24 – Dr TJ Lang (St Andrews), ‘Social Surds and the Crisis of Ecclesial Oneness in 1 Clement’
October
1 – Dr Elizabeth Shively (St Andrews) and Dr Max Botner (Cornerstone), ‘Jesus, the Shema, and Oneness in the Synoptic Gospels: The Formation of Early Christian Identity’
8 – Dr Harald Samuel (Leipzig/Göttingen), ‘Historical Hebrew Linguistics and Linguistic Dating Strong and Weaker Cases’
15 – NT Paper TBC
22 – No Seminar – ILW
29 – No Seminar – meeting postponed to following week to accommodate Prof Sommer
November
2 – Prof Benjamin Sommer (Jewish Theological Seminary), ‘Yehezkel Kaufmann and Recent Approaches to Monotheism’
5 – Dr Shana Zaia (Vienna), ‘The Gods Who March Alongside Me: Religion and War in the Neo-Assyrian Period’
12 – Prof James Davila (St Andrews), ‘Greek Fantasy Babylon and the Book of Daniel’
19 – Prof Tallay Ornan (Jerusalem), ‘Yhwh as Lion in the Bible and Judean Stamp Seal Corpus’
26 – Dr Julia Rhyder (Basel), ‘Politics and Theology in 2 Maccabees: Revisiting the Epiphanies, Prayers, and Deaths of Martyrs’
December
3 – Dr David Johnston (St Andrews), ‘Rethinking the Identity of the Roman Church: the Strong, the Weak, and Paul’s Opponents in Romans 14’