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Kirby Laing Doctoral Studentships in Old and New Testament

KIRBY LAING DOCTORAL STUDENTSHIPS IN NEW AND OLD TESTAMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE (CHELTENHAM) STARTING 1 OCTOBER 2023 The University of Gloucestershire is offering up to three full fees doctoral studentships in New Testament funded by the Kirby Laing Trusts to commence on 1st October 2023. Preference will be […]


A New Deal for Higher Education

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 […]


Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School 2020  – ONLINE

This year’s Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School, which will take place online (via Zoom) from 1 to 11 September 2020 inclusive.  The school offers nine days of intensive teaching in biblical Hebrew.  Each weekday there will be three hours of teaching, delivered in two separate 90-minute sessions, between 10 am and […]


Categories and Boundaries in Second Temple Jewish Literature

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 […]


Martyrdom on the Margins

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 […]


Hermeneutic Interventions

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 […]


Part-time Instructor in Biblical Hebrew

Faculty of Theology and Religion and Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford Grade 6, £28,660 – £34,189 with a discretionary range to £37,345 p.a. (pro rata) The Faculty of Theology and Religion and the Faculty of Oriental Studies seek to appoint an Instructor in Biblical Hebrew to commence in October 2019. […]


Protestant Bible Scholarship: Antisemitism, Philosemitism, and Anti-Judaism (26-27 May 2019, Oxford)

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 […]


Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School

The Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School will take place at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies from September 2-13, 2019. The cost of the school is £300 per student for 30 hours of language instruction. Application forms may be downloaded from the Centre’s website: www.ochjs.ac.uk; Closing date: Monday […]