ARAM Periodical & Conferences Back issues are still available. Contents of Volume 1, 1989: Prof. Nicholas Postgate (University of Cambridge): Ancient Assyria - A Multi-Racial State. Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford): Three Thousand Years of Aramaic Literature. Mr. Alan Millard (University of Liverpool): Mesopotamia and the Bible. Dr. John Healey (University of Manchester): Ancient Aramaic Culture and the Bible. Dr. John Healey (University of Manchester): Were the Nabataeans Arabs? Dr. Michael Dols (University of California): Syriac into Arabic: the Transmission of Greek Medicine. Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford): The Dispute between Soul and Body: an Example of a Long-Lived Mesopotamian Literary Genre. Dr. Hashim Behbehani (University of Kuwait): Arab-Chinese Military Encounters: Two Case Studies 715-751 AD. Mr. Moussa Domit (New York Arts Gallery): The Art of Saliha Douaihy. Prof. Paul Dion (University of Toronto): Medical Personnel in the Ancient Near East. Asû and ashipu in Aramaic Garb. Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (University of Oxford): The Acts of Thomas and the Unity of the Dualistic World in the Syrian Orient. Dr. Zeidoun al-Muheisen (Yarmouk University): Yasileh. Dr. Hugh Kennedy (St Andrew's University): Change and Continuity in Syria and Palestine at the Time of the Moslem Conquest. Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford): Syriac Culture in the Seventh Century. Mr. Nicholas Campion (Bristol): The Concept of Destiny in Islamic Astrology and its Impact on Mediaeval European Thought. Prof. Michael Hollerich (Santa Clara University): Arthur Vööbus Remembered. Dr. Sebasatian Brock (University of Oxford): Arthur Vööbus' Contribution to Syriac Studies. Contents of Volume 2, 1990 (Proceedings of the First International Conference of ARAM: The Nabataeans - Oxford University), under the patronage of His Royal Highness crown Prince Hassan bin Talal: Dr. Zeidoun al-Muheisen & Dr. Dominique Tarrier (Yarmouk University): A la Mémoire de Père Jean Starcky. Mr. Peter Parr (University of London): Sixty Years of Excavation in Petra: A Critical Assessment. Prof. John Bartlett (University of Dublin): From Edomites to Nabataeans: the Problem of Continuity. Dr. Piotr Bienkowski (Museum of Liverpool): The Chronology of Tawilan and the "Dark Age" of Edom. Prof. David Graf (University of Miami): The Origin of the Nabataeans. Dr. Manfred Lindner (Naturhistorische Gesellschaft, Nurnberg): A Unique Lithic Early Bronze Edomite-Nabataean Site in Southern Jordan: both Past and Present. Dr. John Healey (University of Manchester): The Nabataean Contribution to the Development of the Arabic Script. Prof. William Jobling (University of Sydney): Some New Nabataean and North Arabian Inscriptions of the Hisma in Southern Jordan. Dr. Youssif Qozi (University of Baghdad): Remarques sur une Inscription Nabatéene de Mada`in Salih/Al-Higr. Mr. Karl Schmidt-Korte (Frankfurt): An Early Christian Record of the Nabataeans: the Maslam Inscription (ca. 350 AD). Dr. Robert Wenning (University of Münster): Two Forgotten Nabataean Inscriptions. Dr. Fawzi Zayadine (Department of Antiquities, Jordan): The Pantheon of the Nabataean Inscriptions in Egypt and the Sinai. Dr. Ernst Axel Knauf (University of Heidelberg): Dushara and Shai al-Qaum. Dr. Joseph Patrich (University of Haifa): Prohibition of a Graven Image among the Nabataeans: the Evidence and its Significance. Dominique Tarrier (Yarmouk University): Baalshamin dans le Monde Nabatéen: à propos de Découvertes Récentes Dr. Zeidoun al-Muheisen (Yarmouk University): Maîtrise de l'Eau et Agriculture en Nabatène: l'Exemple de Petra. Mr. Julian Bowsher (Museum of London): Early Nabataean Coinage. Mrs. Jaqueline Dentzer-Feydy (Universsity of Paris 1 -Sorbonne): Khirbet Edh-Dharih: Architectural Decoration of the Temple. Dr. David Johnson (Brigham Young University): Nabataean Piriform Unguentaria. Mrs. Marie Killick (Oxford): Les Nabatéen a Udhruh. Mrs. Diana Kirkbride (Copenhagen): The Nabataeans, Trajan and the Periplus. Dr. Margaret Lyttleton & Dr. Thomas Blagg (London): Sculpture from the Tenemos of Qasr el-Bint at Petra. Mr. James Mason & Dr. Khairieh `Amr (Department of Antiquities, Amman): A Study of Nabataean Pottery Manufacturing Techniques. An Experiment for Reconstructing the Production of Fine Bowls. Dr. Gerald Mattingly (Johnson Bible College): Settlement on Jordan's Kerak Plateau from Iron Age IIC through the Early Roman Period. Prof. Avraham Negev (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Mampsis - the End of a Nabataean Town. Dr. François Villeneuve (Ecole Normale Superieure): The Pottery from the Oil Factory at Khirbet EDh-Dharih (2nd Century AD). Dr. John Zeitler (Naturhistorische Gesellschaft, Nurnberg): A Private Building from the First Century BC in Petra. Dr. Mohammad Abdul-Latif Abdul Karim (University of Baghdad): The Nabataeans in the Arab Tradition. Dr. Salih Harmarneh (University of Jordan): The Nabataeans after the Decline of the Political Power: from the Arabic Islamic Sources. Contents of Volume 3, 1991 (Proceedings of the Second International Conference of ARAM: The Syriac-Arabic Cultural Interchange during the Abbasid Era - Oxford University): Dr. Carmela Baffioni (University of Naples): Probable Syriac Influences in the Ikhwan al-Safa''s logical Epistles? Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford): `Come, Compassionate Mother..., come Holy Spirit': a Forgotten Aspect of Early Eastern Christian Imagery. Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford): Some New Syriac Documents From the Third Century AD. Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford): The Syrian Background to Hunayn's Translation Techniques. Dr. Hans Daiber (Vreije Universiteit, Amsterdam): Nestorians of 9th Century Iraq as a Source of Greek, Syriac and Arabic. A Survey of Some Unexploited Sources. Dr. Stephanie Dalley (University of Oxford): The Gilgamesh Epic and Manichaean Themes. Prof. Sidney H. Griffith (Catholic University of America): The Apologetic Treatise of Nonnus of Nisibis. Dr. Johannes den Heijer (University of Leiden): Syriacisms in the Arabic Version of Aristotle's Historia Animalium. Dr. Bo Holmberg (University of Lund): The Trinitarian Terminology of Israel of Kashkar (d. 872). Mr. Robert Hoyland (University of Oxford): Arabic, Syriac and Greek Historiography in the First Abbasid Century: An Inquiry into Inter-Cultural Traffic. Dr. Shamil Kubba (Jordan): Origins of the Islamic City. Prof. Wilferd Madelung (University of Oxford): Al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim and Christian Theology. Prof. Michael Morony (University od California.L.A.): The Aramaean Population in the Economic Life of Early Islamic Iraq. Dr. Henri Hugonnard-Roche (C.N.R.S. Paris): Contributions Syriaques aux Etudes Arabes de Logique à l'Epoque Abbasside. Dr. Samir Khalil Samir (Université St Joseph-Beyrouth): Un Traité Perdu de Hunayn ibn Ishaq Retrouvé dans la "Somme" d'Ibn al-`Assal. Prof. Irfan Shahid (Georgetown University): In Memoriam: Metropolitan Gregorius Bulus Behnam, 1916-1969. Dr. Gotthard Strohmaier (Corpus Medicorum Graecorum, Berlin): Hunain ibn Ishaq - an Arab Scholar Translating into Syriac. Dr. Sarah Stroumsa (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The Impact of Syriac Tradition on Early Judaeo-Arabic Bible Exegesis. Dr. Mauro Zonta (University of Pavia): Ibn al-Tayyib, Zoologist and Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Revision of Aristotle's De Animalibus - New Evidence from the Hebrew Tradition. Contents of Volume 4, 1992, (Proceedings of the Second International of ARAM: The Decapolis - Oxford University): Prof. David Graf (University of Miami): Hellenisation and the Decapolis. Dr. Martin Goodman (University of Oxford): Jews in the Decapolis. Dr. W. Harold Mare (Covenant Theological Seminary-USA): Abila: a Thriving Greco-Roman city of the Decapolis. Dr. Robert Wenning (University of Münster): Nabataeans in the Decapolis/ Coele Syria. Dr. Ali Zeyadeh (Birzeit University): Urban Transformation in the Decapolis cities of Jordan. Dr. Gideon Foerster & Prof. Yoram