Name: Hindy Najman
Oriel College

Events this person is speaking at:

Monday 9 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Hindy Najman, Induction, OLD TESTAMENT/HEBREW BIBLE SEMINAR
Date: 9 October 2017, 13:30 - 16:00 (Monday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker : Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Hindy Najman (Oriel) and Arjen Bakker (Oriel), Conceptual Translation and Transfer of Culture, OLD TESTAMENT/HEBREW BIBLE SEMINAR
Date: 16 October 2017, 14:30 - 16:00 (Monday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker s: Hindy Najman (Oriel College ), Arjen Bakker
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 15 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Why Do Rituals Change? Towards a Typology of Ritual Change in Early Judaism
Date: 15 January 2018, 14:30 - 16:00 (Monday, 1st week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker s: Professor Sondra Hausner (Faculty of Theology & Religion, Oxford), Nathan MacDonald, Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 17 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Ethical Reading an Introduction
Date: 17 January 2018, 12:15 - 13:45 (Wednesday, 1st week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker s: Dr Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford), Hindy Najman (Oriel College ), Philip Ross Bullock (TORCH Director ), John Hamilton
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

In Search of the Phoenicians
Date: 25 April 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 1st week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker s: Dr Josephine Quinn (University of Oxford), Hindy Najman (Oriel College ), Stephanie Dalley (University of Oxford), John Watts (University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 10 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

What is Commentary?
Date: 10 May 2018, 9:00 - 10:30 (Thursday, 3rd week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker s: Hindy Najman (Oriel College ), Christina Kraus (Yale)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser: Prof Hindy Najman
Hosts: TBA

Events this person is organising:

Wednesday 17 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

John Hamilton, Philology of the Flesh, ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
Date: 17 January 2018, 12:15 - 13:45 (Wednesday, 1st week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : John Hamilton
Venue Details: Robert Beddard Room
Organisers: Hindy Najman (Oriel College ), Dr Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 24 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Rowan Tomlinson, The Philological Muse in Renaissance Culture, ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
Date: 24 January 2018, 12:15 - 13:45 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Rowan Tomlinson
Venue Details: Robert Beddard Room
Organisers: Hindy Najman (Oriel College ), Dr Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Eli Friedlander, Translation and the Life of Language in Benjamin, Schleiermacher's Scriptures, Heine's Bible, ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
Date: 7 February 2018, 12:15 - 13:45 (Wednesday, 4th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Eli Friedlander
Venue Details: Robert Beddard Room
Organisers: Hindy Najman (Oriel College ), Dr Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 14 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Yael Almog, Schleiermacher's Scriptures, Heine's Bible, ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
Date: 14 February 2018, 12:15 - 13:45 (Wednesday, 5th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Yael Almog
Venue Details: Robert Beddard Room
Organisers: Hindy Najman (Oriel College ), Dr Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 21 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Ishay Rosen-Zvi, The Relevance of Midrash: Between the Mekhilta and Origen, ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
Date: 21 February 2018, 12:15 - 13:45 (Wednesday, 6th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Ishay Rosen-Zvi
Venue Details: Robert Beddard Room
Organisers: Hindy Najman (Oriel College ), Dr Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Irene Peirano, The Ethics of Peripheral Reading: Reading in and Outside of the Canon, ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
Date: 28 February 2018, 12:15 - 13:45 (Wednesday, 7th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Irene Peirano
Venue Details: Robert Beddard Room
Organisers: Hindy Najman (Oriel College ), Dr Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Wolfgang Behr and Roy Tzohar, Motivating Arguments, Grounding Interpretations: Some Uses of Etymology in Ancient India and China, ETHICAL READING: PHILOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
Date: 7 March 2018, 12:15 - 13:45 (Wednesday, 8th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker s: Roy Tzohar, Wolfgang Behr
Venue Details: Robert Beddard Room
Organisers: Hindy Najman (Oriel College ), Dr Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Decoding Isaiah 13
Date: 23 April 2018, 14:30 - 16:00 (Monday, 1st week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Professor Hugh Williamson (Christ Church)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser: Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Hosts: TBA

Monday 30 April 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Reading with the Scribes: Psalms 104 through the Lens of Textual Criticism
Date: 30 April 2018, 14:30 - 16:00 (Monday, 2nd week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Dr John Screnock
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser: Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Hosts: TBA

Monday 7 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

The Psalms: Just Prayer?
Date: 7 May 2018, 14:30 - 16:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Megan Daffern
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser: Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Hosts: TBA

Monday 14 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

The Shema in its Ancient Near Eastern Setting
Date: 14 May 2018, 14:30 - 16:00 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Hywel Clifford
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser: Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 17 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Manuscripts and Commentaries*
Date: 17 May 2018, 9:00 - 10:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Christina Kraus (Yale)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Organisers: Prof Hindy Najman, Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Hosts: TBA

Monday 21 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

"So God created humanity in his own image" (Genesis 1:27). What did the text originally mean and what have theologians and exegetes thought it meant?
Date: 21 May 2018, 14:30 - 16:00 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : John Day
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser: Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Hosts: TBA

Monday 28 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Wisdom in Exile in Babylon
Date: 28 May 2018, 14:30 - 16:00 (Monday, 6th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Katherine Dell
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser: Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 31 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

The Book of Ben Sira in Medieval Judaism: Ms B from the Cairo Genizah*
Date: 31 May 2018, 9:00 - 10:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Benjamin Wright
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: * Meet at 9:00am at the side entrance of the Weston Library on Parks road
Organiser: Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Hosts: TBA

Monday 4 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Daylong workshop on Wisdom and Ethics
Date: 4 June 2018, 9:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organisers: Professor John Barton (University of Oxford), Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 7 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Between Midrash and Talmund
Date: 7 June 2018, 9:00 - 10:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Moulie Vidas
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser: Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Hosts: TBA

Monday 11 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Beyond Scipture and Interpretation: The Torah as Quasi-Object, Quasi-Subject
Date: 11 June 2018, 14:30 - 16:00 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : David Lambert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser: Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Hosts: TBA

Monday 11 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Biblical Hebrew reading group
Date: 11 November 2019, 11:30 - 12:30 (Monday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Professor Jan Joosen
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Seminar Room
Organiser: Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 29 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

The “Parting of the Ways:” Why it matters, and to whom
Date: 29 April 2020, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 1st week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

"He was my brother": A Family Drama
Date: 5 May 2020, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Lecture Room
Organiser: Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 12 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

"Bye Bye Love": A Divorce Tragicomedy
Date: 12 May 2020, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 19 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

"Slip Slidin’ Away": A Postmodern Anti-Narrative
Date: 19 May 2020, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 4th week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 14 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar
Date: 14 October 2021, 10:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker
Venue Details: Harris Semianr Room, Oriel College
Organiser: Hindy Najman (Oriel College )
Hosts: TBA