The David Patterson Lectures, named in honour of the Centre’s Founder President, occur weekly during Oxford terms and are open to the public. Please find a list of this term’s lecture titles listed below.
For information on how to register for the lectures online, please follow the links in our Term Programme. To watch a selection of previously recorded David Patterson Lectures, please click here. If you have any queries about the lectures, please contact Ms Priscilla Lange at academic.administrator@ochjs.ac.uk.
Hilary Term 2021 Schedule
Thursdays 18.00-19.00 via Zoom
Week 1, 21 January
No lecture
Week 2, 28 January
Professor Alison Salvesen (OCHJS), Professor Sarah Pearce (University of Southampton), Professor Miriam Frankel (Hebrew University)
‘Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period’
Week 3, 4 February
Dr Javier del Barco (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid)
‘Narcissus Marsh’s Hebrew Books from the Oxford Period at Marsh’s Library in Dublin’
Week 4, 11 February
Dr Blanca Villuendas Sabate (OCHJS)
‘The Cairo Genizah fragments as pieces in Intellectual History jigsaws: the case of dream interpretation’
Week 5, 18 February
Dr Danielle Drori (OCHJS)
‘Benjamin Disraeli in the Hebrew Imagination (1880s-1920s)’
Week 6, 25 February
Professor Ron Tappy (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary)
‘Letters from Tel Zayit: The Hebrew Alphabet Carved in Stone’
Week 7, 4 March
Professor Jodi Eichler-Levine (Lehigh University)
‘Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis: Crafting and Material Religion Among Contemporary Jewish Americans’
Week 8, 11 March
Dr Elena Lolli (OCHJS)
‘Scribal Habits and Codicological Features of the Oldest Hebrew Account Book in Italy’