Call for papers: Biblia Africana (Egypt, Nubia and Ethiopia): The Bible in its African Receptions from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, May 5-6, 2026, Brussels. Proposals (in English or French) due December 15, 2025. calenda.org/1314743?lang...

Just published: Eberhard Bons, Anna Mambelli, and Daniela Scialabba, eds., Joy Denied, Joy Rediscovered From Classical Greek Literature to Byzantine Christianity (Brill: 2025). brill.com/display/titl...

Summer Course (in-person/online): The Reception of the Septuagint in the New Testament and the Early Church will be taught by Dr. Edmon Gallagher, May 11-15, 2026, hosted by Trinity Western University and the John William Wevers Institute for Septuagint Studies.

Call for Papers: The Bible in Middle Eastern Manuscript Traditions, University of Rome Tor Vergata, April 22-24, 2026. Abstracts due January 1, 2026.

Just published: Matthew J. Albanese, Translation Technique and Literary Structures in Greek Isaiah 13:1–14:23, SCS 79 (SBL Press, 2025). cart.sbl-site.org/books/060479P

New Master's degree program: The Master Jewish and Christian Scriptures: History, Exegesis, Reception (JewChriS) is designed to help graduate students navigate the history of Biblical sources across the Jewish and Christian traditions. www.fscire.it/school/maste...

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Anneli Aejmelaeus (1948–2025), who had a significant impact on the field of Septuagint studies as professor at the University of Helsinki. A full obituary can be found on the IOSCS website: septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/ioscs/news/89/

Congratulations to Raphaëlle Berterottière, who has won the 2025 IOSCS John William Wevers Prize with her paper “Jewish Spiritual Exercises? The Book of Wisdom and Fourth Maccabees in Light of Pierre Hadot’s Understanding of Ancient Philosophy.”

The SBL Asian and Asian-American Hermeneutics Seminar and IOSCS invite you to attend the join session on East-Asian Reception and Translation of the LXX and Jewish Literature at the upcoming SBL meeting in Boston, November 23, 1:00-3:30PM.

Virtual Seminar: The Septuagint in Modern Research, December 1, 20215 15:00 GMT (10:00 EST): Marieke Dhont will present on "Hellenistic Jewish Literature in Greek."

Exegesis and Reception of the Psalms, 1st International Göttingen Conference on the Septuagint, September 2–5, 2026 septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/conference20...

Congratulations to Simon Naveau, who passed his dissertation defense on Nov 3, 2025 at the UCLouvain! His dissertation, “Techniques de traduction de la Septante des Nombres et du Deutéronome, à la lumière du contexte alexandrin” was supervised by Prof. Matthieu Richelle.

Just published: Marieke Dhont, ed., T&T Clark Handbook of Hellenistic Jewish Literature in Greek (T&T Clark: 2025) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/tt-clark-...

Just published: The Authority of the Septuagint: Biblical, Historical, and Theological Approaches, ed. Gregory R. Lanier and William A. Ross (IVP Academic: 2025). www.ivpress.com/the-authorit...

Lecture (via Zoom): "Hebrew Texts and Their Greek Reflections," by Julia G. Krivoruchko, November 5 2025, 4:45pm EST mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/hebrew...

Conference: Transmission, Variation, Transformation of Deuterocanonical Literature, 5-6 November 2025, Metz, Université de Lorraine ecritures.univ-lorraine.fr/manifestatio...

Just published: Jean Maurais, "Septuagint Origins: The State of the Question," Currents in Biblical Research 24 (2025). doi.org/10.1177/1476... @jeanmaurais.bsky.social

31 Oct Lyon/online: « Jérôme et les sources juives et chrétiennes de la Vulgate » avec Paul Rodrigue, à 13h au 22 rue Sala, Lyon 2e, 1er étage, cnrs.zoom.us/j/9970162811... de réunion: 997 0162 8112 Code secret: h7VMUv

Second Temple Early Career Academy Autumn 2025 Events (online) stecaonline.wordpress.com @stecacareers.bsky.social

Call For Papers: The Athonite Collections and Their Challenges: Open Access, Traveling Exhibitions, and Digital Surrogates, September 25-26, 2026, Princeton. athoslegacy.project.princeton.edu/announcements/

Just published: Agnès Lorrain, Jean-Marie Auwers (eds), Ordres et désordres dans les chaînes exégétiques grecques: Order and Disorder in Greek Exegetical Catenae (Brepols: 2025) www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

Job opening: An academic in Exegesis of Biblical and Extra-Biblical Texts, UCLouvain jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca...

Virtual Seminar: The Septuagint in Modern Research, October 20, 2025 15:00 BST: Felix Albrecht will present on "The Greek Psalter: Retrospect and Prospect."

