Meetings


SOTS Centenary Volume

PRE-PUBLICATION OFFER ON THE SOCIETY’S CENTENNIAL ESSAYS A special offer is available on pre-ordered copies of the SOTS Centennial Essays for prospective attendees at the SOTS Centennial Meeting (Winter Meeting 2017, at Cripps Hall, Nottingham, on 3rd-5th January 2017). Order by 1st November 2016 a copy (or copies) of SOTS at […]


Winter Meeting 2016

Collingwood College, Durham University South Road, Durham DH1 3LT (see here for a googlemaps link). 4-6 January 2016 Under the presidency of Dr Adrian Curtis Printable Version of the SOTS Programme. Booking form for the Summer Meeting (pdf / doc) The venue for all sessions is Collingwood College, Durham (please see here for a description, and here for map of Durham). Publishers […]


Meetings 2015

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2015 (abstracts) Hans Barstad (Edinburgh), “The Bible in the University: SOTS and the Academy” (Presidential Address) Anja Klein (Edinburgh) “Praying Biblical History: The Phenomenon of History in the Psalms” Christopher Thomson (Cambridge) “Was the Exile a Payment of Debt? The Supposed רצה II in Lev 26 […]


Summer Meeting 2014

St Hilda’s College, Oxford 21st–24th July 2014, followed by a one-day conference on 24th July Under the presidency of Professor John Day Printable Version of the SOTS programme The Booking form for the SOTS meeting Travel information and directions to St. Hilda’s College The venue for all sessions is the Jacqueline du Pré Music […]


Winter Meeting 2014

Winter Meeting 2014   Collingwood College, Durham 6th–8th JANUARY 2014 Under the presidency of Professor John Day Printable Version of the programme The booking form for the  meeting Location and Directions to Collingwood College The venue for all sessions is Collingwood College, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LT. Publishers are invited to display […]


Meetings 2014

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2014 (abstracts) Prof. John Day (Oxford), “Problems in the Interpretation of the Story of the Garden of Eden” (Presidential Address) Dr David Reimer (Edinburgh) “The Language of Psalm 119” Dr Stuart Weeks (Durham) “Googling Qohelet” Dr Madhavi Nevader (Oxford) “On Reading Adam Royally” Dr Sandra Jacobs (London) “Methodological Paradigms and ‘Parallelomania’ in the Study of Comparative […]


Meetings 2013

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2013 (abstracts) Dr Eryl W. Davies (Bangor) “Ideology and Constructions of the ‘History of Israel’” (Presidential Address) Dr Janet Tollington (Cambridge) “Reading Ruth in Dialogue with Torah” Dr Jenni Williams (Oxford) “Childlessness in the Hebrew Bible” Dr Christopher Meredith (Sheffield) “On Lovers and Labyrinths: Revisiting […]


Winter Meeting 2013

Winter Meeting 2013   Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge 2nd–4th JANUARY 2013 under the presidency of Dr Eryl W. Davies Printable Version of the programme The Booking Form for the Winter meeting Location and Directions to Fitzwilliam College The venue for all sessions is Fitzwilliam College, Storeys Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DG. Publishers are invited to display […]


Winter Meeting 2012

Winter Meeting 2012   Collingwood College, Durham under the presidency of Professor George Brooke Printable Programme The Booking Form for the Winter meeting Location and Directions to Collingwood College The venue for all sessions is Collingwood College, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LT. Publishers are invited to display books for […]


Meetings 2011

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2011 (abstracts) Prof. John Sawyer (Perugia): The divine hinneni ‘Here I am’ in the Book of Isaiah (Presidential Address) Prof. Bernhard Lang (Paderborn): Voltaire, Goethe, and Joseph in Egypt: An Essay on the Bible in the Eighteenth Century Dr Walter Houston (Manchester): The Scribe and his […]