Tsafrir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Nysa- Scythopolis in the Roman period: `a Greek city of Coele Syria` - Evidence from the excavations at Bet-Shean. Dr. Maurice Sartre (François Rabelais University): Les cités de Décapole septentrionale: Canatha, Raphana, Dion et Ahadra. Dr. Michael Fuller & Mrs Neathery Fuller (St Louis Community College-USA): Regional Survey and ethnoarcharological investigations at Abila. Dr. Pau Figuras (Ben-Gurion University): The Roman worship of Athena-Allat in the Decapolis and the Negev. Mr. Jacques Seigne (IFAPO-Amman): A l'ombre de Zeus et d'Artemis, Gerasa de la écapole. Dr. Robert H. Smith (College of Wooster-USA): Some pre-Chritian religions at Pella of he Decapolis. Dr. Robert W. Smith (Miami University): Secondary use of the necropoleis of the Decapolis. Dr. Dominique Tarrier (Yarmouk University): La nécropole de Yasileh et les tombeaux du nord de la Jordanie. Dr. Zeidoun al-Muheisen (Yarmouk University): Le site de Yasileh et la Décapole. Dr. Margaret O'Hea (University of Adelaide): The glass industry of the Decapolis. Mr. Julian Bowsher (Museum of London): Civic organisation within the Decapolis. Dr. Yizhar Hirschfeld & Dr. Erez Cohen (Israel Antiquities Authority): The reconstruction of the Roman baths at Hammath Gader. Dr. Leah di Segni (Hebrew University): Greek inscriptions of the bath-house in Hammath Gader. Dr. John D. Wineland (Miami University): Archaeological and numismatic evidence for the Political structure and Greco-Roman religions of the Decapolis, with particular emphasis on Gerasa & Abila. Prof. Alan Walmsley (University of Sidney): Vestiges of the Decapolis in orth Jordan during the Late Antique and Early Islamic periods. Dr. Willard W. Winter (Cincinati Bible College and Seminary): A Byzantine basilica at Abila. Dr. Karel J. Vriezen (University of Utrecht): The centralised church in Umm Qais (andcient Gadara). Mr. Robert Guinée & Miss. Nicole Mulder (University of Utrecht): Survey of the Terrace and western theatre area in Umm Qais. Miss. Susanne Kerner (German Protetant Institute of Archaeology): Umm Qais-Gadara: recent excavations. Dr. Esti Dvorjetzki (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Medicinal hot springs in Eretz-Israel and the Decapolis during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods. Contents of Volume 5, 1993, (A Festschrift for Dr Sebastian P. Brock): Prof. Luise Abramowski (University of Tübingen): Die Reste der syrischen Übersetzung von Theodor von Mopsuestia, De Incarnatione, in add 14669. Dr. Micheline Albert (Université de Sorbonne): Lettre de Grégoire de Nysse à son frère Pierre d'Annési-Sébaste. Dr. David Bundy (Christian Theological Seminary-USA): Revising the Diatessaron against the Manichaeans: Ephrem of Syria on John 1:4. Dr. James T. Clemons (Wesley Theological Seminary-USA): Syriac Studies in the United States: 1783-1900. Dr. J F Coakley (Harvard University): Yaroo M Neesan, `a missionary to his own people'. Dr. Johann Cook (University of Stellenbosch): Syriac studies in South Africa. Dr. Peter S. Cowe (Columbia University): Philoxenus of Mabbug and the Synod of Manazkert. Prof. Han J. W. Drijvers (Groningen University): New Syriac inscriptions. Dr. Michel van Esbroeck (University of Munich): Les versions syriaques du Panegirique de Grégoire le Thaumaturge. Dr. Jean-Marie Fiey (Université St Joseph-Beyrout): L'imprimerie des Dominicains de Mossoul 1860-1914. Dr. François Graffin (Paris): Adresses d'un supérieur de monastère à ses frères. Prof. Sidney H Griffith (Catholic University of Beirut): Henri Hyvernat (1858-1941) and the beginning of of Syriac Studies at the Catholic University of America. Prof. André de Halleux (Université de Louvain): L'annonciation à Marie dans le commentaire syriaque du Diatessaron. Prof. Susan Harvey (Brown University): The memory and meaning of a saint: two homilies on Simeon Stylites. Dr. Bo Holmberg (Lund University): Syriac studies in Sweden. Dr. Erica Hunter (Cambridge University): A scroll amulet from Kurdistan. Mr. Konrad Jenner (Rijks University-Leiden): A review of the methods by which Syriac biblical and