Workshops and Conferences
Forthcoming Events
Book signing and wine reception
John Barton, Oriel and Laing Professor Emeritus, A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths (Penguin Books)
Tuesday 29 October 2019, 17:00-19:00, Large Senior Common Room, Oriel College
Codex Zacynthius: Retracing the Words of Scribes and Early Christian Writers
Tuesday 5 November 2019, 10.30-16.00, Oriel College
Conveners: Hugh Houghton (Birmingham), David Parker (Birmingham) and William Lamb (Oriel)
Hermeneutic Interventions and Practices of Reading: Between Modernity and Antiquity
Sunday 1 and Monday 2 December, Oriel College
Conveners: Yael Fisch (Oriel), Adriana Jacobs (St Cross), Hindy Najman (Oriel) and Daniel Weidner (Berlin)
Martyrdom on the Margins
Thursday 20 February 2020, Oriel College
Conveners: Hindy Najman (Oriel) and Christian Sahner (St Cross)
Groningen-Leuven-Oxford Network for Research on the Dead Sea Scrolls
Monday 16 March 2020, Oriel College
Conveners: Hindy Najman (Oriel), Mladen Popović (Groningen) and Eibert Tigchelaar (Leuven)
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Liturgical Space and Practices of Reading in Antiquity: Philo of Alexandria and his World
Tuesday 16 and Wednesday 17 June, Oriel College
Conveners: Hindy Najman (Oriel) and Sarah Pearce (Southampton)
Formation of the Subject
Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 June, 2020, Oriel College
Conveners: Arjen Bakker (Oriel), Constanze Güthenke (Corpus Christi), Stephen Mulhall (New College), and Hindy Najman (Oriel)
Speakers: Arjen Bakker (Oriel); Shadi Bartsch (Chicago); Josh Billings (Princeton); Clare Carlisle (King’s College London); Marion Durand (Corpus Christi); Mark Edwards (Christ Church); Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv); Paul Franks (Yale); Glenn Most (Chicago and Pisa); Stephen Mulhall (New College); Benjamin Pollock (Jerusalem); Ishay Rosen Zvi (Tel Aviv); Moshe Sluhovsky (Jerusalem); Roy Tzohar (Tel Aviv); and Mark Wrathall (Corpus Christi).
Book Review Session and Reception
Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Goy: Israel's Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile (Oxford University Press)
Wednesday 1 July 2020, Large Senior Common Room, Oriel College
Past Events
British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS) Annual Conference 2019: What is Commentary?
22–24 July 2019, St Anne's College, Oxford
President: Hindy Najman
Protestant Bible Scholarship: Antisemitism, Philosemitism, and Anti-Judaism
26 - 27 May 2019, Oriel College
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Postgraduate Workshop: Exemplarity
11 - 12 March 2019, Oriel College
Lament, Reading and Therapy Workshop
5 November 2018, Oriel College
Co-organized with King's College London
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Launch Conference
17 - 18 October 2018, Oriel College
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Wisdom and Ethics Workshop
4 June 2018, Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel College
Co-organized with John Barton.