Events this person is hosting:

Thursday 11 August 2022

• 18:00 - Embodied Cognition and the Soul: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Christian Eschatology
  Rebekah Wallace (University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 June 2023

• 18:00 - ART: The Tao of Mary: Images of the Virgin in the Church of the East
  Professor Matthew J. Milliner (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  ART in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 19 June 2023

• 18:00 - MANUSCRIPTS: British Library Hebrew Treasures Reveal Interfaith Narratives: The Sana’a Pentateuch
  Ilana Tahan OBE (British Library)
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 10 July 2023

• 18:00 - Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visual Symbols Draw form the Same Well
  Professor Ori Soltes (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Revd Canon Dr Joanna Collicutt (University of Oxford)
  ART in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 13 July 2023

• 18:00 - Psalm 44 and the Book of Job: God on Trial
  Ignacio Carbajosa (San Damaso/Campion Hall)
  PSALMS in Interfaith Contexts

Tuesday 18 July 2023

• 18:00 - A Medieval Franciscan Consults the Jews: Nicholas of Lyra on how to Imagine the Temple
  Lesley Smith (HMC), Professor James McGrath (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 10 August 2023

• 17:00 - Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God
  Reverend Professor John Behr (Regius Chair in Humanity at University of Aberdeen), Andrew Louth (Emeritus Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies, University of Durham ), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 17 August 2023

• 18:00 - A Book for All Seasons: Medieval Liturgical Psalter
  Dr Elisabeth Solopova (University of Oxford)
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 9 November 2023

• 18:00 - Book Launch_Making Sense of “GOD”: What God-Talk Means and Does
  Rabbi Dr Norman Solomon (OCHJS), Revd Dr John Goldingay (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 20 November 2023

• 17:00 - The Manuscript Project at the Coptic Monastery of St Paul the Hermit at the Red Sea, Egypt
  Dr Lisa Agaiby (University of Divinity, Australia), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 11 January 2024

• 18:00 - Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Christian and Muslim Resources for Restorative Justice
  Professor Najeeba Syeed (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  Peacebuilding in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 15 January 2024

• 17:00 - Ephrem the Syrian and a New Beginning in Syriac Poetry
  Professor Alberto Rigolio (Durham University, UK), Prof Sebastian Brock (Retired Reader in Syriac Studies at the Oriental Institute and currently a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 18:00 - Psalm 109: The Prayer No One Wants
  Revd Dr David Firth (Trinity College, Bristol), Revd Dr Eric Sarwar (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  PSALMS in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 29 January 2024

• 18:00 - The Talmud among Victorian Christians: Polemics and Humanism in Interfaith Encounters
  Prof Aaron Koller (Yeshiva University, USA)
  Sacred Literature in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 8 February 2024

• 18:00 - Christian Images and Jewish Desecrators: The History of the Allegation in Manuscript Illustrations
  Dr Katherine Aron-Beller (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Saturday 10 February 2024

• 14:00 - Annual Johannes Lähnemann Interfaith Education and Peacebuilding Lecture 'Building Effective Resilience in Troubled Times: Interfaith Women Peacebuilders'
  Dr Thea Gomelauri (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Professor Julian Stern (Bishop Grosseteste University), Professor Azza Karam (Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam), Professor Johannes Lähnemann (Professor Emeritus and Chair for Religious Education at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
  Peacebuilding in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 18:00 - Psalm 40 and Messiness of Prayer
  Prof Alan Cooper (Jewish Theological Seminary, USA), Prof Aaron Koller (Yeshiva University, USA)
  PSALMS in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 26 February 2024

• 18:00 - Poetry Book Launch: So Many Things Are Yours, by Poet Admiel Kosman
  Prof Admiel Kosman (Potsdam University, Germany), Prof Adriana X Jacobs (University of Oxford), Dr Lisa Katz (Hebrew Univeristy of Jerusalem, Israel), Dr Tamar Hess (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
  ART in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 18:00 - Sounding the Silence – Contemplation as Poetic Practice; Poetry as Contemplative Practice
  Dr Aaron Maniam (BSG, Univeristy of Oxford)
  ART in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 18 March 2024

• 18:00 - A Curious Megillat Esther or How to Find a Needle in a Haystack
  Revd Prof Ignacio Carbajosa (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Professor Alison Salvesen
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 4 April 2024

• 17:00 - Nikos Kazantzakis and Orthodox Christianity
  Professor Basilius Jacobus (Bert) Groen (University of Graz), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 11 April 2024

• 18:00 - The Ties That Bond Us: Differences of Sacred Values in Interfaith Organizing
  Revd Dr Aaron Stauffer (Vanderbilt Divinity School), Prof Syed Atif Rizwan (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 15 April 2024

