Final conference in Warsaw (December 11-13, 2025)
The conference concluding our project will be held at the University of Warsaw in December 2025.
We are delighted to have gathered such an outstanding group of speakers and to be able to present such a diverse range of papers. The conference is being organised jointly by the University of Warsaw and the University of Graz.
A preliminary version of the programme is available below.
Thursday, December 11th 2025
9.30 – 10.00 Opening
10.00 – 10.45 Martti Nissinen, Prayers to Nabû and Biblical Psalms
10.45 – 11.30 Fabio Porzia, The Contribution of Papyrus Amherst 63 to Understanding Religious Interactions in the Ancient Levant
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 – 12.45 Giulia Grassi, Vidranga, Nefaina and Yahweh’s role in the temple afaire at Elephantine
12.45 – 13.30 Peter Zilberg, From Exile to Diaspora: Judeans in Babylonia under Persian Rule
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch break
14.30 – 15.15 Corinne Bonnet, The spatial dimension of gods: a comparative approach between polytheism and monotheism in the Levant during the Persian and Hellenistic periods
15.15 – 16.00 Jason Silverman, Working the god(s)’ Garden: Conceptualization of Divine Work in its Persian and ANE context
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 17.15 Kacper Ziemba, Persian-Period Judeans and the Problem of Diaspora
17.15 – 18.00 Konrad Schmid, Judeans and their God abroad: Diaspora Theologies in the Hebrew Bible and their Persian and Hellenistic Backgrounds
18.00 – 18.45 Gard Granerød, “If You Seek Him, He Will Be Found”: Chronicles’ Yahweh Conceptions amid Achaemenid-Period Sources’ Cacophony on Judaean Belief(s)
Friday, December 12th 2025
9.30 – 10.15 Christoph Uehlinger, Distinctive or diverse?” 2.0 – ten years later, on later periods
10.15 – 11.00 Rebecca Martin, Divine protection of children in the Persian and Hellenistic periods: Clay child figurines from Tel Dor
11.00 – 11.45 Sarah Hollaender, From Divine Triad to Tiny Hopes: The Terracotta Figurines of Idumea in Their Religious Landscape
11.45 – 12.15 Coffee break
12.15 – 13.00 Yonatan Adler, Judean Cult during the Early Hellenistic Period (332–175 BCE)
13.00 – 13.45 Gad Barnea, Ousio-theism: The evolution of Yahwistic essentiality in the longue durée
13.45 – 14.45 Lunch break
14.45 – 15.30 Giorgio Paolo Campi, Was Baytˀil the house of YHWH? Negotiating space and identity in Yahwistic communities of the first diaspora.
15.30 – 16.15 Benedikt Eckhardt, Monetization and the History of Mentalities: Reading Ptolemaic Judaea through the Lens of Archaic Greece
16.15 – 16.45 Coffee break
16.45 – 17.30 Haggai Olshanetsky, Was There Ever Hellenistic Judaism or Whether This is Just a Derogatory Term that we Must Forsake?
17.30 – 18.15 Łukasz Popko, Were monotheistic tendencies reinforced in the Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible?
18.15 – 19.00 Davide d’Amico, The miracles of the prophets, divine prerogatives, and textual tradition: historical and philological observation
Saturday, December 13th 2025
9.30 – 10.15 Edward Dąbrowa, Devotion of the Hasmoneans
10.15 – 11.00 Christian Frevel, Hinterland in Terms of Monotheism? The Sharon Plain during the Persian Period as a Test Case
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 12.15 Haim Gitler, Where was the Yehud mint located, once it was moved to Judah in the mid 4th century BCE
12.15 – 13.00 Alexander Fantalkin, Stamped Seal Impressions in Judah: Between Religion and Administration
13.00 – 13.30 Closing remarks