Past conferences

Meetings of 2022

The record

Winter: 4–6 January 2022 · Summer: 25–28 July 2022

4–6 January 2022 · online · under the presidency of Prof Charlotte Hempel

Online

4-6 January 2022

Under the presidency of Prof Charlotte Hempel

2.00 pm Committee Meeting
7.15 pm Charlotte Hempel (Birmingham) – ‘The Legacy of the People of the Land in the Dead Sea Scrolls’

9.15 am Stuart Weeks (Durham) – ‘Why Do We Read Qohelet the Ways We Do?’
10.00 am Short Comfort Break
10.10 am William Tooman (St. Andrews) – ‘Genesis 34 and the Law’
10.55 am Coffee Break
11.20 am Lindsey Askin (Bristol) – ‘Bone Diseases in the Hebrew Bible’
12.05 am Short Comfort Break
12.15 pm Nathan MacDonald (Cambridge) – ‘The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony’
1.00 pm Lunch and Afternoon Break
3.00 pm Sandra Jacobs (London) – ‘Women in Deuteronomy: From Assyria to the Battlegrounds of Sparta’
3.45 pm Short Comfort Break
3.55 pm Ellie Lyell (Exeter) – ‘Red, Red Wine: Colour and Consumption in the Hebrew Bible’
4.40 pm Coffee Break
5.10 pm Gary Rendsburg (New Brunswick, NJ) – ‘The Genesis of Genesis’
6.00 pm Dinner Break
7.15 pm Hindy Najman (Oxford) – ‘Poetic Cycles and Processes of Perfection: Hodayot and Biblical “Rewriting”’

9.15 am Drew Longacre (Groningen) – ‘Paleographic Style and the Forms and Functions of the Dead Sea Psalm Scrolls’
10.00 am Short Comfort Break
10.10 am Anja Klein (Edinburgh) – ‘Resilience in the Three Major Prophets – A New Approach to a Hebrew Scriptures Theology’
10.55 am Coffee Break
11.25 am George Brooke (Manchester) – ‘Some Issues in Comparative Studies and the Bible: Multiplicity and Uniqueness’
12.15 am Business Meeting (Members only)
1.15 pm End of meeting

25–28 July 2022 · Jubilee Campus, Nottingham · under the presidency of Prof. Charlotte Hempel

The venue for all sessions is the Exchange Building, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham, NG8 1BB.

25–28 July 2022

Under the presidency of Prof. Charlotte Hempel.

The (18th) Joint Meeting with the Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap in the Netherlands and Belgium

2.00 pm Committee Meeting
4.30 pm Registration
6.00 pm Liane Feldman (New York) “Unthinking Sacrifice in Second Temple Jewish Literature”
7.00 pm Reception (sponsored by the Presidents for 2020 and 2021)
7.30 pm Dinner

8.00 am Breakfast
9.15 am Gert Kwakkel (Kampen / Aix-en-Provence) “‘A Kingdom of Priests’: An Enigmatic Element in God’s Promises to Israel in Exodus 19:5-6”
10.00 am Ekaterina Kozlova (London) “2 Samuel and the Architecture of Poetic Justice”
10.45 am Coffee
11.15 am Jan-Wim Wesselius (Kampen) “Contradiction as an Essential Literary Aspect of the Hebrew Bible’s Primary History”
12 noon Nozipho Princess S. Dlodlo (Durban) “A Critical Reading of Selected Scenes from 1–2 Samuel with reference to Masculinity Construction”
1.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm Free time
3.30 pm Tea
4.00 pm Michaël N. van der Meer (Amsterdam) “The Ideological Background of the Books of Chronicles”
4.45 pm Charlene van der Walt (Durban) “‘We are family! Until we are not.’ Reflecting on Joseph in the context of Izitabane vulnerability…”
6.00 pm Brief Presentation by Karin Thomson (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford upon Avon) on “Shakespeare’s Legacy to the People of Birmingham”
6.15 pm Reception (sponsored by the University of Birmingham)
7.00 pm Dinner
8.15 pm Roger Nam (Atlanta) “The Economics of Diaspora”

8.00 am Breakfast
9.15 am Ellen van Wolde (Nijmegen) “Should Amos 4:13 really be understood as a hymn of creation?”
10.00 am Philip Yoo (Vancouver) “Rethinking “Pentateuch” and “Hexateuch”: A Modest Proposal”
10.45 am Coffee
11.15 am Carly L. Crouch (Nijmegen) “Identity’s Shifting Sands: Israel and Judah in the Sixth Century BCE”
12 noon Business Meeting (SOTS members only)
1.00 pm Lunch
1.45 pm Forum discussion (chaired by Charlotte Hempel (Birmingham)) “The Academy and Academic Publishing: Sustaining the Discipline Collaboratively”
3.15 pm Coach to Strelley Hall, Nottingham
3.30 pm President’s Tea at Strelley Hall
6.45 pm Dinner
8.15 pm Martin Goodman (Oxford) “Herod and the Hebrew Bible”