Week 1
Week 1 (Oct 14)
Induction session
14:00-16:00, Harris Lecture Theatre
Followed by reception in Harris Seminar Room
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.
Conveners:
Convened by Hindy Najman
In Michaelmas Term 2024, The Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament Seminar will run on Mondays 2:30 pm – 16:00 pm unless stated otherwise.
Please direct any enquiries to ocsb@oriel.ox.ac.uk.
Schedule for Michaelmas Term 2024
Week 2
Week 2 (Oct 21)
Jacob Wöhrle (Tübingen)
“There was no Human to till the Ground”:
The Formation and the Religious Historical Background of the Non-Priestly Creation Account Genesis 2-3
Week 3
(Mon. 6 May)
Week 3 (Oct 28)
Hugh Williamson (Christ Church)
The Valley of Vision: A Speculative Reconsideration of Isaiah 22:1–8a
This lecture will be held in the British Museum
Further details to be disseminated via email for the trip
Week 4
Week 4 (Nov 4)
The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony
Book Launch for Nathan MacDonald (Cambridge)
14:30-17:00, Harris Lecture Theatre
Followed by reception in the Harris Seminar Room
Week 5
Week 5 (2 sessions)
Monday, November 11
Friedhelm Hartenstein (LMU)
Exodus: Event, Memory, Expectation: On the Symbolic Potential of the Biblical Exodus Narrative
Week 6 (2 sessions)
Week 6 (Nov 18)
Katherine Southwood (St John’s)
The Refusal to Recognize Job as a Reliable Witness
and the Significance of Epistemic and Hermeneutical Injustice for Wisdom and Law
Professionalisation Session: SBL Practice Presentations
Convened by Hindy Najman and Rebekah Van Sant
Tuesday, November 19
17:00-19:00, Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College
Week 7 (no session)
Week 8 (2 sessions)
Week 8 (2 Dec)
Ambiguities of Exile
Joint Conference, University of Oxford and King’s College London
Convened by Andrea Schatz (KCL) and Rebekah Van Sant (Oriel)
Further details will be circulated closer to event
Professionalisation Session:
How to Ace Your Interview (open to all): A workshop with Susan black (Oxford University Careers Service)
Friday, December 6
14:30-16:00
HB Allen Centre Lecture Theatre, Keble College
For more information about this session please contact OxfordNTSeminar@gmail.com.
Seminars in Previous Academic Years
Other Events
21 OCTOBER TO 25 NOVEMBER
Biblical Hebrew Reading Group
