Hilary Term 2025
Weeks 1–6, Week 8,
Tuesdays, 14:00–15:30
Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre (unless otherwise stated**),
Clarendon Institute, Walton Street Oxford, OX1 2HG
Convened by Meron Piotrkowski
Unless otherwise stated**, 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).
**Week 1, 21 January (via Zoom only)
David Edwards (New College of Florida): ‘Josephus at Work in Rome: Material and Embodied Approaches to Composition’
Please register at this link to participate via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/isxaITEbRrm_zkeb_6zDjw
**Please note that the speaker will not be in Oxford and that he will lecture via Zoom only. If you are in Oxford, please join us in the Lecture Theatre and for tea and biscuits after the lecture.**
**Week 2, 30 January (in person only; please see information below)
Peter Toth (Oxford/The Bodleian Library): ‘The Hebrew Bible in Greek: Translation and Transmission’
**Please note that the session will take place from 14:00–15:30 in the Bahari Room at the Weston Library. The space is limited to 15 people. To reserve a spot, please contact Professor Meron Piotrkowski at meron.piotrkowski@ames.ox.ac.uk. Spaces will be allocated based on availability, so we encourage early registration.**
Week 3, 4 February
No seminar
Week 4, 11 February
Geoffrey Herman (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris): ‘Whosoever Desires to Libate the Wine on the Altar Should Fill the Throats of the Rabbis with Wine: The Babylonian Rabbinic Movement: Distinctive and Shared Features within a Sasanian Context’
Please register at this link to participate via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Zl7wA6zYSbSeqkmxcScLtQ
Week 5, 18 February
Max Leventhal (University of Edinburgh): ‘The Septuagint as an anti-Ptolemaic ethical code in the Letter of Aristeas’
Please register at this link to participate via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/CVFbTxhbR5yF9DH-BvMKng
Week 6, 25 February
No seminar
Week 7, 4 March
Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham): ‘Scrolled Over: Hidden Labour Behind the Dead Sea Scrolls’
Please register at this link to participate via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/mnB7fZTDT2K-_kesakYkvg
Week 8, 11 March
Michael Economou (Oxford/Worcester): ‘Hasmonean Military Landscapes: Geography, Identity, and Ideology’
Please register at this link to participate via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HyhzrAeMRluZ0_eCR9DFLQ