• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Wednesdays from 10:30-12:00 noon
• Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion

Tuesday 24 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Semantic differentiation between Classical and Hebraizing usage in the LXX
  Professor Mikhail Seleznev (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow)

Wednesday 2 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - The Gods of the Others in the LXX: lexical analysis and historico-religious implications
  Dr Anna Angelini (University of Lausanne)

Tuesday 8 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - The Good, the Indifferent, and the Literal or Unintelligent: A pattern involving vocabulary choices in three books of the Septuagint
  Professor Trevor Evans (Maquarie University )

Tuesday 15 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Translation into Greek in Sirach
  Professor Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University)

Tuesday 22 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Signs of cultural adaptation from the Septuagint vocabulary.
  Dr Romina Vergari (University of Florence )

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - A jealous God and an envious devil? The vocabulary of envy and jealousy in the LXX, and its theological implications
  Dr Anthony Ellis (Universität Bern )

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - The historical context of LXX vocabulary: reflections from a Septuagint project
  James Aitken (University of Cambridge), Sarah Pearce (Southampton), Tessa Rajak (Reading)

Tuesday 12 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Greek magical terminology in the Septuagint
  Maria Yurovitskaya (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow )