Biblical Studies
Thursdays, 4.10 - 5.40pm in Rainy Hall, unless otherwise specified
Details of how to join online will be emailed round before the relevant seminar. For more information, contact Dr Suzanna Millar. Email Suzanna.Millar@ed.ac.uk
Seminar Recordings can be found on Media Hopper Create
Semester 2: Spring 2022
| Date | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| 20 January |
Ellen Howard (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh)
Mireia Vidal Quintero (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh) |
The Third Aspect in New Testament Narrative Literature
Trauma and the End of Mark |
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3 February |
Dr Garrick Allen (University of Glasgow) |
What's Important about New Testament Manuscripts? Observations from the First Year of the TiNT Project |
| 17 February |
Scott Bickle (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh)
Cho Suen Ip (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh) |
Where the rûah Blows: Isaiah 40:6-8 and its Structural Function in the Prologue of Deutero-Isaiah
Paul's explicit audience in Romans
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| 10 March |
Dr Sarah Nicholson (University of Glasgow) |
Special session for Women’s History Month Survival sex in Bethlehem: Can Ruth make herself a Body without Organs? |
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24 March |
Dr James Aitken (University of Cambridge) |
Editing and the formation of biblical writings (Hebrew and Greek) |
| 7 April |
Dr Michelle Fletcher (Kings College London) |
Daniel 5 and the Unreadable Writing on the Wall |
| Wednesday 15 June, 4:15pm | Dr Anja Klein and Prof Paul Foster | Special summer sessions with Edinburgh staff |
| 16 June, 4.15pm | Dr Suzanna Millar and Dr Matthew Novenson | Special summer sessions with Edinburgh staff |
Semester 1: Autumn 2021
| Date | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| 23 September |
Dr Katherine Southwood (University of Oxford) |
Muted Group Theory and Esther |
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7 October |
David Flood (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh)
Denis Salgado (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh) |
Family 0150: A New Family of Manuscript Witnesses to the Text of Paul
ΠΡΟΣ ΡΩΜΑΙΟΥΣ: Romans as a Window into the Development of the Byzantine Apostolos Lectionaries |
| 21 October |
Special Session for COP26 Professor David Horrell (University of Exeter) |
What Do Biblical Scholars Have to Say to COP26? |
| 4 November | Prof Hugh Pyper (University of Sheffield (Emeritus)) | Lamentations of the Makars: Acrostics and the Bible in Scots |
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18 November |
Anna Grottoli-Hagelgans (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh)
Charles Cisco (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh) |
Why Did John Write His Gospel?
We the People(s): Liberty Under Law in Galatians |
| 2nd December |
Dr Catrin Williams (University of Wales Trinity Saint David) |
Signs and Scripture in the Gospel of John |