Biblical & Theological Studies Events

Transforming the Mind: Wisdom and Wonder

2012-02-14T12:16:00.001Z

The Tenth Annual National Conference for Christian Postgraduates and Postdoctoral Researchers.
Speakers: Prof Sir Colin Humphreys and Prof Alison Phipps.
This year's conference is scheduled for 22-24 June, in the picturesque setting of Dovedale House, in the Derbyshire Dales.

The conference

We believe that this event is unique in the UK, providing space for students and academics of many disciplines and nationalities to share fellowship, ideas and experiences in a really inspiring setting. The conference challenges us to 'offer [our] bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God' and 'to be transformed by the renewing of [our] minds' (Romans 12:1). As students, researchers and academics, we meet to encourage each other and explore what God is calling us to be and to do in the university and outside. As we ask questions about our faith, our work, our relationships and our world, we seek to share wisdom and learn from each other by God's Spirit.

Registration

• Cost: £80 per person (including all meals and accommodation, and transport from Derby rail station if requested.)

• Discount: Students and the unwaged get a £15 reduction by booking before 30 April.

• If the cost is a problem for you, please email us with a brief explanation of your circumstances and we will do our best to help.

For more information and registration, please click here or see the event page on Facebook.

BRITISH NEW TESTAMENT CONFERENCE 2012: CALL FOR PAPERS

2012-02-08T14:57:00.002Z

6th-8th September 2012

King's College, London

Papers are invited for the 2012 British New Testament Conference to be hosted by King's College, London.

Nine seminars will be running this year. Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be sent to the relevant seminar chair(s). The deadline for submitting proposals is 31st May 2012.

Conference registration details will be announced soon.

SEMINARS:

Jesus

Prof. James Crossley

Johannine Literature

Dr Susan Miller
Dr Pete Phillips

Social World of the New Testament

Dr Lloyd Pietersen

New Testament: Use and Influence

Dr John Lyons

The seminar would be particularly interested in papers relating the New Testament to film.

Paul

Dr Peter Oakes
Sarah Whittle

Papers can be on any area of Pauline study but this year we would particularly welcome papers on Paul in relation to covenant.

Book of Acts

Dr Matthew Sleeman

Prof. Steve Walton

This seminar aims to be a forum for considering Acts from a wide variety of angles: historical, literary, textual-critical, theological, archaeological, the social world, possible links/parallels with other biblical and ancient writings, and so on. We welcome and include topics for discussion which relate Acts to the wider contexts of Luke-Acts and the Pauline corpus, where they are relevant and helpful to the study of Acts.

Synoptic Gospels

Dr Bridget Gilfillan Upton

Dr Andy Angel

a.angel@stjohns-nottm.ac.uk

Dr Ian Paul

Simon Woodman

New Testament and Second Temple Judaism

Prof. James Davila

Dr Darrell Hannah

Seminar for the study of the OT in the NT

2012-01-31T12:23:00.000Z

The Annual Seminar for the Study of the Old Testament in the New will take place from 29-31st March, 2012 at St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, N.Wales.

The inclusive cost will be approximately £150. Enquiries and Booking forms are available from Steve Moyise and there are still a couple of slots left for papers. If you would like to offer a paper, please send a title and short abstract (100 words) to Steve.

SCRIPTURE AND MODERNITY SEMINAR Lent Term 2012

2012-01-18T09:49:00.004Z

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE FACULTY OF DIVINITY

Meetings will be held on Fridays, 3.00– 4.30pm, in Room 4 of the Divinity Faculty

20 January James Kugel,
“The Rise of Modern Biblical Scholarship”

3 February Ernst Troeltsch,
“On the Historical and Dogmatic Methods in Theology”

17 February Alvin Plantinga,
“Two (or More) Kinds of Scripture Scholarship”

2 March Jon Levenson,
“The Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, and Historical Criticism”

16 March Eleonore Stump,
“Visits to the Sepulchre and Biblical Exegesis”

Meetings will be text seminars, not lectures. A brief reading for each session can be found on Camtools under “Graduate Studies.” Students doing a PhD, an MPhil, or the third year of the Tripos are welcome to attend, as are members of the faculty.

For more information, please contact Dr Darren Sarisky or Dr Daniel Weiss

Teaching the Abrahamic Religions:

2011-11-11T16:18:00.001Z

A Subversive Enterprise

Monday, 21st November 2011, 17:00

Prof Guy Stroumsa (University of Oxford)

Old Common Room, Wesley House, Jesus Lane

This year we are delighted to celebrate Interfaith week with a
lecture by Professor Guy Strousma, the first Oxford Professor of the
Study of the Abrahamic Religions.
Professor Stroumsa, who is also the Martin Buber Professor of
Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will
reflect on the idea of: "Teaching the
Abrahamic Religions: A Subversive Enterprise?".

Interfaith Week is led by the Inter Faith Network for the UK, of
which the Woolf Institute is a member body. The week aims to
highlight the good work done by local faith,
inter faith and faith-based groups and organisations and open new
possibilities for partnership.

All are welcome to attend

--
Tina Steiner
Educational Programmes & Office Manager
Woolf Institute
Wesley House
Jesus Lane
Cambridge CB5 8BJ
+44 (0)1223 741048
www.woolf.cam.ac.uk

Woolf Institute - Studying Relations
between Jews, Christians and Muslims

Graham Davies lecture

2011-11-11T13:29:00.000Z

Society of Biblical Archaeology 1870 - 1919

Thursday 8 December, 4.00 p.m.

Stevenson Lecture Theatre
Clore Education Centre
British Museum.

More details here.

Hebrew and the Hebrew Tradition

2011-10-18T10:43:00.000+01:00

Tools for the Unashamed Workman

Monday 14 November

10:00am to 4:00pm
Southgate, North London

Our speaker this year is Dr Timothy Edwards.

Dr Edwards received an MA in Jewish Civilization from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. He has taught at Bristol University and at the Oxford Centre for Jewish studies, and is now Managing Editor of the Biblical Hebrew Project at BibleMesh Software.

Most of the Bible is written in Hebrew, a beautiful and strange language reflecting a culture very different from our own. How does this distinctive Hebrew language and culture shape the perspective of Scripture? The conference will consist of four interactive and in-depth sessions exploring this neglected theme.

Further details are available online

Vatican II 50 Years On: The New Evangelization

2011-10-06T13:47:00.001+01:00

Call for Papers

Leeds Trinity University College, in conjunction with the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University, calls for papers for presentation at the conference Vatican II 50 Years On: The New Evangelization on 26-29 June 2012.

The Second Vatican Council was a seminal event which had a profound impact on the life of the Catholic Church and believers, on her relations with other Christians and other faiths, and on the world at large through the renewed sense of mission which it generated. In particular, the Council began an engagement with the modern and secularized world through a renewed proclamation of the Gospel. Blessed John Paul II described this as the ‘new evangelization’, and in 2010, Pope Benedict XVI confirmed this priority by creating the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization.

The theme of the Leeds Trinity conference ‘Vatican II 50 Years On: The New Evangelization’ suggests consideration of the interpretation and impact of the Council, and the impetus to the new evangelization in particular, in the following ways:

• Analysis of Council documents and their significance for understanding the Council and/or for application in church and society today.

• The interpretation and historiography of Vatican II, especially with respect to the New Evangelization.