related manuscripts have been described and analysed. Dr. Hubert Kaufhold (University of Munich): Über Datum und Schreiber der Handschrift Vaticanus Syriacus 51. Dr. David J. Lane (College of the Resurrection-England): Admonition and analogy: 13 chapters from Shubhalmaran. Prof. Michael Lattke (University of Queensland-Australia): Die griechischen Wörter im syrischen Text der Oden Salomos. Dr. Kathleen McVey (Princeton University): The sogitha on the Church of Edessa in the context of other early Greek and Syriac Hymns for the consecration of Church buildings. Dr. Dana Miller (Harvard University): George, bishop of the Arab tribes, on true philosophy. Dr. Robert Murray (London University): It was springtime': the source of Jerome's rendering of a phrase in Genesis 35:16 and 48:7. Dr. Andrew Palmer (University of London): `A lyre without a voice': the poetics and the politics of Ephrem the Syrian. Dr. Martin G. F. Parmentier Hilversum-Holland): Pseudo-Gregory of Nyssa's homily on poverty. Prof. Paul-Hubert Poirier (Université Laval-Québec): Note sur un mot des Actes de Thomas. Dr. Gerrit D. Reinink (Rijks University-Leiden): Pseudo-Ephraems `Rede über das Ende' und die Syrische eschatologische Literatur des siebenten Jahrhunderts. Dr. Frédéric Rilliet (Université de Génève): Une victime du tournant des études syriaques à la fin du XIXe siècle. Rétrospective sur Jaques de Saroug dans la science occidentale. Prof. Lucas van Rompay (Rijks University-Leiden): Memories of paradise. The Greek `Life of Adam and Eve' and early Syriac tradition. Dr. Alison Salvesen (Oxford University): Spirits in Jacob's revision of Samuel. Prof. Irfan Shahîd (Georgetown University): The restoration of the Ghassanid Dynasty, AD 587: Dionysius of Tellmahre. Dr. Robert Taft (Oriental Institute-Rome): Some structural problems in the Syriac Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles I. Dr. Martin Tamcke (Phillips University-Germany): Die Konfessionsfrage bei den lutherischen Nestorianen. Dr. Jacob Vellian (St Ephrem Institute-India): The early Syriac manuscripts of the Qurbana of Malabar (a historical survey concerning their impact on Malabar liturgy). Dr. John Watt (University of Wales): The Syriac reception of Platonic and Aristotelian rhetoric. Prof. Gabriele Winkler (University of Tübingen): Neue Überlegungen zur Entstehung des Epiphaniefests. Dr. Witold Witakowsi (University of Uppsala): The division of the Earth between the descendants of Noah in Syriac tradition. Dr. Ugo Zanetti (Université de Louvain): Projet d'une Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca. Volume 6, 1994: (Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference: The Arab-Byzantine-Syriac Culture Interchange during the Umayyad Era in Syria (Bilad al-Sham) - Oxford University): Dr. Michael Bates (The American Numismatic Society): Byzantine coinage and its imitations, Byzantine coinage and its imitations: Arab-Byzantine coinage. Dr. Monica Blanchard (Catholic University of America): The Georgian version of the martyrdom of St Michael, monk of Mar Sabas monastery. Dr. Lawrence Conrad (Wellcome Institute): Did Walid I found the first Muslim hospital? Prof. Han Drijvers (University of Groningen): The testament of our Lord. Jacob of Edessa's response to Islam. Dr. Pau Figueras (Ben-Gurion University): The impact of the Islamic conquest on the Christian communities of the Third Palestine. Dr. Michael Fuller (St Louis Community College-USA): Continuity and cultural interchange at Tell Tuneinir, Syria. Prof. Sidney Griffith (Catholic University of America): Michael, the Martyr and monk of Mar Sabas monastery, at the court of Caliph 'Abd al-Malik: Christian apologetics. Dr. Claus-Peter Haase (Kiel University): Is madinat al-Far - in the Balikh region of northern Syria - an Umayyad foundation? Mr. Robert Hoyland (Oxford University): The correspondence between Leo III (717-741) and 'Umar II (717-720). Dr. Geoffrey Khan (Cambridge University): The pre-Islamic backgroundof Muslim legal formularies. Dr. W. Harold Mare (Covenant Theological Seminary-USA): The Christian church of Abila of