Monday 29 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Creative Theology: Critical Conversations between the Arts and Theological Method - Broken Faith: Postsecular Theopoetics
  Professor Heather Walton (Glasgow University)
  Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture
• 18:00 - An English Hebraist, an Ottoman 'Rabbi', and the Unlikely Story of the First Hebrew Books Printed in Amsterdam (1605-1606)
  Dr Kirsten Macfarlane (University of Cambridge)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Tuesday 30 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Paul as persecutor in the history of Judaism
  Professor Martin Goodman (University of Oxford)
  Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period
• 16:15 - Mishnaic Scholarship in Seventeenth Century England
  Thomas Roebuck (University of East Anglia)
  Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies
• 17:00 - MSt Medieval Studies Dissertation Projects: Confounding Expectations: the transgression and negotiation of gendered sexual norms in 10th and 11th Century A/Saxon England & From Aldehelm to Cnut: constructing the Anglo-Saxon idea of virginity
  Deborah Clutton (University of Oxford), Heidi Mannikko (University of Oxford)
  Medieval Church and Culture

Thursday 2 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - The Torah of 4 Maccabees
  Tessa Rajak (Somerville)
  Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar
• 17:00 - Richard Baxter Reminiscent: life writing in the Reliquiae and other works
  Eamon Duffy (Magdalene College, Cambridge)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700

Monday 6 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - 1 Samuel 28:3-25
  Alinda Damsma (University of Oxford)
  Hebrew Reading Group
• 14:30 - Orality and Genre: Issues of Method and Interpretation
  Aulikki Nahkola (Wolfson)
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar
• 18:00 - Ancient Synagogues in Judaea/Palaestina: Community and Language
  Professor Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Beth She'arim: a congregation of cultures
  Professor Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University)
  Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period
• 16:15 - The social life of Guilielmus Surenhusius (1666-1729)
  Dirk van Miert (Utrecht University)
  Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies
• 17:00 - MSt Medieval Studies Dissertation Projects: Commensuratio and Dimensive Quality in the Commedia & A Reappraisal of Implicit Faith in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas
  Charles East (University of Oxford), Liam McDonnell (University of Oxford)
  Medieval Church and Culture

Wednesday 8 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Reading the Bible Theologically (Cambridge University Press, 2019 by Darren Sarisky
  Dr Darren Sarisky (University of Oxford), Dr Erin Heim (Wycliffe Hall), Dr Chris Tilling (St Mellitus)

Thursday 9 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Pesher in Context
  Barry Hartog (Groningen)
  Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar
• 10:00 - Creative Theology: Critical Conversations between the Arts and Theological Method - Symposium: Finished with Religion? Iris Murdoch and Theology
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture
• 10:00 - Finished with Religion? Iris Murdoch and Theology
  Various Speakers
  Iris Murdoch (1919-99) - Centenary Symposium
• 17:00 - "The godlye election of a Kyng": Debating the Succession, 1549-1558
  Paulina Kewes (Jesus College, Oxford)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700

Friday 10 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament : The Congregation of the Poor in the Scrolls and the New Testament; Reflections on Method
  Daniel Falk (Pennsylvania State University)
  New Testament Seminar
• 17:00 - Creative Theology: Critical Conversations between the Arts and Theological Method - Holy Foolishness: Readings followed by a Creative Liturgy inspired by Iris Murdoch
  Rev Andrew Taylor (Regent's Park College), Professor Paul Fiddes (Regent's Park College), Professor Scott Moore
  Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - The Serpent in the Garden of Eden: Its Background and Role
  John Day (Lady Margaret Hall)
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar
• 17:00 - Creative Theology: Critical Conversations between the Arts and Theological Method - Creative Theology: The Visual Commentary on Scripture
  Professor Ben Quash (King's College London)
  Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture
• 18:00 - Jewish Traditionality and Classical American Pragmatism: Venturing beyond the Atlantic Wall
  Dr Nadav Berman Shifman (Yale University)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Why is it so hard to find women in Hebrew tours of hell? A history of a tradition
  Dr Tali Artman-Partok (KCL)
  Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period
• 16:15 - Christianity as Jewish Allegory? Guilielmus Surenhusius's "Sefer Ha-Mashveh" (1713) and New Testament Scholarship in the Early Eighteenth Century
  Kristen Macfarlane (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies
• 17:00 - MSt Medieval Studies Dissertation Projects: Reaching Eternity through Prayer: a sudy of a 15th-century book of hours : The Chansons avec des refrains of Colart le Boutellier: a revised consideratioin of refrains from an interdisciplinary perspective
  Sarah Bai (University of Oxford), Charlie Powell (University of Oxford)
  Medieval Church and Culture

