The Summer Meeting 2021 Under the presidency of Prof. Hugh Pyper Confidential material (minutes of the previous business meeting as well as proposals for membership) are available to view HERE. You must be logged in as a Member to access these documents. Additional material for the conference are available to view HERE. You […]
Bertil Albrektson was born on 27 September 1929 in Gothenburg. He attended the University of Gothenburg where he received a degree in philosophy in 1951. He then studied theology at the University of Lund, receiving his degree in 1956 after which he was ordained priest in the Church of Sweden […]
SOTS members for whom the REF2021 research audit is relevant are encouraged to consult the information on the REF website (https://www.ref.ac.uk/guidance). Where there seems any uncertainty about their individual circumstances, they should raise such questions with the appropriate officers in their home institutions.
Prof Hugh Pyper reading his own translation of Qohelet into Scots:
As the Committee of the Society for Old Testament Study, we wish to express our shock and sorrow that Professor Jan Joosten, a leading Old Testament scholar and, until recently, a member of the Society, has been convicted of the possession of images of the sexual abuse of children, and […]
To:The Secretary of State for EducationRT Hon Gavin Williamson CBE Minister of State for UniversitiesHon Michelle Donelan Minister for Education in Wales,Kirsty Williams MS Minister for Higher Education and Science in Scotland,Richard Lochhead MSP Minister for the Department of Education of Northern Ireland,Peter Weir MLA Minister for Science, Research and […]
Statement on behalf of the Society for Old Testament Study As human beings we are horrified at the racist killing of George Floyd by a white policeman. George Floyd was a member of an ethnic group subject to centuries of slavery, subordination and oppression and still regarded as inferior by […]
Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2019 (abstracts posted when available) Susan Gillingham (Oxford) “Bifocal reading: Textual Analysis and a Critical Imagination in Biblical Studies” John Goldingay (Oxford), “On Reading Genesis 49” Siobhán Dowling-Long (Cork), “An Exploration of Biblical Pathos Through Music” Ekaterina Kozlova (London), “Acedic Kingship in ANE: Gilgamesh and David as Paradigmatic Kings […]
Worcester College, Oxford 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. Worcester College, Oxford, OX1 2HB (see here for a pdf with travel information), and the contact telephone number is (+44) 01865-278300. 22–25 July 2019 Under […]
TRS-UK recently posted the following on their website: TRS-UK (the umbrella organisation for all UK Departments of Theology & Religious Studies and the relevant subject associations) is very grateful for the recent British Academy report on ‘Theology and Religious Studies Provision in UK Higher Education’, despite its sobering statistics. The study of religion(s) and […]