Acknowledgements
The present volume is the result of a conference that took place from February 23 to 25, 2023, at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg. We would like to express our thanks to Eva Landman for accommodating us in the Warburg-Haus’s marvellous reading room. We express our gratitude to Klara Woest whose immense assistance and organisational skills made the conference proceed smoothly. We are much obliged to the University of Hamburg for its generous funding of this conference in the context of the Postdoctoral Fellowship program and to the Hamburg Research Academy for its support. We thank the Open Access Fund (UHH-OAF) of the University of Hamburg for financing the publication of this volume in the Open Access format. We would also like to give our thanks to Prof. Dr. Jörn Steigerwald and Prof. Dr. Jörg Robert for accepting this volume in the Poesis-series. English not being our native tongue, we are extremely grateful to have been able to count on the help of Jaclyn Arndt, whom we thank for her meticulous, competent and thoughtful copyediting of the English chapters.
Rogier Gerrits and Avi Liberman, January 2025