• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Prof Hindy Najman
• Timing: Thursday at 9am-10.30am
• Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion

Tuesday 9 January 2018 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Graduate Professionalization Session - How to Write Conference Abstracts?
  Arjen Bakker, Olivia Stewart Lester

Friday 19 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Are the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice Mystical Texts?
  Judith Newman (University of Toronto)

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

• 09:00 - Debating Sophia: Outlines of a Greek theology?
  Joshua Billings (Yale)

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

• 09:00 - Behind Midrash: The Biblical Exegesis of the Rabbis
  Hallel Baitner
• 17:00 - Graduate Professionalization Session - How to Write Conference Abstracts?
  Arjen Bakker, Olivia Stewart Lester

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

• 09:00 - Midrashic Hermeneutics
  Ishay Rosen Zvi

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

• 09:00 - The Sibyl as Inspired Interpreter: Prophecy, Pseudepigraphy, and reworked Traditions in the Sibylline Oracles
  Olivia Stewart Lester

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

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

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

• 09:00 - Apocalyptic Literature between Greece and Rome: The Sibylline Oracles
  Helen Van Noorden

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

• 09:00 - What is Commentary?
  Hindy Najman (Oriel College ), Christina Kraus (Yale)

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

• 09:00 - Manuscripts and Commentaries*
  Christina Kraus (Yale)

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

• 09:00 - The Book of Ben Sira in Medieval Judaism: Ms B from the Cairo Genizah*
  Benjamin Wright

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

• 09:00 - Between Midrash and Talmund
  Moulie Vidas