• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Professor Hindy Najman
• Timing: Mondays 2.30 pm - 4.00 pm
• Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion

Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Induction
  Professor Hindy Najman

Monday 15 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Poetic Processes and Non-Redemptive Reading: The Hodayot as Collection
  Professor Hindy Najman

Monday 22 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Palaeography and the Dead Sea Scrolls: the Scrolls as Scribal Artifacts
  Eibert Tigchelaar (Leuven)

Monday 29 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Digital Reconstructions of Dead Sea Scrolls: The Methodology and its Future Prospects
  Various Speakers

Monday 5 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Lament, Reading and Therapy
  Various Speakers

Monday 12 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Isaiah in the Scrolls
  Reinhard Kratz (Gottingen)

Monday 19 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - NO SEMINAR - Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
  TBA

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Can I trust You? Cooperation and Ritual Behaviour in the Qumran Movement
  Jutta Jokiranta (Helsinki)

Monday 28 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Canonical Readings of Isaiah
  John Goldingay (Oxford Interfaith Forum)

Monday 4 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Jeremiah in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Dead Sea Scrolls, Jerusalem Priests, and Ptolemaic Egypt
  Professor Armin Lange (Vienna)

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Habakkuk: From Persia to Pesher
  Anselm Hagedorn (Osnabrück)

Monday 18 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Prophetic Interpretation and Poetic (Re-)Structuring: Zechariah Reads Jeremiah
  Dr Noam Mizrahi (Tel Aviv)

Monday 25 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - The End of Judah and the Persistence of Cosmic Order: Understanding History in the Light of Creation in Psalms and Prophetic Books
  Friedhelm Hartenstein (Munich)

Monday 4 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - The Search for Context in the Book of Isaiah
  Ronnie Goldstein (Hebrew University)

Monday 6 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Orality and Genre: Issues of Method and Interpretation
  Aulikki Nahkola (Wolfson)

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - The Serpent in the Garden of Eden: Its Background and Role
  John Day (Lady Margaret Hall)

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Slave Trading (Judaean) Women in Neo-Babylonian and Persian Records
  Sandra Jacobs (King's College London)

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - King Hezekiah and Precritical Histories of Scripture
  Eva Mroczek (UC Davis)