• 18:00 - Book Launch: Judaism Is about Love
  Rabbi Dr Shai Held (Hadar Institute), Prof Aaron Koller (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Professor John Barton (University of Oxford), Prof Ellen Davis (Duke Divinity School), Professor Zev Harvey (Hebrew University in Jerusalem)
  Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts

Wednesday 15 May 2024

• 18:00 - Sounding the Silence–Contemplation as Poetic Practice; Poetry as Contemplative Practice
  Dr Aaron Maniam (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Jyotveer Gill (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  ART in Interfaith Contexts

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 18:00 - BOOK TALK about the Greatest Medieval Masoretic Pentateuch: The Lailashi Codex—the Crown of Georgian Jewry
  Author Thea Gomelauri in conversation with Prof Geoffrey Khan, Prof Ori Soltes, and Debra Band.
  Dr Thea Gomelauri (Oxford Interfaith Forum, AMES), Professor Ori Soltes (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Professor Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge), Debra Band (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Dr Ben Outhwaite FRAS FSA (Director of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, University of Cambridge)
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Tuesday 18 June 2024

• 18:00 - Beyond Exegesis: Psalms in the Cultures of Ancient Jews and Early Christians
  Prof AJ Berkovitz (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Prof Anna Sapir Abulafia (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  PSALMS in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 24 June 2024

• 17:00 - Who was Mary, the Blessed Virgin and Mother of God? A Byzantine hagiographical narrative by the ninth-century Monk Epiphanio
  Professor Mary Cunningham (University of Nottingham), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 8 July 2024

• 17:00 - Finding a Home: The West Syriac Context of the Clementine Epistles on Chastity
  Dr Dan Batovici (KU Leuven), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 22 August 2024

• 17:00 - The Origins of the First Anti-Jewish Good Friday Hymns
  Prof George Demacopoulos (Fordham Univeristuy), Prof Sebastian Brock (Retired Reader in Syriac Studies at the Oriental Institute and currently a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Wednesday 11 September 2024

• 18:00 - BOOK TALK: Why The Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins
  Professor Jacob L. Wright (Emory University, Candler School of Theology), Professor John Barton (University of Oxford)
  Sacred Literature in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 19 September 2024

• 17:00 - Dialogue and Fire in a Fragmentary Syriac Martyrdom Narrative
  Dr Ephrem Aboud Ishac (University of Graz), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Tuesday 24 September 2024

• 18:00 - Book Launch: Christian-Jewish Relations 1000-1300: Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom
  Professor Anna Sapir Abulafia (University of Oxford), Prof Aaron Koller (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
• 18:00 - Book Launch: Christian-Jewish Relations 1000-1300: Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom
  ANNA SAPIR ABULAFIA (PROFESSOR OF THE STUDY OF THE ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS, LADY MARGARET HALL), Prof Aaron Koller (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  Sacred Literature in Interfaith Contexts

Wednesday 9 October 2024

• 18:00 - BOOK TALK: God, Evil, and Suffering in Islam
  Professor Salih Sayilgan (Georgetown University), Dr Peter Admirand (Dublin City University), Prof Syed Atif Rizwan (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 14 October 2024

• 17:00 - Christian Trees
  Dr Thomas Arentzen (Stockholm School of Theology), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts
• 17:00 - Christian Trees
  Dr Thomas Arentzen (Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 4 November 2024

• 18:00 - Book Talk: Welcoming the Stranger: Abrahamic Hospitality and Its Contemporary Implications
  Professor Ori Soltes (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  Book Launch

Thursday 7 November 2024

• 18:00 - The Seven Penitential Psalms in the Allegorist’s Hands
  Revd Dr Jason Byassee (Oxford Interfaith forum)
  PSALMS in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 11 November 2024

• 18:00 - Reimagine Resilience: Storytelling as a Portal to Prevention
  Professor Amra Sabic-El-Rayess (Columbia University)
  Peacebuilding in Interfaith Contexts

Wednesday 13 November 2024

• 18:00 - Animal Suffering in Evolution: A Spectrum of Christian Approaches
  Dr Bethany Sollereder (University of Oxford)
  Science and Religion in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 25 November 2024

• 17:00 - The Monastic Homilies of Isaac of Antioch
  Revd Dr Shafiq Abouzayd (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Prof Sebastian Brock (Retired Reader in Syriac Studies at the Oriental Institute and currently a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 2 December 2024

• 18:00 - Maryam – The Muslim Mary: A Symbol of Devotion, Virtue and Hope
  Dr Zeyneb Sayilgan (Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies), Professor Rita George-Tvrtković (Benedictine University)

