Day one | 6.7.2026 | Gefen hall
9:00–9:15 Greetings and announcements
9:15–11:00
Ed Greenstein, Bar-Ilan University: The Ancient Near Eastern Hero and the Homeric Nostos: Why They Are Not the Same
Gabriel Danzig, Bar-Ilan University: The Princess by the River: Homecoming Narratives in Homer and the Bible
11:00–11:15 Coffee Break
11:15–13:00
Ayelet Pe’er, Bar-Ilan University: Witches and Dead Prophets: Thoughts on Saul and Odysseus
David Sabato, Herzog College and Hebrew University: Hospitality in Homer and the Bible (Heb.)
13:00–14:30 Lunch
15:30–17:15
Yisca Zimran, Bar-Ilan University: The Contribution of Comparative Research to the Understanding of Biblical Prophecy (Heb.)
Frank Polak, Tel Aviv University: Biblical Parallelism, Gorgianic Rhetoric and Cultural Context
17:15–17:30 Coffee break
17:30–18:30 Tour of Kibbutz
18:30 Dinner
Day Two | 7.7.2026 | Gefen hall
9:15–11:00
Teddy Fassberg, Tel Aviv University: Theogony 27-28: Initiation Scenes between Hesiod and the Bible
Yael Escojido, Bar-Ilan University: Voicing the Animal: Divine Mediation and Heroic Blindness in Biblical (Num. 22:28) and Homeric Traditions (Iliad, Book 19. 404-417) (Heb.)
11:00–11:15 Coffee Break
11:15–13:00
Ricardo Gancz, Bar-Ilan University: From Rage to Restraint: Achilles and David as Heroes in Crisis
Camilla Recalcati, Bar-Ilan University and Ben Gurion University: Greek and Hebrew tricksters
13:00–14:30 Lunch
14:30–16:45
Raanan Eichler, Bar-Ilan University: Greek Words in the Bible
Irad Malkin, Oxford and Tel Aviv University and Shraga Bar-On, Shalem College and Hartman Institute: Why Draw Lots? Ancient Greek and Hebrew answers
16:45 Coffee Break
Day Three | 8.7.2026 | Online Program
18:00–18:10 Israel time Greetings
Dean of the Faculty of Jewish Studies, Prof. Michael Avioz Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Prof. Galia Yanoshevsky
18:10–19:40
Evangelia Dafni, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: The Song of Songs in relation to Greek literature
Benjamin Scolnic, Southern Connecticut State university: The Paradox of the Sacred Origins of Delphi and Jerusalem
Tikva Blaukopf Schein, Shalem College: Sarah’s Dangerous Laughter: Female Vocality and Divine Threat in Biblical and Ancient Greek Literary Traditions
19:40–20:00 Break
20:00–21:30
Diklah Zohar, HOVO Universiteit Leiden: Heroic Ethos and mythological elements in the story of Samson
Moshe Pinchuk, Netanya Academic College: Job vs. Prometheus: A comparison between the unjust sufferer and the critique of divine justice as presented in the Bible by Job and Prometheus of Aeschylus and Hesiod
Jesse Mirotznik, Bar Ilan University: The Divine Figure in the boat in Biblical and Greek literature
