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      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">09:00-11:00 Cantillation Notes<u></u><u></u></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Chairperson: Yosef Ofer<u></u><u></u></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Lea Himmelfarb </span><u><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://events.eventact.com/ProgramView2/Agenda/Lecture?id=151399&code=2257148" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">The Discovery of
                a Hidden
                Interpretation Following the Location of the <i>Etnach</i></span><span style="font-size:5.5pt;color:blue"> </span><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><u></u><u></u></span></a></span></u></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Ephraim-Bezalel Halivni </span><u><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://events.eventact.com/ProgramView2/Agenda/Lecture?id=151386&code=2231468" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Commentary and
                Punctuation in <i>Ta’amei
                  Hamikra</i>: Additional Examples</span><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><u></u><u></u></span></a></span></u></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span>Elihu
          Shannon </span><u><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://events.eventact.com/ProgramView2/Agenda/Lecture?id=151034&code=2882709" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">The Special
                Accentuation of An Unusual
                Type of List in the Bible</span><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><u></u><u></u></span></a></span></u></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span>Yuval Weiss </span><u><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://events.eventact.com/ProgramView2/Agenda/Lecture?id=139741&code=2454103" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Probabilistic
                Examination: Does the
                Content of a Verse Affect the Choice of its </span><span style="font-size:6.5pt;color:blue">Accentuations</span><span style="color:blue">?</span><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><u></u><u></u></span></a></span></u></p>
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      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">11:30-13:30The Books of the Torah and the
          Reading in the Torah<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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          Room, Mandel Building<u></u><u></u></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Chairperson: Rafael Zer (Singer)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Jordan S. Penkower</span><u><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://events.eventact.com/ProgramView2/Agenda/Lecture?id=150814&code=2231213" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue"> The Ten
                Commandments in the Paintings
                of Rembrandt</span><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><u></u><u></u></span></a></span></u></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Mordekhai Weintraub </span><u><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://events.eventact.com/ProgramView2/Agenda/Lecture?id=148862&code=2259275" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">The Duration of
                the Torah Reading
                Cycle in Eretz Israel in Light of New Findings </span><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><u></u><u></u></span></a></span></u></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Joseph Peretz </span><u><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://events.eventact.com/ProgramView2/Agenda/Lecture?id=151204&code=2231753" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">A Whole Ashkenazi
                Torah Scroll from
                the Thirteenth Century</span><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><u></u><u></u></span></a></span></u></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Ephraim B Caspi </span><u><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://events.eventact.com/ProgramView2/Agenda/Lecture?id=150825&code=2872880" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Multiple Tagging
                and Strange Letters
                Systems found in Torah Scrolls and other Ancient Sources
                due to <i>Sefer Tagi</i></span><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><u></u><u></u></span></a></span></u></p>
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      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">14:30-16:30The Massorah Comments<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Chairperson: Jordan S. Penkower<u></u><u></u></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Edson de Faria Francisco </span><u><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://events.eventact.com/ProgramView2/Agenda/Lecture?id=150887&code=2258627" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">References to
                Masoretic Annotations of
                Leningrad Codex B19a in the <i>Antigo Testamento
                  Interlinear Hebraico-Português</i>:
                General Remarks and Function</span><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><u></u><u></u></span></a></span></u></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Bella Hass Weinberg </span><u><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://events.eventact.com/ProgramView2/Agenda/Lecture?id=150897&code=2878946" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">The Omission of
                Function Words from
                Early Hebrew and Latin Concordances vs. the Prominence
                of Function Words in
                Masoretic Notes</span><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><u></u><u></u></span></a></span></u></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Elvira Martin-Contreras </span><u><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://events.eventact.com/ProgramView2/Agenda/Lecture?id=151035&code=2882700" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Mnemonic Signs
                Shared by the Rabbinic
                Literature and the Masorah</span><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><u></u><u></u></span></a></span></u></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Rafael Zer (Singer) </span><u><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://events.eventact.com/ProgramView2/Agenda/Lecture?id=142751&code=2255103" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Textual
                Differences between Editions
                of the Bible Based on the Aleppo Codex</span><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><u></u><u></u></span></a></span></u></p>
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      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">17:00-19:00The Masorah and the Grammar of the
          Language<u></u><u></u></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">530 Seminar Room, Mandel Building<u></u><u></u></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Chairperson: Bella Hass Weinberg<u></u><u></u></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Robert Vanhoff </span><i><u><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://events.eventact.com/ProgramView2/Agenda/Lecture?id=151142&code=2857977" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Qere we’la
                  Ketiv/Ketiv we’la Qere</span><span style="color:blue;font-style:normal">: A Problematic
                  Category in Masoretic
                  Studies</span><span style="color:windowtext;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none"><u></u><u></u></span></a></span></u></i></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Elodie Attia </span><u><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://events.eventact.com/ProgramView2/Agenda/Lecture?id=147153&code=2467623" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">The Fragment INC
                675: New Evidence of
                Non-Classical Tiberian Masorah in Western Europe</span><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><u></u><u></u></span></a></span></u></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Chanan Ariel </span><i><u><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://events.eventact.com/ProgramView2/Agenda/Lecture?id=150796&code=2259933" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">harrəʿīmå̄h,
                  u-zăhaḇ, wa-yqanʾū</span><span style="color:blue;font-style:normal">: Three
                  Expressions of a Single Phenomenon</span><span style="color:windowtext;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none"><u></u><u></u></span></a></span></u></i></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Yosef Ofer </span><u><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://events.eventact.com/ProgramView2/Agenda/Lecture?id=150781&code=2873454" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Horayat Haqore
                (hadayat alqari): A
                Documentation of the Biblical Accentuation and Attempts
                of Explanation</span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><u></u><u></u></span></font></span></a></span></u></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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