Limited spaces are available for participating in this seminar series, convened by Professors Martin Goodman and Alison Salvesen. For information on how to register for individual seminars, please follow the links in our Term Programme. If you have any queries about the series, please contact Ms Priscilla Lange at academic.administrator@ochjs.ac.uk.
Trinity Term 2021 Schedule
Tuesdays 14.00-15.30 via Zoom
Week 1, April 27
No seminar
Week 2, May 4
Dr Kristin de Troyer (Salzburg) [LXX Forum], ‘Bestowing Honour and Wearing the Appropriate Clothes: the Book of Esther in Greek’
Week 3, May 11
Dr Joseph Scales (Birmingham), ‘Before the Synagogue? The Emergence of Jewish Communal Spaces in 1st century Galilee’
Week 4, May 18
No seminar
Week 5, May 25
Dr Rodrigo de Sousa (Aix-en-Provence) [LXX Forum], ‘The Septuagint and Early Jewish Literary Cultures’
Week 6, June 1
Dr Hallel Baitner (Wolfson), ‘Greater than the Former? Continuity and Innovation in the Architectural Depictions of the Second Temple’
Week 7, June 8
Professor Adele Reinhartz (Ottawa) [Speaker’s Lecture], ‘What Does the New Testament Tell Us about the “Parting of the Ways”?’
Week 8, June 15
Dr Benjamin Williams (Oriental Institute and Leo Baeck College), ‘The Parable of the Disappearing Gladiators: Interpreting a Late Antique Cultural Reference in Midrash Genesis Rabba’