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Name: Prof Hindy Najman
Events this person is speaking at:
Monday 16 October 2017
"Conceptual Translation and Transfer of Culture", Old Testament Hebrew Bible Seminar
Date: 16 October 2017, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
s:
Prof Hindy Najman,
Dr Bakker (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 19 October 2017
Professor Hindy Najman, Jeremiah 36, Hebrew Bible Reading Group
Date: 19 October 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Prof Hindy Najman
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 8 February 2018
“How to Prepare for an Academic Career”
Date: 8 February 2018, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker
s:
Dr Michael Burdett (University of Oxford),
Prof Hindy Najman
Venue: Gibson Building, Woodstock Road OX2 6HE
Venue Details: Board Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 15 November 2018
1QHa IX
Date: 15 November 2018, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Prof Hindy Najman
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Events this person is organising:
Monday 29 May 2017
Cognition in Translation: Working Memory, The Mind's Voice, and the Old Greek Translation of Exodus
Date: 29 May 2017, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker
:
John Screnok (Wolfson College)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organisers:
Prof Katherine Southwood,
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 5 June 2017
Yahweh's Southern Origins in the Light of the achaeology of Midianite Religion
Date: 5 June 2017, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Robert Miller (Catholic University of America)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organisers:
Prof Katherine Southwood,
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 12 June 2017
Writing a Reception-History Commentary: Aims, Methods, and Resources
Date: 12 June 2017, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Susan Gillingham
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organisers:
Prof Katherine Southwood,
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 9 October 2017
Induction, Old Testament Hebrew Bible Seminar
Date: 9 October 2017, 13:30 - 16:00
Speaker
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 19 October 2017
John Screnock (Oxford) – "Two Scribal Readings of Psalm 104", Early Biblical Interpretations Seminar
Date: 19 October 2017, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
:
John Screnock
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 26 October 2017
James Nati (Yale) – "Prophetic Authority and Scribal Craft in Second Temple Literature", Early Biblical Interpretations Seminar
Date: 26 October 2017, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
:
James Nati
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 9 November 2017
Visit to Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, Early Biblical Interpretations Seminar
Date: 9 November 2017, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street OX1 2PH
Venue Details: Meet at entrance of the Ashmolean at 10:00 a.m.
Organiser:
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 30 November 2017
Hindy Najman (Oriel) – "Authenticating the Profane", Early Biblical Interpretations Seminar
Date: 30 November 2017, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Arjen Bakker
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 19 January 2018
Are the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice Mystical Texts?
Date: 19 January 2018, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Judith Newman (University of Toronto)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 1 February 2018
Debating Sophia: Outlines of a Greek theology?
Date: 1 February 2018, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Joshua Billings (Yale)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 26 April 2018
Apocalyptic Literature between Greece and Rome: The Sibylline Oracles
Date: 26 April 2018, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Helen Van Noorden
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 10 May 2018
What is Commentary?
Date: 10 May 2018, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
s:
Hindy Najman (Oriel College ),
Christina Kraus (Yale)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 17 May 2018
Manuscripts and Commentaries*
Date: 17 May 2018, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Christina Kraus (Yale)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Organisers:
Prof Hindy Najman,
Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 18 October 2018
NO SEMINAR
Date: 18 October 2018, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
Organiser:
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 25 October 2018
1QH4IX
Date: 25 October 2018, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 30 January 2019
Exemplarity and the Case Study
Date: 30 January 2019, 12:00 - 13:45
Speaker
:
Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room - consult the Oriel Porters Lodge for the 4-digit passcode and enter by gate
Organisers:
Tobias Reinhardt (Corpus Christi College),
Prof Hindy Najman,
Dr Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 31 January 2019
Dead Sea Scrolls Reading Session: Serekh (Rule of the Community), 1QS XI
Date: 31 January 2019, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 6 February 2019
Critical Thinking and Exemplary Ethics
Date: 6 February 2019, 12:00 - 13:45
Speaker
:
Rebecca Langlands (University of Exeter)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room - consult the Oriel Porters Lodge for the 4-digit passcode and enter by gate
Organisers:
Tobias Reinhardt (Corpus Christi College),
Prof Hindy Najman,
Dr Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 7 February 2019
Dead Sea Scrolls Reading Session: Serekh (Rule of the Community), 1QS XI
Date: 7 February 2019, 9:00 - 10:00
Speaker
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 14 February 2019
Dead Sea Scrolls Reading Session: Serekh (Rule of the Community), 1QS XI
Date: 14 February 2019, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 21 February 2019
Temple of Words: Poetic Construction in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice
Date: 21 February 2019, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Dr Noam Mizrahi (Tel Aviv)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 28 February 2019
The Damascus Document, Columns IV and V
Date: 28 February 2019, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Menahem Kister (Hebrew University)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 7 March 2019
The ‘Harklean’ Version of Susanna: A Jewish or Christian Revision
Date: 7 March 2019, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
s:
Professor Alison Salvesen,
Bradley Marsh (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 27 January 2020
The Exegetical Significance of Early Greek and Latin Transcriptions of the Biblical Hebrew Vocalization Traditions: The Case of Ps. 110.3 and Isa. 9.5 // The Woman at the Window: Gender and Diathesis in Biblical Hebrew
Date: 27 January 2020, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
s:
Benjamin Kantor (Cambridge),
Vladimir Olivero (Oriental Studies)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organisers:
Stefania Beitia,
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 29 January 2020
Qohelet's Language in Its Cultural Context
Date: 29 January 2020, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Nili Samet (Bar-Ilan)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organisers:
Professor Jan Joosten,
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 3 February 2020
Conversation Analysis of Biblical Hebrew and Its Significance for Exegesis
Date: 3 February 2020, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Adina Moshavi (Bar Ilan)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organisers:
Professor Jan Joosten,
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 10 February 2020
Professionalization Session for Postgraduate students - Preparing and submitting your abstract for Conferences
Date: 10 February 2020, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
s:
Arjen Bakker (Oriel College),
Yael Fisch (Oriel College)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organisers:
Professor Jan Joosten,
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 17 February 2020
Hithallek and Its Congeners
Date: 17 February 2020, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Randall Garr (Santa Barbara)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organisers:
Professor Jan Joosten,
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 24 February 2020
Tracking the Meanings Assigned to Rare Biblical Words: On the Importance of Reading and Translation Traditions for the Biblical Lexicon
Date: 24 February 2020, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Christian Stadel (Be’er Sheva)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organisers:
Professor Jan Joosten,
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 27 February 2020
Writing a Commentary on Genesis 1-11 (Special Session)
Date: 27 February 2020, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
s:
David Carr (Union Theological Seminary),
John Day (Oxford)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organisers:
Professor Jan Joosten,
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 2 March 2020
“Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?” (Job 10:10). Recent Developments in Metaphor Theory and Their Importance for Biblical Exegesis
Date: 2 March 2020, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Pierre Van Hecke (Leuven)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organisers:
Professor Jan Joosten,
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 9 March 2020
Tense, Aspect and Sprechhaltung in Biblical Hebrew Prose
Date: 9 March 2020, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Jan Joosten (Christ Church)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organisers:
Professor Jan Joosten,
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 24 May 2022
The Knapp Family Foundational Lecture for the Oriel College Centre for the Study of the Bible: "The Transmission of the Hewbrew Bible from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages"
Date: 24 May 2022, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Professor Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Mary Ogilvie Theatre
Organiser:
Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA