Biblical Studies
Fridays, 11.15am - 12.30pm unless otherwise specified, Martin Hall
For more information, contact Dr Suzanna Millar. Email Suzanna.Millar@ed.ac.uk
Semester 1: Autumn 2019
| Date | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| 20 September |
Dr Matthew Novenson Dr Suzanna Millar (both Edinburgh) |
What eschatological pilgrimage of the gentiles? Dehumanisation: Job’s derision and God’s delight |
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27 September |
Dr Erin Heim (Wycliffe Hall Oxford) |
Resurrection and the #MeToo Movement: A Constructive Reading of the Resurrected Body in 1 Corinthians 15:35-49 |
| 4 October |
Dr Andrew Mein (Durham) |
Reinventing Gog and Magog in the Byzantine Apocalyptic Tradition |
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*Monday 7 October 1-2pm, Senate Room |
Professor Archie Lee (Shandong) |
The Darkness Plague and the Creation of Light: Reading Psalm 105: 28 and Gen 1: 1-2 in Chinese Perspectives ***Joint seminar - World Christianity and Biblical Studies*** |
| 11 October |
Dr David Shepherd (Trinity College Dublin) |
‘Put him to death for the life of his brother’: The problem of bloodguilt and the peculiar death of Absalom |
| 18 October |
Dr Margaret Williams, Honorary Fellow (Edinburgh) |
Impulsore Chresto (Suetonius, Div. Claud. 25.4) – a fresh look at an old problem |
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25 October Public lecture |
Dr Dale C. Allison (Princeton Theological Seminary) |
Jesus and the End: The Problem of Contingency |
| 1 November |
Dr J Thomas Hewitt (Aberdeen) |
Pneuma and Descent According to Paul |
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8 November |
Dr Jo Carruthers (Lancaster) |
The Politics of Mourning in the story of Esther and Botticelli's 'Derelitta' |
| 15 November |
Prof Francis Watson (Durham) |
The Epistula Apostolorum: Why a neglected Dialogue Gospel matters |
| 22 November |
No seminar due to Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) conference |
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| 29 November |
Dr Zanne Domoney-Lyttle (Glasgow) |
Glasgow Visual Exegesis in Popular Culture: Re-imagining the Role of Women in Bible Comics |
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