The following seminars will be held on Tuesdays, 2.15-3.45pm,
at the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Clarendon Institute, Walton Street
Convenor: Professor Martin Goodman
Week 1, 21 January
Dr Anna Krauss (Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies)
‘Material aspects of reading Psalms: observations on the Dead Sea Psalms scroll’
Week 2, 28 January
Jelle Verburg (Tübingen)
‘Halakhah in Greek: the value of motive in the Septuagint’s laws on sacrifice and theft’ [LXX Forum]
Week 3, 4 February
Dr Gil Gambash (Haifa)
‘Rome and the Jews: genocidal perspectives’
Week 4, 11 February
Dr Antonella Bellantuono (Strasbourg)
‘Divine epithets in Jewish-Hellenistic literature’ [LXX Forum]
Week 5, 18 February
Dr Kim Czajkowski and Dr Benedikt Eckhardt (Edinburgh)
‘The King’s Man? Nicolaus of Damascus on Herod the Great’
Week 6, 25 February
Ursula Westwood (Wolfson)
‘Josephus on Moses’ constitution in light of Plutarch’s Lycurgus‘
Week 7, 3 March
Professor David Jacobson (KCL)
‘The significance of the coins of Agrippa II’
Week 8, 10 March
Dr Daniel Schumann (Keble)
‘The prohibitive vow in Greek and Hebrew discourse’
