Week 1 (no session)
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Seminar
This seminar, co-sponsored by the Faculty of Theology and Religion, is the flagship seminar of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament subject area in Oxford. The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Seminar runs each term and hosts an international array of scholars in the field of Biblical Studies. The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Seminar is attended by a variety of faculties across the University of Oxford. Students and faculty participate in the discussion in the formal sessions as well as in more informal discussions each week after the seminars. We create the conditions for students to engage with visiting scholars, and to relate their research to larger research topics across the field. It is essential for our postgraduate community to engage with different methodologies and ways of thinking about the texts they study. Moreover, the students come to engage with scholars from across the UK and the world.
This Trinity Term the seminar is joint between the area of Science and Religion and is jointly convened by Mark Harris (Harris Manchester) and Hindy Najman (Oriel) on the theme of Nature and Creation. The latter half of the term is comprised of the Speaker’s Lectures given this year by Judith Newman (Toronto). For the Speaker’s Lectures, please see this page for further details.
Conveners:
Convened by Hindy Najman and Mark Harris
In Trinity Term 2025, The Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament Seminar will run on Mondays 2:30 pm – 16:00 pm unless stated otherwise.* There is considerable variations in the times of the seminar this term so please check the information below.
Please direct any enquiries to ocsb@oriel.ox.ac.uk.
Schedule for Trinity Term 2025
Week 2
Monday, 5 May 14:30 – 16:30, Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College
Hindy Najman (Oriel) and Lea Niccolai (Cambridge)
Nature, Creation, and Hope in ancient Jewish and Greek writers
Week 3
Monday, 12 May 14:30 – 16:30, Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College
Anna Angelini (Siena)
Nature and its Laws in the Second Temple Period
Week 4
Monday, 19 May 14:30 – 16:30, Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College
Mark Wynn (Oriel)
Divine glory in nature: some theological and philosophical perspectives
Week 5
Monday, 26 May 14:30 – 16:30, Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College
Mark Harris (Harris Manchester)
Is “the sea” of the crossing (Exodus 14) to be found in nature or supernature?
Week 6
Thursday, 5 June 10:00 – 11:30, Harris Lecture Theatre,
Oriel College
Speaker’s Lectures Series
Judith H. Newman (Toronto)
The Anticipatory Past: Rethinking Time and Text in Jewish Antiquity
Week 7 (three sessions)
Monday, 9 June 14:30 – 16:00, Harris Lecture Theatre,
Oriel College
Speaker’s Lectures Series
Judith H. Newman (Toronto)
Birth and Re-Creations
*Special Session – Wednesday, 11 June 17:00 – 18:00, Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel College. (See this page for further details and line up of speakers).
Book launch: Scriptural Vitality: Rethinking Philology and Hermeneutics, Hindy Najman (OUP 2025)
Followed by a drinks reception in the Provost’s Lodgings
Thursday, 12 June 10:00 – 11:30, Harris Lecture Theatre,
Oriel College
Speaker’s Lectures Series
Judith H. Newman (Toronto)
Transformational Encounters
Week 8 (two sessions)
Monday, 16 June 14:30 – 16:00, Harris Lecture Theatre,
Oriel College
Speaker’s Lectures Series
Judith H. Newman (Toronto)
The Latter Days
Tuesday, 17 June 12:00 – 13:30, Harris Lecture Theatre,
Oriel College
Speaker’s Lectures Series
Judith H. Newman (Toronto)
with Hindy Najman (Oriel)
The Future of Prayer and Hermeneutics in Biblical Studies
Seminars in Previous Academic Years
Other Events
5 MAY TO 9 JUNE
Biblical Hebrew Reading Group