Thursday 16 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Fulke Greville and the intellectual culture of Puritanism
  Freya Sierhuis (University of York)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Exodus 21:1-11
  Sandra Jacobs (King's College London)
  Hebrew Reading Group
• 14:30 - Slave Trading (Judaean) Women in Neo-Babylonian and Persian Records
  Sandra Jacobs (King's College London)
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar
• 17:00 - Creative Theology: Critical Conversations between the Arts and Theological Method - Poetry Reading with Gillian Allnutt
  Gillian Allnutt
  Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture
• 18:00 - There was no Hebrew Republic of Letters: Christian Hebraism, conceptual history and theory of citizenship
  Dr Dirk van Miert (Utrecht University)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - The representation of Arabs in late-antique apocalyptic literature
  Dr Helen Spurling (Southampton)
  Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period
• 16:15 - The annotated Mishnah among Jews and Christians in early modern Europe
  Joanna Weinberg (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies
• 17:00 - MSt Medieval Studies Dissertation Projects: Images of Leprosy in Medieval Manuscripts & Decoding the Monstrous in Medieval Icelandic Sagas
  Leona Dobrescu (University of Oxford), Danielle Laurin (University of Oxford)
  Medieval Church and Culture

Thursday 23 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - 1 Enoch and the Interpretation of the Psalms
  Loren Stuckenbruck (Munich)
  Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar
• 17:00 - British Reformations Compared
  Henry Jefferies (Thornhill College, Derry)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700

Friday 24 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Religion as a Changing Category of Muslim Practice - One-Day Workshop
  Various Speakers
• 14:30 - The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament : The Function of Teaching Authority in the Dead Sea Documents and Matthew's Gospel
  Loren Stuckenbruck (Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich)
  New Testament Seminar
• 17:00 - Creative Theology: Critical Conversations between the Arts and Theological Method - Poetry and Praise: Poetry Reading followed by a Creative Liturgy inspired by the Psalms
  Dr Ed Clarke
  Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture

Monday 27 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - The Year 1700 and the Birth of the Jewish 18th Century
  Professor Shmuel Feiner (Bar Ilan University)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Earth, wind and fire: how the Septuagint translated divine elements (Septuagint Forum)
  Professor Kai Brodersen (Erfurt)
  Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period
• 16:15 - Imagining Visually the Mishnah: from Wagenseil to Wotton
  Richard Cohen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies
• 17:00 - MSt Medieval Studies Dissertation Projects: Reclaiming their Voices: images of survivors of trauma in works of Geoffrey Chaucer & Creative Bilingualism in Late Medieval Welsh Poetry
  Pamela Kask (University of Oxford), Llewelyn Hopwood (University of Oxford)
  Medieval Church and Culture

Thursday 30 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Matters overlooked: straightening out the story of the Reformation
  Diarmaid MacCulloch
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700

Friday 31 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Faith and Reason: The 'Double Truth' in the Arabic and Latin Traditions
  Richard Taylor, Ann Giletti, Daniel de Haan
• 14:30 - The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament : Between Qumran and Tarsus: Diaspora and the Birth of Christianity
  Daniel R. Schwartz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  New Testament Seminar

