HB/OT Research Seminar: Candlemas 2019
All seminars take place on Thursdays from 1:15-2:45 pm in College Hall, St Mary’s College.
In addition to a number of seminar papers, the Hebrew Bible Research Seminar will work through Sara J. Milstein, Tracking the Master Scribe: Revision through Introduction in Biblical and Mesopotamian Literature (OUP, 2016) in Candlemas. An eBook version of Milstein is available through the university library.
January
31 – Prof Jim Davila (St Andrews), ‘The More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Project’
February
7 – Dr Lena Tiemeyer (Aberdeen), ‘Isaiah 40-55: A Redefinition of the Temple and its Cult’
14 – Tracking the Master Scribe, chapter 1
21 – Tracking the Master Scribe, chapter 2
28 – Tracking the Master Scribe, chapter 3
March
7 – Tracking the Master Scribe, chapter 4
14 – Tracking the Master Scribe, chapter 5
21 – No Seminar – Spring Break
28 – No Seminar – Spring Break
April
4 – Tracking the Master Scribe, chapter 6
11 – Justin Duff (St Andrews), ‘Sacrifice’
18 – Matthew Wiseman (St Andrews), ‘I Speak My Work to the King: A speech-act theory of Biblical Poetics’
25 – Dr Marian Kelsey, ‘Who is like Tyre? Sibling rivalry between Tyre and Jerusalem’