Monday Evening, The Opening Event
The opening event will take place in the Conference Hall of the Museum of Byzantine Culture, 2 Stratou Avenue, Thessaloniki 546 40, Greece.
An Ode to Salonica: Historical and Poetic Perspectives
A lecture by Prof. Renee Levine Melammed (Dean of the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem).
Professor Levine Melammed is completing a book (An Ode to Salonika: The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty, IUP, 2012) on the history of the Salonikan Jewish community in the twentieth century based on Ladino poetry; poetess Bouena Sarfatty, a poetess and a member of the Jewish community in Salonika, composed two collections of coplas describing life prior to WWII and the repercussions of the Nazi invasion.
Professor Levine Melammed’s talk will describe the culture and vitality of the "Jerusalem of the Balkans" and its destruction.
A musical interval led by the Byzantine Choir of Thessaloniki
The presidential lecture:
Can the Bible be Translated? Bible Translations as Culture Artefacts
Prof. Jorunn Økland, President of the European Association of Biblical Studiesand Director of the Centre for Gender ResearchStudents' Prizes
Tuesday Evening
A lecture by Dr. Miltiadis Konstantinou
The Greek Bible Translation Projects of the Greek Biblical Society
Dr. Miltiadis Konstantinou is Prof. of the OT, Faculty of Theology AUTH, and the chairman of the Committee On Translation Policy of the UBS Global Board
The lecture will take place at 18:00-19:00 in room I
In the lecture the major project of translating the Bible into modern Greek will be presented as well as various other aspects of the work of the Greek Biblical Society (e.g. the translation of the Bible readings for a liturgical context, the publication of a commentary series that will accompany and supplement the Bible translation etc.)
The Students' meeting will take place at 19:00-20:00 in Room Dock Six
Wednesday Evening
The General meeting of EABS members will take place at 18:00-19:00 in Crystal Hall
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