Week 1 (no session, conference)
No session: Conference ‘My Tongue is the Pen of a Skillful Scribe’ (Psalm 45:2): Poetics, Performance, and Philology (26-27 April, Oriel College).
Biblical Hebrew Reading Group
The reading group provides an opportunity to read a biblical text under the guidance of great international scholars, Junior Research Fellows, and advanced postgraduate students. The Biblical Hebrew Reading Group allows students, ranging from undergraduates to doctoral students, to improve their fluency in Hebrew, and to connect the philological working of the biblical text with conceptual frameworks. This group also allows students to engage at all levels. Those with more fluency read and translate, and those with less experience contribute to the conceptual work and practice their reading and grammar.
Convenors: Cian Power and Hindy Najman
In Hilary and Trinity Terms 2026, the Biblical Hebrew Reading Group will run on Mondays 11:30 am – 12:30 pm unless stated otherwise.
Consult at the Oriel College porter’s lodge for the 4-digit passcode to enter the Harris Seminar Room.
Schedule for Trinity Term 2026
Week 2
Oliver Geffen (Oriel): Genesis 21:9-20
Week 3
Johan Lundberg (Oxford): Genesis 24:1-9
Week 4
Weston Library manuscript session, Ben Sira Manuscript B (text will be pre-circulated); sign-up form to be circulated. Please note that this session will meet from 13:00-14:00.
Week 5
Pia Regensburger (Oriel): Exodus 3:4-15
Week 6
Weston Library manuscript session, Mekhilta (text will be pre-circulated); sign-up form to be circulated.
Week 7
Joseph Harrison (St. Edmund Hall): Isaiah 13:20-22; 34:11-16
Week 8
Avishai Bar-Asher (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): §§247–251 Heikhalot (text will be pre-circulated)
Reading Groups in Previous Academic Years
Other Events
19 JANUARY TO 15 JUNE
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Seminar