• The nature of the New Evangelization, its links with Vatican II, and the challenges and opportunities for a ‘re-proposal of the perennial truth of the Gospel’ today.

• Contemporary theological issues in light of the Council such as education, inculturation, social ethics, marriage and family, ecumenical and interfaith relations.

• External perceptions of the Roman Catholic Church, its agenda of evangelization, and its role in local and global affairs since Vatican II.

Papers are invited which relate to the themes of the conference as outlined above, and especially on the topics identified. Paper presenters should be active researchers, whether new or established scholars, who have an interest in the topic and are planning to attend the conference. It is not necessary to be a Catholic or to speak from the perspective of Catholic theology; any scholarly paper related to the themes will be considered.

Papers presented in parallel sessions should be delivered in a maximum of 20 minutes and should be no more than 2000 words in length.

To apply to present a paper, the following information is needed:

• Your name and institution (if applicable)

• Title of the proposed paper

• Brief abstract (about 200 words)

Applications should be sent to Professor Kirsteen Kim by 30 November 2011.

Successful contributors will be notified by 31 January 2012.

Call for Papers, SOTN

2011-10-06T13:38:00.000+01:00

The Annual Seminar for the Study of the Old Testament in the New will take place from 29-31st March, 2012 at St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, N.Wales. The inclusive cost will be approximately £150. If you would like to offer a paper, please send title and short abstract (100 words) to Steve Moyise by Dec 1st. Booking forms will be sent out in January.

Theology For All Conference 2011

2011-09-23T13:03:00.000+01:00

"The Unique and Universal Christ"

Saturday 29th October 2011, 10am - 3:30pm
Eden Baptist Church, Cambridge

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali will speak on the person
and work of Christ in a plural world: how his
uniqueness relates to cultures and to people of other faiths and its
importance for Christian mission.

The cost is £25 standard ticket / ** £20 if you
book before 30th September ** / £15 TFA members/concessions.

This conference is organised by Theology For All,
a group for church members and leaders who want
to keep up-to-date with developments in biblical or theological study.

For more information see
www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/TFA or email TFA@theologyforall.org.

Centre for the Study of Christian Origins

2011-09-08T14:53:00.000+01:00

Day in Honour of Professor Larry W. Hurtado
7th October 2011
10 a.m. 5.30 p.m.
Martin Hall, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh

Programme

10.00 Welcome.
10.15-11.15 Prof. Tommy Wasserman (45 min presentation, 15 mins questions)
11.25-12.25 Dr Thomas Kraus (45 min presentation, 15 mins questions)
12.30 - 12.50 Response by Prof. Larry Hurtado

Lunch break

2.30-4.00 Prof. R. Bauckham (1 hour presentation, 30 mins questions)
4-4.30 Response by Prof. Larry Hurtado

Drinks reception (sponsored by CSCO)

Alban books (in conjunction with the Free Church College) will set up a book stall throughout the day.

There is a small charge of £10 (or £5 to unwaged) to cover costs.

Asia Mobilising for Integral Mission

2011-08-12T13:00:00.003+01:00

Micah Network: Asia Regional Consultation
Sri Lanka, October 17 - 21, 2011

The exciting church growth throughout Asia requires us all to take responsibility that we build with gold and silver, so that we can stand true as salt and light in our communities. The church in Asia increasingly has a stronger voice globally both in mission and in global leadership. The multi faith environment, at times faced with extremists and fear, are constant realities to be faced, alongside the widening gap between rich and poor, marginalisation and oppression, major disasters and technological evolutions.

How can we as a network support one another to respond effectively and with love in such contentious arenas? This consultation seeks to underpin the theological values that inform and inspire our practice, strengthen the quality and witness of our response and mobilise us to be the agents of change in our communities and our work.

Information brochure, the provisional programme schedule and application for registration can be downloaded here.

Email: Sundar Daniel or Timothy Sands.

Micah Network
Asia Regional Consultation

WOOLF INSTITUTE

2011-05-31T13:40:00.000+01:00

LIST OF EVENTS IN JUNE

Tuesday, 7 June
Speaker: Prof. Marina Rustow, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Title: Jews and the Medieval Islamic State
Venue: Old Common Room, Wesley House
Time: 17.00-18.00

Tuesday, 14 June
Speaker: Dr Shana Cohen (Stone Ashdown Director, Woolf Institute)
Title: Moving beyond nationalism and homogeneity to address political alienation in North Africa
Time: 12:30-13:30
Location: Old Common Room, Wesley House

Monday & Tuesday, 27–28 June
The Other Jewish Question. A CJCR Colloquium with Jay Geller, Vivian Liska, Liliane Weissberg and Lars Fischer
Venue: Lucy Cavendish College
Booking essential

Thursday & Friday, 30 June–1 July
Understanding and Affirming Judaism in Christian Preaching and Teaching.
A CJCR Colloquium with Clare Amos, William Brosend, Kelvin Holdsworth, Amy-Jill Levine and Martin Seeley
Venue: Lucy Cavendish College
Booking essential

Configuring Communities: The Socio-Political Dimensions of Ancient Epistolography

2011-05-27T09:26:00.000+01:00

Durham (UK), 14-16 July 2011

The Department of Classics & Ancient History and the Department of Theology & Religion, Durham University, will be holding an international conference on "Configuring Communities: The Socio-Political Dimensions of Ancient Epistolography" (full description of the project at http://www.dur.ac.uk/mediterranean.centre/letters/ )

BURSARIES:
Thanks to the generous support of the Classical Association, six bursaries of up to £250 each are available for PhD students wishing to attend the conference; please apply informally via email to paola.ceccarelli@durham.ac.uk by 27 May, indicating Name; Institution; Name of Supervisor; Programme and Year of Study; and Brief Statement of Interest.

REGISTRATION:
Details as to registration and conference fees are available at http://www.dur.ac.uk/mediterranean.centre/letters/conference/ Please send the form (on paper or electronically) to v.m.arbia@durham.ac.uk

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Thursday 14 July 2011

14.00 - 14.15: Registration

Introduction: Theoretical Approaches

14.15 15.00: Thorsten Fögen (Durham University)
"Ancient epistolary theory and the configuration of communities through letters"
15.00 - 15.30: Tea / coffee break

Letters and Literary Communities

15.30 16.15:Roy Gibson (University of Manchester): "Ancient letter collections as constituted communities"
16.15 - 17.00: Catharine Edwards (Birkbeck, University of London): "Present absence in Seneca's Letters"

Friday 15 July 2011

Configurations of Power and Epistolary Communication (1): Persia and Greece

9.30 10.15: Sebastian Grätz (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz): "The literary and ideological character of the letters in Ezra 4-7"
10.15 - 10.45: Tea / coffee break
10.45 11.30: Manuela Mari (Università di Cassino): "Power in dialogue. The letters and diagrammata of Macedonian authorities to local communities"
11.30 12.15: Paola Ceccarelli (Durham University): "Letters and decrees. Diplomatic protocols in the Hellenistic period"
12.15 - 14.30: Lunch buffet

