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

Monday 29 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 15 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 7 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 12 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 19 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 26 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 5 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 30 April 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 7 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 14 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 21 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 4 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 11 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

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