Workshops and Conferences
Forthcoming Events
Groningen-Leuven-Oxford Network Conference
Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 March, 2021, Virtual
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Created male and female: The Hebrew Bible, Gender and Sexuality
Monday 26 April 2021, Virtual
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Speakers will include:
Ken Stone, Chicago Theological Seminary
Janice De-Whyte, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA
Mercedes Garcia Bachmann, Instituto para la Pastoral Contextual,
Iglesia Evangélica Luterana Unida, Buenos Aires
Rhiannon Graybill, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
Sarah Nicholson, University of Glasgow
Deborah Rooke, University of Oxford
Formation of the Subject
Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 June, 2020, Oriel College (postponed)
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).
Past Events
Apocalyptic Thinking
Monday 15 February, 2021, Virtual
Conveners: Hindy Najman (Oriel), Jenn Strawbridge (Mansfield), Elizabeth Stell (Oriel)
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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, MBI Al Jaber Building, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Conveners: Hindy Najman (Oriel) and Christian Sahner (St Cross)
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.