Nine thematic seminar sessions will be held at the IOSOT 2016 congress. The list below indicates the broad themes of the seminar sessions, as well as the names of the organizers of these sessions:
| TITLE OF SEMINAR | ORGANIZERS |
| OT/HB Exegesis and History of Religions at the Intersections of Specialization Fields and Different Continents | Angelika Berlejung Friedhelm Hartenstein Willem Boshoff Diana Edelman Francesca Stavrakopoulou Herbert Niehr Sakkie Cornelius |
| Bible Translation. A Discussion Across Continents | Ernst Wendland Gerrit van Steenbergen Samy Tioye Christo van der Merwe |
| “Loving your neighbour … and the foreigner” – Ethics and Reception according to Leviticus 19” | Andreas Schüle Elna Mouton Funlola Olojede Jacqueline Lapsley Hendrik Bosman |
| Colenso as a critical African scholar of the Pentateuch | Gerald West Jonathan Draper Jurie le Roux Sakkie Spangenberg |
| Prophets and Trauma | Daniel Smith-Christopher Jonathan Kavusa Willie Wessels |
| Seeing God. Visual perception of the divine in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, and the New Testament | Hans Ausloos Jan Joosten Michael van der Meer Gert Steyn |
| Assessing the Use of Gender in Current Biblical Scholarship | Jacqueline Lapsley Madipoane Masenya (ngwan’a Mphahlele) Charlene van der Walt Christl Maier Mercedes Garcia Bachmann |
| New Directions in the Computational Analysis of Biblical Hebrew Grammar | Wido van Peursen Dean Forbes John A. Cook Cynthia Miller-Naudé Jacobus Naudé |
| The Reception of the Book of Job in Various Contexts | Mark Sneed Anette Schellenberg David Adamo Katherine Dell Jaco Gericke |