Just published (open access): Felix Albrecht and Reinhard Gregor Kratz, eds., Das Erbe der Göttinger Septuaginta Festschrift aus Anlass des 100. Geburtstages von Robert Hanhart (1925–2025). www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/59862/das-er...

Call for Papers: On the Trail of the Bible of Niketas: A Transverse Approach to Catenae, International workshop at KU Leuven, 31 March 2026 www.arts.kuleuven.be/grieks/nieuw...

Conference (on-line and in-person): Anthropology in the Septuagint and its Reception, 19-21 September North-West University, South Africa. DM for information about online participation.

Just published: Psalmi cum odis. edidit Alfred Rahlfs. supplementum adiecit Felix Albrecht. Bd. 10., 4. Auflage. Septuaginta Vetus Testamentum Graecum (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2025). www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/60065/septua...

"The Digital Edition and Translation of the Coptic Old Testament at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities...has an opening for a one-year paid trainee program, to be filled from January 1, 2026..." coptot.manuscriptroom.com/blog/-/blogs...

The latest issue of the Journal of Septuagint and Cognate Studies has just been published! If you are not yet an IOSCS member, consider becoming one so that you can be sure to receive future issues of the journal. poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...

In memoriam Robert Hanhart (1925–2025) septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/obituary/rob...

Just published (open access): Jerome’s Sources in His Translation of the Hebrew Bible by Paul Rodrigue www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Just published: Subordination and Insubordination in Post-Classical Greek: From Syntax to Context, ed. Klaas Bentein, Eleonora Cattafi, and Ezra la Roi www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

New video series: Daily Dose of Septuagint dailydoseofseptuagint.com by Greg Lanier

Just published: Vetus Latina Josue, ed. Jean-Claude Haelewyck www.herder.de/theologie-pa...

Today we begin the second day of the 2025 IOSCS Congress in Berlin! Yesterday, the keynote lecture was given by Christa Müller-Kessler on New Aramaic Text Witnesses for the LXX From the Cairo Genizah and the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.

The schedule & registration link (free for online attendees) for the second meeting of the Septuagint within the History of Greek Network, “Diversity, Change, and the Individual in Postclassical Greek,” 27–29 Aug 2025 at the University of Sydney is now available: www.eventbrite.com/e/1407948645...

Congratulations to IOSCS president Alison Salvesen on being elected a fellow of the British Academy! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/prof...

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Robert Hanhart (1925–2025), director of the Septuaginta-Unternehmen for over 30 years. An obituary can be found on the IOSCS website: septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/ioscs/news/86/

Just published: Studies on the Old Latin of the Book of Esther by Dionisio Candido, CBET 102.2 (Peeters: 2025). www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?s...

This is a friendly reminder that submissions for the John William Wevers prize are due September 1, 2025.

Congratulations to Martijn Beukenhorst, who passed his dissertation defense on June 19, 2025 at the UCLouvain! His dissertation, “Unraveling the Mysteries of the Miscellanies. Understanding the origins of 3 Kingdoms 2:35a-o and 2:46a-l” was supervised by Prof. Matthieu Richelle.

Congratulations to Jesús Salvador García Ortiz on defending his dissertation “Old Greek Deuteronomy and Jewish Politics in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Socio-Political Implications of the Greek Translation of Deuteronomy” at the Pontifical Biblical Institute! www.biblico.it/tesi/garcia-...

Soutenance de la thèse de Mme Jacqueline Richard, "Epithymía dans la Bible grecque," 24 juin 2025 09h00, Palais universitaire, salle Tauler, Université de Strasbourg. ed.theologie.unistra.fr/agenda/evene...

Lecture: "Fayumic Explorations: What the Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum might tell us about the birth of the Septuagint," by Camilla Recalcati, hosted by the EABS Monthly Graduate Seminar, 18 June 2025, 19:00 CEST.

Tagung: Die Septuaginta: Geschichtsbücher, Historiographie, Literatur. 9. Internationale Fachtagung, Wuppertal, 24.-27. Juli 2025. Das Programm finden Sie hier: tinyurl.com/yyahe3dk

A full obituary for Leonard Greenspoon (1945-2025) can now be found on the IOSCS website: septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/ioscs/news/85/

We are saddened to announce the passing of Leonard Greenspoon, former IOSCS president and long-time organizer of our program at the SBL Annual Meeting. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Conferencia (en persona): "El dolor del traductor: traduciendo dolencias en el Levíticio griego," J. Alberto Paredes, 29 mayo 2025, 11:30 horas, Sala Julián Ribera (1C9), Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid @cchscsic.bsky.social

Virtual Seminar: The Septuagint in Modern Research, May 26, 2025, 15:00 BST: Joel Korytko will present on "How LXX Exodus Adapts the Covenant Code towards Greco-Egyptian Law"

Blog post: Contributions towards a Critical Edition of Aquila and Symmachus in the Psalter by Kyle Young septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/blog/contrib...