The workshop will take place in Room A201 in the UniS Building

The Bern Josephus Workshop 15th – 16th Sept. 2016 Programme Thursday 15th September: 15:00-­‐15:20 Gerlinde Huber-­‐Rebenich, Katharina Heyden, René Bloch Greetings and Presentation of the Bern Josephus Latinus Project 15:20-­‐16:00 Nigel Wilson Tasks for the next editor of the Bellum Judaicum 16:00-­‐16:40 David Levenson & Thomas Martin The Latin Manuscripts of Josephus' Wars and Antiquities 16:40-­‐17:00 Coffee Break 17:00-­‐17:40 Richard Pollard (via Skype) Following Josephus' Medieval Readers: An Electronic Method 17:40-­‐18:20 Rainer Schwinges Josephus in der Kreuzzugschronistik des Wilhelm von Tyrus (†1186) 18:20-­‐19:00 Karen Kletter Reading Josephus in Medieval England 8pm: Conference Dinner at the Altes Tramdepot Friday 16th September: 09:00-­‐09:40 Saskia Dönitz Translating from Latin into Hebrew: Jewish Reception of Josephus 09:40-­‐10:20 Ronny Vollandt From Latin into Hebrew and from Hebrew into Arabic: The Josippon Narrative in the Arabic Tradition 10:20-­‐10:40 Coffee Break 10:40-­‐11:20 Joanna Weinberg Sixteenth-­‐Century Jewish Readings of the Latin Josephus 11:20-­‐12:00 Andreas Ammann Vom Josephus latinus zum Josephus latinior: Emendation und Neuübersetzung des Textes im 16. Jh. From 12:00 Concluding Discussion 1pm: Refreshments / Imbiss Location: The workshop will take place in Room A201 in the UniS Building, Schanzeneckstrasse 1 (see map below, also attached separately to the e-­‐mail) The Bern Josephus Workshop 15th – 16th Sept. 2016