Configurations of Power and Epistolary Communication (2): Rome and Judaea

14.30 15.15: Robin Osborne (University of Cambridge): "Letters, diplomacy, and the Roman conquest of Greece"
15.15 16.00: Ingo Gildenhard (Durham University): "A Republic in Letters: Cicero's correspondence with exiled familiares"
16.00 16.30: Tea / coffee break
16.30 17.15: Philip Alexander (University of Manchester): "'From me, Jerusalem, the Holy City, to you Alexandria in Egypt, my Sister ....' (b.Sanh. 107b): The Role of Letters in Power Relations between 'Centre' and 'Periphery' in Judaism in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods"
17.15 18.00: Lutz Doering (Durham University): "Configuring addressee communities in ancient Jewish letters"
19.00 h: Conference Dinner

Saturday 16 July 2011

Letters and Communities in Early Christianity

9:00 - 9:45: Peter Head (University of Cambridge): "Letter carriers and epistolary communication in early Christianity"
9:45 - 10:30: John Barclay (Durham University): "The letters of Paul and the construction of early Christian networks"
10:30 11:00: Tea / coffee break
11.00 - 11.45: Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena): "The configuration of the addressee community in the Letter of James"
11.45 - 12.30: Judith Lieu (University of Cambridge): "Letters and the construction of a Christian narrative"
12.30 - 13.00: Concluding discussion
13.00: Lunch buffet

Texts in Transit: The Cultural Afterlife of the King James Bible

2011-05-25T13:50:00.001+01:00

INTERDISCIPLINARY DAY CONFERENCE
Oxford, Sat 25 June 2011

The conference explores interpretations of the King James Bible in art, music, literature and theology. Speakers include:

DAVID NORTON
The Literary Afterlife of the King James Bible

ANDREW GANT
"While the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy": Music inspired by the King James Bible

CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND
Radicals and the King James Bible

ELLIE BAGLEY
Catholic Critics of the King James Bible

GORDON CAMPBELL
The King James Bible in a Secular Society

CAROL JACOBI
The re-invention of love: The King James Bible as existential evidence in Pre-Raphaelite Art

For further information or to book a place at the conference (cost from £50 depending on lunch options) telephone 01865 270380 or email . Booking deadline 31 May 2011

KLICE Lunchtime Talk

2011-05-09T10:12:00.002+01:00

Onesimus Ngundu

You are invited to this term's KLICE lunchtime talk on Tuesday 17 May at 1 pm. We will be hearing from Onesimus Ngundu on:

"Does the Church Have a Mandate for Regulating Marriage? Biblical and Historical Background"

Onesimus has done extensive research into the historical development of the relationship of church and state in regard to marriage and the biblical justification used to defend the church's role in maintaining the institution. In light of the current debate surrounding this question, which some have called the most pressing issue facing the contemporary church, a stimulating discussion is sure to follow.

Please bring your own lunch. We will be finished by 2 pm.

Veritas Forum: Good without God?

2011-05-05T10:02:00.001+01:00

A Christian philosopher probes the foundation for ethics

18 May 2011 Palmerston Room, Fisher Building
St. John's College
17:30-19:00

What difference does Christian theology make to ethics? Is a theological foundation necessary for ethics? To what extent can there be a fruitful dialogue between Christian and secular ethics?

The Veritas Forum invites you hear Oliver O'Donavan probe the Christian foundation for ethics. Oliver O'Donavan is Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at the University of Edinburgh. He was previously President of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics and Regius Professor of Moral & Pastoral Theology and Canon of Christ Church at the University of Oxford.

The Veritas Forum is organized by Christian students and faculty in the University of Cambridge in cooperation with various student societies and supporting organizations.

More information on Veritas can be found on our website.

The Annual Semitic Philology Lecture

2011-04-01T09:55:00.000+01:00

SEMITIC AND AFROASIATIC:
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Professor Lurtz Edzard
The University of Oslo

5.00pm, Wednesday, 4th May, 2011
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site), Room 8-9

Abstract
In this presentation, I shall review a number of notorious problems in Semitic linguistics that deserve to be treated in a broader Afroasiatic perspective. Among these are the following issues: the consecutive tenses in Biblical Hebrew, the gemination of C2 in the Akkadian and Ethio-Semitic verbal systems, the distribution of absolutive and predicative case in Arabic, the general scenario of gender polarity in the number system, and the shift to SOV word order with all its implications in Ethio-Semitic. I shall argue that typological parallels in other branches of Afroasiatic may help to elucidate the respective situation in Semitic.

Reading the Bible Ethically

2011-03-11T13:40:00.000Z

Research Conference, 15-17 June 2011

Our summer conference 2011 will be for everyone who is interested in getting to grips with some of today's vital questions. Guest speakers will join some of our own faculty in grappling with contemporary ethical issues and looking at the biblical response to these topics.

Papers on
•Bible and Law
•Immigration and asylum
•Economic challenges
•Poverty and development
•Hermeneutical considerations
with responses from biblical scholars.

Papers from Craig Bartholomew, Andrew Hartropp, Julian Rivers, Nick Spencer, Elaine Storkey.

The conference will run from dinner on 15 June to lunch on 17 June.

Cost: £125 made up of: conference, including meals £75; accommodation £25 per night (in student rooms with shared bathrooms)
Concession rates: Trinity alumni £115; students £85; Trinity research students £50
Additional late fee of £15 if booking after Easter.

Download a booking form and post it with your fee to:

Mrs Samantha Hands,
Reading the Bible Ethically,
Trinity College,
Stoke Bishop,
Bristol BS9 1JP

CALL FOR PAPERS, Budapest September 16-18, 2011

2011-03-11T12:50:00.000Z

The Institute of English Studies, The Centre for Hermeneutical Research of Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary and The Hungarian Bible Society are proud to announce an interdisciplinary conference on

“THE KING JAMES BIBLE (1611-2011): PREHISTORY AND AFTERLIFE”
Budapest September 16-18, 2011

Proposals related to any literary, linguistic, cultural or theological aspects of the subject are invited from scholars wishing to contribute.

Our institution is named after the 16th century Reformed Pastor Gáspár Károli who published the first complete Hungarian Bible in 1590. THE KÁROLI BIBLE’s influence on Hungarian language and culture is as significant as THE KING JAMES BIBLE’S impact on the English-speaking world.

A session for comparing these two outstanding national icons is also encouraged.

Please send the proposed title and an abstract of ca 300 words of the proposed paper by April 15, 2011 by email.

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Bible: Culture, Community and Society.

2011-03-10T12:20:00.001Z

University of Winchester.
The Bible: Culture, Community and Society.
July 11th-13th 2011.

The Centre for the Study of Theology and Religion at the University of Winchester, in association with Winchester Cathedral and the Wessex Synod of the United Reformed Church, is organising an international residential conference.
Timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the Authorised Version the conference will explore issues around the Bible’s status as a living, authoritative text.

Keynote speakers include:
Richard Bell, Zoë Bennett, Andrew Bradstock, Ellen Davis, Gavin D’Costa, David Fergusson, Neil Messer, Angus Paddison, Ben Quash.

Proposals for 20 minute papers are invited from graduate students and academics. They should respond to one of the following conference themes:

- The Bible and modernity:  the challenges of reading the Bible as an authoritative text, and the responses of biblical studies and theology;

- The Bible and community: how the Bible is read as an authoritative text within ecclesial communities, and its role in forming Christian action;

- Reading the Bible in public: the negotiation of Scripture’s authority in the public square, and the issues raised by competing ‘authorities’ in political deliberation.

Along with your 200 word proposal please also include your name, email address, AV equipment required, and details of any institutional affiliation.

It is hoped that an edited volume will follow from the conference, to which short paper presenters may be invited to contribute.

