Michaelmas Term 2024
Tuesdays from 14:00-15:30
Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre, 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).
Convenor: Meron Piotrkowski
Week 1, 15 October (via Zoom only)** (CANCELLED)
David Edwards (New College of Florida), Josephus at Work in Rome: Material and Embodied Approaches to Composition
Week 2, 22 October (via Zoom only)**
Dr. Oren Ableman (The Israel Antiquities Authority), Who was the ‘Wicked Priest’?: Reading History in Polemical Texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAocO-tqTksE9Qz1p4vlU_WJVzDc7AdVo0E
Week 3, 29 October
Wenyue Qiang (Oxford/St Cross College), Biblical Hermeneutics of the Law of Burial in the Temple Scroll
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAodeCgrjIqE9U6Ib63YR1ewOy-diUeMxI_
Week 4, 5 November
Dr. Saskia Dönitz (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt), From Josephus to Yosippon – Jewish History-Writing in the Early Middle Ages
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwudOGtqTMpGNedskcThCSmGhFGD8UuAMXD
Week 5, 12 November
Prof. Tessa Rajak (Oxford/Somerville), The Voice of Lamentation in the Jewish War?
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpdO-tqzgpHtJAH_TRXY5MJapn5jQn2Uae
Week 6, 19 November
Sarah Wisialowski (Oxford/Oriel), Seventy Years of Silence: Prophetic Time and History in Daniel
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkd-ivpj0qGN3r2UTI65OSPcYaLhJ-lnwX
Week 7, 26 November
No seminar
Week 8, 3 December
Ya’el Nu’emah Kremer (Oxford/Queens), A Greek Jewish Curse Tablet from Antioch: Old and New Reflections
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tdOGppjsqHd30bx5JOqiypoD8lt91cmpz