Biblical Studies Research Seminar: Martinmas 2017

All seminars will take place on Thursdays from 2:30-4:00 pm in College Hall, St. Mary’s College.

September

21 – Dr Alison Jack (Edinburgh), ‘Biblical Reconfigurations: The Prodigal Son in Literature in English’

28 – Dr David Janzen (Durham), ‘Claimed and Unclaimed Experience: Problematic Readings of Trauma in the Hebrew Bible’

October

5 – Dr Elizabeth Shively (St Andrews), ‘Authorial Intention, Narrative Worldmaking, and the Gospel of Mark: Rethinking the Narrative Communication Paradigm’

12 – Dr Dru Johnson (The King’s College/St Andrews), ‘Discerning an Intellectual World in the Hebrew Bible and Second Order Thinking in the Ancient Fertile Crescent’

19 – Dr David Reimer (Edinburgh), ‘God and Place in Jeremiah’

26 – Dr Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (Aberdeen), ‘What did they do in the Second Temple Synagogue? The Evidence of Philo and Josephus’

November

2 – Prof. Judith Lieu (Cambridge), ‘Letters and the Shaping of Early Christianity’

9 – Prof. Daniel Smith-Christopher (Loyola Marymount), ‘The Outlaw David ben Jesse’

16 – SBL – No Seminar

23 – SBL – No Seminar

30 – Prof. Tom Harrison (School of Classics, St Andrews), ‘Belief and Unbelief in Greek Religion: A Comparative Perspective’

December

7 – Prof. Hindy Najman (Oxford), ‘Authenticating the Profane: Rethinking the Contours of the Canon After Qumran’