Please send your proposals to:

Angus Paddison or Neil Messer

Deadline for proposals: 5pm, Monday 18th April 2011.

Paper proposers will receive a response before the end of the month, allowing you to book a place at the conference at the reduced ‘Early Bird’ rate.

For further details please email Angus Paddison at the email address above or telephone 01962 827020.

Dr Angus Paddison
Senior Lecturer in Theology
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Winchester
Winchester
SO22 4NR
01962 827020

BNTS BNTC: The New Testament and Contemporary Society Seminar

2011-02-18T11:19:00.001Z

The British New Testament Society is delighted to announce a new seminar at this year's conference, for one year only, entitled: The New Testament and Contemporary Society.

Paper proposals are warmly invited that respond to the following themes/questions:

- What is the role of the New Testament in contemporary public life and society?
- Issues around using the New Testament in public, ethical debates;
- What political authority does the New Testament have in the 'public square'?
- The teaching of the New Testament in publicly funded schools and universities;
- How is the New Testament as Scripture to be negotiated in a public square of plural authorities?
- Issues surrounding the New Testament and contemporary religious diversity;
- The NT in contemporary arts (including film, TV, stage, fiction etc).

Paper proposals may either be for 45 minute papers (with 45 minutes for discussion) or 25 minute papers (with 20 minutes for discussion).
Proposals should contain your name, any institutional affiliation, and a 200 word abstract.
Please email your proposal to the seminar conveners:

Dr Angus Paddison, University of Winchester

Dr Cherryl Hunt, University of Exeter

Early Christian Writers and the Text of the New Testament

2011-02-11T13:29:00.001Z

Seventh Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament
28-31 March 2011

In addition to papers on Tatian, Pelagius, Eriugena and at least two authors called Nicetas, we have arranged an optional excursion to Lichfield Cathedral to see their current Bible Exhibition featuring the St Chad Gospels and a colloquium dinner with a presentation on the Staffordshire Hoard.

Download booking form.
Reduced booking fee deadline is 18th February 2011
(£30 for students, £75 for others)
There is still space for a few additional papers on the topic of the Colloquium.

Contact Hugh Houghton ASAP.

Cambridge Celebrates 400 Years of the King James Bible

2011-02-11T13:09:00.002Z

Wednesday 27 April 2011, at the University Church, CambridgeThe lectures are open to all. No registration or fee is required.
PROGRAM
9.30 WELCOME
9.35 Professor Pauline Croft (Royal Holloway)
King James and his Bible: the historical context
10.35 BREAK
11.00 Professor William Horbury (Cambridge)
The Cambridge Contribution
12.00 Professor Brian Cummings (Sussex)
Words and the Word: How the Bible became literature
1.00 LUNCH (attendees make their own lunch arrangements)
2.30 Dr Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge)
The 'Authorizing' of the KJB: Two Hundred Years of Success and Failure
3.30 Professor Mark Noll (Notre Dame)
'Isn't this the book of the people?': The KJB in America
4.30 BREAK
5.00 The Archbishop of Canterbury
Theology and the Task of Translation
....................................................
6.15 EVENSONG

Please see the conference website.

Inaugural Lecture of Dr Josef Meri

2011-02-04T15:32:00.000Z

Ariane de Rothschild Academic Director of the Centre of the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations

Past, Present and Future Historical Memories: the Impact of Key Texts, Objects and Rituals on Muslim-Jewish Relations

The lecture will explore key Jewish and Muslim historical accounts which depict the �other� community and how they are (mis)used to create a particular historical narrative, which can manipulate the historical record for apologetic and polemical purposes. It will address the effect of texts, objects and rituals in the Muslim-Jewish encounter as implications for remembering the past and remembering for the future.

17 February 2011, 17.00
The Garden Room, St Edmund's College, Cambridge

HOLY WRIT? AUTHORITY AND RECEPTION

2010-12-09T12:27:00.001Z

CALL FOR PAPERS AND BURSARIES
11 TO 13 APRIL 2011, YORK UNIVERSITY
Society for the Study of Theology's sixtieth annual conference.

This year's theme is 'Holy Writ? Authority and Reception' and questions we shall be addressing include:
How and why is scripture authoritative?
How should scripture be interpreted and by whom?
How does scripture shape churches through collective and personal reading?
What theological priorities have motivated specific translations of scripture, including of particular passages?
How does scripture inform theology, and how authoritative is scripture for present-day theology?
In what senses is scripture 'holy' and 'inspired'?
What about the offensive parts of scripture?

We invite proposals for SHORT PAPERS on the conference theme. Papers should be delivered in a maximum of 20 minutes, followed by 20 minutes' discussion, and should be no more than 2000 words in length. To submit a proposal, please visit our short papers webpage.

We also invite proposals for SEMINAR PAPERS on a range of ongoing topics. Seminars running in 2011 include:
Church, Theology and Ministry;
Doctrine after Christendom;
Philosophy and Theology;
Theological Ethics;
Theology and the Arts;
Theology, Feminism and Gender;
Trinity and Christology.
To submit a proposal, please visit our seminars webpage.

Our Society operates a generous BURSARY FUND in order to make the conference as accessible as possible. Details of this fund and how to apply are also available on our bursary webpage. Donations to the fund are most welcome and may be made when booking.

The deadline for receipt of all paper proposals and bursary applications is 17 FEBRUARY 2010.
Bookings for the conference will open on 7 January and I shall be writing again then to confirm this.
In case your decision to attend the conference depends on acceptance of your paper proposal and/or bursary application, you will be notified of the outcome of these by 23 February in order to be able to book online before the early booking rate closes on 3 March.

We look forward to receiving your proposal.

Yours sincerely,
Tom Greggs

Secretary, Society for the Study of Theology

Freed to Inspire: The Renewal of English Catholic Biblical Studies in the 20th Century

2010-11-19T09:39:00.002Z

A Commemorative Lecture of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Catholic Biblical Association
Speaker: Dom Henry Wansborough OSB,
Ampleforth Abbey, Chair of the Trustees of the Catholic Biblical Association and former Master of St Benet's Hall, Oxford.

7th December 2010, 5.30 pm
The Garden Room, St Edmund's College

This lecture commemorates the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Catholic Biblical Association in 1940 by Fr Cuthbert Lattey SJ at the then St Edmund's House (now College). The Association established the Lattey Lecture series organized by the College's Von Hügel Institute, to explore the links between biblical studies and Catholic Social Teaching. The last Lattey Lecture was given in 2001 by Dom Henry Wansborough, a monk of Ampleforth Abbey and former Master of St Benet's and a noted biblical scholar. His most recent book is Use and Abuse of the Bible: A Brief History of Biblical Interpretation, published by T & T Clark International (2010). The new Lattey Lecture series will begin in 2011.

For further information please contact:
The Von Huegel Institute, St Edmund's College, Cambridge, CB3 0BN
Tel. 01223 741844
Email The Von Huegel Institute

MSt in The Study of Jewish-Christian Relations

2010-11-09T15:43:00.000Z

A Master's-level award of the University of Cambridge

Open Day, Cambridge, 24 November 2010

10.30

Welcome, general information, questions and answers

Venue: Old Common Room (Staircase A)

Wesley House, 30 Jesus Lane, Cambridge CB5 8BJ

11.30

The MSt classroom experience (a taster)

12.30

Lunch with staff and current students

13.15

Walk to the Faculty of Divinity

(a very short introduction to central Cambridge!)

