY
(Chair: Sakkie Cornelius)
Psychoanalysing Yahweh: C.G. Jung’s reading of
the book of Job
(J Rogers)
University of Limerick
08:35-09:05
09:10-09:40
09:45-10:15
10:15-10:40
An analysis of the extent to which the goddess
Inanna/Ishtar can be characterised as a female
trickster or deceptive goddess
Session 5b
TRANSLATION, GRAMMAR AND
ACCENTS
(Chair: Arie van der Kooij)
Exodus 2:11-22 (and 18:4) as rendered in Syriac
and Arabic traditions: Systematization of
translation tendencies
(JFJ van Rensburg)
University of Johannesburg
Perspectives on creation in the Septuagint
versions of Proverbs and Job
(J Cook)
University of Stellenbosch
(LM Wessels)
University of Pretoria
King Nabonidus: A Victim of Personal
Eccentricities or a Product of His Time
The Infinitive Absolute construction in Biblical
Hebrew reconsidered
(M Groenewald)
University of Pretoria
Science of the Skies: MUL.APIN and early
Babylonian astronomy
(CHJ van der Merwe)
University of Stellenbosch
The Revia in the Context of Diverse Analyses of
Masoretic Accents
(B Harris)
University of Stellenbosch
TEA/COFFEE
(GE Lier)
University of Johannesburg
10:40-12:20
Session 6a
ARCHEOLOGICAL INTERESTS
(Chair: Willem Boshoff)
10:40-11:10
Word order variation of the verbal sentences in an
Egypt-Amarna letter
Session 6b
ANCIENT SOCIETIES, CULTURES,
DIVISION AGREEMENTS
(Chair: Gert Prinsloo)
The foreign triangle in southern Mesopotamia
(F Vermaak)
UNISA
(JP van der Westhuizen)
UNISA
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11:15-11:45
Excavating minds in the Information age:
Empirical research in Biblical Archaeology
The debate on the origins of the ancient
Egyptian cultures in the Nile Valley: focus on the
Badarian
(J Roberts)
UNISA
11:50-12:20
Did the Jews at Elephantine worship Anat-yahu?
(ME Mondriaan)
University of Pretoria
12:30-13:15
(L Vorster)
UNISA
Old Babylonian Nippur solutions between
beneficiaries in a deceased estate division
agreement
(S Claassens)
UNISA
Session 7
ONE PLENARY SESSION
(Chair: At Lamprecht)
Histories of Israelite Religions and Theologies of the Old Testament converging? Archaeology as
probable catalyst
13:15-14:00
(W Boshoff)
UNISA
LUNCH
14:00-14:45
BUSINESS MEETING
14:45-15:00
TEA/COFFEE
15:00-17h00
15:00-15:30
SASNES colloquium
GENDER REPRESENTATION IN TEXT, ART AND RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES
(Chair: Chair: Hans van Rensburg)
Gender representation in Job 1:15-19 – blending text and art
15:30-16:00
(A Lamprecht)
North-West University
Jewish Matriarchs In Jewish Encomia: A New Perspective On Sirach 44-50
16:00-16:30
16:30-17:00
(Dichk M Kanonge)
North-West University
An example of female initiation into a mystery cult: The frescoes in the villa of the mysteries in
Pompeii
(M Dircksen)
North-West University
Water, women and the pleasures of nakedness
(J Steenkamp)
North-West University
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