Winter Meeting 2009
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
under the presidency of Professor Lester Grabbe
(Printable version of programme)
MONDAY 5th JANUARY
2.00 p.m. [Committee Meeting]
4.30 p.m. Registration (in the Auditorium Foyer)
6.00 p.m. Reception
6.45 p.m. Dinner
8.30 p.m. Presidential Paper: Professor Lester Grabbe (Hull), ‘The Case of
the Corrupting Consensus’
TUESDAY 6th JANUARY
8.00 a.m. Breakfast
9.15 a.m. Professor Mark Geller (London), ‘Divination in Ancient Palestine:
The View from Babylonia’
10.00 a.m. Professor Kristin De Troyer (St Andrews), ‘David’s Affair with
Bathsheba: Text-Critical Remarks’
10.45 a.m. Coffee
11.15 a.m. Dr James West (Petros), ‘Tangled Web: The Internet, The Old
Testament, and You’, with responses from Dr Margaret Barker (Borrowash), Dr
Philip Jenson (Cambridge), and Dr James Aitken (Cambridge)
1.00 p.m. Lunch
2.30 p.m. Visit to the Taylor-Schechter Geniza Research Unit, with the Head
of the Unit, Dr Ben Outhwaite
4.30 p.m. Tea
5.00 p.m. Dr Helen Leneman (Gilly), ‘Saul’s Tragedy Re-Told through Drama
and Music’
6.45 p.m. Dinner
8.30 p.m. Professor Axel Knauf (Bern), ‘The End of History’
WEDNESDAY 7th JANUARY
8.00 a.m. Breakfast
9.15 a.m. Professor Heather McKay (Ormskirk),
‘How False Scenarios Can Be Used to Manipulate Biblical Characters’
10.00 a.m. Professor Philip Alexander
(Manchester), ‘Was the Ninth of Ab Observed before 70 CE? Reflections on the
Concept of Continuing Exile in the Second Temple Period’
10.45 a.m. Coffee
11.15 a.m. Professor Judith Hadley
(Villanova), ‘What Inscriptions Can (and Can’t) Tell Us about the Hebrew Bible:
The Newly Discovered Bullae of Gedalyahu ben Pashur and Yehukal ben Shelemyahu’
12.00 noon Business Meeting (SOTS members
only)
1.00 p.m. Lunch, followed by departure
All papers and the
business meeting will be held in the Auditorium. Publishers are invited to
display books for sale during the Meeting. Members who have had books published
recently are also invited to display copies.
Domestic Arrangements
The charges for hospitality are shown on the Booking Form. There are three types of rooms: (a) standard rooms which share a bathroom, shower and toilet between four bedrooms; (b) semi-en-suite where each room has a shower and a shared toilet; and (c) en-suite rooms which have toilet and shower (twin en-suite rooms are available on request). Members are requested to pay their accounts in full when returning the form but, if necessary, a non-returnable booking fee of £25 will be accepted, and the balance will be payable on arrival at the Meeting. A discounted price is available to those whose Booking Forms are received by the Hospitality Secretary by Tuesday 11th November 2008 (please see the details on the form). There is a subsidized price for those on low incomes or from economically disadvantaged countries. All bookings must be received by Thursday 4th December 2008; no bookings can be accepted after that date.
Please note that in making a booking, members render themselves liable for payment of the full cost of that booking, a liability that will be waived only in the light of extenuating circumstances and only when the final conference accounts permit a refund. You may wish to consider taking out insurance on your booking (or check that your annual travel insurance is applicable) to cover the possibility of you having to cancel your booking. You are advised to make a copy of your completed Booking Form for your own records.
Please send the Booking Form to the Hospitality Secretary, Ms Elizabeth Harper, Flat 4, 69-70 Crossgate, Durham DH1 4PR (e-mail e.a.harper@dur.ac.uk), so as to arrive by Tuesday 11th November 2008 (for the discount price) or at the latest by Thursday 4th December.
Correspondence concerning the affairs of the Society should be sent to the Secretary, Dr John Jarick, St Stephen’s House, 16 Marston Street, Oxford OX4 1JX (e-mail john.jarick@theology.ox.ac.uk). Applications to the Conference Grant (Bursary) Fund for assistance in meeting the costs of attending the Meeting (using the form available at www.sots.ac.uk/conferencegrant.html) should reach him by Friday 31st October 2008. Proposals for new members of the Society (using the form available at www.sots.ac.uk/membershipform.html) should reach him by Sunday 30th November.
Information on the location of Fitzwilliam College may be found at www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/about/directions/directions.jsp