International Symposium - Bible in Words and Images

Program

Friday, May 27

11:00–13:00

Opening Session, Greetings
TSU building I, Floor 2, Assembly Hall Foyer

Lika Tov, Exhibition: Bible Images, Annotations by a Modern Bible Illustrator

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-16:30    Joint Session 1
TSU building I, Auditorium 107

Presiding Zaza Skhirtladze

Nino Doborjginidze, Bible Translation and Emancipation of Vernacular Languages: The Georgian Case
Robert S. Nelson, Festival Lectionaries of the Eleventh Century

16:30-16:45 Break

16:45-18:15   Parallel Sessions

Session 1   Bible in Words
Auditorium 115

Presiding Anna Kharanauli

16:45-17:30 Emanuel Tov, The LXX Translators' Procedures in Representing Proper Names
17:30-18:15 Felix Albrecht, Translation Technique in the Book of Habakkuk: The Prayer of Habakkuk (Hab 3)

 

Session 2   Bible in Images
Auditorium 107

Presiding   Erik Thunø

16:45-17:30 Barbara Schellewald, Text and Image – Strategies of Translation in Georgian Mural Painting
17:30-18:15 Nino Chichinadze, Viewing Prophets: Images of Prophets on Painted Icons from Georgia

20:00   Dinner for participants

 

Saturday, May 28

10:00–11:00   Joint Session 2
TSU building I, Auditorium 107

Presiding Mariam Didebulidze

Zaza Skhirtladze in collaboration with Irakli Tezelashvili, Tamar Magvakvelidze, Salome Meladze, Elisabed Ugulava, Prophesying in Images and Words: Old Testament Quotations in Medieval Georgian Wall Painting

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-13:00   Parallel Sessions

Session 3   Bible in Words
Auditorium 115

Presiding Felix Albrecht

11:30-12:15  Alison Salvesen, The Forging of Syriac as a Christian Language
12:15-13:00 Frank Feder, The Translation of the Septuagint into Coptic – from Multidialectal Beginnings to a Standard Bible and a Final Transmission into Arabic

Session 4   Bible in Images
Auditorium 107

Presiding Barbara Schellewald 

11:30-12:15  Mariam Didebulidze, Biblical Themes in the Paintings of St. Nicholas Church at Kintsvissi
12:15-13:00 Ekaterine Gedevanishvili, The Reflections of Biblical Models on St. George’s Iconography in Georgian Art (On the examples of the Urtkhva Altar Screen (11^th c.) and the Tsatskvati Relief (10^th-11^th cc.)

13:00-14:00    Lunch Break

14:00-15:30     Joint Session 3
TSU building I, Auditorium 107

Presiding Natia Mirotadze

Anna Kharanauli, Tamar Magrakvelidze, Tinatin Jikurashvili, Lika Abralava, Natia Mirotadze, Lali Vashakmadze, Nino Giorgadze, Biblical Fauna (Documented Dictionary according to the Old Georgian Bible)
Iskra Hristova-Shomova, Mythological Creatures in the Book of Job and Their Interpretation in the Septuagint and in the Slavonic Translations

15:30-15:45    Break

15:45-18:00   Parallel Sessions

Session 5   Bible in Words
Auditorium 115

Presiding Frank Feder

15:45-16:30 Anna Kharanauli,  Translation Technique – an Impetus for the Development of the Georgian Language (on the Example of the Oldest Georgian Translations of the Old Testament)
16:30-17:15 Natia Mirotaze, Georgian Literary Language and Translation Technique on the Light of the Old Georgian Versions of the Book of Esther
17:15-18:00 Andrés Piquer Otero, Daughter Versions of the Septuagint: Old Greek and New Exegesis

Session 6   Bible in Images
Auditorium 107

Presiding Ekaterine Gedevanishvili

15:45-16:30 Erik Thunø, Pillar and Tree. Creative Bricolage in Medieval Georgia
16:30-17:15 Nino Chikhladze, Biblical Archetypes in the Painting of Svetitskhoveli Cathedral
17:15-18:00 Georgi Parpulov, Theophylact's Gospels Commentary: The Start of the Manuscript Tradition

 

Sunday, May 29

9:00-21:00

Closing Session

Samtavisi-Ateni-Uplistsikhe-Grakliani

Dinner