winter meeting


Meetings 2007

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2007 (abstracts) Professor Philip Davies (Sheffield): ‘Apocalyptic’: An Otherworldly Tour through the Hebrew Bible (and Beyond) (Presidential Address) Dr Eric Christianson (Chester): ‘Lights, Camera, Achsah!’? On Comparing the Hebrew Bible to Film Dr Ian Wilson (Cambridge): Central Sanctuary or Local Settlement? The Location of the Triennial Tithe […]


Meetings 2006

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting, January 2006 (abstracts) Winter Meeting, 4th-6th January 2005, at the Manor House, University of Birmingham under the presidency of Professor Robert Hayward. Professor Robert Hayward (Durham): Presidential Address: Targum, Biblia Hebraica Quinta, and Jewish Biblical Interpretation (presidential paper) Dr Jeremy Corley (Durham): Biblical Allusion and the […]


Meetings 2005

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2005 (abstracts) at the Manor House, University of Birmingham under the presidency of Professor Grahame Auld Professor Graeme Auld (Edinburgh): Voices from the Past (Presidential Address) This lecture is available for download here with all pictures (Voices: beware, large file of c. 4MB), or […]


Meeting 2004

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2004 (abstracts) Professor Hugh Williamson (Oxford): ‘Do We Still Need Commentaries?’ (Presidential Address) Dr Keith Grüneberg (Pangbourne): ‘Genesis 12:3: New Linguistic Insight into an Old Problem’ Dr Ann Jeffers (London): ‘Laughing at Abraham: Parody in the Testament of Abraham’ Dr Paul Joyce (Oxford): ‘A New Heaven or […]


meetings 2003

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2003 (abstracts) At Manor House, University of Birmingham, January 6th-8th Theme: The Hebrew Bible against its Ancient Near Eastern Background Robert Gordon (Cambridge), ‘Comparativism and the God of Israel’ (Presidential Paper) Dr Janet Tollington (Cambridge), ‘Abraham and His Wives: Status and Culture’ Dr Anselm […]


meetings 2002

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2002 (abstracts) At Halifax Hall, University of Sheffield, 2nd – 4th January 2002 Professor John Bartlett (Dublin), ‘Between Scylla and Charybdis’ (Presidential Paper) Professor Michael Knibb (London), ‘The Book of the Watchers in its Context’ Professor Robert Hayward (Durham), ‘Days without Number: Jacob, Israel, […]


Meetings 2001

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2001 (abstracts) At Devonshire Hall, University of Leeds, 3-5 January, 2001 Professor Michael Goulder (Birmingham): ‘My Servant Jehoiachin’ (Presidential Paper) Professor John Sawyer (Lancaster): ‘The Prophet of Consolation: Isaiah in the History of Judaism’ Dr Mary Mills (London): ‘Moral Perspectives in Old Testament Narrative’ […]


Meetings 2000

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2000 (abstracts) Professor Joseph Blenkinsopp (Notre Dame): ‘The Prophetic Biography of Isaiah’ (Presidential Address) Mr Mark Vincent (Durham): ‘The Call of Isaiah and the Vision of the Seraphim’ Professor John Watts (Louisville, Kentucky): ‘The Structure of the Book of Isaiah as it is seen at the end […]


Meetings 1999

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 1999 (abstracts) At University House, Birmingham from Monday to Wednesday, 4-6 January 1999 Professor Robert Carroll (Glasgow): Beyond Kerygma and Kritik: A future for Hebrew Bible Studies in the Institutions of our Learning? (Presidential Paper) Dr Stefan Reif (Cambridge): Jews, Hebraists and Old Testament […]


Meetings 1998

Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 1998 (abstracts) At St Catharine’s College, Cambridge from Monday to Wednesday, 5-7 January 1998. Special theme: Temple and Worship Mrs Margaret Barker (Borrowash): The Veil of the Temple (Presidential Paper) Dr Walter Houston (Manchester): Tragedy in the Courts of the Lord: The death of […]