14.15

Plenary Lecture: Andrea Schatz (King's College London)

Re-inventing Scripture: Translation, Gender, and the Jewish Enlightenment

Faculty of Divinity (Sidgwick Site, West Road) Room 2

The Open Days ends with the end of the Plenary Lecture at ca. 15.45

The MSt in The Study of Jewish-Christian Relations is a University of
Cambridge degree
run by the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations (CJCR,
Woolf Institute)
in conjunction with the Faculty of Divinity and the Institute of
Continuing Education.

For further information or to register please contact Lars Fischer
(Course Director): lf309@cam.ac.uk
http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/cjcr/

Celebrating Alexander Crummell: CFP, Symposium

2010-11-08T15:07:00.000Z

22-23 Sept 2011

Celebrating Alexander Crummell: Reform, Education, Liberation

Academic symposium in honour of Alexander Crummell, African American
campaigner against slavery, Episcopalian minister, missionary and
teacher in Liberia, writer, speaker, leader. Crummell studied at
Cambridge between 1849-53 (mainly classical literature and
mathematics). Contemporaries regarded his education as a crucial
achievement, and a powerful tool in campaigns against slavery and
racism, and for Civil Rights. W. E. B. Du Bois dedicated a chapter of
'The Souls of Black Folk' to him.

Aims: This will be a broad, interdisciplinary academic conference,
which draws in some of the many fields and topics in which Crummell's
life might be considered. These include: Race, Gender and Reform,
Abolition, Transatlantic and Black Atlantic history, 'Back to
Africa', Liberia, the Colonization Movement, Diaspora and Africa,
Race and Education/Classics, 'racial uplift', reform movements, the
South, religion and ethical culture, the Episcopalian Church,
Missionaries, Freemasons, travel, literary and political afterlives,
W. E. B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington.

Place and Time: University of Cambridge English Faculty, 22-23 September 2011.
The symposium will coincide with the opening of an exhibition on
Alexander Crummell and Cambridge in the Black Atlantic.

Papers are invited in any relevant disciplines, and the topics listed
above are not intended to be prescriptive. Please send 500 word
abstracts, plus a brief self-description or cv by 15 March 2011 to Dr
Sarah Meer at Crummell@english.cam.ac.uk
Queries to the same address.

Exhibition: Alexander Crummell and Cambridge in the Black Atlantic

Exhibition about Crummell's time at Cambridge and later life and
achievements; Cambridge in the Black Atlantic, and in the
mid-Nineteenth Century. The exhibition will suggest some of the
history of Black students in Cambridge, including the 18C Jamaican
Francis Williams, and the history of black people in the city,
including Olaudah Equiano's daughter, who was buried in Chesterton churchyard.

Aims: To complement the academic symposium, and also interest a wider
general audience. The exhibition will be opened during the symposium,
then remounted in October to coincide with (British) Black History
Month and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. It will be open to the
general public. We shall also work with the Cambridge Admissions
Office to make the exhibition useful for their work with Open Days,
Access, Widening Participation, and the Group for Encouraging Ethnic
Minority Applicants.

Call for Papers

2010-11-05T13:51:00.007Z

God's Word in English
The King James Version as TranslationConference to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible.

Date: 24-25 March 2011
Venue: Antwerp and Leuven, Belgium
Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2010
(Please submit abstracts to Dr. Gergely Juhász.
More information

Research Unit of Biblical Studies
Faculty of Theology
Sint-Michielsstraat 6 - bus 3101
B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
www.theo.kuleuven.be

Department of Applied Language Studies
Lessius University College
Sint-Andriesstraat 2
B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium
www.lessius.eu

Being a Christian in the Academic World

2010-10-26T12:58:00.006+01:00

You are warmly invited to a talk and Q&A session with

Professor Rosalind Picard
Director of the Affective Computing Research Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Sponsored by The Veritas Forum at Cambridge

Tuesday 2nd November 2010
12 noon - 12.20pm Lunch served
12.20pm - 1:10pm Talk and Q&A

Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St John's College, Cambridge

Lunch provided for those who RSVP by October 31
RSVP to dce27@cam.ac.uk

How Christians can make a difference in the university and the academic world.

How The Veritas Forum helps Christians engage with the university.

As well as being a pioneer in the fields of human/computer interaction, artificial intelligence and autism research, Professor Picard is active in Christian work, and has been a key speaker for the Veritas Forum on several occasions.

To find the Palmerston Room, go to the Cripps Porter's Lodge in St John's College, and ask for directions. The Fisher Building is very near the Cripps Porter's Lodge.

Contact David Ellis for more information.

Mesopotamian Seminar Series

2010-10-20T14:48:00.002+01:00

NB: These seminars are not at Tyndale House - please follow the link for full details.

The Mesopotamian Seminar Series will continue in Michaelmas 2010 and run throughout the coming academic year. With visiting speakers coming from around the world, it is hoped that these evenings will continue to offer a focus for the wide range of Assyriological and Ancient Near Eastern archaeological projects across the University, build links with other Research Centres, and offer a chance for all to see the incredible work that is being carried out in this vast and hugely important field of research. Evening lectures will take place on Tuesday evenings at 5pm, and will be followed by a short reception for our guest speakers and those in attendance.
Any questions should be directed to Adam Stone

Lunchtime Tech Demo's at Tyndale House

2010-09-28T17:50:00.002+01:00

Bring your lunch, 1pm - 1.30pm
David Instone-Brewer does a show & tell for 20 mins, then 10 mins Q+A
It is in the Upper Hex, so we have tables and power at the side for laptops, or you can sit in the chairs in the middle and just munch and watch.

Oct.6   Writing a book/thesis (styles, large documents, navigation, replace formatting, sections)

Oct.13 Recording and searching your reading (Wikis, OCR, Zotero)

Oct.20 Surviving the death of your hard drive (What to back up, automation, switching computers)

Oct.27 Greek+Hebrew fonts (keyboard, fonts, converting old fonts, Mac problems)

Nov.3   Lexicons, Translation & Language tools (2LetterLookup, Perseus, Chrome translate)

Nov.10 Reading books & journals online (finding them, and getting round restrictions)

Nov.17 Getting the best out of BibleWorks (Bible software for PC, or Mac with an emulator)

Nov.24 Getting the best out of Logos (Theology eBooks+Bible software on PC & Mac

Dec.1    Getting the best out of Accordance (Bible software for Mac or on the supplied PC emulator)

Jan.19 The best free Bible software (mostly on the web)

Jan 26 Footnotes & Indexing a book (refer to pages, automatic markup, multiple indexes, table of contents)

Feb.2    Surveys of Greek literature (TLG, Inscriptions, finding English translations)

Feb.9    Working on more than one computer (Dropbox, sync Zotero, LogMeIn to open your computer)

Feb.16 Choosing your next computer (Mac or PC, features worth paying for, cheap reliable vendors)

Feb.23 Publishing on the Web (copyright, LuLu, blogs, PDFs, classic webpages, publicity)

Mar.2   Searching Rabbinic sources in English & Hebrew (RabbinicTraditions, Soncino)

Mar.9   Customising Hebrew & Greek and creating your own keyboards (Ukelele / MS Keyboard Layout Creator)

Mar.16 Automating tasks in Word to do almost anything faster (Visual Basic macro recording and editing)

'The Septuagint and the Old Testament in the New - SOTS: Aileen Guilding Conference

2010-05-20T16:59:00.001+01:00

The Society for Old Testament Study presents the

AILEEN GUILDING CONFERENCE :
'The Septuagint and the Old Testament in the New'

Convened by Professor Cheryl Exum,
President of the Society for Old Testament Study
made possible by a legacy left to SOTS by Aileen Guilding.

