Biblical Studies Research Seminar: Martinmas 2018

All seminars will take place on Thursdays from 2:15-4:00 pm in College Hall, St Mary’s College.

September

20 – Dr. Bill Tooman (St. Andrews), ‘Scriptural Reuse in Ancient Jewish Literature: Comments and Reflections on the State of the Art’

27 – Dr. Madhavi Nevader (St. Andrews), ‘Heavenly Temple! What Heavenly Temple? The Place of Celestial Abodes in the Ancient Near Eastern Sacred Geography’

October

4 -Prof. Sandra Huebenthal (Passau), ‘Beyond Fulfilment Schemes and Proof-Texting: Intertextuality as a Phenomenon of Cultural Memory’

11 – Dr Sean Adams (Glasgow), ‘Negotiating Genre: Some Conclusions on Jewish Composition in Greek’

18 – Prof. Peter Machinist (Harvard), ‘Writing and Rewriting the History of Ancient Israel: Some Preliminary Expectorations’

25 – Prof. Charlotte Hempel (Birmingham), ‘The Dead Sea Scrolls: Challenging the Particularist Paradigm’

November

1 – Prof. Kristin de Troyer (Salzburg), ‘Where Septuagint and Qumran Meet: The Case of Isaiah 40:7-8’

8 – Dr Michael Lyons (St Andrews), ‘Could Ezekiel do Maths? Ezek. 5:1-4 in Context’

15 – No Seminar – SBL

22 – Prof. Ximena DeBroeck (St. Mary’s Seminary & University, USA), ‘Ritual, Remembrance, Reorientation: Possibilities of Transformation in the Life of the Believer’

29 – Prof. Janet Soskice (Cambridge), ‘The Sisters of Sinai: The Legacy of Agnes and Margaret Smith’

December

6 – Dr. Andrew Mein (Durham), ‘Seeing Ezekiel’s Vision in Early Modern Commentary’