the Decapolis and the Yarmouk Valley System in the Umayyad period. Mr. W. Andrew Oddy (British Museum): The earliest Umayyad coinage of Gerasa and Scythopolis. Dr. Andrew Palmer (London University): Two Jacobite bishops, Theodotus (d. 698) and Simeon (d. 734), and their relations with the Umayyad authorities. Dr. Steven A Rosen (Ben-Gurion University): Israel The nomadic periphery: archaeology of pastoralists in the south central Negev during Late Antiquity. Prof. Daniel Sahas (University of Waterloo): Cultural interaction during the umayyad period: the `circle' of John of Damascus. Dr. Elizabeth Savage (London): Iraqi christian links with an early Islamic sect. Prof. Irfan Shahîd (Georgetown University): The Umayyad ajnad: Byzance après Byzance. Prof. Ahmad Shboul (University of Sydney): Umayyad Damascus: notes on its population and culture based on Ibn `Asakir's History. Mr. Claude Vibert-Guigue (IFAPO-Amman): Le projet franco-jordanien de relevé des peintures de Quseir `Amra. Dr. Pamela Watson (British Institute of Archaology-Amman): Pictorial painting on pottery and its demise in the mid-7th century AD: the case of the Jerash bowls. Dr. Donald Whitcomb (University of Chicago): Were there amsar in Syria? Miscellaneous: Dr. Sebastian P. Brock (Oxford University): André de Halleux's contributions to Syriac studies. Prof. Abraham Negev (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Khaznet fira'un at Petra - iconoclasm Nabataean. style. Contents of Volume 7, 1995 (Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of ARAM: Palmyra - Oxford University), under the patronage of Her Excellency Dr. Najah al-Attar, the Syrian minister of culture. Dr. Khaled Asaad (Department of Antiquities-Palmyra): Restoration work at Palmyra. Dr. Marek Baranski (University of Warsaw): The great colonnade of Palmyra reconsidered. Dr. Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (Collège de France): Un cratère palmyrénien inscrit: nouveau document sur la vie religieuse des palmyréniens. Prof. Malcolm A.R. Colledge (University of London): Palmyrene funerary iconography in its Greek and Roman contexts. Dr. Valentina Columbo (University of Milano): Nabataeans and Palmyreans: an analysis of the Tell el-Shuqafiyye inscriptions. Dr. Eleonora Cussini (University of Bologna-Italy): Transfer of property at Palmyra. Dr. Stephanie Dalley (University of Oxford): Bel at Palmyra, Apamea, and Assur. Prof. Han J. W. Drijvers (University of Groningen): Inscriptions from Allat's Sanctuary. Prof. Michael Gawlikowski (University of Warsaw): News from Palmyra: Current Work and Perspectives of Research. Dr. David Graf (Miami University): Safaitic inscriptions at Palmyra. Prof. Delbert R. Hillers (John Hopkins University): Palmyrene Aramaic: Lexical and grammatical notes. Dr. Saito Kiyohide (The Nara International Foundation-Japan): Excavation at Southeast Necropolis in Pamyra from 1990 to 95. Dr. Mohammed Maraqten (Marburg/Lahn University): Arabic words in Palmyrene inscriptions. Dr. W. Harold Mare (Covenant Theological Seminary-USA):: Abila and Palmyra: Ancient trade routes from southern Syria into Mesopotamia. Dr. Gerald Mattingly (Johnson Bible College): The Palmyrene luxury trade and Revelation 18: 12-13 - a neglected analogue. Dr. Antoni Ostrasz (Warsaw University): The urban growth of Palmyra seen from Jerash. Prof. Klaus Parlasca (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg): Probleme der Palmyrischen Kunst. Dr. Palmira Piersimoni (Italy): A Palmyrene prosography: Methodological Problems. Dr. Andreas Schmidt-Colinet (University of Bern): Textiles and the quarries of Palmyra. Dr. Jacques Seigne (IFAPO-Amman): The peribolos of the temple of Bel. Dr. Annemarie Stauffer (Fachhochschule Köln): Eastern and Western Fashion - Reconstruction and Analysis of Palmyrene garments. Dr. Dominique Tarrier (Yarmouk University-Jordan): Banquets culturels palmyréniens et nabatéens. Dr. Jürgen Tubach (Martin-Luther Universität-Germany): Das Akitu-Fest in Palmyra. Prof. Ernest Will (Institut de France-Paris): Architecture locale et architecture impériale à Palmyre. Prof. Andrzej