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Name: Professor Hindy Najman
Events this person is speaking at:
Monday 8 October 2018
Induction
Date: 8 October 2018, 13:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Professor Hindy Najman
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 15 October 2018
Poetic Processes and Non-Redemptive Reading: The Hodayot as Collection
Date: 15 October 2018, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Professor Hindy Najman
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 18 February 2019
BOOK LAUNCH: 'How Old is the Hebrew Bible?'
Date: 18 February 2019, 18:00 - 19:15
Speaker
s:
Professor Ron Hendel (University of California, Berkeley),
Professor Jan Joosten,
Professor Hindy Najman,
Professor Hugh Williamson (Christ Church)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Catherine Lewis Lecture Room, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 22 October 2020
Rethinking Early Biblical Interpretation
Date: 22 October 2020, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker
:
Professor Hindy Najman
Venue Details: for Zoom link, contact stefania.beitia@oriel.ox.ac.uk
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Events this person is hosting:
Tuesday 15 June 2021
Prophets, Priests, and Promises: Reflections on Gary Knoppers' Posthumously Published Volume
Date: 15 June 2021, 16:00 - 19:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Organisers:
TBA
Host:
Professor Hindy Najman
Events this person is organising:
Monday 22 January 2018
'Old Wine in New Bottles': Thematic Seminar on Ritual and Innovation. How to invent a ritual in early Judaism in seven easy steps
Date: 22 January 2018, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Judith Newman (University of Toronto)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 8 October 2018
Induction
Date: 8 October 2018, 13:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Professor Hindy Najman
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 11 October 2018
Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Electronic Resources
Date: 11 October 2018, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 15 October 2018
Poetic Processes and Non-Redemptive Reading: The Hodayot as Collection
Date: 15 October 2018, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Professor Hindy Najman
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 17 October 2018
The Bible and the Humanities
Date: 17 October 2018, 8:45 - 09:45
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 22 October 2018
Palaeography and the Dead Sea Scrolls: the Scrolls as Scribal Artifacts
Date: 22 October 2018, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Eibert Tigchelaar (Leuven)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 29 October 2018
Digital Reconstructions of Dead Sea Scrolls: The Methodology and its Future Prospects
Date: 29 October 2018, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 5 November 2018
Lament, Reading and Therapy
Date: 5 November 2018, 9:00 - 19:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Lament, Reading and Therapy
Date: 5 November 2018, 9:00 - 18:30
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 12 November 2018
Isaiah in the Scrolls
Date: 12 November 2018, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Reinhard Kratz (Gottingen)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 19 November 2018
NO SEMINAR - Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
Date: 19 November 2018, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 26 November 2018
Can I trust You? Cooperation and Ritual Behaviour in the Qumran Movement
Date: 26 November 2018, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Jutta Jokiranta (Helsinki)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 25 January 2019
Jeremiah 33:14–26
Date: 25 January 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Armin Lange (Vienna)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 28 January 2019
Isaiah 40
Date: 28 January 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
John Goldingay (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Canonical Readings of Isaiah
Date: 28 January 2019, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
John Goldingay (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 4 February 2019
Jeremiah 33:14-26
Date: 4 February 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Armin Lange (Vienna)
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
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Jeremiah in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Dead Sea Scrolls, Jerusalem Priests, and Ptolemaic Egypt
Date: 4 February 2019, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Professor Armin Lange (Vienna)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 11 February 2019
Nahum 1:10-14
Date: 11 February 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Anselm Hagedorn (Osnabrück)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Habakkuk: From Persia to Pesher
Date: 11 February 2019, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Anselm Hagedorn (Osnabrück)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 13 February 2019
Exemplarity and the Early Jewish Novel
Date: 13 February 2019, 12:00 - 13:45
Speaker
:
Laura Quick (Princeton University)
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),
Professor Hindy Najman,
Dr Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 18 February 2019
Habakkuk 2
Date: 18 February 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Noam Mizrahi (Tel Aviv)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Prophetic Interpretation and Poetic (Re-)Structuring: Zechariah Reads Jeremiah
Date: 18 February 2019, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Dr Noam Mizrahi (Tel Aviv)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 20 February 2019
Weeping Heraclitus and Laughing Democritus: A Couple of Exemplary Pre-Socratics
Date: 20 February 2019, 12:00 - 13:45
Speaker
:
Glenn Most (University of Chicago)
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),
Professor Hindy Najman,
Dr Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 25 February 2019
Psalm 74
Date: 25 February 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Friedhelm Hartenstein (Munich)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
The End of Judah and the Persistence of Cosmic Order: Understanding History in the Light of Creation in Psalms and Prophetic Books
Date: 25 February 2019, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Friedhelm Hartenstein (Munich)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 27 February 2019
Visual Epitome in Late Antique Art
Date: 27 February 2019, 12:00 - 13:45
Speaker
:
Professor Jas Elsner (Oxford)
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),
Professor Hindy Najman,
Dr Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 4 March 2019
Isaiah 5
Date: 4 March 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Ronnie Goldstein (Hebrew University)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
The Search for Context in the Book of Isaiah
Date: 4 March 2019, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Ronnie Goldstein (Hebrew University)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 6 March 2019
Beyond Exemplarity? On Ethics in Roman Philology
Date: 6 March 2019, 12:00 - 13:45
Speaker
:
Melanie Möller (FU Berlin)
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),
Professor Hindy Najman,
Dr Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 2 May 2019
The Torah of 4 Maccabees
Date: 2 May 2019, 9:00 - 10:00
Speaker
:
Tessa Rajak (Somerville)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 6 May 2019
1 Samuel 28:3-25
Date: 6 May 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Alinda Damsma (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Orality and Genre: Issues of Method and Interpretation
Date: 6 May 2019, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Aulikki Nahkola (Wolfson)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 9 May 2019
Pesher in Context
Date: 9 May 2019, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Barry Hartog (Groningen)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 20 May 2019
Exodus 21:1-11
Date: 20 May 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Sandra Jacobs (King's College London)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Slave Trading (Judaean) Women in Neo-Babylonian and Persian Records
Date: 20 May 2019, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Sandra Jacobs (King's College London)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 23 May 2019
1 Enoch and the Interpretation of the Psalms
Date: 23 May 2019, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Loren Stuckenbruck (Munich)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 3 June 2019
Proverbs 25:1-3; 1 Kings 5:9-14; and Isaiah 39
Date: 3 June 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Eva Mroczek (UC Davis)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
King Hezekiah and Precritical Histories of Scripture
Date: 3 June 2019, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Eva Mroczek (UC Davis)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 21 June 2019
Postgraduate Workshop: 70 Years of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Date: 21 June 2019, 8:30 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
George Brooke (Manchester),
Eibert Tigchelaar (Leuven)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 11 November 2019
Intertextuality in Wisdom 2:12-20
Date: 11 November 2019, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Professor Jan Joosten
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 3 May 2021
Isaiah 36:1-5,7,10-15 (paralleled in 2 Kings 18:13-30) and Nehemiah 13:23-27
Date: 3 May 2021, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker
:
Dr Cian Power (Oriel)
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 10 May 2021
Psalm 24
Date: 10 May 2021, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker
:
Benjamin Sommer (Jewish Theological Seminary)
Organiser:
Professor Hindy Najman
Hosts:
TBA