Monday 9 December 2024

• 18:00 - Was Genesis 1 Dependent on Psalm 104?
  John Day (Lady Margaret Hall), Prof Aaron Koller (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  PSALMS in Interfaith Contexts

Events this person is organising:

Tuesday 16 November 2021

• 18:00 - Psalms in Interfaith Contexts - Psalm 139
  Rabbi David Wolpe (The Max Webb Senior Rabbi, Sinai Temple, CA, USA)

Tuesday 23 November 2021

• 19:00 - Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts
  Dr Ionut Moise (University of Oxford)
  International Interfaith Reading Group

Tuesday 7 December 2021

• 19:30 - The Festival of Light
  Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park), John Goldingay (Oxford Interfaith Forum), The Revd Canon Dr Robin Gibbons (University of Oxford, Department for Continuing Education), Dr Jesse Abelman (Museum of the Bible)
  Oxford Interfaith Forum Discussion Series

Thursday 9 December 2021

• 17:00 - George the Athonite (d. 1065) on Matters of Faith and Rite, According to The Life of St. George the Hagiorite (11th c.)
  Professor Tamara Grdzelidze (Ilia State University)
  Oxford Interfaith Forum: International Interfaith Reading Group Series on Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 16 December 2021

• 18:00 - Mystical Reading of Psalm 33
  Dr Erica Mongé-Greer (University of Oregon Clark Honors College), Prof Ellen Davis (Duke Divinity School), Prof Eitan Fishbane (Jewish Theological Seminary)
  Oxford Interfaith Forum: International Interfaith Reading Group Series on PSALMS in Interfaith Contexts

Wednesday 12 January 2022

• 18:00 - Psalms Reading Group: Comparative Reading of Psalms & Abraham’s Prayers in the Quran
  Ustadha Yomna Helmy (Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge), Gulamabbas Lakha (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Interfaith Forum: International Interfaith Reading Group Series on PSALMS in Interfaith Contexts

Tuesday 18 January 2022

• 17:30 - Pilgrimage in Interfaith Contexts: Pilgrimage and Exile
  Shaykha Safia Shahid (Women's Muslim College, UK), The Venerable Jonathan Chaffey (Archdeacon of Oxford, UK), The Rt Revd Martin Gorick (Bishop of Dudley), Dr Mia Spiro (University of Glasgow)
  Oxford Interfaith Forum: Oxford Interfaith Discussion Series: Pilgrimage in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 20 January 2022

• 17:00 - Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts: Dadisho of Qatar: Questioning the Desert Fathers
  Revd Dr Robert Kitchen
  Oxford Interfaith Forum: International Interfaith Reading Group Series on Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 27 January 2022

• 18:00 - Oxford Interfaith Forum: International Holocaust Memorial Day Event: Dame Stephanie Shirley CH
  The Rt Revd Martin Gorick (Bishop of Dudley), Dr Victoria Nash (The Oxford Internet Institute,University of Oxford), Mr Barnabas Balint (University of Oxford)

Monday 31 January 2022

• 18:00 - Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts: Professor James Orr on ‘Human Equality and Abrahamic Monotheism’
  Professor James Orr (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 4 August 2022

• 18:00 - Eicha as Presentiment: Reading Lamentations in the Era of Climate Change
  Rubén Kraiem

Thursday 11 August 2022

• 18:00 - Embodied Cognition and the Soul: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Christian Eschatology
  Rebekah Wallace (University of Oxford)

Monday 15 August 2022

• 18:00 - Psalm 46: Singing in Hope and Defiance
  Professor Henrike Lähnemann (University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 August 2022

• 17:00 - Jacob of Sarug on the Canaanite Woman (Mt 15:21-28, Mk 7:24-30): Biblical Storytelling and Models of Faith
  TBA

Thursday 15 June 2023

• 18:00 - ART: The Tao of Mary: Images of the Virgin in the Church of the East
  Professor Matthew J. Milliner (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  ART in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 19 June 2023

• 18:00 - MANUSCRIPTS: British Library Hebrew Treasures Reveal Interfaith Narratives: The Sana’a Pentateuch
  Ilana Tahan OBE (British Library)
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 3 July 2023

• 17:00 - The Dead Sea Scrolls at 75: The Texts, their Contexts, and the Coalescence of Jewish and Christian Scholarship
  Professor Gary Rendsburg (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Professor Alison Salvesen, John Goldingay (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Revd Dr Andrew Bowyer (Magdalen College)
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 10 July 2023

• 18:00 - Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visual Symbols Draw form the Same Well
  Professor Ori Soltes (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Revd Canon Dr Joanna Collicutt (University of Oxford)
  ART in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 13 July 2023

