This seminar, co-sponsored by the Faculty of Theology and Religion, is the flagship seminar of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament subject area in Oxford. It runs each term and hosts an international array of scholars in the field of Biblical Studies. The seminar is attended by a variety of faculties across the University of Oxford. Students and faculty members participate in discussions during the formal sessions, as well as in more informal discussions each week after the seminars.
Trinity Term 2024
HEBREW BIBLE/OLD TESTAMENT SEMINAR
Weeks 3-8, Mondays 14:30-16:00 (unless otherwise stated)*
Harris Seminar Room (unless stated otherwise)
Convenor: Hindy Najman
Week 1 (22 April), No seminar.
Week 2 (29 April), No seminar.
Week 3 (2 sessions)
(Mon. 6 May), Andreas Schüle (Leipzig), Messianic Imagination in Isaiah
*(Thurs. May 9), Sarit Kattan Gribetz (Fordham), Between Day and Night: Twilight in Jewish Antiquity
10am-12pm, Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College
Week 4 (2 sessions)
(Mon. May 13), Full day workshop, 10am-6pm, Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College, Ambrosiana Codex and Syriac Traditions (see schedule here)
*(Tues. 14 May)
Breakfast meeting with Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham)
The Book of Ruth as a Case Study in Global Feminist Hermeneutics
8:30am-9:30am, room tbd, Oriel College
RVSP please to OCSB@oriel.ox.ac.uk.
Week 5 (2 sessions)
(Mon. 20 May), Christophe Nihan (Münster), The Aramaic Levi Document and Priestly Discourse in the Second Temple Period: A Reevaluation
*(Thurs. 23 May)
Angie Erisman, The Torah in the Greek World: Tragedy, Rhetoric, and Philosophy in the Wilderness Narrative
10am-12pm, Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College
Week 6
(27 May), Bernd Shipper (HU Berlin), From Amenemope to Chacheshonqi – Prov 22:17–24:22 and Egyptian Wisdom Literature
Week 7 (3 sessions)
*(Tues, 4 June)
Special Oxbridge session (hybrid – link to be shared)
Professor Christopher Rowland and Professor John Barton, and respondents
The Open Heaven and Oracles of God
4.00pm-5:30pm, Cambridge, Divinity Faculty
*(Weds. 5 June)
Delvyn Case (Wheaton; Exeter), Contemporary Music as a Resource for Theological Thinking and Biblical Interpretation: A Composer’s Perspective
4-5pm, Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College
Co-Sponsored by the Bible in Art, Music and Literature seminar
*(Thursday 6 June)
Full day workshop, 9am-4pm, Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel College.
Between Hermeneutics and Philology: Ezekiel the Tragedian (see schedule here)
Week 8
(June 10), Lauren Monroe (Cornell), Beneath the Palm of Deborah: Becoming Israel in Judges 4–5
Please consult at the Porter’s lodge at Oriel College to get the 4-digit code to access the area where the Harris Seminar Room is located.
Please direct any enquiries to ocsb@oriel.ox.ac.uk
For programme updates please see the website: https://www.centreforbible.oriel.ox.ac.uk/events/hebrew-bible-old-testament-seminar/