Monday 8 October 2018

• 13:00 - Induction
  Professor Hindy Najman
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar

Monday 15 October 2018

• 14:30 - Poetic Processes and Non-Redemptive Reading: The Hodayot as Collection
  Professor Hindy Najman
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar

Monday 18 February 2019

• 18:00 - BOOK LAUNCH: 'How Old is the Hebrew Bible?'
  Professor Ron Hendel (University of California, Berkeley), Professor Jan Joosten, Professor Hindy Najman, Professor Hugh Williamson (Christ Church)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Thursday 22 October 2020

• 10:00 - Rethinking Early Biblical Interpretation
  Professor Hindy Najman
  EARLY BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION SEMINAR 2020 Michaelmas Term

Tuesday 15 June 2021

• 16:00 - Prophets, Priests, and Promises: Reflections on Gary Knoppers' Posthumously Published Volume
  Various Speakers

Monday 22 January 2018

• 14:30 - 'Old Wine in New Bottles': Thematic Seminar on Ritual and Innovation. How to invent a ritual in early Judaism in seven easy steps
  Judith Newman (University of Toronto)
  Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible Seminar

Monday 8 October 2018

• 13:00 - Induction
  Professor Hindy Najman
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar

Thursday 11 October 2018

• 09:00 - Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Electronic Resources
  Various Speakers
  Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar

Monday 15 October 2018

• 14:30 - Poetic Processes and Non-Redemptive Reading: The Hodayot as Collection
  Professor Hindy Najman
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar

Wednesday 17 October 2018

• 08:45 - The Bible and the Humanities
  Various Speakers
  Launch Conference of the Centre for the Study of the Bible in the Humanities

Monday 22 October 2018

• 14:30 - Palaeography and the Dead Sea Scrolls: the Scrolls as Scribal Artifacts
  Eibert Tigchelaar (Leuven)
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar

Monday 29 October 2018

• 14:30 - Digital Reconstructions of Dead Sea Scrolls: The Methodology and its Future Prospects
  Various Speakers
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar

Monday 5 November 2018

• 09:00 - Lament, Reading and Therapy
  Various Speakers
• 09:00 - Lament, Reading and Therapy
  Various Speakers
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar

Monday 12 November 2018

• 14:30 - Isaiah in the Scrolls
  Reinhard Kratz (Gottingen)
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar

Monday 19 November 2018

• 14:30 - NO SEMINAR - Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
  TBA
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar

Monday 26 November 2018

• 14:30 - Can I trust You? Cooperation and Ritual Behaviour in the Qumran Movement
  Jutta Jokiranta (Helsinki)
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar

Friday 25 January 2019

• 13:00 - Jeremiah 33:14–26
  Professor Armin Lange (Vienna)
  Hebrew Reading Group

Monday 28 January 2019

• 13:00 - Isaiah 40
  John Goldingay (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  Hebrew Reading Group
• 14:30 - Canonical Readings of Isaiah
  John Goldingay (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar

Monday 4 February 2019

• 13:00 - Jeremiah 33:14-26
  Professor Armin Lange (Vienna)
  Hebrew Reading Group
• 14:30 - Jeremiah in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Dead Sea Scrolls, Jerusalem Priests, and Ptolemaic Egypt
  Professor Armin Lange (Vienna)
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar

Monday 11 February 2019

• 13:00 - Nahum 1:10-14
  Anselm Hagedorn (Osnabrück)
  Hebrew Reading Group
• 14:30 - Habakkuk: From Persia to Pesher
  Anselm Hagedorn (Osnabrück)
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar

Wednesday 13 February 2019

• 12:00 - Exemplarity and the Early Jewish Novel
  Laura Quick (Princeton University)
  Interdisciplinary Research Seminar

Monday 18 February 2019

• 13:00 - Habakkuk 2
  Dr Noam Mizrahi (Tel Aviv)
  Hebrew Reading Group
• 14:30 - Prophetic Interpretation and Poetic (Re-)Structuring: Zechariah Reads Jeremiah
  Dr Noam Mizrahi (Tel Aviv)
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar

Wednesday 20 February 2019

• 12:00 - Weeping Heraclitus and Laughing Democritus: A Couple of Exemplary Pre-Socratics
  Glenn Most (University of Chicago)
  Interdisciplinary Research Seminar

Monday 25 February 2019

• 13:00 - Psalm 74
  Friedhelm Hartenstein (Munich)
  Hebrew Reading Group
• 14:30 - The End of Judah and the Persistence of Cosmic Order: Understanding History in the Light of Creation in Psalms and Prophetic Books
  Friedhelm Hartenstein (Munich)
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar

Wednesday 27 February 2019

• 12:00 - Visual Epitome in Late Antique Art
  Professor Jas Elsner (Oxford)
  Interdisciplinary Research Seminar

Monday 4 March 2019

• 13:00 - Isaiah 5
  Ronnie Goldstein (Hebrew University)
  Hebrew Reading Group
• 14:30 - The Search for Context in the Book of Isaiah
  Ronnie Goldstein (Hebrew University)
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar

Wednesday 6 March 2019

• 12:00 - Beyond Exemplarity? On Ethics in Roman Philology
  Melanie Möller (FU Berlin)
  Interdisciplinary Research Seminar

Thursday 2 May 2019

• 09:00 - The Torah of 4 Maccabees
  Tessa Rajak (Somerville)
  Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar

Monday 6 May 2019

• 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

Thursday 9 May 2019

• 09:00 - Pesher in Context
  Barry Hartog (Groningen)
  Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar

Monday 20 May 2019

• 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

Thursday 23 May 2019

• 09:00 - 1 Enoch and the Interpretation of the Psalms
  Loren Stuckenbruck (Munich)
  Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar

Monday 3 June 2019

• 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

Friday 21 June 2019

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

Monday 11 November 2019

• 14:30 - Intertextuality in Wisdom 2:12-20
  Professor Jan Joosten
  Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament Seminar

Monday 3 May 2021

• 11:30 - Isaiah 36:1-5,7,10-15 (paralleled in 2 Kings 18:13-30) and Nehemiah 13:23-27
  Dr Cian Power (Oriel)
  Biblical Hebrew Reading Group

Monday 10 May 2021

• 11:30 - Psalm 24
  Benjamin Sommer (Jewish Theological Seminary)
  Biblical Hebrew Reading Group