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 Volume 25:2 (1998)
Publication Date: June 1999

 

The second meeting of the International Organization for Targumic Study (IOTS) was held in conjunction with the XVI Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) in Oslo, Norway on July 30-31, 1998. It was an enjoyable and invigorating meeting with forty scholars from ten countries participating. Some of the papers will be published in forthcoming issues of JAB. Thanks for such a successful meeting go to Acting President Michael L. Klein for stepping in and putting it together at the last minute and to Bjorn Kvam for acting as the local liason and organizer.

Elections were held at the Oslo meeting. Michael L. Klein was elected President by acclamation. The other officers and members of the Executive Board were reelected to three-year terms.

The next meeting of the IOTS will be held Thursday and Friday, 2-3 August 2001, prior to the IOSOT Congress in Basel, Switzerland.

The web site for NTCS has now been transferred to web-master Christian M.M. Brady of Tulane University. The URL is now: http://www.tulane.edu/~ntcs. The web site for the IOTS is also located there now: http://www.tulane.edu/~ntcs/iots.htm. Look for new features to be added over the coming months.

The first issue of the Journal for the Aramaic Bible, April 1999, has now appeared. For the articles, see below. You can order a subscription from Sheffield Academic Press at: Mansion House, 19 Kingfield Road, Sheffield S11 9AS, England. The journal is in a three-year test period, to see whether it will be economically viable. So purchase a subscription for yourself. Buy subscriptions for your friends, your department, and your library. Give them as New Years or Christmas gifts!

Submissions are invited for later volumes of the JAB. Prior to 1 August 1999, please direct inquiries and papers to: The Secretary, JAB, Dr. Willem F. Smelik, ThUK, P.O. Box 5021, 8260 GA Kampen, The Netherlands. After 1 August 1999, send them to: Dr. Willem F. Smelik, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.

There is now an on-line journal for the study of Syriac. It is called Hugoye: The Journal of Syriac Studies. It can be found at the following URL: http://www.acad.cua.edu/syrcom/Hugoye/VolInd.html. The General Editor is George Anton Kiraz.

Another on-line journal that may be of interest to NTCS readers is TC: A Journal of Text Criticism. The General Editor is James R. Adair. It can be accessed at the following URL: http://purl.org/TC.

The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon has also created a new web site. It is located at: http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/. It contains the past CAL Newsletters, and will be the location for future ones. The CAL Newsletter will no longer be sent through the post. Those wishing to be notified when a new issue is available should contact Jerome A. Lund at: jlund@cn.huc.edu.

The papers of former IOTS President Ernest G. Clarke have been deposited in the library of Victoria College, University of Toronto. The catalogue is available on-line at: http://128.100.124.81:80/library/special/index.htm.

 

The IOTS now sponsors an e-mail discussion list for scholars interested in the study of the targumim. Anyone wishing to subscribe should follow these instructions:

(1) Address an e-mail to: Majordomo@uwyo.edu.

(2) In the body of the message, put the following line:

subscribe targum-l 'your e-mail address'

For a person whose address is user1@host1.edu, the subscribe message would appear as:

subscribe targum-l user1@host1.edu

3) Leave the rest of the message blank, with no signature file. (An appended signature will generate error messages, but will not interfere with subscribing.)

 

The Newsletter is working to add translations of targums to its web-site. If you know of any translation that is not subject to copyright restrictions, or if you have done one yourself you would be willing to share, please contact the Christian Brady, the Internet Editor.

 

The Editors of the Newsletter want to thank everyone who has sent us information about publications. Those items which do not appear in this issue will be included in the next one, which should be available before the end of Summer 1999.