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 2: Spring 2020
| Date | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| 17 January |
Dr Kimberly Fowler (Durham) |
Asceticism in Late-Antique Egypt as told through the Book of Thomas the Contender (NHC II,7) |
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24 January |
Professor Hindy Najman (Oxford) |
Constructing the Figure of Ezra in the Hebrew Bible and beyond |
| 31 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 |
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7 February |
Dr Sean Adams (Glasgow) |
Memory as Overt Allusion Trigger in Ancient Literature |
| 14 February |
Professor Noam Mizrahi (Tel Aviv) |
The Enigma of the Eleventh Song of the Sabbath Sacrifice: Poetic Structure and Scriptural Exegesis |
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21 February *11.15am-12.45pm |
Jim Leavenworth (PhD candidate)
Florenc Mene (PhD candidate) |
Denying Deliverance: Ignatius of Antioch on the Manumission of Christian Slaves
Five Nomina Sacra in the Corpus Paulinum: Their Transmission in the First Millennium
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28 February
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Emeritus Regius Professor David Ford (Cambridge) |
The Gospel of John as a Theological Challenge Now |
| 6 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 |
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13 March *11.15am-12.45pm |
Ted Sung (PhD candidate)
Heather Pillette (PhD candidate) |
A Voice Fit to Persuade: Literary Strategies for the Autobiographical Setup in Eccl 1:12-2:26
The Characters of Lamentations |
| 20 March |
Dr Andrew Boakye (Manchester) |
"As Good as Dead": Why Abraham's God Solves Paul's Dilemma in Romans and Galatians |
| 27 March |
Dr Laura Quick (Oxford) |
The Poetics of the Body in 4QWiles of the Wicked Woman |
| 3 April |
Professor Chris Keith (St Mary's) |
Functional, Fluent or a 'Research Language'? Where was Hebrew on Origen's CV? |
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 |