Winter Meeting 2022


Online

4-6 January 2022

Under the presidency of Prof Charlotte Hempel

TUESDAY 4 January

  • 2.00 pm Committee Meeting
  • 7.15 pm Charlotte Hempel (Birmingham) – ‘The Legacy of the People of the Land in the Dead Sea Scrolls’

WEDNESDAY 5 January

  • 9.15 am Stuart Weeks (Durham) – ‘Why Do We Read Qohelet the Ways We Do?’
  • 10.00 am Short Comfort Break
  • 10.10 am William Tooman (St. Andrews) – ‘Genesis 34 and the Law’
  • 10.55 am Coffee Break
  • 11.20 am Lindsey Askin (Bristol) – ‘Bone Diseases in the Hebrew Bible’
  • 12.05 am Short Comfort Break
  • 12.15 pm Nathan MacDonald (Cambridge) – ‘The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony’
  • 1.00 pm Lunch and Afternoon Break
  • 3.00 pm Sandra Jacobs (London) – ‘Women in Deuteronomy: From Assyria to the Battlegrounds of Sparta’
  • 3.45 pm Short Comfort Break
  • 3.55 pm Ellie Lyell (Exeter) – ‘Red, Red Wine: Colour and Consumption in the Hebrew Bible’
  • 4.40 pm Coffee Break
  • 5.10 pm Gary Rendsburg (New Brunswick, NJ) – ‘The Genesis of Genesis’
  • 6.00 pm Dinner Break
  • 7.15 pm Hindy Najman (Oxford) – ‘Poetic Cycles and Processes of Perfection: Hodayot and Biblical “Rewriting”’

THURSDAY 6 January

  • 9.15 am Drew Longacre (Groningen) – ‘Paleographic Style and the Forms and Functions of the Dead Sea Psalm Scrolls’
  • 10.00 am Short Comfort Break
  • 10.10 am Anja Klein (Edinburgh) – ‘Resilience in the Three Major Prophets – A New Approach to a Hebrew Scriptures Theology’
  • 10.55 am Coffee Break 
  • 11.25 am George Brooke (Manchester) – ‘Some Issues in Comparative Studies and the Bible: Multiplicity and Uniqueness’
  • 12.15 am Business Meeting (Members only)
  • 1.15 pm End of meeting