It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Takamitsu Muraoka (1938–2026). An obituary can be found on the IOSCS website: septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/ioscs/news/94/

Just published: William A. Ross, Marieke Dhont, and Christopher J. Fresch, eds., Language and Identity in Hellenistic Judaism: Essays in Memory of James K. Aitken (Bloomsbury: 2026). www.bloomsbury.com/us/language-...

Happy International Septuagint Day to all who celebrate! In 2006, the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies established February 8 as International Septuagint Day, a day to celebrate the Septuagint & encourage its study. What are you reading to celebrate?

Call for papers: IOSCS sessions at the SBL Annual Meeting, Denver, November 21-24, 2026 members.sbl-site.org/cfp-detail?z...

Just published: Martin Meiser, Heinz-Josef Fabry, Michaela Geiger, Frank Ueberschaer, and Martin Vahrenhorst, eds. Die Septuaginta – Prophetische Worte, Textwelten und Versionen (Mohr Siebeck, 2026). www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/die-sep...

Call for Papers: Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense LXXV: Translating the Scriptures, July 15 - 18, 2026, Leuven. Abstracts due March 31, 2026. theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...

Lecture (online & in-person): January 22, 2026, 6:00pm (UK) at the Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Institute, Oxford University, Beatrice Bonanno will speak on "Jewish Greek Scriptures and Early Christianity: Insights from the 'Minor Versions.'"

Virtual Seminar: The Septuagint in Modern Research. Save the date for upcoming seminars on 03/09 and 05/04. To be added to the mailing list to receive the Zoom link for these events, email Tyler Horton at lxxinmodernresearch[at]gmail[dot]com.

Just published: Joseph L. Justiss, Scribal Change and Strategic Sequencing in the Hebrew Source of G Proverbs (Mohr Siebeck: 2026). www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/scri...

Just published: Anna Mambelli, Vedere sogni: Esegesi di Daniele 2 e 4 Old Greek (Marietti: 2025). www.mariettieditore.it/libro/978882...

Call for Papers: The Septuagint and the Cultural World of the Translators research unit, EABS Annual Conference, Leuven, 20–23 July 2026. Abstracts can be submitted by EABS members through the online portal: www.eabs.net

Call for Papers: The Greek Bible Between Judaism and Christianity research unit, EABS Annual Conference, Leuven, 20–23 July 2026. Abstracts can be submitted by EABS members through the online portal: www.eabs.net

Call for Papers: The 1st Symposium on the Chinese Translation of the Greek Septuagint（第一屆中文七十士譯本翻譯學術研討會) Hong Kong, 22-24 April 2026. Papers can be given in English or Chinese. Proposals due 15 February 2026.

Call for Papers: Papyrology and the Biblical World research unit, EABS Annual Conference, Leuven, 20–23 July 2026. Abstracts can be submitted by EABS members through the online portal: www.eabs.net

Call for Conference Papers: Psalms and Paraphrases, KU Leuven, May 12-13, 2026. Abstracts due January 15, 2026. literatureswithoutborders.com/2025/11/25/c...

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.