Rene Schreiner explored the possibility that the figures of both Satan and the Paraclete reflect courtroom figures developed largely from the Book of Job. David Mihalyfy offered some suggestions from a linguist\u2019s perspective on the pronunciation of Coptic. The paper was not only incredibly fascinating, but more importantly, seemed persuasive. The overall point was that the treatment of Coptic characters in most grammars, offering a one-to-one correspondent in Latin characters, is probably misleading, with Coptic being more like French, where the sound of letters can depend on where they appear in a word and what precedes or follows them. Teresa Calpino talked about Jewish funerary inscriptions from Rome and the hints they provide about the role and status of scribes in the Judaism of the period in this locale.<\/p>\n
The banquet Saturday evening witnessed further conversations about the burial of Jesus, followed by the presidential address by Matthew Waters on the Elamites.<\/p>\n
Sunday morning I oversaw a round table discussion on teaching and evaluative tools\/assignments. I shared some of the things I have been doing to integrate information literacy skills as central to courses I teach.<\/p>\n
On the whole it was a delightful conference. My only complaint is that we were not told that we needed to request a password in advance if we wanted to use the university wi-fi system, and thus I couldn\u2019t blog about the conference while at the conference!<\/p>\n
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