Old Testament News and Events
King's College London, Department of Theology and Religious StudiesConference Call for papers: Gender and Transmission of Identity
'Who do you think you are? Gender and Transmission of Identity'
in the Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, and other related literature
Main speakers will include: Dr Susanne Scholz, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Perkins School of
Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas; Dr Deborah Rooke, Lecturer in Old Testament Studies at King's College London.
Proposals for papers are invited on the theme of gender and the transmission of
identity as it appears in the Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, and other related
literature. Topics for consideration might include circumcision, exogamy and
endogamy, naming practices, genealogies, social structures, religious
observances, educational practices, or any other areas in which gender is a
significant aspect in the transmission of identity. Papers can be either short (25 minutes) or long (50 minutes). Short papers from graduate students are particularly welcome, and we
aim to have a session dedicated to graduate student papers. Please send an abstract of not more than 200 words to
deborah.rooke@kcl.ac.uk by 28 FEBRUARY 2010.
April 23-25, 2010, Old Abbey, Drongen (near Ghent), BelgiumEABS Graduate and Post Graduate Symposium
EABS is proud to present its second symposium for young scholars, which will take place April 23-25 2010 in Drongen (Belgium). We are welcoming PhD candidates and post doctoral researchers to present a lecture, seminar or discussion on a specific topic related to their research area. The symposium aims at representing a variety of subfields in the broader field of biblical studies, covering different topics, applying several approaches and formats. Above all, it hopes to be a fruitful gathering for those attending. Young scholars can adopt any style to present their research as fitting to their project (paper, workshop, round table discussion, and pre-circulated topics with Q&A session). Further details in the attached PDF file.
Worcester College, Oxford, 22-24 September 2010. The conference, associated with the Theology Faculty at the University of Oxford and the Society for Old Testament Study, is convened by Dr Susan Gillingham and Professor John Barton.Conference: Conflict and Convergence: Jewish and Christian Approaches to the Psalms
Full details in the attached notice
Conference website now posted
Staff and students in the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield would like to thank all of you who wrote to the Vice-Chancellor on our behalf. Hundreds of letters were sent from all over the world, and we have been truly touched by the level of support.Thank you from Sheffield Department of Biblical Studies
The Department of Biblical Studies is no longer under review and the proposal that it should be reconfigured as a Postgraduate Centre has been withdrawn. The Vice-Chancellor has asked the Faculty of Arts and Humanities to consider a short, medium and longer term plan for the Department, and a decision has now been taken that the Department will recruit undergraduates for the Biblical Studies degree in 2010. The Faculty of Arts and Humanities will work closely with colleagues to ensure that students are appropriately supported, including through the recruitment of additional staff.
We could not have achieved this without your support and the commitment and energy of our students, undergraduate and graduate. We cannot thank you enough.
The BIBLINDEX project is carried out by the "Institut des Sources Chretiennes". The first stage of the project is completed. An index of approximately 400,000 biblical quotations and references from Greek and Latin patristic texts of the first five centuries is now available online. To search references in Biblindex, you can open a user account on the site : http://www.biblindex.mom.fr/index.php?lang=en and follow directions for use.New resource: Biblindex
New Journal: SAPIENTIA LOGOS: A Journal of Biblical Research & Interpretation in Africa
A new biblical journal, SAPIENTIA LOGOS: A Journal of Biblical Research & Interpretation in Africa, announces a special theme for October 2009 and 2010. The chosen theme is: Ethnicity and Identity in Biblical Perspective. It is a topic on which the editorial board think members of SOTS would wish to contribute. Members are invited to submit their research work and publications. The General Editor, Dr Randee I-Morphe, can be contacted at hh_cbrp@yahoo.co.uk. The editorial board consists of: Diana Edelman, David Ekem, Paul Ellingworth, Craig Evans, Theodore Hiebert, Andrew Igenoza, Jeremy Punt, Kenton Sparks, and Cephas Tushima.
Temple Studies Group
A Temple Studies Group has been established, in the first instance to convene one-day symposia on Temple themes. The first symposium was held at St Stephen’s House, Oxford, on November 8th 2008, on the theme 'Melchizedek in Scripture, Tradition and Liturgy', with presentations by Robert Hayward, Laurence Hemming, Crispin Fletcher-Louis and Margaret Barker.
Topics in the immediate future are likely to be 'Temple and Music' and 'The Temple and the Holy Sepulchre'. Some symposia will be in the Temple Church in London. Further information is available from the Convener, Dr Margaret Barker (bkmargaret@hotmail.com).
SOTS on Facebook!
Jim West has kindly established a SOTS group on Facebook, to bring together SOTS members and others interested in Old Testament. If you have a profile on Facebook, do join. Find us in Facebook.
Regular Conferences
The Anglo-Israel Archaeologial Society puts on a program of public presentations.
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