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Volume 27:1 (2000)

The next meeting of the International Organization for Targum Study (IOTS) is scheduled for Thursday and Friday, 2-3 August 2001, in Basel, Switzerland. It will be held in conjuction with the XVIIth Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) in Basel during 5-10 August 2001. As with our past Meetings, registration and accommodations will be arranged through the IOSOT, which will be issuing announcements in due time. Note that these dates are particularly suited for those colleagues who plan to attend the 13th World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, which is scheduled for 12-17 August 2001.

We are pleased to announce a call for short papers in the following categories:

1) Language, Dating and Inter-relationships among the targumim; translational theory and the targumim.

2) Exegesis; Relationships with other rabbinic and contemporary literature (halakhic, aggadic, patristic, historical etc.).

3) Theology, Eschatology and Sitz im Leben.

Papers should be of twenty-minutes length, allowing ten additional minutes for discussion. The deadline for paper proposals is 15 December 2000, and 15 March 2001 for the submission of written abstracts. Please repond to: Prof. Michael L. Klein, Hebrew Union College, 13 King David Street, Jerusalem, Israel. tel +972-2-620-3333. fax +972-2-625-1478. e-mail: mlkhuc@vms.huji.ac.il

The Third Peshitta Symposium will be held in Leiden following the IOSOT Conference in Basel. For more information, check the announcement on their website: http://www.leidenuniv.nl/gg/na/firstann.htm

With this issue, the Newsletter begins cataloguing articles and reviews that appear in journals published online. These include Hugoye: The Journal of Syriac Studies, TC: The Journal of Textual Criticism, and the Journal of Hebrew Scripture. Their URLs and abbreviations are listed below. Links to them have been placed on the NTCS website. In the future, we will also include other online journals and related websites.

Techical group of NCITS/L2 (an ANSI TAG), based in Philadelphia, seeks collaborators in Unicode/ISO 10646 computerization of remaining symbols for Hebrew/Aramaic square or epigraphic scripts of any historical period. These symbols include non-standard Tiberian masorahs, non-Tiberian pointing and masorahs, epigraphic punctuation and numeric marks, variant alphabets for Neo-Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Karaim, Bukhari, etc., perhaps early Parthian inscriptions, etc. Please contact Dr. Seth Jerchower, sethj@pobox.upenn.edu, or Elaine Keown, keown@altavista.com for more information.

The IOTS sponsors an e-mail discussion list for the study of the targumim called Targum-L. Anyone wishing to subscribe should send their email address to "listmaster" Paul Flesher at: PFlesher@uwyo.edu.