Summer Meeting 2018


St John’s College, Durham

16–19 July 2018

Under the presidency of Prof. Walter Moberly

Printable version of the Programme.

MONDAY 16 July

  • 2.00 pm Committee Meeting
  • 4.30 pm Registration
  • 6.00 pm Reception (sponsored by the Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University)
  • 6.30 pm Dinner
  • 8.15 pm Professor Brent Strawn (Atlanta), “What is Missing from Ancient Israelite Religion?”

TUESDAY 17 July

  • 8.00 am Breakfast
  • 9.15 am Carly Crouch (Nottingham), “Duelling Dynasties: Ezekiel’s Sign-Act of the Two Sticks”
  • 10.00 am Simon Stocks (West Malling), “Lament and the Construction of Identity in the Psalms”
  • 10.45 am Tea and Coffee
  • 11.15 am Kai-Wen Karen Yuan (Taipei), “The Drama of the Pursuit of Wisdom in Proverbs 1-9”
  • 12.00 noon Leigh Trevaskis (Brisbane), “Did Ehud change his mind? The significance of idols in Judges 3:12-30”
  • 1.00 pm Lunch
  • 2.15 pm Free time for optional activities
  • 4.00 pm Tea and Coffee
  • 4.30 pm Hywel Clifford (Oxford), “yhwh ’ḥd: Divine ‘oneness’ in the Shema in its ancient Near Eastern setting”
  • 6.30 pm Dinner
  • 8.15 pm Richard Briggs, Deborah Rooke, Walter Houston and Brent Strawn
    Discussion of Richard Briggs’ Theological Hermeneutics and the Book of Numbers as Christian Scripture (South Bend: Notre Dame University Press, 2018)

WEDNESDAY 18 July

  • 8.00 am Breakfast
  • 9.15 am Marian Kelsey, “The Relenting of God in the Book of Jonah”
  • 9.45 am Stephen Campbell, “Life Worth Living: A Case for Rhetorical Coherence in Deut 4:1-8”
  • 10.15 Suzanna Millar (Cambridge), “Dining on Destruction: The Pedagogical Power of a Metaphorical World in Proverbs”
  • 10.45 am Tea and Coffee
  • 11.15 am Prof Cheryl Exum (Sheffield), “Adventures and Misadventures in Song of Songs Interpretation”
  • 12.00 noon Business Meeting (SOTS Members only)
  • 1.00 pm Lunch
  • 1.45 pm Outing to Vindolanda at Hadrian’s Wall
  • 4.00 pm President’s tea
  • 6.45 pm Dinner
  • 8.15 pm Robert Hayward (Durham), “Psalm 30 and the Offering of First-fruits”

THURSDAY 19 July

  • 8.00 am Breakfast and depart