Winter Meeting 2019


Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

7–9 January 2019

Under the presidency of Prof. Susan Gillingham

Printable version of the programme.  

MONDAY 7 January

  • 2.00 pm Committee Meeting
  • 4.30 pm Registration 
  • 6.00 pm Reception sponsored by the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge 
  • 6.30 pm Dinner 
  • 8.15 pm Presidential Address: Prof. Susan Gillingham (Oxford) “Bifocal reading: Textual Analysis and a Critical Imagination in Biblical Studies”

TUESDAY 8 January

  •  8.00 am Breakfast 
  • 9.15 am Prof. John Goldingay (Oxford), “On Reading Genesis 49” 
  • 10.00 am Dr Siobhán Dowling-Long (Cork), “An Exploration of Biblical Pathos Through Music” 
  • 10.45 am Coffee 
  • 11.15 am Dr Ekaterina Kozlova (London), “Acedic Kingship in ANE: Gilgamesh and David as Paradigmatic Kings of ‘Unfocused Energy’” 
  • 12 noon Dr Katharine Dell (Cambridge), “‘The Lord loved Him’ (2 Sam 12:24): Solomon as idealized character and paradigm for character ethics within the ‘Solomonic’ canon” 
  • 1.00 pm Lunch 
  • 4.30 pm Tea 
  • 5.00 pm Dr Holly Morse (Manchester), “Seeing Sense: Prophetic Visuality as a Response to Trauma” 
  • 6.00 pm Reception 
  • 6.30 pm Dinner 
  • 8.15 pm Dr John Jarick (Oxford), “God as Gambler”

WEDNESDAY 9 January

  • 8.00 am Breakfast
  • 9.15 am Prof Joseph Blenkinsopp (South Bend), “Re-Reading Isaiah in the Light of Psalms”
  • 10.00 am Dr James Aitken (Cambridge), “The Idea of the Septuagint” 
  • 10.45 am Coffee 
  • 11.15 am Dr Alastair Hunter (Glasgow), “Transports of Delight: Adventures in Psalms Translation” 
  • 12 noon Business Meeting (Members only) 
  • 1.00 pm Lunch, followed by departure