Zaborski (Warsaw University): Notes on Palmyrean language. Contents of Volume 8, 1996 (Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference of ARAM: Trade Routes in the Near East: Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Times - Oxford University): Dr. Hamad M. Bin Seray (United Arab Emirates University): Spasinu Charax and its commercial Relations with the East through the Arabian Gulf. Prof. John Carswell (Islamic Department-London): All at Sea: Recent Research in the Indian Ocean. Drs. Lucida Dirven (University of Leiden): A possible trade connection between Dura-Europos and Palmyra. Dr. J. M. Frayn (University of London): Aspects of Trade on the Judaean Coast in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Dr. John F. Healey (University of Manchester): Palmyra and the Arabian Gulf trade. Prof. Michael Gawlikowski (University of Warsaw): The Euphrates Route between Syria and Mesopotamia. Dr. David F. Graf (University of Miami): The Silk Road in Late Antiquity. Dr. Amos Kloner (Israel Antiquities Authority): Stepped Roads in Roman Palestine. Dr. Marlia Mundell Mango (University of Oxford): Byzantine Trade with the East. Dr. Mohammed Maraqten (Marburg/Lahn University- Germany): Dangerous Trade Routes: On the Plundering of Caravans in the Ancient Near East. Dr. Gerald Mattingly (Johnson Bible College-USA): The King’s Highway, the Desert Highway, and Central Jordan’s Kerak. Dr. Leo Mildenberg (University of Zurich): Petra on the Frankincense Road? - Again. Prof. A.S. Al-Azzawi (Jordan University of Science and Technology): Khayyan el-Mushref between the Trade Routes. Prof. Avraham Negev (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Oboda - A Major Nabataean Caravan Halt. Dr. Sarit H. Oked (Ben Gurion University of the Negev): Patterns of the Transport Amphora at Ostrakine during the 6th and 7th Century. Dr. Andrew Palmer (University of London): The Routes of Pilgrims to Jerusalem. Dr. Mohammad A. R. Al-Thenayian (King Saud University-Riyadh): The Yemeni Highland Pilgrim Route between San‘a and Mecca. Dr. Aloïs van Tongerloo (University of Leuven): The Three Magi wandering Eastward. Dr. Donald Whitcomb (Chicago University): The Darb Zubayda: An Abbasid trade route and its settlements across Saudi Arabia. Dr. Fawzi Zeyadine (Department of Antiquities-Amman): The Spices and Silk Routes in Transjordan in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Prof. Nicola A. Ziadeh (American University of Beirut): External Trade of Bilad al-Sham under the Early Abbasids. Contents of Volume 9, 1997 (Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of ARAM: Who were or are the Aramaeans? - Harvard University) Prof. Peter Machinist (Harvard University): The emergence of Aramaic popular literature in the first millennium BCE. Prof. Paul E. Dion (University of Toronto): Aramean royal courts and civilian structures of authority. Prof. Han Drijvers (University of Groningen): Prof. Hartmut Kühne (Freie Universität Berlin): The Arameans on the Lower Habur, 1000 - 500 BC. Dr. Stephen J. Bourke (University of Sydney): The archaeology of Gilead and the Aramean presence in north Jordan: recent research at Pella in Jordan. Prof. Stephen Cole (Harvard University): The early history of the Arameans in Iraq. Dr. Stephen Grosby (Villanova University): `rm klh: a nation of ARAM? Prof. John Huehnergard (Harvard University): What is Aramaic? Prof. Stephen Kaufman (Hebrew Union College-USA): What isn’t Aramaic? a lexicographer’s dilemma. Dr. Chul Bae (Harvard University): Aramaic as a lingua franca in the Ancient Near East. Prof. Oktor Skjaervo (Harvard University): Aramaic `heterograms’ in Iranian scribal traditions. Dr. Yona Sabar (University of California at L.A.): Parallel features of development in Jewish neo-Aramaic and modern Israeli Hebrew. Dr. Erica C.D. Hunter (Cambridge University): Aramaic-speaking communities of Sasanid Mesopotamia. Dr. Victoria Erhart (Dumbarton Oaks): The Arameans of the 6th - 8th Centuries CE. Dr. Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley: Mandeans in the USA today: the tenacity of traditions.