Speaker’s Lectures 2022 – Konrad Schmid: How to Read the Torah

This series of Trinity Term events with speaker Konrad Schmid, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism at the University of Zurich will explore: How to Read the Torah – The historical hermeneutics of a composite text and includes the following:

Monday 25 April, 3pm – 5pm
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Seminar: Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College
First public lecture – The Scribal Culture of Ancient Israel and Judah and the Composition of the Torah

Wednesday 27 April, 5pm – 7pm
OCHJS Lecture Theatre
Research seminar – Reading Genesis 22 in the Context of the Torah

Thursday 28 April, 10am – 12pm
Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar: Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College
Second public lecture – One Creation or Two Creations? The Compositional and Hermeneutical Logic of Genesis 1-3

Monday 2 May, 3pm – 5pm
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Seminar: Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College
Third public lecture – Conflicting Laws in the Torah: The Hermeneutics of the Slave Laws (Exodus 21:1-11; Deuteronomy 15:12-18; Leviticus 25:39-46)

Wednesday 4 May, 5pm – 7pm
OCHJS Lecture Theatre
Research seminar – Self-Similarity in the Torah: Reading Exodus 2:1-10, Exodus 1:9-22, and Genesis 6-9 as Concentric Circles

Thursday 5 May, 10am – 12pm
Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar: Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College
Joint seminar with Professor Najman – Early Readings of the Torah and Their Hermeneutics: Jubilees and 4QReworked Pentateuch

Thursday 5 May, 6pm – 7.30pm
David Patterson Lectures: OCHJS Lecture Theatre
Final public lecture – Audiatur et altera pars: The Torah’s Hermeneutics of Ambiguity

For questions, please contact Stefania Beitia (stefania.beitia@oriel.ox.ac.uk), PA to Professor Najman & Administrator of the Centre for the Study of the Bible