• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Mondays, 2.30 - 4:00pm
• Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion

Monday 29 May 2017

• 14:30 - Cognition in Translation: Working Memory, The Mind's Voice, and the Old Greek Translation of Exodus
  John Screnok (Wolfson College)

Monday 5 June 2017

• 14:30 - Yahweh's Southern Origins in the Light of the achaeology of Midianite Religion
  Robert Miller (Catholic University of America)

Monday 12 June 2017

• 14:30 - Writing a Reception-History Commentary: Aims, Methods, and Resources
  Susan Gillingham
• 16:00 - End of year reception
  TBA

Monday 15 January 2018

• 14:30 - Why Do Rituals Change? Towards a Typology of Ritual Change in Early Judaism
  Professor Sondra Hausner (Faculty of Theology & Religion, Oxford), Nathan MacDonald, Hindy Najman (Oriel College )

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)
• 14:30 - How to Invent a Ritual in Early Judaism in Seven Easy Steps
  *6.30 OT/HB Dinner: after the OT/HB seminar there will be drinks and dinner in Oriel College (reception in the large SCR followed by dinner in Champneys Room)
  Judith Newman (University of Toronto)

Monday 29 January 2018

• 14:30 - Why Prophecy Is (Not) Magic?
  Martti Nissinen

Wednesday 7 February 2018

• 14:30 - How to Get Your Book Published?
  Tom Perridge

Monday 12 February 2018

• 14:30 - A Surprising Absence? Adoption in the Hebrew Bible
  Jenni Williams (Wycliffe Hall)

Monday 19 February 2018

• 14:30 - Student Presentations
  Susannah Rees (University of Oxford ), Judith Clarke (University of Oxford), Elizabeth Stell (University of Oxford)

Monday 26 February 2018

• 14:30 - Levitical Logic and the Science of Ritual
  Naphtali Meshel

Monday 5 March 2018

• 14:30 - Like Father, Like Son? Theorizing Transmission in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Literature
  Jacqueline Vayntrub

Monday 23 April 2018

• 14:30 - Decoding Isaiah 13
  Professor Hugh Williamson (Christ Church)

Monday 30 April 2018

• 14:30 - Reading with the Scribes: Psalms 104 through the Lens of Textual Criticism
  Dr John Screnock

Monday 7 May 2018

• 14:30 - The Psalms: Just Prayer?
  Megan Daffern

Monday 14 May 2018

• 14:30 - The Shema in its Ancient Near Eastern Setting
  Hywel Clifford

Monday 21 May 2018

• 14:30 - "So God created humanity in his own image" (Genesis 1:27). What did the text originally mean and what have theologians and exegetes thought it meant?
  John Day

Monday 28 May 2018

• 14:30 - Wisdom in Exile in Babylon
  Katherine Dell

Monday 4 June 2018

• 09:00 - Daylong workshop on Wisdom and Ethics
  Various Speakers

Monday 11 June 2018

• 14:30 - Beyond Scipture and Interpretation: The Torah as Quasi-Object, Quasi-Subject
  David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)