University of Sheffield 21st 23rd JULY 2010

Programme:

WEDNESDAY 21st JULY
4.00 p.m. Registration
7.00 p.m. Dinner
Joint Session with the SOTS 86th Summer Meeting
8.15 p.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks: Professor David Clines (Sheffield), 'Aileen Guilding and Her Work'
8.30 p.m. Professor Kristin De Troyer (St Andrews), 'The Septuagint and the New Testament: Another Look at the SamuelKings Quotations and Allusions in the New Testament'
THURSDAY 22nd JULY
7.30-8:30 a.m. Breakfast
9.15 a.m. Professor Steve Moyise (Chichester), 'Quotation and Allusion in Paul: The Minor Prophets as Test Case'
10.45 a.m. Coffee
11.15 a.m. Professor George Brooke (Manchester), 'The Influence of the Dead Sea Scrolls on Modern Interpretations of Jewish Traditions in the New Testament'
12.00 noon Dr John Tudno Williams (Aberystwyth), 'The Fourth Gospel and Jewish Worship: Guilding's Theory Revisited'
1.00 p.m. Lunch
2.15 p.m. Dr Jenny Dines (Cambridge), 'What If the Reader is a She? Biblical Women and Their Translators'
3.00 p.m. Dr James Aitken (Cambridge), 'Translating Social Status in the Septuagint'
3.45 p.m. Tea
4.30 p.m. Dr John Jarick (Oxford), 'Imagining a qohelet as an ekklesiastes'
5.15 p.m. Dr Angela Thomas (Norwich), 'Fear and Trembling: Body Imagery in the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint'
7.30 p.m. Closing banquet
FRIDAY 23rd JULY
7.30 a.m. Breakfast, followed by departure

BOOKING FORM
The Society for Old Testament Study
AILEEN GUILDING CONFERENCE 21st 23rd July 2010
THE EDGE, ENDCLIFFE, SHEFFIELD
Please send the completed form together with payment to Elizabeth Harper, Flat 4, 69-70 Crossgate, Durham, DH1 4PR. (Please use ordinary mail and not registered post).
Places may be reserved by email to e.a.harper@dur.ac.uk with payment to follow by post. Note that bookings must be received by Thursday 24th June 2010; no bookings can be accepted after that date.
Electronic acknowledgements will be made to those who supply an email address.
NB Those also wanting to attend the SOTS Meeting 19-21 July 2010 should register on the SOTS application form.
A. PERSONAL DETAILS
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Resident Package Price Standard Room (shared bathroom facilities) £115.00 / £126.50
All meals, sessions and accommodation in a standard room with shared bathroom facilities from dinner on 21st breakfast on 23rd July.
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The Present Moment

2010-05-12T12:50:00.001+01:00

A Conference for Postgraduate Students in Biblical and Theological Studies
Oxford, 30 September 1 October 2010

Oxford's Faculty of Theology proposes to host a 24-hour conference for postgraduate students at the interface of scriptural, historical and dogmatic perspectives on Christian theology.

The conference will run for 24 hours from 2pm Thursday 30 September, with the possibility of excursions and other activities in Oxford following on the Friday afternoon.

Call for Papers

The topic will be "The Present Moment". Proposals for papers are invited on topics ranging from hope to memory, from mysticism to existentialism, from the nature of time in science and theology to the present in spiritual or pastoral theology, biblical or historical or ideological accounts of "now" vs. "no more" or "not yet", even grammatical tense in scriptural texts, and so forth. It is hoped that all participants will benefit from the chance to engage with fellow postgraduates and senior scholars in their own and related fields.

Students registered in Master's or Doctoral programmes are invited to submit proposals for a 20-minute academic paper. These proposals will be assessed competitively and it is hoped that around 15 will be invited to prepare their papers for advance circulation and presentation in Oxford. Following peer review, the best papers will be published in a PDF format online, most likely through Oxford University's Research Archive (though presenters will retain the copyright and are free to publish in print at their discretion).

Benefits of the Conference

The conference is supported by a grant from Oxford University's Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. In keeping with this funding, our purpose is to enable advanced students from Oxford and other universities to engage in high-level discussion of a significant theological topic from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

We expect the conference will facilitate the experience of proposing and presenting successful conference papers and preparing them for professional peer review. At the same time, it should offer peer-to-peer encouragement and learning, especially for younger doctoral students.

A number of senior scholars in Oxford will be invited to attend sessions relevant to their expertise, and will be available for informal exchange and conversation.

Location

The conference will be held in central Oxford, and we expect to accommodate out of town guests in nearby en-suite college rooms. Visitors are welcome to inquire about the possibility of additional accommodation before or after the conference at their own expense.

How to Apply

Interested applicants are invited to submit a title and short abstract (no more than 200 words) along with their name, institutional affiliation, degree and year of study to OxfordTheologyConference@gmail.com, to be received no later than 15 May. Successful proposers will be notified by 25 May, and prepared papers of up to 5,000 words will then be due on 31 August in time for advance circulation to all participants.

The conference organizers have a small budget which should cover full room and board for all presenters and the reimbursement of reasonable travel expenses up to £75.

Informal inquiries may be addressed in the first instance to Simon Cuff (Simon.Cuff@keble.ox.ac.uk) or Jenn Strawbridge (Jennifer.Strawbridge@keble.ox.ac.uk), two Oxford-based postgraduates in theology who are helping to organize the conference.

Prof. M. Bockmuehl
Faculty of Theology
University of Oxford
April 2010

University of Cambridge Faculty of Divinity Academic Conference

2010-05-04T12:16:00.000+01:00

The City in the Hebrew Bible
6th - 8th April 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

City life and urbanism serve ambivalent roles in the Hebrew Bible. The city is a place of refuge, of defence, a sign of prosperity, while also being the archetype of the strong enemy or the place to escape from for seclusion and meditation. Cities are both the cause and the location of conflict and violence, yet the Hebrew Bible from Genesis on portrays the move from nomadic lifestyle to sedentary, mainly city, dwelling in primarily positive terms.

The conference will be held in the Faculty of Divinity with accommodation in a nearby college. It is primarily aimed at scholars of the Hebrew Bible and related areas, but is open to academics from all disciplines. It aims to explore the role of the city and the urban experience in biblical texts, including the symbolism of cities (not merely Jerusalem), their metaphorical portrayal, expressions of urban experience, the contrast between city and rural life, and the way urbanism has shaped and informed biblical thought and narrative.

The conference organisers, Dr Jim Aitken and Dr Hilary Marlow, invite papers that examine any aspect of cities in the Hebrew Bible, including, but not restricted to, those outlined above. We are interested in exploring a variety of biblical texts and hope to include papers that adopt a wide range of approaches to the Hebrew Bible, including historical, literary, archaeological and ideological studies.