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Proverbs 25:1-3; 1 Kings 5:9-14; and Isaiah 39
  Eva Mroczek (UC Davis)
  Hebrew Reading Group
• 14:30 - King Hezekiah and Precritical Histories of Scripture
  Eva Mroczek (UC Davis)
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar
• 17:00 - Creative Theology: Critical Conversations between the Arts and Theological Method - Creative Theology: Music
  Professor Jeremy Begbie (Duke University)
  Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture
• 17:00 - What's love got to do with it? The emotional language of early Zionism
  Please note start time is 17.00
  Professor Derek Penslar (Harvard University)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Aspects of the appropriation of Flavius Josephus in medieval Greek and Latin literature
  Dr Theofili Kampianaki (University of Birmingham)
  Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period
• 16:15 - Some Christian Uses of the Mishnah
  Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
  Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies
• 17:00 - MSt Medieval Studies Dissertation Projects: Nicholas of Lyra's Literal Commentary on Jacob and Esau & Pograms as Foundation: Christian handling of Jewish space in the Middle Ages
  Elizabeth Crabtree (University of Oxford), Franziska Kleybolte (University of Oxford)
  Medieval Church and Culture

Thursday 6 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - England's abortive reformation 1640-42
  Anthony Milton (University of Sheffield)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700

Friday 7 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament : Angels Between the Isthmus and the Deep Dead Sea
  Michael Jost (University of Berne), Jorg Frey (University of Zurich)
  New Testament Seminar

Monday 10 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Creative Theology: Critical Conversations between the Arts and Theological Method - Muslim Women and Feminism in the Balkans and North Africa: A Comparative Conversation
  Dr Ina Merdojanova (Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Coventry University), Dr Minlib Dallh OP (H.M. King Abdullah ibn al-Hussein II of Jordan Fellow for the Study of Love in Religion)
  Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture

Tuesday 11 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - The silence of the idols: the story of ἄλαλος from classical into medieval (Judaeo-) Greek (Septuagint Forum)
  Dr Julia Krivovruchko (University of Cambridge)
  Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period
• 14:15 - Menasseh's Mishnahs: Three Amsterdam Imprints in Intellectual and Cultural Context
  David Sclar (Harvard University)
  Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies
• 17:00 - MSt Dissertation Projects: A Topographical Study of Popular Burial in Late Medieval Mediterranean Cities & "Let Us Pray for the Living": the lives of the dead in medieval Ashkenaz
  Caitlin John (University of Oxford), Adina Goldman (University of Oxford)
  Medieval Church and Culture

Thursday 13 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Sacred signs in Reformation Scotland
  Stephen Holmes (Rector of the United Benefice of Padstow, St Merryn, and St Issey with St Petroc Minor, Little Petherick, Hon Fellow in the History of Christianity at Edinburgh University School of Divinity (New College))
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700

Friday 14 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament : How the New Testament Matters for What I Do
  Ian McFarland (University of Cambridge)
  New Testament Seminar
• 17:00 - Creative Theology: Critical Conversations between the Arts and Theological Method - Performing Praise: Performance Poetry followed by Creative Liturgy
  Revd Ruth Wells
  Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture

Monday 17 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture
• 18:00 - Moses Hayim Luzzatto's Pietistic Confraternity in Eighteenth-Century Padua
  Dr David Sclar (Harvard University)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Tuesday 18 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - How mishnaic was Immanuel Hai Ricchi's Mishnat Hasidim (Amsterdam, 1727)?
  Ada Rapoport-Albert (University College London)
  Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies

Thursday 20 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Natural religion and political thought in Reformation Britain
  Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700

Friday 21 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 08:30 - Postgraduate Workshop: 70 Years of the Dead Sea Scrolls
  George Brooke (Manchester), Eibert Tigchelaar (Leuven)
  Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar
• 08:45 - Postgraduate Workshop: 70 Years of the Dead Sea Scrolls
  Various Speakers

Friday 12 July 2019 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Thinking as/through practice: Scripture, Liturgy, Spirituality
  Prof Graham Ward (University of Oxford)
  Society for the Study of Theology Graduate Conference

Monday 6 July 2020 (25th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Descent of the Dove : Knowing and Loving in Spirit and Truth
  Various Speakers
  2020 Pusey House Theological Conference