Academic Presentations

▻    October 21, 2025 – “A Weighty Placement: An Assessment of a Recent Reconstruction of 4QHodayot^a Column III and Its Implications for the Scroll’s Provenance.” Lying Pen of Scribes Project Meeting. University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.

▻    August 12, 2025 – “Anonymity in the Hodayot.” Meeting of the International Organization of Qumran Studies. Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.

▻    June 18, 2024 – “The Textual Reconstruction of Recension A of the Self-Glorification Hymn: A Reconsideration of the Placements of Frgs. 4–6, 8 in 4QHodayot^a,” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, McGill University, Montreal, QC.

▻    January 18, 2023 — “The Intended Speaker in 1QHodayot^a and the Teacher Hymns Hypothesis,” The Forum for Ancient Religions, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

▻    December 12, 2022 — “The Impact of Different Sequences of Psalms on the Performative Reading of 1QHodayot^a and 4QHodayot^a,” The Qumran Forum, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

▻    November 21, 2022 — presenting with Esther Chazon, “The Digital Reconstruction of 4Q504 and its Textual, Scribal, and Material Considerations,” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Denver, CO.

▻    August 29, 2022 — presented with Hasia Rimon, “‘Envelope #190, Unidentified Fragments’: Reassessing the Missing Handle Sheet of 1QHodayot^a at the Shrine of the Book,” The Dead Sea Scrolls as Physical Artefacts: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives, Symposium of the Lying Pen of Scribes Project, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.

▻    August 9, 2022 — “Arranged for Performative Effect? An Examination of the Different. Sequences of Psalms on the Performative Reading of 1QHodayot^a and 4QHodayot^a“, IOQS 2022, Zürich, Switzerland.

▻    March 24, 2022 — “Does the Psalm in 1QH^a 19:6–20:6 Fit in 4QH^a I 1–II 17? An Experiment
Using Traced Letters,” Hybrid Workshop: The Role of Text and Compositions in the Material Reconstruction of Psalms and Prayers: 4QWords of the Luminaries^a (4Q504) and 4QHodayot^a (4QH^a),” The W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, East Jerusalem.

▻    August 4, 2021 — “Two Bundles of Thanksgiving: An Assessment of Three Scenarios for the Folding and Wadding of 1QHodayot^a“, EABS Annual Conference, Wuppertal, Germany (online).

▻    May 12, 2021 — “Look Who’s Talking: Reconsidering the Speaker in the ‘Teacher Hymns’ (1QH^a),” International Conference on Qumran Literature/Dead Sea Scrolls: The Origin of the Sectarian Movement in the Dead Sea Scrolls, University of Pretoria (online).

▻    December 12, 2019 — “Farewell to Teacher Hymns and Community Hymns: A Generic Reassessment of the Hodayot,” Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars’ Seminar, Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature.
12:30 to 2:00 PM; Room 2001, the Rabin World Center of Jewish Studies

▻    November 26, 2019 — “David’s Prayer and the Maskil’s Psalm: Some Observations on a Common Rhetorical Strategy in 1 Chr 29:10–20 and 1QH^a 5:12–6:33,” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature.

▻    November 18, 2018 — “You Will Say on That Day, ‘I Thank You, O Lord,’ (Isa 12:1): Hodayot Thanksgiving Psalms as Realizations of Isaiah’s Eschatological Thanksgiving (Isa 12:1-6),” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Denver, CO.

▻    August 1, 2018 — “Visualizing Material Reconstructions in Three Dimensions: Some Insights on the Placement of 1QM Frg. 9 from a Scrollable Digital Model,” International Society of Biblical Literature Meeting, Helsinki, Finland.

▻    May 27, 2018 — “Wrapping Up the War Scroll: Some Reflections on Digitally Rolling Material Reconstructions to Aid in Fragment Placements,” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Regina, SK, Canada.

▻    May 18, 2018 — (Graduate Organizing Committee) System/Système D: Improvising Digital Scholarship, Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship Graduate Colloquium, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

▻    April 26, 2018 — “A Visualization for Reconstructions of Rolled Manuscripts: A Scrollable Model of the War Scroll,” Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship Graduate Colloquium, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

▻    April 11, 2018 — (Organizer) The Scrollery Colloquium,  McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

    Papers:

        ○ Sarianna Metso: “Altar at Qumran? Yom Kippur in the Rule Texts.”

        ○ Daniel Machiela: “The Compositional Setting and Implied Audience of Some Aramaic Texts from Qumran: A Working Hypothesis.”

▻    January 25, 2018 — “Wrapping Up the War Scroll: A Scrolling Three-Dimensional Model of the War Scroll,” Public Lecture at the W.F. Albright Institute, Jerusalem.

▻    November 20, 2017 — “The New Edition of DSS F.Instruction1: A Case Study on Professional Ethics and SBL Policy,” in Forgery and Writing Provenance in Writing Histories of Ancient Israel and Judah, Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, MA.

▻    June 6, 2017 — “Rolling back Assumptions about 1QHodayot^a: Scrolling, Folding, and Wadding Reconstructions in Blender,” University of Haifa, Israel.

▻    May 15, 2017 – Presentation at the Orion Center Discussion Hour. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

▻    April 6, 2017 – Scrollery Colloquium of McMaster University and the University of Toronto: “One Text or Three: A Proposal for a Unified Reading of 1QS-1QSa-1QSb.”

▻    March 29, 2017 — (co-organized with Miriam DeCock) McMaster Ancient Judaism and Ancient Christianity Seminar (MAJACS): Papers by John VanMaaren and Andrew Knight-Messenger. Respondents: Stephen Westerholm and Andrew Perrin.

▻    January 24, 2017 — (co-organized with Miriam DeCock) McMaster Ancient Judaism and Ancient Christianity Seminar (MAJACS) Panel: Review of Matthew Thiessen’s Paul and the Gentile Problem (Oxford, 2016).

▻    November 21, 2016 — “Divinely Imposed Silence in the Thanksgiving Hymns (Hodayot) from Qumran: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Speechlessness of the Psalmist and His Opponents,” Speech and Talk in the Ancient Mediterranean World & Sense and Culture in the Biblical World. Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature Meeting. San Antonio, TX.

▻    November 20, 2016 — SBL Panel: “A Presentation of the Unprovenanced Fragment, DSS F.Instruction1” in the panel, “Teaching Biblical Studies in an Undergraduate Liberal Arts Context.”

▻    May 29, 2016 — “Testing Stegemann’s Placement of Fragment 10 in the Reconstruction of 1QHodayot^a: Two Digital Approaches” at the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting, Calgary, AB, Canada.