Session 1

Theme: The Politics of Language and the Language of Politics: Practical Issues in Dictionary Production

James Aitken, University of Cambridge, Presiding
David Clines, University of Sheffield, Panelist
Regine Hunziker-Rodewald, University of Berne, Panelist
Anne A. Thompson, University of Cambridge, Panelist
Erik Eynikel, Universiteit Nijmegen, Panelist

Session 2

Theme: “We the people”: Citizenship Terms in the Bible

Bernard Taylor, Loma Linda University, Presiding
Andrew W. Pitts, McMaster Divinity College and Matthew Brook O'Donnell, OpenText.org
Identity-Construction and Paraenesis in 1 Peter: A Semantic Analysis of Communal Terminology
James K. Aitken, University of Cambridge
Civic Administrative Vocabulary in the Septuagint
Ellen J. van Wolde, Tilburg University
Language of Sentiment
Elitzur Bar-Asher, Harvard University
An Explanation of the Etiology of the Name Ammon in Genesis 19, Based on Evidence from Nabataean Aramaic and the Safaitic Arabian Dialect
John Ahn, Yale University
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