Convened by Professors Martin Goodman and Alison Salvesen. For further information, please consult our Term Programme. If you have any queries about the series, please contact Ms Priscilla Lange at academic.administrator@ochjs.ac.uk.
Hilary Term 2022 Schedule
Tuesdays 14:00-15:30 (UK Time)
Room 207, Clarendon Institute,
Walton Street Oxford, OX1 2HG
Seminars will be followed by coffee, tea and biscuits in the Common Room.
Convenors: Martin Goodman and Alison Salvesen
Week 3: February 1 [LXX Forum]
Un Sung Kwak (St John’s)
‘The integration of comedy and Jewish features in the story of the three bodyguards (1 Esdras 3:1-5:6): their purpose and function’
Week 4: February 8
Professor Philip Alexander (Manchester)
‘Oral tradition and writing in the rabbinic culture of late antiquity: between Qumran and the Cairo Genizah’
Week 5: February 15 [LXX Forum]
Professor James Aitken (Cambridge)
‘The Septuagint within Greek education’ [Grinfield Lecture]
Week 8: March 8
Dr Laliv Clenman (Leo Baeck College)
‘Intermarriage and its punishments in rabbinic sources’
Please find the flyer for this seminar here