Summer Meeting 2018

St John’s College, Durham

16–19 July 2018

Under the presidency of Prof. Walter Moberly

Printable version of the Programme.

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?”

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)

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”