Call for Papers: The Septuagint as Greek Literature, 7-9 April 2025, University of Pretoria. Abstracts due 31 January by email: pierre.jordaan[at]nwu[dot]ac[dot]za & chris.dewet[at]up[dot]ac[dot]za

Call for Papers: IOSCS sessions at the SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, 22-25 November 2025. In addition to papers for general sessions, IOSCS invites papers on translations of the LXX into East-Asian languages and East-Asian research on the LXX more broadly.

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?

Summer School in Salzburg, Austria, June- 30 July 4, 2025. On Biblical Manuscripts and Their Use in Biblical Studies: The Hebrew, Greek, Latin Texts of Joshua: “The Jericho story."

Virtual Seminar: The Septuagint in Modern Research, March 10, 2025 15:00 GMT: Beatrice Bonnano will present on "The Septuagint of Ruth"

The conference registration and program for the 2025 IOSCS Congress in Berlin is now available online: theologie.hu-berlin.de/en/iosot-2025/…

New book series from De Gruyter Brill ➡️ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social: Studies on the Septuagint within the History of Greek degruyter.com/serial/sshg-b/…

8 aprile 16:00: "uBIQUity e Resilient Septuagint: le Bibbie dei Padri nell'era digitale," una presentazione di Laura Bigoni e Isabella Pignocco, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia e Fondazione per le scienze religiose di Bologna(modalità mista: in presenza e online)

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Albert Pietersma, who had a significant role in the leadership and development of the IOSCS over many years. A full obituary is available on the IOSCS website: septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/ioscs/news/84/

Call for Papers: Transmission, Variation, and Transformation of "Deuterocanonical" Literature Over Time, 5-6 November 2025, Metz, France, abstracts due 31 July

Presentazione del volume The Septuagint of Ruth: Translation Technique, Textual History, and Theological Issues di Beatrice Bonanno (Turnhout, Brepols, 2024), Fondazione per le scienze religiose via San Vitale 114 - 40125 Bologna, 7 maggio 2025 | 11.30-13.00

Workshop annuale: Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint (HTLS, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 4 vols., 2020-) Fondazione per le scienze religiose via San Vitale 114 - 40125 Bologna, 8-9 maggio 2025 | 09.00-18.00

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

Conferencia (en persona): "El dolor del traductor: traduciendo dolencias en el Levíticio griego," J. Alberto Paredes, 29 mayo 2025, Sala Julián Ribera (1C9), Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS - CSIC)

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/discussi…

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

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

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