Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Research Seminar: Spring 2022

January

  • 27 – Dr Bill Tooman (St Andrews), ‘Genesis 34 and the Law’. Start at 1:30 pm

February

  • 3 – Prof George Brooke (Manchester), ‘Some Issues in Comparative Studies and the Bible: Multiplicity and Uniqueness’
  • 10 – Prof Carol Meyers (Duke), ‘Seeing Double: Textual and Archaeological Images of Israelite Women’
  • 17 – Prof Ilana Pardes (HUJI), ‘Song of Songs: Song of America – From Walt Whitman to Toni Morrison’

Term Break

March

  • 3 – Tamara Knudson (St Andrews), ‘’She is More to You Than Seven Sons’: Oaths, Vows, and the Representation of Female Characters in Hebrew Bible’
  • 10 – Prof Mieke Bal (Amsterdam), TBC
  • 17 – Ethan Knudson (St Andrews), ‘Rereading (Re)Writing: Exploring Textual Correspondences in and through Daniel 7 and 8’
  • 24 – Prof Cheryl Exum (Sheffield), ‘Rape in the Hebrew Bible’
  • 31 – Prof Julia O’Brien (Lancaster), ‘Gender and Biblical Studies’

April

  • 7 – Prof Cynthia Chapman (Oberlin), ‘The God of Abraham, Rebekah, and Jacob: The Place of the Mother in the Literary Structure of the Ancestral History’
  • 14 – Cameron Smith (St Andrews), ‘Everything Happens to Abraham First: 1 Samuel 8 and the Banishing of Ishmael’