Monday 9 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Hindy Najman, Induction, OLD TESTAMENT/HEBREW BIBLE SEMINAR
  Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
  OLD TESTAMENT/HEBREW BIBLE SEMINAR

Monday 16 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Hindy Najman (Oriel) and Arjen Bakker (Oriel), Conceptual Translation and Transfer of Culture, OLD TESTAMENT/HEBREW BIBLE SEMINAR
  Hindy Najman (Oriel College ), Arjen Bakker
  OLD TESTAMENT/HEBREW BIBLE SEMINAR

Monday 15 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Why Do Rituals Change? Towards a Typology of Ritual Change in Early Judaism
  Professor Sondra Hausner (Faculty of Theology & Religion, Oxford), Nathan MacDonald, Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
  Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible Seminar

Wednesday 17 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Ethical Reading an Introduction
  Dr Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford), Hindy Najman (Oriel College ), Philip Ross Bullock (TORCH Director ), John Hamilton
  Ethical reading: Philological reflections

Wednesday 25 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - In Search of the Phoenicians
  Dr Josephine Quinn (University of Oxford), Hindy Najman (Oriel College ), Stephanie Dalley (University of Oxford), John Watts (University of Oxford)
  Book at Lunchtime

Thursday 10 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - What is Commentary?
  Hindy Najman (Oriel College ), Christina Kraus (Yale)
  Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar

Wednesday 17 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - John Hamilton, Philology of the Flesh, ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
  John Hamilton
  ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS

Wednesday 24 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Rowan Tomlinson, The Philological Muse in Renaissance Culture, ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
  Rowan Tomlinson
  ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS

Wednesday 7 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Eli Friedlander, Translation and the Life of Language in Benjamin, Schleiermacher's Scriptures, Heine's Bible, ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
  Eli Friedlander
  ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS

Wednesday 14 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Yael Almog, Schleiermacher's Scriptures, Heine's Bible, ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
  Yael Almog
  ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS

Wednesday 21 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Ishay Rosen-Zvi, The Relevance of Midrash: Between the Mekhilta and Origen, ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
  Ishay Rosen-Zvi
  ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS

Wednesday 28 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Irene Peirano, The Ethics of Peripheral Reading: Reading in and Outside of the Canon, ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
  Irene Peirano
  ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Wolfgang Behr and Roy Tzohar, Motivating Arguments, Grounding Interpretations: Some Uses of Etymology in Ancient India and China, ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
  Roy Tzohar, Wolfgang Behr
  ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Decoding Isaiah 13
  Professor Hugh Williamson (Christ Church)
  Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible Seminar

Monday 30 April 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Reading with the Scribes: Psalms 104 through the Lens of Textual Criticism
  Dr John Screnock
  Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible Seminar

Monday 7 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - The Psalms: Just Prayer?
  Megan Daffern
  Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible Seminar

Monday 14 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - The Shema in its Ancient Near Eastern Setting
  Hywel Clifford
  Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible Seminar

Thursday 17 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Manuscripts and Commentaries*
  Christina Kraus (Yale)
  Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar

Monday 21 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - "So God created humanity in his own image" (Genesis 1:27). What did the text originally mean and what have theologians and exegetes thought it meant?
  John Day
  Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible Seminar

Monday 28 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Wisdom in Exile in Babylon
  Katherine Dell
  Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible Seminar

Thursday 31 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - The Book of Ben Sira in Medieval Judaism: Ms B from the Cairo Genizah*
  Benjamin Wright
  Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar

Monday 4 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Daylong workshop on Wisdom and Ethics
  Various Speakers
  Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible Seminar

Thursday 7 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Between Midrash and Talmund
  Moulie Vidas
  Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar

Monday 11 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Beyond Scipture and Interpretation: The Torah as Quasi-Object, Quasi-Subject
  David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible Seminar

Monday 11 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Biblical Hebrew reading group
  Professor Jan Joosen

Wednesday 29 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The “Parting of the Ways:” Why it matters, and to whom
  POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
  Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa)

Tuesday 5 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - "He was my brother": A Family Drama
  POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
  Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa)

Tuesday 12 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - "Bye Bye Love": A Divorce Tragicomedy
  POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
  Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa)

Tuesday 19 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - "Slip Slidin’ Away": A Postmodern Anti-Narrative
  POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
  Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa)

Thursday 14 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar
  TBA