Confidential material (minutes of the previous business meeting as well as proposals for membership) will be posted here (log-in required) once they are ready.
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The SOTS Winter Conference 2022 will be held fully online, under the presidency of Prof Charlotte Hempel
Information updated: Dec 29, 2021:
- Members who were unable to book for Nottingham may now wish to book for the online meeting, for a payment of £30. Please fill out the 2022w Booking Form SOTS online.* As the form states, the deadline for bookings to be received by the Hospitality Secretary is 12.00 (noon) GMT on Monday 3rd January. *(The £30 payment icon is now visible on the website shop.)
- Members who have already booked for the Nottingham meeting do not need to take any further action. Their bookings have already been transferred to the online meeting and they will automatically receive more information from the Information Officer, Zanne Domoney-Lyttle.
- Those who had booked for Nottingham and had already cancelled, but had not yet received any refund, have also been transferred to the online meeting list and will receive the link to the sessions in due course.
- Information about the process for claiming refunds for all those who booked for Nottingham will be sent out at the end of the meeting on Thursday 6th January.
- Updated Winter Meeting Programme: Winter Meeting Programme – Online (2022) (PDF)
- Shortened Downloadable booking form (for those who have not registered since the meeting moved online, but wish to do so): .docx / PDF
PROGRAMME:
TUESDAY 4 January
- 2.00pm Committee Meeting
- 7.15pm Presidential Address: Prof Charlotte Hempel (Birmingham), – ‘The Legacy of the People of the Land in the Dead Sea Scrolls’
WEDNESDAY 5 January
- 9.15am Stuart Weeks (Durham) – ‘Why do we read Qohelet the ways we do?
- 10.00am Short Comfort Break
- 10.10am William Tooman (St. Andrews) – ‘Genesis 34 and the Law’
- 10.55am Coffee/Tea
- 11.20am Lindsey Askin (Bristol) – ‘Bone Diseases in the Hebrew Bible’
- 12.05pm Short Comfort Break
- 12.15pm Nathan MacDonald (Cambridge) – ‘The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony’
- 1.00pm Lunch and Afternoon Break
- 3.00pm Sandra Jacobs (London) – ‘Women in Deuteronomy: From Assyria to the Battlegrounds of Sparta’
- 3.45pm Short Comfort Break
- 3.55pm Ellie Lyell (Exeter) – Red, Red Wine: Colour and Consumption in the Hebrew Bible’
- 4.40pm Coffee/Tea
- 5.10pm Gary Rendsburg (New Brunswick, NJ) – ‘The Genesis of Genesis’
- 6.00pm Dinner Break
- 7.15pm Hindy Najman (Oxford) – ‘Poetic Cycles and Processes of Perfection: Hodayot and Biblical “Rewriting”’
THURSDAY 6 January
- 9.15am Drew Longacre (Groningen) – ‘Paleographic Style and the Forms and Functions of the Dead Sea Psalm Scrolls’
- 10.00am Short Comfort Break
- 10.10am Anja Klein (Edinburgh) – ‘Resilience in the Three Major Prophets – A New Approach to a Hebrew Scriptures Theology’
- 10.55am Coffee/Tea
- 11.25am George Brooke (Manchester) – ‘Some Issues in Comparative Studies and the Bible: Multiplicity and Uniqueness’
- 12.15pm Business Meeting (members only)
- 1.15pm End of Meeting
General correspondence concerning the affairs of the Society should be sent to the Secretary, Dr Richard Briggs, (email: richard.briggs@durham.ac.uk). Proposals for new members must reach him by 1st December, 2021. Changes of address should be sent to the Membership Secretary, Dr Janet Tollington.