Week 1 (no session)
No session.
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.
Michaelmas 2026 Convenors: Hindy Najman and Rebekah Van Sant
In Michaelmas Term 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 Michaelmas Term 2026
Week 2
Dan Machiela (University of Notre Dame), Genesis 14
Week 3
Vladimir Oliviero (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies), Judges 13:1–15
Week 4 (no session)
No session.
Week 5
Jonathan Ben Dov (Tel Aviv University), 4Q418. End of column XXVIII: frag. 81 [transcript will be precirculated]
Week 6
Gary Rendsburg (Rutgers University), 1 Samuel 28: 6–17
Week 7 (no session)
No session.
Week 8 (no session)
No session.
Reading Groups in Previous Academic Years
Other Events
12 OCTOBER TO 22 JUNE
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Seminar
