• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Prof Hindy Najman
• Timing: Thursdays 9.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m
• Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion

Thursday 19 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - John Screnock (Oxford) – "Two Scribal Readings of Psalm 104", Early Biblical Interpretations Seminar
  John Screnock

Thursday 26 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - James Nati (Yale) – "Prophetic Authority and Scribal Craft in Second Temple Literature", Early Biblical Interpretations Seminar
  James Nati

Thursday 9 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Visit to Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, Early Biblical Interpretations Seminar
  Various Speakers

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Hindy Najman (Oriel) – "Authenticating the Profane", Early Biblical Interpretations Seminar
  Arjen Bakker

Thursday 18 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - César Merchán-Hamann,Visit to the Weston Library to view the Dead Sea Scrolls of the Bodleian Library, EARLY BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION SEMINAR
  César Merchán-Hamann

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Judith Newman, Are the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice Mystical Texts?, EARLY BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION SEMINAR
  Judith Newman

Thursday 1 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Joshua Billings, Debating Sophia: Outlines of a Greek theology?, EARLY BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION SEMINAR
  Joshua Billings

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Hallel Baitner, Behind Midrash: The Biblical Exegesis of the Rabbis, EARLY BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION SEMINAR
  Hallel Baitner

Thursday 15 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Olivia Stewart Lester, The Sibyl as Inspired Interpreter: Prophecy, Pseudepigraphy, and Reworked Traditions in the Sibylline Oracles, EARLY BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION SEMINAR
  Olivia Stewart Lester

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Ishay Rosen Zvi, Midrashic Hermeneutics, EARLY BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION SEMINAR
  Ishay Rosen Zvi

Thursday 1 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Olivia Stewart Lester and Arjen Bakker, How to Write Conference Abstracts?, EARLY BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION SEMINAR
  Arjen Bakker, Olivia Stewart Lester

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Arjen Bakker, The Praise of the Luminaries: Reading Isaiah in the Parables of Enoch and the Dead Sea Scrolls, EARLY BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION SEMINAR
  Arjen Bakker

Thursday 26 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Helen Van Noorden, Apocalyptic Literature between Greece and Rome: The Sibylline Oracles, EARLY BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION SEMINAR
  Helen Van Noorden

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

• 09:00 - Christina Kraus, What Is Commentary?, EARLY BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION SEMINAR
  Christina Kraus

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

• 09:00 - Christina Kraus, Manuscripts and Commentaries, EARLY BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION SEMINAR
  Christina Kraus

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

• 09:00 - Benjamin Wright, The Book of Ben Sira in Medieval Judaism: Ms B from the Cairo Genizah, EARLY BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION SEMINAR
  Benjamin Wright

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

• 09:00 - Moulie Vidas, EARLY BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION SEMINAR
  Moulie Vidas