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Conference Announcement: The Wording of the Elijah Cycle and Its Early Reception

Date: October 16th–17th, 2026

Location: Collegium Bobolanum, Catholic Academy in Warsaw, Poland

We are thrilled to announce the international conference "The Wording of the Elijah Cycle and Its Early Reception," hosted by Collegium Bobolanum at the Catholic Academy in Warsaw. This event celebrates the issue of The Shorter Dictionary of Classical Hebrew Revised and The Concise Dictionary of Classical Hebrew Revised by David J. A. Clines (Editor) and David  M. Stec (Research Associate) (Sheffield Phoenix Press), alongside with the first edition of The Prophet Is the People (Brill) by Alicia Hein. The conference will explore the vocabulary of the Masoretic Text in the Elijah Cycle (1 Kings 17–2 Kings 2), its redaction, and early reception. Scholars specializing in Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic are warmly invited to submit paper proposals. Selected contributions will be published as Collected Essays by Sheffield Phoenix Press.

Keynote Papers:

• David Stec (Sheffield): The Vocabulary of the Elijah Cycle in The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew Revised
• Alicia Hein (Tübingen-Siegen) : A Prima Donna Prophet? The Characterization of Elijah Revisited

Organization Committee:

Michał Karnawalski SJ (Warsaw)
Jakub Bluj OP (Cracow) 

Scientific Committee:

Marek Baraniak (Warsaw)
Henryk Drawnel SDB (Lublin)
Peter Dubovský SJ (Rome)
Georg Fischer SJ (Innsbruck)
David Stec (Sheffield)
Adam Kubiś (Lublin)
Anna Kuśmirek (Warsaw)
Krzysztof Siwek (Warsaw)
Mirosław Wróbel (Lublin)

Invited Scholars:

Bruno Clifton OP (Oxford)
Charlie Hadjiev (Cardiff)
Krzysztof Kinowski (Lublin)
Adam Kubiś (Lublin)
Marcin Majewski (Cracow)
Dorota Molin (Cambridge-Oxford)
Francisco Martins SJ (Rome)
Tomasz Niedźwiedzki (Olsztyn)
Emanuelle Pastore (Paris)
Łukasz Popko OP (Jerusalem)
Anna Rambiert-Kwaśniewska (Wrocław)
Rafał Strugiński SJ (Warsaw)