Seminar on Jewish History & Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period

Trinity Term 2026

Weeks 1-3, 5-8, Tuesdays from 2 to 3.30 pm

Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre **unless otherwise stated

Clarendon Institute, Walton Street Oxford, OX1 2HG

All lectures will be presented in a hybrid format which will be accessible both online (see below) and in person in the Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre (followed by coffee, tea and biscuits in the Common Room, situated in the basement of the Clarendon Institute)

Convened by Meron Piotrkowski

Week 1, 28^th April

Eshbal Ratzon (Tel Aviv University)

“The Dead Sea Scrolls and Their Decipherment”

In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Os9GADgZQ0uXcwgK0HzcnQ

Week 2, 5^th May

Camilla Recalcati (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

“The Septuagint and the Fayumic Communities”

In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/e4Tb48cySm6W4gbRrF-mpg

Week 3, 12^th May

Patrick Sänger (Universität Münster)

“Strabo and the Jews of the Cyrenaica: Ios. ant. Iud. 14, 114–118 in Context”

In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/JQ9JZ_D3Qs2IqXKm4ah4eQ

Week 4, 19^th May

No Seminar

Week 5, 26^th May

Lucia Prauscello (Oxford/All Souls)

“‘Fiery grief’? The semantics of πυρόω in three inscriptions from Leontopolis (JIGRE 32, 37 and 83), the Septuagint and Paul”

In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/8GSesbl0Se2zj196pBhGZQ

Week 6, 2^nd June

Itai Kagan (Oxford)

“The Hasmonean Megillah: Origins and Transformations of the Antiochus Scroll”

In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/i5FpFTMkRmSjM0ZjMTJ6uw

Week 7,  9^th June

Rebekah van Sant-Clark (Oxford/Worcester)

“Ambiguity and the Poetics of Prophecy in the book of Isaiah”

In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/TS8nkF-1RWqSG2wWpS-ayg

Week 8, 16^th June

Judith Göppinger (University of Würzburg)

“Why Deeds Matter Most – Exempla in Flavius Josephus’ Antiquitates Iudaicae”

In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/emsTvnExR_mYb_yueaRqbw