Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Hello all,

many of you might be interested in the following event, which has enough 
"biblical" content to make it relevant for this list.

Yigal Levin




The Eighth International Conference on Jewish Names

In Honor of Prof. Aaron Demsky on his Retirement



The Feldman Congress Center, Bar-Ilan University

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

8:30-9:00 - Gathering and Light Refreshments

Session 1 - 9:00-10:30

Names in the Ashkenazi and Italian Communities (in Hebrew)

Chair: Prof. Harvey Goldberg

Anat Gueta - The World View of Rabbi Menahem Azariah Emanuel ben Isaac
Berechiah da Fano (הרמ"ע) as Reflected in the Names he Gave his Children

Tzvia Koren-Loeb - The Frankfurt-am-Main Memorbuch of Names, 18th Century

Yitzchak Kerem - Italian-Jewish Names of Greek Jewry

David Cassuto - Possible Origin of the Name Cassuto



Session 2 - 11:00-13:00

People, Places and Objects in Rabbinic Literature (in Hebrew)

Chair: Prof. Daniel Lasker

David Golinkin - Why is Rabban Gamliel called Baal Hahotem

Meir Bar-Ilan - People who are Named after their Places

Chaim Ben David - The Toponymy of Eretz Israel - A Regional Analysis

Avi Sasson - Phonetic Site Identification by Nineteenth Century Rabbis:
Schwartz and Goldhar

Abraham Ofir Shemesh - Names of New Agricultural Crops in Rabbinic
Literature of 16-20th Centuries



Session 3 - 11:00-13:00

Names in the Yemenite and Oriental Communities (in Hebrew)

Chair: Dr. Emanuel Friedheim

Aharon Gaimani - Names of Yemenite Jews From the Ledger of the Rabbinic
Emissary R. Shlomo Nadaf

Menashe Anzi - Family Nicknames in Sanaa: Consolidation, Distinction and
Tension in the Community in the Twentieth Century

Yossef Charvit - Rabbi Maurice Eisenbeth (1928-1958) as Researcher of the
Jewish Name in North Africa

Victor Hayoun - First and Last Names in the Jewish community of Nabeul in
Tunisia

Gila Hadar - Bienvenida (Welcome) and Azebuena (Making Good): Patterns of
Girls' Given Names in the Sephardic Diaspora

13:00-14:00 - Lunch Break

Session 4 - 14:00-15:30

Names in Modern Hebrew Literature and Israeli Society (in Hebrew)

Chair: Prof. Orzion Bartana

Ziva Feldman - From Yoseph to Yossi and Yoske as Signs of the Times and of
Ideology

Michal Rom - "We are four girls at home, the name seems to get lost":
Israeli Women's Choice of a Family Name Upon Marriage and Its Implications
on the Effort to Preserve Jewish Names

Orna Baziz - Names in Work of David Shahar

Zehava Kor - Smiling at my Hungarian Names



Session 5 - 14:00-15:30

Personal Names in the Biblical World (in English)

Chair: Prof. Michael Sokoloff

Oded Lipschits and David Vanderhooft - )Ah@iab - A Judean Governor from the
Persian Period: A New Reading of the Yehud Stamp Impressions

Tsuguya (Tsvi) Sasaki - What Are the "International" Forms of Biblical
Hebrew Personal Names Supposed to Be? Ways of Adopting and Adapting Them in
the International Planned Language Esperanto

Manuel John Kaamugisha Muranga - Theophoric Biblical Names and Their Impact
on the Personal Naming System of Selected East African Peoples

Chaim Cohen - Biblical Hebrew Personal Names and the Moshe Held Method for
Comparative Semitic Philology



Session 6 - 16:00-17:00

Man, Place and God - Biblical Names (in Hebrew)

Chair: Prof. Ed Greenstein

Michael Avioz - "The shameful thing has devoured all for which our ancestors
had laboured" (Jer. 3:14): On the Names Mephibosheth and Ishbosheth

Itzhaq Shai - Understanding the Migration of the Philistines: City Names and
Their Implications

Talia Ditchi-Barak - The Epithets of the God of Israel in Biblical Hebrew



Session 7 - 17:15-18:30

Names in Biblical Literature (in Hebrew)

Chair: Dr. Avshalom Kor

Greetings: Prof. Moshe Kaveh - President, Bar-Ilan University

                 Prof. Moise Orfali - Dean, Faculty of Jewish Studies

                 Prof. Ben-Zion Rosenfeld - Chair, Department of Jewish
History

Moshe Garsiel - Puns on Names as a Literary Device in the Book of Judges

Amnon Shapira - Names in the Bible - between "Allegory" and "Allegoristic"

Yair Zakovitch - Making a Name Meaningful: Between Literary and Textual
Criticism



Response and Summation: Prof. Aaron Demsky, Founder and Director, the
Project for the Study of Jewish Names



The public is welcome

For information contact Yigal Levin: Leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il