Warsaw conference (dec. 11-13 2025)
The final conference in Warsaw
Thursday, December 11th, 2025
9:30 – 10:00 Opening Session
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 Kacper Ziemba — Persian-Period Judeans and the Problem of Diaspora
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 Konrad Schmid — Judeans and Their God Abroad: Diaspora Theologies in the Hebrew Bible and Their Persian and Hellenistic Backgrounds
17:15 – 18:00 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 Becky 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 Is This Just a Derogatory Term 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 Observations
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