Past conferences

Meetings of 2023

The record

Winter: 3–5 January 2023 · Summer: 4–7 September 2023

3–5 January 2023 · Endcliffe Campus, Sheffield · under the presidency of Prof. Katharine Dell

The venue for all sessions is The Edge, Endcliffe Student Village, Sheffield, S10 3ED

3-5 January 2023

Under the presidency of Prof. Katharine Dell.

2.00 pm Committee Meeting
4.30 pm Registration
6.00 pm Reception sponsored by Sheffield Phoenix Press
6.30 pm Dinner
8.00 pm Presidential Address: Katharine Dell (Cambridge) “Covenant and wisdom: Arguing with a premise from absence”

8.00 am Breakfast
9.15 am Moritz Adam (Zurich) “Reflections upon History in Ecclesiastes and its Context in the Hellenistic Period”
10.00 am Megan Daffern (Cambridge) “Talking to yourself? The Psalms and Self-Address in the HB/OT”
10.45 am Coffee
11.15 am David Firth (Bristol) “A Poem of Two Contexts: Psalms 40:13-17 and 70 in their Canonical Setting”
12 noon Kirsi Cobb (Calver, Derbyshire) “Filling in the gaps: reading Hosea 1-3 with contemporary fiction writers”
1.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm Free time
3.30 pm Tea
4.00 pm Paul Joyce (London) “False Hope and Inappropriate Optimism: Fresh Light on the Prophets from Psychology and Cognitive Science”
4.45 pm Nathan Eddy (London) “When the Prophet says No: Reading Ps 77 with Dan Pagis”
6.00 pm Reception sponsored by the Society in memory of Elizabeth Harper
6.30 pm Dinner
8.00 pm Anselm Hagedorn (Osnabrüch) “Prophecy and Hellenism. Some thoughts on (very) late prophetic texts”

8.00 am Breakfast
9.15 am Peter Hatton (Bristol) “Berith as Treaty: Towards a Biblical Theology of Conflict Resolution”
10.00 am Suzanna Millar (Edinburgh) “Like the cattle, so the chattel: Animal domestication and slavery in ancient Israel and its context”
10.45 am Coffee
11.15 am Philip Jenson (Cambridge) “Incomparability: An alternative to mathematical monotheism”
12 noon Business Meeting (SOTS members only)
1.00 pm Lunch, followed by departure

4–7 September 2023 · St Catharine’s College, Cambridge · under the presidency of Prof. Katharine Dell

4th–7th September 2023

Under the presidency of Prof. Katharine Dell

Printable version of the Programme.

2.00 pm Committee Meeting
4.30 pm Registration in the McGrath Centre (registration will open earlier if possible)
5.45 pm Reception sponsored by Cambridge University Press
6.45 pm Dinner
8.15 pm Choon-Leong Seow (Princeton), “A Spectacle of YHWH’s mispat: Job 40:15-23”

8.00 am Breakfast
9.15 am Bernd Schipper (Berlin) “From Amenemope to Anksheshonqi. Prov 22:17–24:22 & Egyptian Wisdom Literature”
10.00 am Mary Mills (Liverpool) “Emotion and the prophet”
10.45 am Coffee
11.15 am Tova Forti (Beersheba) “Did Ben Sira know Qoholet and to what extent?”
12 noon Yanjing (Tara) Qu (Cambridge) “Reading ‘Ageing’ Poetically: The Cognitive Perspective of Ecclesiastes 12:1-7”
12.45 pm Lunch
1.45 pm Free time
3.00 pm Tea
3.30 pm Mark Sneed (Lubbock, Texas) “Is Biblical Studies Stuck in Antiquarianism? The case of Behemoth and Leviathan”
4.15 pm Chris Thomson (Sydney) “When Is a God Not a God? The Semantics of Biblical Monotheism”
5.30 pm Library Tour and Reception at the Divinity Faculty, sponsored by the Divinity Faculty
6.45 pm Dinner
8.15 pm Peter Williams (Cambridge) “Themes in the publications of James K. Aitken”

8.00 am Breakfast
9.15 am Brittany Melton (Vancouver) “Cathartic Commemoration: Re-evaluating the purpose of Esther as Comedy”
9.45 am Jennifer Andruska (Manchester) “Gazelles: Symbols of Power and Vulner-ability in the Hebrew Bible and ANE”
10.30 am Coffee
11.00 am Danny Crowther (Oxford) “What remains of the Hebrew Bible?: Psalm 18, 2 Sam 22, David Clines and the Tiberian Masoretes”
11.45 am Business Meeting – SOTS members only
12.45 pm Lunch
1.30 pm Outing to Ely by coach including
- 2.30 pm Tour of the Cathedral
- 3.15 pm Concert in the Cathedral “Celebrating wisdom and the wise: A concert of biblical song”
- 4.00 pm Presidential tea in the Almonry
5.30 pm Return from Ely
6.45 pm Dinner
8.15 pm Christoph Bultmann (Erfurt) “Against authoritarian abuse: Psalm 139 – a lone voice in prayer.”