Summer Meeting 2023

St Catharine’s College, Cambridge

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.”