Summer Meeting 2019

Worcester College, Oxford

22–25 July 2019

Under the presidency of Prof. Susan Gillingham

Printable version of the Programme.

MONDAY 22 July

2.00 pm Committee Meeting
4.30 pm Registration
6.00 pm Reception sponsored by the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford
6.30 pm Dinner
8.15 pm Prof. Herrmann Spieckermann (Göttingen) “ The Masoretic and the Septuagint Psalter: Status Quo and Issues for Future Research”

8.00 am Breakfast
9.15 am Dr Jenni Williams (Oxford), “Righteous Betrayal: the People Who Helped David”
10.00 am Dr Adam Hensley (North Adelaide), “A Closer Look at the Postscript of Psalm 72:20”
10.45 am Coffee
11.15 am Dr Stefan Attard (Malta), “Overturning Laments: An Assessment of the So-Called Prophetic Perfect Formulations in the Psalms’”
12 noon Business Meeting (Members only)
1.00 pm Lunch
3.00 pm Dr Melody Knowles (Alexandria, VA), “Politics in a Paraphrase: The Treatment of Psalm 132 by Mary Sidney Herbert”
3.45 pm Dr Deborah Rooke (Oxford), “Handel-ing the Psalms: A Reception-Historical Consideration of Handel’s Chandos Anthems”
5.00 pm Joint reception with the British Association of Jewish Studies (sponsored by the Centre for the Study of the Bible in the Humanities and the Knapp Foundation)—St Anne’s College
6.30 pm Dinner
8.15 pm Prof. William Brown (Decatur, GA), “Job and the ‘Comforting’ Chaos”

8.00 am Breakfast
9.15 am Alun Thomas (Dublin), “Some Aspects of Translation Technique in the Old Greek and Qumran Aramaic (4Q156) Versions of Leviticus”
9.45 am Dr Zanne Domoney-Lyttle (Glasgow), “Of Matriarchs and Motherhood: Patriarchal Strategy in the Reception of Mothers in the Hebrew Bible”
10.15 am Dr Neil Morrison (Belfast), “Mapping the Chronicler’s Doctrine of Retribution within the Hebrew Bible”
10.45 am Coffee
11.15 am Dr Zoltán Schwáb (London), “Finding Creation in Ecclesiastes: Chasing after Wind”
12 noon Dr Laura Quick (Oxford), “Through a Glass, Darkly: Mirrors and the Self”
1.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm SOTS Outing: Thames River Cruise
4.00 pm President’s Tea (onboard)
6.15 pm Reception (in Cloisters)
6.45 pm Psalms Concert
8.00 pm Gala Dinner