Department of Theology & Religion, University of Birmingham 15th–16th July 2020 Keynote Speakers: Dr Molly Zahn, University of Kansas Dr Elisa Uusimäki, Aarhus University Deadline for Abstracts: Saturday 28th March, 2020 We invite postgraduate students and early career researchers to submit proposals for twenty-minute papers broadly related to the […]
February 20, 2020 MBI Al Jaber Building, Corpus Christi College, Oxford A conference sponsored by:The Centre for the Study of the Bible in the Humanities, Oriel College The Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research The Faculty of Oriental Studies Organised by:Hindy Najman, Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation […]
Sunday 1st and Monday 2nd December 2019 Oriel College, University Oxford Organizers: Hindy Najman (Oriel); Daniel Weidner (ZFL); Adriana X. Jacobs (St. Cross); Yael Fisch (Oriel); Rebekah Van Sant-Clark (Oriel) Is a common reading possible across languages, cultures, and disciplines? Under what terms may texts be compared and shared while […]
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This conference brings prominent biblical scholars and scholars of Judaism together for a conversation about the foundations of our fields. We want to generate a discussion of how a biased understanding of Judaism became integral to the discipline. This conversation is about understanding, healing and changing that discussion through critical thinking and ethical reading. The conference will take […]
Joint KCL/Oxford workshop 5 November 2018 Oriel College, Oxford This workshop considers the composition, performance, and repetition of texts of lament, loss and healing. We understand the writing and reading of these lament traditions to be the work of therapy. Presentations will explore how interpretive communities – collective and individual – internalise, interpret […]
Conference Programme: Targum Studies in London, IOTS 2018 In consultation with the Institute of Jewish Studies, the International Organization for Targum Studies announces a summer meeting at University College London, 9-12 July 2018 (the conference will start with an evening lecture on July 9th). The full programme can be […]
University of Nottingham (Jubilee Campus) confidential material (minutes of the previous business meeting as well as proposals for membership) will be posted here (log-in required) once they are ready. Newark Hall, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham, NG8 1AW (see here for a pdf with travel information). 2–4 January 2018 Under the presidency of […]
Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2016 (abstracts) Adrian Curtis (Manchester), “From People and Book to Text in Context: Volumes That Speak Volumes” David Firth (Nottingham), “Creating Narrative Instability in Joshua 1-5” Bernard Jackson (Manchester), “The Whodunit underlying the plot of the Book of Ruth” Heather McKay (Ormskirk), “Clothing, Adornment and Accoutrements in the […]
The Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit at the University of Oxford will be holding a conference on ‘the exegetical value of the Masora’. The conference will take place 7-8 November at Exeter College. For a poster see here. All are welcome but please pre-register by email: sue.forteath@ochjs.ac.uk
