Summer Meeting 2008
At Wadham College, University of Oxford
under the presidency of Professor John Barton.
MONDAY 21st JULY
2.00 p.m. [Committee Meeting]
4.30 p.m. Registration
6.00 p.m. Reception hosted by the Faculty of Theology
7.00 p.m. Dinner
8.30 p.m. Professor Friedemann Golka (Oldenburg), ‘Moses — the Bible, Thomas Mann, Michelangelo, and Jan Assmann’
TUESDAY 22nd JULY
8.00 a.m. Breakfast
9.15 a.m. Professor Joachim Schaper (Aberdeen), ‘Presence in the Abstract: “Grammatological Iconoclasm” in Ancient Israel’
10.00 a.m. Professor Johannes de Moor (Kampen), ‘Meaningful Silence: Some Remarks on Empty Space in the Hebrew Bible’
10.45 a.m. Coffee
11.15 a.m. Dr David Lamb (Hatfield, PA), ‘“I Will Strike You Down and Cut Off Your Head” (1 Samuel 17:46): Trash Talking, Derogatory Rhetoric, and Psychological Warfare in Ancient Israel’
12.00 noon Dr Andrew Davies (Mattersey), ‘My Favourite Waste of Time? On the Dubious Ethical Utility of the Old Testament’
1.00 p.m. Lunch
2.30 p.m. Workshop on graduate-student work-in-progress:
4.00 p.m. Tea
5.00 p.m. Bach cello suites with Madhavi Nevader
6.00 p.m. Reception hosted by Oxford University Press
7.00 p.m. Dinner
8.30 p.m. Professor Rudolf Smend (Göttingen), ‘Julius Wellhausen and Old Testament Scholarship: An Overview’
WEDNESDAY 23rd JULY
8.00 a.m. Breakfast
9.15 a.m. Dr Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (Aberdeen), ‘The Judahite Community behind Daughter Zion’
10.00 a.m. Dr Anthony Gelston (Durham), ‘A Detection of Editors’
10.45 a.m. Coffee
11.15 a.m. Professor William Johnstone (Edinburgh), ‘Moses at Fairford: Typology in Medieval Glass (Illustrated)’
12.00 noon Business Meeting for SOTS members
1.00 p.m. Lunch
2.00 p.m. Outing to St Mary’s Church, Fairford, Gloucestershire, with a talk on the 16th-century stained-glass windows by Dr Athene Reiss (Oxford), followed by Tea (served at the Bull Hotel) by invitation of the President
7.00 p.m. Dinner
8.30 p.m. Professor Ernest Nicholson (Oxford), ‘“I Will Raise Up For Them Prophets Like You…” (Deuteronomy 18:18): Who Were These Prophets?’
THURSDAY 24th JULY
8.00 a.m. Breakfast, followed by departure
Domestic Arrangements
The venue for all papers, the Bach cello suites and the business meeting is the Holywell Music Room.
Publishers are invited to display books for sale in the Old Refectory during the Meeting. Members who have had books published recently are also invited to display copies.
The charges for hospitality are shown on the Booking Form. Please note that all rooms are standard accommodation; there are no en-suite rooms. Members are requested to pay their accounts in full when returning the form but, if necessary, a non-returnable booking fee of £30 will be accepted for residents, and the balance will be payable on arrival at the Meeting. Residents are encouraged to choose the package price, which is a discounted rate over against the itemized prices; those whose Booking Forms are received by the Acting Hospitality Secretary by Thursday 29th May 2008 are subject to further lower prices than those whose forms are received after that date (please see the details on the form). There is also a subsidized price for those on low incomes or coming from economically disadvantaged countries. All bookings must be received by Thursday 26th June 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 which will be waived only in the light of extenuating circumstances and only when the final 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 Acting Hospitality Secretary, Dr Hywel Clifford, Ripon College, Cuddesdon, Oxford OX44 9EX (e-mail hclifford@ripon-cuddesdon.ac.uk), so as to arrive by Thursday 29th May 2008 (for the discount price) or at the latest by Thursday 26th June 2008.
Correspondence concerning the affairs of the Society should be sent to the Home 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, must reach him by Monday 19th May 2008. Proposals for new members of the Society, using the form available at www.sots.ac.uk/membershipform.html, must reach him by Monday 30th June 2008.
Information on travelling to Wadham College may be found at: www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about-wadham/getting-to-wadham/finding-wadham.html.