Daily archives: 3rd May 2015


Meetings 2010

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2010 (abstracts) Professor Cheryl Exum (Sheffield): The Arts and the Exegete (Presidential Address) Professor Ellen van Wolde (Nijmegen): The verb bara’ and the collocation tohu wabohu in Genesis 1:1–2:4a Dr Jonathan Stökl (Cambridge): (No) Prophetesses in Ezekiel 13: Reconsidering ‘the daughters of your people, who prophesy’ Dr Susan Gillingham (Oxford): Psalms 1 […]


Meetings 2009

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2009 (abstracts) Professor Lester Grabbe (Hull): The Case of the Corrupting Consensus (Presidential Address) Professor Mark Geller (London): Divination in Ancient Palestine: The View from Babylonia Professor Kristin De Troyer (St Andrews): David’s Affair with Bathsheba: Text-Critical Remarks Dr James West (Petros): Tangled Web: The Internet, the Old […]


Meetings 2008

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2008 (abstracts) Professor John Barton (Oxford): Prophecy and Theodicy (Presidential Address) Professor David Clines (Sheffield): Psalm 23 and Method Dr Helen Kraus (Oxford): The Story of Andrew and Zoë: Gender Issues in the Septuagint Translation of Genesis 1–4 Dr David Firth (Calver): David and Uriah (with occasional […]


Meetings 2007

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2007 (abstracts) Professor Philip Davies (Sheffield): ‘Apocalyptic’: An Otherworldly Tour through the Hebrew Bible (and Beyond) (Presidential Address) Dr Eric Christianson (Chester): ‘Lights, Camera, Achsah!’? On Comparing the Hebrew Bible to Film Dr Ian Wilson (Cambridge): Central Sanctuary or Local Settlement? The Location of the Triennial Tithe […]


Meetings 2006

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting, January 2006 (abstracts) Winter Meeting, 4th-6th January 2005, at the Manor House, University of Birmingham under the presidency of Professor Robert Hayward. Professor Robert Hayward (Durham): Presidential Address: Targum, Biblia Hebraica Quinta, and Jewish Biblical Interpretation (presidential paper) Dr Jeremy Corley (Durham): Biblical Allusion and the […]


Meetings 2005

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2005 (abstracts) at the Manor House, University of Birmingham under the presidency of Professor Grahame Auld Professor Graeme Auld (Edinburgh): Voices from the Past (Presidential Address) This lecture is available for download here with all pictures (Voices: beware, large file of c. 4MB), or […]


Meeting 2004

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2004 (abstracts) Professor Hugh Williamson (Oxford): ‘Do We Still Need Commentaries?’ (Presidential Address) Dr Keith Grüneberg (Pangbourne): ‘Genesis 12:3: New Linguistic Insight into an Old Problem’ Dr Ann Jeffers (London): ‘Laughing at Abraham: Parody in the Testament of Abraham’ Dr Paul Joyce (Oxford): ‘A New Heaven or […]


meetings 2003

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2003 (abstracts) At Manor House, University of Birmingham, January 6th-8th Theme: The Hebrew Bible against its Ancient Near Eastern Background Robert Gordon (Cambridge), ‘Comparativism and the God of Israel’ (Presidential Paper) Dr Janet Tollington (Cambridge), ‘Abraham and His Wives: Status and Culture’ Dr Anselm […]


meetings 2002

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2002 (abstracts) At Halifax Hall, University of Sheffield, 2nd – 4th January 2002 Professor John Bartlett (Dublin), ‘Between Scylla and Charybdis’ (Presidential Paper) Professor Michael Knibb (London), ‘The Book of the Watchers in its Context’ Professor Robert Hayward (Durham), ‘Days without Number: Jacob, Israel, […]


Meetings 2001

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2001 (abstracts) At Devonshire Hall, University of Leeds, 3-5 January, 2001 Professor Michael Goulder (Birmingham): ‘My Servant Jehoiachin’ (Presidential Paper) Professor John Sawyer (Lancaster): ‘The Prophet of Consolation: Isaiah in the History of Judaism’ Dr Mary Mills (London): ‘Moral Perspectives in Old Testament Narrative’ […]