6th March
Dr Jessica Sanford (University of Wales Trinity Saint David): A Gendered Reading of Purity and Boundaries in the Dead Sea Scrolls: 4QTohorot A (4Q274) as a Case Study.
Biblical Studies Research Seminar
11.15am, Martin Hall, New College.
28th February
Prof David Ford (Emeritus Regius Professor, University of Cambridge): The Gospel of John as a Theological Challenge Now.
Biblical Studies Research Seminar
11.15am, Martin Hall, New College.
Biblical Studies Research Seminar
11.15am, Martin Hall, New College.
21st February, 11:15-12:45
Jim Leavenworth (PhD candidate, New College):
Denying Deliverance: Ignatius of Antioch on the Manumission of Christian Slaves;
Florenc Mene (PhD candidate, New College): Five Nomina Sacra in the Corpus Paulinum: Their Transmission in the First Millennium.
14th February
Prof Noam Mizrahi (Tel Aviv University):
The Enigma of the Eleventh Song of the Sabbath Sacrifice: Poetic Structure and Scriptural
Exegesis.
Biblical Studies Research Seminar
11.15am, Martin Hall, New College.
7th February
Dr Sean Adams (University of Glasgow):
Memory as Overt Allusion Trigger in Ancient Literature.
Biblical Studies Research Seminar
11.15am, Martin Hall, New College.
31st January
Dr Kirsi Cobb (Cliff College): Reading Gomer with Questions: how the experience of intimate partner violence and the presence of religious belief shape the reading of Hosea 2:2-23.
Biblical Studies Research Seminar
11.15am, Martin Hall, New College.
Biblical Studies Research Seminar
11.15am, Martin Hall, New College.
24th January
Prof Hindy Najman (University of Oxford): Constructing the Figure of Ezra in the Hebrew Bible and beyond.
17th January
Dr Kimberley Fowler (University of Durham): Asceticism in Late-Antique Egypt as told through the Book of Thomas the Contender (NHC II,7).
Biblical Studies Research Seminar
11.15am, Martin Hall, New College.
English Literature Research Seminar
16.30–18.00, Friday 17 January, in Screening Room (G.04), 50 George Square.
Linda Margarita Greenberg (Associate Professor and Chair of English at Cal State Los Angeles)
Seas of Desire and Disgust: Border-Crossing in Helena María Viramontes’ Their Dogs Came with Them.
[English Literature Research Seminar ]
Dr Rositta Valiyamattam: The Missing and The Misunderstood. Documenting & Critiquing Female Agency & its Representations during the 1992-93 Communal Riots in Western India.