Trinity Term 2026
Weeks 1-3, 5-8, Tuesdays from 2 to 3.30 pm
Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre **unless otherwise stated
Clarendon Institute, Walton Street Oxford, OX1 2HG
All lectures will be presented in a hybrid format which will be accessible both online (see below) and in person in the Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre (followed by coffee, tea and biscuits in the Common Room, situated in the basement of the Clarendon Institute)
Convened by Meron Piotrkowski
Week 1, 28th April
Eshbal Ratzon (Tel Aviv University)
“The Dead Sea Scrolls and Their Decipherment”
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Os9GADgZQ0uXcwgK0HzcnQ.
Week 2, 5th May
Camilla Recalcati (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
“The Septuagint and the Fayumic Communities”
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/e4Tb48cySm6W4gbRrF-mpg.
Week 3, 12th May
Patrick Sänger (Universität Münster)
“Strabo and the Jews of the Cyrenaica: Ios. ant. Iud. 14, 114–118 in Context”
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/JQ9JZ_D3Qs2IqXKm4ah4eQ.
Week 4, 19th May
No Seminar
Week 5, 26th May
Lucia Prauscello (Oxford/All Souls)
“‘Fiery grief’? The semantics of πυρόω in three inscriptions from Leontopolis (JIGRE 32, 37 and 83), the Septuagint and Paul”
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/8GSesbl0Se2zj196pBhGZQ.
Week 6, 2nd June
Itai Kagan (Oxford)
“The Hasmonean Megillah: Origins and Transformations of the Antiochus Scroll”
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/i5FpFTMkRmSjM0ZjMTJ6uw.
Week 7, 9th June
Rebekah van Sant-Clark (Oxford/Worcester)
“Ambiguity and the Poetics of Prophecy in the book of Isaiah”
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/TS8nkF-1RWqSG2wWpS-ayg.
Week 8, 16th June
Judith Göppinger (University of Würzburg)
“Why Deeds Matter Most – Exempla in Flavius Josephus’ Antiquitates Iudaicae”
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/emsTvnExR_mYb_yueaRqbw.