• 18:00 - Psalm 44 and the Book of Job: God on Trial
  Ignacio Carbajosa (San Damaso/Campion Hall)
  PSALMS in Interfaith Contexts

Tuesday 18 July 2023

• 18:00 - A Medieval Franciscan Consults the Jews: Nicholas of Lyra on how to Imagine the Temple
  Lesley Smith (HMC), Professor James McGrath (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 10 August 2023

• 17:00 - Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God
  Reverend Professor John Behr (Regius Chair in Humanity at University of Aberdeen), Andrew Louth (Emeritus Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies, University of Durham ), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 17 August 2023

• 18:00 - A Book for All Seasons: Medieval Liturgical Psalter
  Dr Elisabeth Solopova (University of Oxford)
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 12 October 2023

• 17:00 - Mary’s Ordeal: A Syriac Narrative Poem on Many and Joseph
  Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 9 November 2023

• 18:00 - Book Launch_Making Sense of “GOD”: What God-Talk Means and Does
  Rabbi Dr Norman Solomon (OCHJS), Revd Dr John Goldingay (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 20 November 2023

• 17:00 - The Manuscript Project at the Coptic Monastery of St Paul the Hermit at the Red Sea, Egypt
  Dr Lisa Agaiby (University of Divinity, Australia), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 11 January 2024

• 18:00 - Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Christian and Muslim Resources for Restorative Justice
  Professor Najeeba Syeed (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  Peacebuilding in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 15 January 2024

• 17:00 - Ephrem the Syrian and a New Beginning in Syriac Poetry
  Professor Alberto Rigolio (Durham University, UK), Prof Sebastian Brock (Retired Reader in Syriac Studies at the Oriental Institute and currently a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 18:00 - Psalm 109: The Prayer No One Wants
  Revd Dr David Firth (Trinity College, Bristol), Revd Dr Eric Sarwar (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  PSALMS in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 8 February 2024

• 18:00 - Christian Images and Jewish Desecrators: The History of the Allegation in Manuscript Illustrations
  Dr Katherine Aron-Beller (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Saturday 10 February 2024

• 14:00 - Annual Johannes Lähnemann Interfaith Education and Peacebuilding Lecture 'Building Effective Resilience in Troubled Times: Interfaith Women Peacebuilders'
  Dr Thea Gomelauri (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Professor Julian Stern (Bishop Grosseteste University), Professor Azza Karam (Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam), Professor Johannes Lähnemann (Professor Emeritus and Chair for Religious Education at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
  Peacebuilding in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 19 February 2024

• 17:00 - Setting the Stage: The Rose of Performance in Studying Late Ancient Hymnody
  Prof Laura Lieber (Duke Univeristy, USA)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 18:00 - Psalm 40 and Messiness of Prayer
  Prof Alan Cooper (Jewish Theological Seminary, USA), Prof Aaron Koller (Yeshiva University, USA)
  PSALMS in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 26 February 2024

• 18:00 - Poetry Book Launch: So Many Things Are Yours, by Poet Admiel Kosman
  Prof Admiel Kosman (Potsdam University, Germany), Prof Adriana X Jacobs (University of Oxford), Dr Lisa Katz (Hebrew Univeristy of Jerusalem, Israel), Dr Tamar Hess (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
  ART in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 18:00 - Sounding the Silence – Contemplation as Poetic Practice; Poetry as Contemplative Practice
  Dr Aaron Maniam (BSG, Univeristy of Oxford)
  ART in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 4 March 2024

• 18:00 - The Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish-Christian Dialogue
  Professor Lawrence H. Schiffman (New York University, USA)
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 7 March 2024

• 17:00 - The Miracle of Pilgrimage: A Coptic Journey to the Holy Land During the Ottoman Period
  Professor Febe Armanious (Middlebury College, USA)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 18 March 2024

• 18:00 - A Curious Megillat Esther or How to Find a Needle in a Haystack
  Revd Prof Ignacio Carbajosa (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Professor Alison Salvesen
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 4 April 2024

• 17:00 - Nikos Kazantzakis and Orthodox Christianity
  Professor Basilius Jacobus (Bert) Groen (University of Graz), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 8 April 2024

• 18:00 - When Salafi Muslims Meet Evangelical Christians: A Hopeful Dispatch from the United States
  Dr Matthew Taylor (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 11 April 2024

• 18:00 - The Ties That Bond Us: Differences of Sacred Values in Interfaith Organizing
  Revd Dr Aaron Stauffer (Vanderbilt Divinity School), Prof Syed Atif Rizwan (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 15 April 2024

