Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Research Seminar: Spring 2021
February
4 – Prof Maren Niehof (Jerusalem), ‘Abraham in Philo and Paul’
11 – Prof Molly Zahn (Kansas), ‘Genres of Rewriting in Second Temple Judaism’
18 – Prof Corrine Carvalho (St Thomas), ‘Ezekiel’s Tangible Ethics: Physicality in the Moral Rhetoric of Ezekiel’
25 – Dr Jason Silverman (Helsinki), ‘Are the Concepts of ‘Torah’ and ‘the Prophets’ Texts or Something Else? Educational, Media, and Elite Contexts from the Persian Empire Onwards’
March
4 – Prof Ehud Ben-Zvi (Alberta), ‘From Adam to Abram/Abraham in 1 Chr 1: Lists, Social Memory and Ideology’ NB this seminar will begin at 3:15 pm
11 – Prof Jakob Wöhrle (Tübingen), ‘Humans Inability to Do the Good: The Cain and Abel-story within the Context of the Non-Priestly Primeval History’
18 – Dr Jaqueline Vayntrub (Yale), ‘“The Voice that Remains”’ – Presence and Representation in West Semitic Monumental Inscriptions’ NB this seminar will begin at 3:30 pm
April
8 – Dr Kyong-Jin Lee (St Andrews/Fuller), Title TBC
15 – Prof Philip Alexander (Manchester), ‘The “World to Come” as a Postmortem Disembodied State versus the “World to Come” as a Post-Resurrection Embodied state at the End of the History: A Conundrum of Apocalyptic Thinking’
22 – Prof Alex Jassen (NYU), Title TBC
29 – Prof Dominik Markl (Pontifical Biblical Institute), ‘Media, Migration, and the Emergence of Scriptural Authority’