• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Professor Martin Goodman
• Timing: Tuesdays at 14.15 - 15.45
• Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion

Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - Rabbinic isolation in Roman times
  Dr Martin Ribary (University of Manchester)

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - Cleopatra and the Jews
  Professor Sarah Pearce (Southampton)

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - Prolegomena to the writings in cryptic script from Qumran
  Professor Jonathan Ben-Dov & Asaf Gayer (Haifa)

Tuesday 6 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - Alexandria in the literary memory of the rabbis
  Professor Galit Hasan-Rokem (Hebrew University)

Tuesday 13 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - Quotations of the Septuagint in Eleazar's exegesis of the Law (Arist. 130-171) (Septuagint Forum)
  Dr Max Leventhal (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 20 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - The inscriptions of Judaea/Palaestina: where are we?
  Professor Sir Fergus Millar (Brazenose, Oxford)

Tuesday 27 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - A new Aramaic fragment of the Toldot Yeshu
  Professor Willem Smelik (UCL)

Tuesday 29 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - The Qumran Community in its Graeco-Roman setting: Weinfeld's The Organizational Pattern and the Penal Code of the Qumran Sect (1986) revisited
  Professor Philip Alexander (University of Manchester)

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - The Dead Sea Scrolls and canon in in the Graeco-Roman world and ancient Judaism
  Professor Armin Lange (Vienna)

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - Enochic literature and the Yahad in the Dead Sea Scrolls
  Dr Daniel Schumann (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 19 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - The art of recompense: rendering linguistic ambiguity in 11QPsa and LXX Psalms
  Dr Noam Mizrahi (Tel Aviv)

Tuesday 26 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - Labour of the Soul: Isaiah in translation, interpretation and practice
  Dr Arjen Bakker (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - A digital approach to Hebrew palaeography in the Dead Sea Scrolls
  Professor Mladen Popovic (Groningen)

Tuesday 30 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Paul as persecutor in the history of Judaism
  Professor Martin Goodman (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Beth She'arim: a congregation of cultures
  Professor Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University)

Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Why is it so hard to find women in Hebrew tours of hell? A history of a tradition
  Dr Tali Artman-Partok (KCL)

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - The representation of Arabs in late-antique apocalyptic literature
  Dr Helen Spurling (Southampton)

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - The Accusation of Incest in Psalms of Solomon 8:9: apologetics, halakha and exegesis
  Professor Jan Joosten (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Aspects of the appropriation of Flavius Josephus in medieval Greek and Latin literature
  Dr Theofili Kampianaki (University of Birmingham)

Tuesday 11 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - The silence of the idols: the story of ἄλαλος from classical into medieval (Judaeo-) Greek (Septuagint Forum)
  Dr Julia Krivovruchko (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 4 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Bestowing honour and wearing the appropriate clothes: the Book of Esther in Greek
  Dr Kristin de Troyer (Salzburg)

Tuesday 11 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Before the synagogue? The emergence of Jewish communal spaces in 1st century Galilee
  Dr Joseph Scales (Birmingham)

Tuesday 25 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Septuagint and early Jewish literary cultures
  Dr Rodrigo de Sousa (Aix-en-Provence)

Tuesday 1 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Greater than the former? Continuity and innovation in the architectural depictions of the Second Temple
  Dr Hallel Baitner (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - What does the New Testament tell us about the 'parting of the ways'?
  Professor Adele Reinhartz (Ottawa)

Tuesday 15 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The parable of the disappearing gladiators: interpreting a late antique cultural reference in Midrash Genesis Rabba
  Dr Benjamin Williams (University of Oxford)