• 18:00 - Book Launch: Judaism Is about Love
  Rabbi Dr Shai Held (Hadar Institute), Prof Aaron Koller (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Professor John Barton (University of Oxford), Prof Ellen Davis (Duke Divinity School), Professor Zev Harvey (Hebrew University in Jerusalem)
  Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts

Wednesday 15 May 2024

• 18:00 - Sounding the Silence–Contemplation as Poetic Practice; Poetry as Contemplative Practice
  Dr Aaron Maniam (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Jyotveer Gill (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  ART in Interfaith Contexts

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 18:00 - BOOK TALK about the Greatest Medieval Masoretic Pentateuch: The Lailashi Codex—the Crown of Georgian Jewry
  Author Thea Gomelauri in conversation with Prof Geoffrey Khan, Prof Ori Soltes, and Debra Band.
  Dr Thea Gomelauri (Oxford Interfaith Forum, AMES), Professor Ori Soltes (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Professor Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge), Debra Band (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Dr Ben Outhwaite FRAS FSA (Director of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, University of Cambridge)
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Tuesday 18 June 2024

• 18:00 - Beyond Exegesis: Psalms in the Cultures of Ancient Jews and Early Christians
  Prof AJ Berkovitz (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Prof Anna Sapir Abulafia (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  PSALMS in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 24 June 2024

• 17:00 - Who was Mary, the Blessed Virgin and Mother of God? A Byzantine hagiographical narrative by the ninth-century Monk Epiphanio
  Professor Mary Cunningham (University of Nottingham), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 8 July 2024

• 17:00 - Finding a Home: The West Syriac Context of the Clementine Epistles on Chastity
  Dr Dan Batovici (KU Leuven), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 22 August 2024

• 17:00 - The Origins of the First Anti-Jewish Good Friday Hymns
  Prof George Demacopoulos (Fordham Univeristuy), Prof Sebastian Brock (Retired Reader in Syriac Studies at the Oriental Institute and currently a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Wednesday 11 September 2024

• 18:00 - BOOK TALK: Why The Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins
  Professor Jacob L. Wright (Emory University, Candler School of Theology), Professor John Barton (University of Oxford)
  Sacred Literature in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 19 September 2024

• 17:00 - Dialogue and Fire in a Fragmentary Syriac Martyrdom Narrative
  Dr Ephrem Aboud Ishac (University of Graz), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Tuesday 24 September 2024

• 18:00 - Book Launch: Christian-Jewish Relations 1000-1300: Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom
  ANNA SAPIR ABULAFIA (PROFESSOR OF THE STUDY OF THE ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS, LADY MARGARET HALL), Prof Aaron Koller (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  Sacred Literature in Interfaith Contexts

Wednesday 9 October 2024

• 18:00 - BOOK TALK: God, Evil, and Suffering in Islam
  Professor Salih Sayilgan (Georgetown University), Dr Peter Admirand (Dublin City University), Prof Syed Atif Rizwan (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 14 October 2024

• 17:00 - Christian Trees
  Dr Thomas Arentzen (Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts
• 17:00 - Christian Trees
  Dr Thomas Arentzen (Stockholm School of Theology), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 4 November 2024

• 18:00 - Book Talk: Welcoming the Stranger: Abrahamic Hospitality and Its Contemporary Implications
  Professor Ori Soltes (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  Book Launch
• 18:00 - Welcoming the Stranger: Abrahamic Hospitality and Its Contemporary Implications
  Professor Ori Soltes (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Professor Syed Atif Rizwan (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  Book Launch

Thursday 7 November 2024

• 18:00 - The Seven Penitential Psalms in the Allegorist’s Hands
  Revd Dr Jason Byassee (Oxford Interfaith forum)
  PSALMS in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 11 November 2024

• 18:00 - Reimagine Resilience: Storytelling as a Portal to Prevention
  Professor Amra Sabic-El-Rayess (Columbia University)
  Peacebuilding in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 25 November 2024

• 17:00 - The Monastic Homilies of Isaac of Antioch
  Revd Dr Shafiq Abouzayd (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Prof Sebastian Brock (Retired Reader in Syriac Studies at the Oriental Institute and currently a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 2 December 2024

• 18:00 - Maryam – The Muslim Mary: A Symbol of Devotion, Virtue and Hope
  Dr Zeyneb Sayilgan (Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies), Professor Rita George-Tvrtković (Benedictine University)

Monday 9 December 2024

• 18:00 - Was Genesis 1 Dependent on Psalm 104?
  John Day (Lady Margaret Hall), Prof Aaron Koller (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  PSALMS in Interfaith Contexts