It is anticipated that the allocated time for each paper will be 30 minutes, with additional time for questions/discussion. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send a title and abstract (300 words max) to Dr Hilary Marlow at hm309@cam.ac.uk before 30th September 2010. Graduate students nearing the end of their PhD programme are welcome to submit a proposal but should include confirmation of the support of their PhD supervisor and his/her contact details.

Details of accommodation at Selwyn College and a booking form will be available in due course from the conference organisers and on the Faculty of Divinity website ( www.divinity.cam.ac.uk). For further enquiries please contact either of the organisers on hm309@cam.ac.uk or jka12@cam.ac.uk. It is hoped that selected papers from the conference will be published in a volume edited by Dr Aitken and Dr Marlow.

Call for papers PREACHING THE GOSPEL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

2010-04-28T14:52:00.000+01:00

In association with Winchester Cathedral
University of Winchester, Saturday June 19th 2010, 9.15am-5.15pm

Bringing together people with a passion for preaching.

Hosted by the Institute for Theological
Partnerships, with Winchester Cathedral, this day
conference incorporates speakers from a variety
of traditions discussing the role and place of preaching.

Keynote Speaker: Professor Morna Hooker, University of Cambridge

We invite proposals for 20 minute papers in
relation to preaching which broadly address any of the following themes:
• Preaching and Scripture
• Preaching and politics
• Preaching and liturgy
• Preaching in the history of the church
• The theology of preaching
• Preaching and Christian formation

Proposals in the form of a title, a short
abstract (300 words max), and a brief
biographical statement including any
affiliations, should be sent by Friday 14th May
2010 to Angus.Paddison@winchester.ac.uk

It is hoped that papers will be published.

Cost of event: £45 including tea, coffee, and 2 course buffet lunch
For a booking form please contact:
Angus.Paddison@winchester.ac.uk or 01962 827020.

Please note a conference poster is available for
download on the BNTC google groups file page

Symposium: Life and Death in Judaism and Islam

2010-04-22T16:29:00.000+01:00

26th May 2010, St Edmund's College, Cambridge
Organised by the Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations (CMJR) and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies (CIS)

This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together religious leaders, medical doctors, hospital chaplains and academics to discuss Jewish and Muslim perceptions of the processes of dying, death, and bereavement. These are fundamental principles by which lives in this world are experienced and organised. Religious ideas about death infuse and instruct the most mundane details of social and cultural behaviour. Thus, the symposium aims to debate not only religious principles, but how they inform actual attitudes and behaviours. It further explores in which ways Muslim and Jewish communities support and bring solace to individuals and families when facing loss and grief and the practicalities involved when Jewish and Muslim families have to cope with dying, death, bereavement and grief in contexts in which they are religious minorities. The seminar explores Jewish and Muslim understandings of death in its broadest sense. Papers will discuss (but will not be limited to) the following areas:

Ethical considerations about what causes death, what constitutes the moment of death
Jewish and Muslim approaches to Brain Death criteria, Euthanasia, Autopsy and Cremation
Jewish and Muslim approaches to different types of death, neonatal death, abortion, suicide, homicide, martyrdom, etc.
Ritual practises related to death, burial, funerary rituals and annual rites for commemorating the dead
Jewish and Islamic understandings of mourning
Conceptualisations of hell and paradise in Judaism and Islam
Theological constructs of time, life and death

Overall, the conference seeks to understand how in Judaism and Islam ideas attached to death generate meanings for the living and the how this is experienced and put into practice by Jews and Muslims in Britain today.

For more information, visit: http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/cmjr/news-and-events/index.php.

Annual Semitic Philology Lecture

2010-04-21T15:14:00.000+01:00

The Contribution of the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Study of Hebrew and Aramaic

Professor Steven Fassberg
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

5.00pm, Wednesday, 19th May, 2010
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site), Room 8-9

Colloquium: John's Gospel and Intimations of Apocalyptic

2010-04-12T12:26:00.000+01:00

Bangor University, 20-22 July 2010

Although John's Gospel has traditionally been regarded as the least apocalyptic document in the New Testament, this colloquium will explore ways in which the apocalyptic traditions of Judaism have contributed to the Gospel's outlook and to some of its most distinctive motifs. The colloquium will bring together scholars working in the fields of Jewish apocalyptic and Johannine studies to engage in the first extended discussion of the relationship between John's Gospel and Jewish apocalyptic thought.

Speakers:
John Ashton, Ian Boxall, April DeConick, Jörg Frey, Robin Griffith-Jones, Robert G. Hall, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Judith Lieu, Benjamin Reynolds, Christopher Rowland, Loren Stuckenbruck, Catrin Williams.

By examining how John appropriates some of the patterns and beliefs current in Jewish apocalyptic, this colloquium promises to make a significant contribution to the discussion of the Fourth Gospel's origins, its emergence from Judaism, and the distinctiveness of its theology.

Please contact Hazel Thompson for further information.

Closing date for registration is 10 May (as the number of places will be limited, early registration is essential).

Beyond Individualism: Applying A New Sexual Ethic

2010-04-09T10:59:00.002+01:00

10am - 4pm Saturday 15thMay 2010
Eden Baptist Church, Cambridge
Jointly organised by the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics and the Jubilee Centre.

With keynote speaker Rev Dr Dale Kuehne, author of
Sex and the iWorld: Rethinking relationship beyond an age of individualism
Others speakers:
Dr Jonathan Burnside (Reader in Biblical Law, Bristol University)
Dr Guy Brandon (Author of Just Sex: Is it ever just sex?)
Rachel Gardner (Creative Director, Romance Academy)
Rev Dr David Instone-Brewer (Senior Research Fellow, Tyndale House)
Dr Jenny Taylor (Executive Director, Lapido Media)

Pre-Conference Supper 7-10pm Friday 14th May 2010 Tyndale House, Cambridge

Includes after supper speech by pastor Dale Kuehne on his role as Director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics

Download a flyer and booking form here.

Workshop - Religion and Identity in the Ancient World - 22-23 April, Durham

2010-03-29T17:22:00.000+01:00

Interdisciplinary workshop, "Religion and Identity in the Ancient World".
Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University on 22nd and 23rd April.

The workshop is being organised under the auspices of Durham's Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East (CAMNE), and the programme includes p/g students of Archaeology and Classics as well as Biblical Studies.

For more information, including links to the full programme and a list of speakers' abstracts, please visit: http://www.dur.ac.uk/mediterranean.centre/events/?eventno=7341

All are welcome and there is no registration fee. However, space is limited, so to help us with planning, we'd be very grateful if you would register your interest in advance. To do so, please contact Ed Kaneen by email: e.n.kaneen{At]dur.ac.uk

Many thanks,

Ed Kaneen, Peter Alpass, Donald Murray.
(Workshop Organisers)
___________________

Thursday 22nd April

Saskia Peels (Universiteit Utrecht): Being hosios participating in hosia

Kimberley Slack (University of Manchester): 'Entering the Aeon' or 'Raised with Christ'?: Language and Terminology as an Identity Marker in the Gospel of Philip

Ben Johnson (Durham University): Mistaken Identity: Metaphorical Ambiguity in the Story of the Vineyard (Isa. 5:1-7, 27:2-6 and the Parable of the Wicked Tenants)

Jenn Strawbridge (University of Oxford): Nomina Sacra and Pedagogy

Gwen Jennes (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): Creating Identities in Graeco- Roman Egypt: Theophoric Names

