Monday 9 October 2017

• 13:30 - Induction, Old Testament Hebrew Bible Seminar
  TBA
  Old Testament Hebrew Bible Seminar
• 16:00 - "The Use and Abuse of Patristics", Patristics and Modern Theology Seminar
  Prof Mark Edwards
  Patristics and Modern Theology Seminar

Friday 13 October 2017

• 14:30 - "Introducing NT Research at Oxford: Bad Exegesis and the Head of John the Baptist", New Testament Seminar
  Prof. Jennifer Strawbridge
  New Testament Seminar

Monday 16 October 2017

• 14:30 - "Conceptual Translation and Transfer of Culture", Old Testament Hebrew Bible Seminar
  Prof Hindy Najman, Dr Bakker (University of Oxford)
  Old Testament Hebrew Bible Seminar
• 17:00 - Seminar: The Bible in Art, Music and Literature
  Dr Joynes
  Seminar: The Bible in Art, Music and Literature

Thursday 19 October 2017

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

Friday 20 October 2017

• 13:45 - "Perspectivalism: paradoxes at the heart of Madhyamaka free will reconstruction" & "Monastic Beginnings: Śramaṇa ascetics in Ancient India", Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in the Study of Religions
  Katie Javanaud, Matthew Carlos
  Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in the Study of Religions
• 14:30 - "Becoming John: The Making of a Passion Gospel", New Testament Seminar
  Prof. Kari Syreeni
  New Testament Seminar

Monday 23 October 2017

• 16:00 - "When is Biblical Meditation True Doctrine? Trinitarian Insight or Wayward Reception in Gregory of Nyssa's Commentary on the Song of Songs?", Patristics and Modern Theology Seminar
  Sarah Coakley
  Patristics and Modern Theology Seminar

Wednesday 25 October 2017

• 14:30 - "'Translation' of Mesopotamian Motifs, Allusions and Tradition History", Old Testament Hebrew Bible Seminar
  Jonathan Stökl (King's College London)
  Old Testament Hebrew Bible Seminar

Thursday 26 October 2017

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

Friday 27 October 2017

• 14:30 - "New Discoveries in the Oldest Syriac Gospels", New Testament Seminar
  Prof. David G.K. Taylor
  New Testament Seminar

Monday 30 October 2017

• 14:30 - "Acculturation and Identity: Lexical Choice in the Septuagint"
  Prof. Joosten (University of Oxford), Mr Verburg (University of Oxford)
  Old Testament Hebrew Bible Seminar
• 16:00 - "On Reading Slowly: Philology, Curation and the Study of the Christian Tradition", Patristics and Modern Theology Seminar
  Lewis Ayres
  Patristics and Modern Theology Seminar
• 16:00 - PG Reading Group, Patristics and Modern Theology
  Various Speakers
  Patristics and Modern Theology Seminar
• 17:00 - Seminar: The Bible in Art, Music and Literature
  Dr Joynes
  Seminar: The Bible in Art, Music and Literature

Friday 3 November 2017

• 13:45 - "Religious Business Ethics? An Interfaith Proposal" & "Beyond the buffered self: a critique of disenchantment in Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age (2007)", Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in the Study of Religions
  James Bergida, Marek Sullivan
  Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in the Study of Religions
• 14:30 - "Matthew and the Babatha Archive", New Testament Seminar
  Prof. Philip Esler
  New Testament Seminar

Monday 6 November 2017

• 16:00 - Patristics and Modern Theology Seminar
  Megan Loumagne
  Patristics and Modern Theology Seminar
• 17:00 - "The Ideology of Religious Studies Revisited: the problem with Politics", Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in the Study of Religions
  Prof. Timothy Fitzgerald (University of Stirling )
  Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in the Study of Religions

Wednesday 8 November 2017

• 14:30 - "Cultural Assumptions of the Septuagint Translation", Old Testament Hebrew Bible Seminar
  James Aitken (University of Cambridge), Marieke Dhont (Metz)
  Old Testament Hebrew Bible Seminar

Thursday 9 November 2017

• 09:00 - Visit to Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, Early Biblical Interpretations Seminar
  Various Speakers
  Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar
• 10:00 - Visit to the Ashmolean Museum, Old Testament Hebrew Bible Seminar
  TBA
  Old Testament Hebrew Bible Seminar

Friday 10 November 2017

• 14:30 - "Jewish Christian Gospels? Some Matters Arising…", New Testament Seminar
  Dr Andrew Gregory
  New Testament Seminar

Monday 13 November 2017

• 14:30 - Student Presentations, Old Testament Hebrew Bible Seminar
  Various Speakers
  Old Testament Hebrew Bible Seminar
• 16:00 - PG Reading Group, Patristics and Modern Theology Seminar
  Various Speakers
  Patristics and Modern Theology Seminar
• 17:00 - Seminar: The Bible in Art, Music and Literature
  Dr Joynes
  Seminar: The Bible in Art, Music and Literature

Friday 17 November 2017

• 13:45 - "Saving Islam from Jihadism: A Theological Analysis", Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in the Study of Religions
  Prof Terence Lovat
  Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in the Study of Religions

Monday 20 November 2017

• 11:00 - PG Reading Group, Patristics and Modern Theology Seminar
  Various Speakers
  Patristics and Modern Theology Seminar

Friday 24 November 2017

• 14:30 - New Testament Seminar
  Various Speakers
  New Testament Seminar

Monday 27 November 2017

• 14:30 - "Kedor-laomer and Genesis 14: 1-16: Some Possible New Light on an Old Problem", Old Testament Hebrew Bible Seminar
  Stephanie Dalley (University of Oxford)
  Old Testament Hebrew Bible Seminar
• 16:00 - "Philosophy and theology in late antiquity", Patristics and Modern Theology Seminar
  Prof. Zachhuber (University of Oxford)
  Patristics and Modern Theology Seminar
• 17:00 - Seminar: The Bible in Art, Music and Literature
  Dr Joynes
  Seminar: The Bible in Art, Music and Literature

Thursday 30 November 2017

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

Friday 1 December 2017

• 13:45 - When Comparative Ethnography and Medieval Textual History converse in South Asian Śākta (goddess-oriented) Ritualistic Performances & "The category of religion traveling East...", Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in the Study of Religions
  Matthew Martin, Pavlo Smytsnyuk
  Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in the Study of Religions
• 14:30 - "What’s the Point of Hebrews?", O.P.New Testament Seminar
  Dr Richard Ounsworth
  New Testament Seminar

Thursday 18 January 2018

• 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
  Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar

Thursday 25 January 2018

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

Thursday 1 February 2018

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

Thursday 8 February 2018

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

Thursday 15 February 2018

• 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
  Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar

Thursday 22 February 2018

• 09:00 - Ishay Rosen Zvi, Midrashic Hermeneutics, EARLY BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION SEMINAR
  Ishay Rosen Zvi
  Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar

Thursday 1 March 2018

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

Thursday 8 March 2018

• 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
  Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar

Thursday 26 April 2018

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

Thursday 10 May 2018

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

Thursday 17 May 2018

• 09:00 - Christina Kraus, Manuscripts and Commentaries, EARLY BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION SEMINAR
  Christina Kraus
  Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar

Thursday 31 May 2018

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

Thursday 7 June 2018

• 09:00 - Moulie Vidas, EARLY BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION SEMINAR
  Moulie Vidas
  Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar