Past conferences

Meetings of 2021

The record

Winter: 5–7 January 2021 · Summer: 12–14 July 2021

5–7 January 2021 · online · under the presidency of Prof Hugh Pyper

Online

5-7 January 2021

Under the presidency of Prof Hugh Pyper

2.00 pm Committee Meeting
7.15 pm Presidential Address: Prof Hugh Paper, ‘Old Testament Studies after Covid-19? Precedents for Dealing with the Unprecedented’

9.15 am Megan Warner, ‘Are You Indeed to Reign Over Us? Politics in Genesis 37-50’
10.00 am Mark Awabdy, ‘Is Leviticus Ironic? Exploring Narratival and Priestly Ironies in the Centre of the Torah’
10.45 am Coffee Break
11.15 am James Patrick, ‘Target Practice with David’s Bronze Bow: Reading 2 Sam 1:17-27 Concentrically’
11.50 am Short Comfort Break
12.00 pm Douglas Earl, ‘Divine and Human Violence in the Historical Books’
12.30 pm Lunch and Afternoon Break
4.30 pm Kyong-Jin Lee, ‘Human Nature and Politics: A Modern Political-Theoretical Reading of Esther’
5.05 pm Short Comfort Break
5.15 pm Carol Newsom, ‘Theory of Mind in Israelite Narrative and Its Implications for a History of the Self’
6.00 pm Dinner Break
7.15 pm Magnar Kartveit, ‘The Significance of the Pre-Samaritan texts and the Mt Gerizim Finds for Biblical Studies’

9.15 am Olga Fabrikant-Burke, ‘The Scribal Invention of False Prophecy of Salvation in the Book of Jeremiah’
9.50 am Short Comfort Break
10.00 am Philip Alexander, ‘Recent Trends in the Study of the Aramaic Targumim’
10.35 am Coffee Break
11.15 am Rebekah Welton, ‘“Know Well the Faces of your Sheep”: Animals in Ancient Israelite Households’
11.50 am Business Meeting (Members only)
1.00 pm End of meeting

12–14 July 2021 · online · under the presidency of Prof Hugh Pyper

Online

12-14 January 2021

Under the presidency of Prof Hugh Pyper

2.00 pm Committee Meeting
7.15 pm Martti Nissinen – ‘Female Voices in Akkadian Love Poetry and in the Song of Songs’

9.15 am Alison Gray – ‘Bringing a dead language to life? Teaching and learning Biblical Hebrew ’
9.50 am Short Comfort Break
10.00 am Bill Goodman – ‘“The Time of Singing has Come” – The Lure of the Song of Songs for Today’s Composers and Songwriters’
10.35 am Coffee Break
11.15 am Deborah Kahn-Harris – ‘Bizarre Love Triangle: Reading the Book of Ruth in the 2020s’
11.50 am Short Comfort Break
12.00 pm Business Meeting (members only)
1.00 pm Lunch and Afternoon Break
4.30 pm SOTS Strategic Review Group Update
5.05 pm Short Comfort Break
5.15 pm Mark Brummitt – ‘Recovering Words: Resilience and the Writing of Wrongs in Jeremiah’
6.00 pm Dinner Break
7.15 pm Matthew Coomber – ‘Interpreting the Psychology of Privilege: The Modern Relevance of Contempt in the Hebrew Bible’

9.15 am Katherine Southwood – ‘Can we talk of comedy in Job?’
9.50 am Short Comfort Break
10.00 am Constantin Jinga – ‘A first Romanian Septuagint – long story short’
10.35 am Coffee Break
11.15 am Paul Kurtz – ‘How to Read the Bible Rationally: Making Exegesis ‘Critical’ in the early C19’
11.50 am Short Comfort Break
12.00 pm Anne Jeffers – ‘Re-enchanting the Bible and the New Animism’
1.00 pm Lunch and Afternoon Break
3.30 pm Virtual Outing: An Orkney Experience
4.30 pm President’s Tea
5.15 pm Jon Morgan – ‘Blood and Soil: The Challenge of Ecofascism for Ecological Criticism’