Summer Meeting 2021


Online

12-14 January 2021

Under the presidency of Prof Hugh Pyper

MONDAY 12 July

  • 2.00 pm Committee Meeting
  • 7.15 pm Martti Nissinen – ‘Female Voices in Akkadian Love Poetry and in the Song of Songs’ 

TUESDAY 13 Jul

  • 9.15 am Alison Gray – ‘Bringing a dead language to life? Teaching and learning Biblical Hebrew ’ 
  • 9.50 am Short Comfort Break
  • 10.00 am Bill Goodman – ‘“The Time of Singing has Come” – The Lure of the Song of Songs for Today’s Composers and Songwriters’ 
  • 10.35 am Coffee Break
  • 11.15 am Deborah Kahn-Harris – ‘Bizarre Love Triangle: Reading the Book of Ruth in the 2020s’ 
  • 11.50 am Short Comfort Break
  • 12.00 pm Business Meeting (members only)
  • 1.00 pm Lunch and Afternoon Break
  • 4.30 pm SOTS Strategic Review Group Update 
  • 5.05 pm Short Comfort Break
  • 5.15 pm Mark Brummitt – ‘Recovering Words: Resilience and the Writing of Wrongs in Jeremiah’ 
  • 6.00 pm Dinner Break
  • 7.15 pm Matthew Coomber – ‘Interpreting the Psychology of Privilege: The Modern Relevance of Contempt in the Hebrew Bible’ 

WEDNESDAY 14 July

  • 9.15 am Katherine Southwood – ‘Can we talk of comedy in Job?’ 
  • 9.50 am Short Comfort Break
  • 10.00 am Constantin Jinga – ‘A first Romanian Septuagint – long story short’ 
  • 10.35 am Coffee Break 
  • 11.15 am Paul Kurtz – ‘How to Read the Bible Rationally: Making Exegesis ‘Critical’ in the early C19’ 
  • 11.50 am Short Comfort Break
  • 12.00 pm Anne Jeffers – ‘Re-enchanting the Bible and the New Animism’ 
  • 1.00 pm Lunch and Afternoon Break
  • 3.30 pm Virtual Outing: An Orkney Experience
  • 4.30 pm President’s Tea
  • 5.15 pm Jon Morgan – ‘Blood and Soil: The Challenge of Ecofascism for Ecological Criticism’