International Conference of the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS) – Program ALT – with support of the Einstein Center Chronoi
One of the particular challenges of translating and interpreting ancient and Ancient Oriental texts is the grammatical and semantic recording of time. From a grammatical point of view, this concerns above all the determination of the function of morphological differences between verbs (aspect, mode, time) and syntactic structures (parataxis and hypotaxis). In the conference organized by the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies, the problems of tense and aspect in the languages of classical antiquity, the Ancient Near East and Egypt will be discussed in a comparative way. Not only the translations into modern languages will be examined, but also ancient translations, for example from Hebrew and Aramaic into Greek and Latin.
28.6.2019 | |
14:00 - 14:05 | Welcome Address EC-Chronoi Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum |
14:05 - 14:15 | Introduction Cilliers Breytenbach Markus Witte |
14:15 - 15:00 | Lost in translation. Understanding the verbal predication of Middle Egyptian Jean Winand |
15:00 - 15:45 | Does one stand up to go or begin to go? A new look at aspect-marking auxiliaries in Late Egyptian Camilla Di Biase-Dyson |
15:45 - 16:15 | The Temporal Dimension of Salvation in Pauline Thought Barbara Beyer |
16:15 - 16:45 | Coffee Break |
16:45 - 17:30 | "Ich habe dir einen Brief geschrieben“: Tempus und Aspekt in griechischen Papyrusbriefen Lajos Berkes |
17:30 - 18:15 | Tempus und Aspekt im Lateinischen unter morphematischer und narratologischer Perspektive Sophie-Christin Holland |
17:30 - 18:15 | Tempus und Aspekt im Lateinischen unter morphematischer und narratologischer Perspektive Bianca Liebermann |
19:00 - 21:00 | Reception |
29.6.2019 | |
09:00 - 09:45 | Non-Iterative and Non-Habitual Uses of Imperfective Aspect in Ancient Hebrew Holger Gzella |
09:45 - 10:30 | Tense, aspect and ‘Sprechhaltung’ in biblical Hebrew prose Jan Joosten |
10:30 - 11:00 | Timing the Eschaton. Überlegungen zur nahen und fernen Zukunft in 4Q185 (Sapiential Admonitions B) Isabell Christine Hoppe |
11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
11:30 - 12:15 | Registerunterschiede im neu- babylonischen Tempusgebrauch Christian Hess |
12:15 - 13:00 | Tense and aspect in Old Persian Adriano Rossi |
13:00 - 13:30 | Final Discussion |