Newark Hall, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham, NG8 1AW (see here for a pdf with travel information), and the contact telephone number is (+44) 01158-466811.
6–8 January 2020
Under the presidency of Dr Walter Houston
Printable version of the Programme.
MONDAY 6 January
- 2.00 pm Committee Meeting
- 4.30 pm Registration
- 6.00 pm Reception sponsored by the Centre for Bible, Ethics and Theology, University of Nottingham
- 6.30 pm Dinner
- 8.15 pm Presidential Address: Dr Walter Houston (Manchester), ‘What is “Work”? Reception and Theology the Sabbath Commandment in the Decalogue’
TUESDAY 7 January
- 8.00 am Breakfast
- 9.15 am Prof. John Day (Oxford), ‘What Does it Mean that Humanity is Made in the Image and Likeness of God (Gen 1:26-27; 5:1; 9:6)?’
- 10.00 am Dr Sarah Nicholson (Glasgow), ‘All Sex (Work) is Rape? Judges 19 and the Politics of Intercourse’
- 10.45 am Coffee
- 11.15 am Dr Jonathan Stökl (London), ‘The Making of a Priest: Pre-conditions of the Priesthood in the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Near Eastern Texts’
- 12 Dr Hilary Marlow (Cambridge), ‘”As I Looked”: Visionary Experiences and Conceptions of Place in the Book of Ezekiel’
- 1.00 pm Lunch
- 2.30 pm HB/OT Studies and Interdisciplinarity (Panellists: Prof Paul Joyce, Dr Rebecca Watson, Dr David Shepherd)
- 4.30 pm Tea
- 5.00 pm Dr Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (Aberdeen), ‘Jonah in 20th Century Literature’
- 6.30 pm Dinner
- 8.15 pm Prof. Avraham Faust (Ramat Gan), ‘Is Israel to Judah as Ammon is to Moab? Shedding new light on the affinity between Israel and Judah’
WEDNESDAY 8 January
- 8.00 am Breakfast
- 9.15 am Dr Joachim Eck (Eichstätt), ‘Divine Titles, Creation and Torah as Interacting Elements in Ps 19 (MT)’
- 10.00 am Dr Marieke Dhont (Cambridge), ‘Jewish Poets, Greek Poetry: The Bible in Jewish-Greek Literary Traditions’
- 10.45 am Coffee
- 11.15 am Dr Iona Hine (Sheffield), ‘Bible Translator as Theologian: The Praxis of Miles Coverdale (1488-1569)”
- 12 Business Meeting (Members only)
- 1.00 pm Lunch, followed by departure