PROGRAMME OF THE CENTRE FOR HEBREW
AND JEWISH STUDIES
of the UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE
IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
Weeks 2-8, Tuesdays from 2 to 3.30 pm
Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre
Clarendon Institute, Walton Street Oxford, OX1 2HG
All lectures will be presented in a hybrid format which will be accessible both online (see below) and in
person in the Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre (followed by coffee, tea and biscuits in the Common
Room, situated in the basement of the Clarendon Institute).
Convenor: Meron Piotrkowski
Week 1, Tuesday 23th April
No Seminar
Week 2, Tuesday 30th April
No Seminar
Week 3, Tuesday 7th May
Prof. Martin Goodman (Wolfson/OCHJS)
“Herod and his many Wives”
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
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Week 4, Tuesday 14th May
Dr. David Friedman (Cambridge/Darwin College)
“Asinaeus and Anilaeus in Josephus’ Jewish Antiquities”
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
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Week 5, Tuesday 21th May
Dr. Thomas Nelson (Wolfson)
“(Re)constructing Tradition in the Hellenistic Jewish Epics by Philo and Theodotus”
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
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Week 6, Tuesday 28th May
[Joint Seminar with the Comparative Philology Graduate Seminar]
Sebastian Kenny (Corpus Christi)
“Language Contact in Ezekiel’s Exagoge: The Case for Pattern Replication”
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
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Week 7, Tuesday 4th June
Dr. Rebekah van Zant-Clark (Oriel)
“’New Exodus’ Typology and Supersessionism in 20th Century Isaiah Scholarship”
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
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Week 8, Tuesday 11th June
Prof. Paul Michael Kurtz (Universiteit Gent)
“Another View on Ancient Judaism: Catholic Scholarship in the German South, 1820–1880”
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
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