Winter meeting · Residential

Winter Meeting 2023

The venue for all sessions is The Edge, Endcliffe Student Village, Sheffield, S10 3ED

3-5 January 2023

Under the presidency of Prof. Katharine Dell.

2.00 pm Committee Meeting
4.30 pm Registration
6.00 pm Reception sponsored by Sheffield Phoenix Press
6.30 pm Dinner
8.00 pm Presidential Address: Katharine Dell (Cambridge) “Covenant and wisdom: Arguing with a premise from absence”

8.00 am Breakfast
9.15 am Moritz Adam (Zurich) “Reflections upon History in Ecclesiastes and its Context in the Hellenistic Period”
10.00 am Megan Daffern (Cambridge) “Talking to yourself? The Psalms and Self-Address in the HB/OT”
10.45 am Coffee
11.15 am David Firth (Bristol) “A Poem of Two Contexts: Psalms 40:13-17 and 70 in their Canonical Setting”
12 noon Kirsi Cobb (Calver, Derbyshire) “Filling in the gaps: reading Hosea 1-3 with contemporary fiction writers”
1.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm Free time
3.30 pm Tea
4.00 pm Paul Joyce (London) “False Hope and Inappropriate Optimism: Fresh Light on the Prophets from Psychology and Cognitive Science”
4.45 pm Nathan Eddy (London) “When the Prophet says No: Reading Ps 77 with Dan Pagis”
6.00 pm Reception sponsored by the Society in memory of Elizabeth Harper
6.30 pm Dinner
8.00 pm Anselm Hagedorn (Osnabrüch) “Prophecy and Hellenism. Some thoughts on (very) late prophetic texts”

8.00 am Breakfast
9.15 am Peter Hatton (Bristol) “Berith as Treaty: Towards a Biblical Theology of Conflict Resolution”
10.00 am Suzanna Millar (Edinburgh) “Like the cattle, so the chattel: Animal domestication and slavery in ancient Israel and its context”
10.45 am Coffee
11.15 am Philip Jenson (Cambridge) “Incomparability: An alternative to mathematical monotheism”
12 noon Business Meeting (SOTS members only)
1.00 pm Lunch, followed by departure