Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Reinhard G. Lehmann" <lehmann AT uni-mainz.de>]

8. Mainz International Colloquium on Ancient Hebrew (MICAH)

Dear colleagues,

the 8th Mainz International Colloquium on Ancient Hebrew (MICAH) will 
take place in November 2006, friday, 10th and saturday, 11th at the 
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany.

You are invited to give a lecture, either a short paper (20 min plus 
discussion) or a full lecture (40 min plus discussion), as you please.
Topics cover the Ancient and Classical Hebrew, i. e. Epigraphic and 
Biblical Hebrew, Qumran Hebrew, Ben Sira, and adjacent languages and 
epigraphics, for instance Ugaritic, Phoenician-Punic, Old and Imperial 
Aramaic, Moabite and Edomite. Also matters of general epigraphy, 
palaeography and general linguistics in conjunction with these languages 
are welcome.
Graduates / Ph.D. students / doctorands are explicitly invited to 
demonstrate their projects and to take the opportunity to discuss them 
in a collegial atmosphere.

For participation, we request a fee of 25 Euro, which is due onsite. For 
those who present a paper, participation is free.
Additional paper proposals should be made as soon as possible. Please 
send to the undersigned (lehmann AT uni-mainz.de) and indicate the topic 
and the preferred length.
There is no formal registration in advance. But if you want to 
participate only, for a better planning please contact us until end of 
september.
We would be glad to see you this year in Mainz.

For all questions and concerns please contact:

Dr. Reinhard G. Lehmann
Academic Director
Forschungsstelle für Althebräische Sprache und Epigraphik
Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz
Tel. +49-6131-39-23284 (office)
tel and fax +49-6132-799873
Email: lehmann AT uni-mainz.de

For actual informations and the agenda of 8. MICAH, see
http://www.staff.uni-mainz.de/lehmann/MICAH.html