PROPHECY AND POLITICS  IN ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN CULTURES
Qumran and Second Temple Sessions


 11th SESSION: THE TWELVE
AND OTHER SECOND-TEMPLE PROPHETIC SCRIPTURES

14:20-14:40 Dr. Jonathan Ben-Dov, University of Haifa
Criticism of Priests in Late Prophetic Writings and its Mesopotamian Background


12th SESSION: FROM QUMRAN TO QURAN

Presiding: Prof. Reinhard Achenbach, Westfälische Wilhelms-University, Münster

16:10-16:30 Prof. Kenneth Atkinson, University of Northern Iowa
Jeremiah 46, Ezekiel 30, and Hosea 9 in 4QPseudo-Ezekiel (4Q386)

16:30-16:50 Dr. Liora Goldman, University of Haifa
A Pesher Interpretation on Zechariah 13:7 in the Damascus Document from Qumran

16:50-17:10 Dr. Atar Livneh, University of Haifa
Did the Angel of the Presence Reveal Anything About the Maccabean Campaigns to Moses?

17:10-17:30 Dr. Miryam T. Brand, New York University
Sin, Punishment, and Continuity: Social Realignment in Biblical Prophecy and Second Temple Texts

17:30-17:50 Dr. Bat-Sheva Garsiel, Bar-Ilan University
Hebrew Bible Prophets Embedded and Transformed in the Quran: The cases of Abraham, Moses and Ezra

17:50-18:10 Discussion