Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge 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. Fitzwilliam College, Storey’s Way, Cambridge CB3 0DG (see here for a pdf with travel information), the telephone number for the Porters’ Lodge is 01223 332000. 7–9 January 2019 Under […]
Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2018 (abstracts once available) Walter Moberly (Durham), ‘Thinking about God: A Reading of Psalm 82’ Rebecca Watson (Cambridge), ‘”Thrown into the Sea”: An Ecologically Damaging Concept in the Hebrew Bible?’ Philip Jenson (Cambridge), ‘Is there a Holiness Code and does it matter?’ William Ford (Belfast), ‘”Like […]
St John’s College, Durham 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. St John’s College, 3 South Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RJ, and the contact telephone number is (+44) 01913-343500 (see here for a pdf […]
Violence in the Hebrew Bible: Between Text and Reception 22–24 August 2018, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen, Oude Boteringestraat 38, Court Room Het Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap in Nederland en BelgiëThe Society for Old Testament Study (United Kingdom)Die Ou-Testamentische Werkgemeenskap van Suid Afrika For a pdf of the report see […]
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 […]
There is a three-year position as Teaching Fellow in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Further information to be found here: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=043574
David Shepherd writes about the upcoming joint meeting of OTW and SOTS: As most of you know, the Society has a longstanding tradition of holding joint meetings with our Dutch-speaking colleagues from the Netherlands and Belgium (and occasionally South Africa). This year the joint meeting will be held at the […]
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 […]
A service will be held in celebration of the life and work of Richard Coggins on Tuesday 22nd May 2018 at 5.30 pm in the Chapel of King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS. Members of the Society are warmly invited to attend. Those planning to attend are asked kindly […]
The Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School will take place at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies from August 13-24, 2018. The school offers ten days of intensive teaching in biblical Hebrew. The course corresponds to a term of intensive teaching for a full-time university student and is open to students with […]