Ed Kaneen (Durham University): Slavery, Story, and the Shaping of Identity: The Exodus and the Expression of Identity in the Debt- Slavery Legislation of Ancient Israel

Kevin Tyson (Durham University): Identifying the David-Jonathan Relationship

Allen Jones (University of St Andrews): A Refugee By Any Other Name Can Still Go Home?: A Social Scientific Look at Ancient Judah's Exile, Return, and Ensuing Search for Identity

Hannah Pethen (Museum of London Archaeology / University of Liverpool): Personal Religion, Identity and the Mythology of Mineral Extraction at Gebel el-Asr, Lower Nubia

Youssri Abdelwahed (Durham University): Architecture, Space, Rituals, and Egyptian Religious Identity in the Roman Period

Friday 23rd April

Lieve Donnellan (Universiteit Gent): Apollo Mediating Identity Between Naxos, Leontini and Katane

Ben Edsall (University of Oxford): The Rhetoric Of Polity: Jewish And Pauline Community Formation

Donald Murray (Durham University): Ahuramazda, God of the Aryans: Towards
an Understanding of a Persian Religious Identity

Francesca Mazzilli (Durham University): Beyond Religion: a Light on Cultural Identities of Hauran

Cristina Acqua (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster/Università Ca'
Foscari di Venezia): Emperors and Gods in Provincia Arabia

Duncan MacRae (Harvard University): The Secret Name of Rome: Ritual, Antiquarianism and Roman Religious Identity

Stephen Louy (University of Edinburgh): A Persecuted People: Persecution as Part of Christian Identity in the First Century

Eline Scheerlinck (Universiteit Gent): Orientalising Rome? The Influence of the 'Eastern religions' on Imperial Roman Identity

This workshop is generously supported by the Durham University Graduate School, the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East, and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies.

Call for Papers, Acts Seminar

2010-03-18T18:51:00.000Z

Call for papers for the Book of Acts seminar group at
this year's British New Testament Conference.

The conference takes
place at Bangor University, 2 to 4 September 2010. Details at
http://www.bnts.org.uk

This seminar aims to be a forum for considering Acts from various
angles:
historical, literary, textual-critical, theological, archaeological,
the social world, possible links/parallels with other ancient
writings, and so on. We are very happy to include discussion of
topics which relate Acts to the wider contexts of Luke-Acts and the
Pauline corpus, where they are relevant and helpful to the study of
Acts. Papers are welcome from both research students and more
established scholars.

If you (or someone you know) is interested in offering a paper,
please make contact with me as soon as possible (ideally by the end
of April, and by the end of May at the latest), so that I can make
plans. It would be helpful to have a working title and brief sketch
of the topic(s) which the paper would cover. Papers could be longer,
requiring a whole seminar session for discussion (90 minutes) or
shorter, filling half a session (45 minutes). Responses by post, fax
or email are all fine, although email is preferred.

Our practice in the Acts seminar is that papers are available on the
British New Testament Society web site a few weeks before the
conference, so that seminar members can read them in advance. We then
ask the paper's author to give a 10-15 minute summary before we
discuss the paper. This approach maximises discussion time, which is
a major reason we meet together.

Please pass the word around about the Acts seminar, and encourage
others who may wish to offer a paper to contact me soon. Do forward
this email to others who may be interested. A copy of this notice is
attached in PDF format ; please will you display it on your
departmental/college notice boards?

If you have any questions about the seminar, please do get in touch
with me.

With warm regards

Steve
--
Dr Steve Walton <s.walton[AT>lst.ac.uk>
Senior Lecturer in Greek and New Testament Studies, and Director of
Research
London School of Theology, Green Lane, Northwood, Middlesex, HA6 2UW

Religion and Identity in the Ancient World: Call for papers

2010-03-04T14:39:00.003Z

Postgraduate Workshop on Religion and Identity in the Ancient World
22nd-23rd April 2010
Durham University Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East.

This workshop will explore the extent to which religion influenced identity in the ancient world with the aim of stimulating interdisciplinary discussion of the issue.

We are inviting contributions from theologians, classicists and archaeologists, and indeed anyone else with an interest in religion and identity in the ancient world.

The construction of an identity is influenced by many factors: linguistic, cultural, geographical, political and historical, amongst others. In todays world, religion is a defining factor in the identities of millions. Even in self-consciously secular societies, the remnants of religious influence can still be seen in political and architectural landscapes. From towering cathedrals and mosques to the horse and cart of the Amish, there are many ways in which religion can influence identity. The same diversity is also found throughout the ancient world.

Heads of state from the Egyptian Pharaoh to the Roman Emperor were not merely political figures, but also occupied pivotal roles in state religions, and were therefore fundamental in the religious identities of their subjects. However, such figures existed alongside much more
personal and local beliefs which had an equally powerful influence on the religious identities of individuals. The story of Israel on the other hand, while equally varied, is of a nation whose 'head of state' is not an earthly figure, but God himself. Differently again, early Christianity quickly cut across social, ethnic and political boundaries by offering a new identity through relationship with Jesus Christ.

If you would like to present a paper, please submit a short abstract of ca. 150 words detailing your topic to p.j.alpass@dur.ac.uk by Monday 8th March. Contributors will be invited to include their papers in an electronic volume of the workshop proceedings. There are some grants available towards the cost of transport, and accommodation is provided for those coming from UK institutions.

THE ORGANISERS
Peter Alpass, Ed Kaneen and Donald Murray
http://www.dur.ac.uk/mediterranean.centre/

Bible and Church 2010

2010-02-12T10:05:00.001Z

The Authentic Gospels: More Evidence Old and New

June 12, 2010, 10.30 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
Venue: St Helen's Bishopsgate
Price: £5, unwaged £2.50

Speakers
Dr Peter J. Williams
Dr Dirk Jongkind
Dr Simon Gathercole

Following on from the first Bible and Church Conference in London in 2009, the same three scholars unite together again to seek to confront head on the big questions about the reliability of the records about Jesus. These day conferences are aimed at equipping ordinary Christians to understand the historical basis of the Christian faith and to share it with confidence.

Talk 1: Evidence of eyewitnesses: Whose testimony can we trust?: Peter J. Williams
Talk 2: Evidence of manuscripts: The four gospels and the other gospels compared: Dirk Jongkind
Talk 3: Evidence of history: Who has the true message of Jesus?: Simon Gathercole

In Bible and Church 2010 attendees will not only be presented with classic evidence for the faith, but also with previously unheard arguments for the reliability of the canonical gospels.

For information on the program and venue, and bios of the speakers, please take a look at the website at www.BibleandChurch.com

Invention, rewriting, usurpation: Discursive fights over religious traditions in antiquity : International conference 31 May - 4 June 2010

2010-01-07T14:34:00.000Z

How did ancient religious texts and traditions attain status as normative and canonic? Which ideological and rhetorical strategies were used in the struggle for normative status of specific texts and traditions? The conference will explore these questions under the following five headings:

Reuse, Rewriting and Usurpation of Biblical and Classical Texts
Invention and Maintenance of Religious Traditions: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
Orthodoxy and Heresy
Formation of the Biblical Canon
Canons, Classics and Foundation Texts in Antiquity: A Comparative Perspective

Organiser: Centre for the Study of Antiquity and Christianity, Faculty of Theology, Aarhus University

PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (pdf).

DEADLINES

1 February 2010: Paper proposals
1 April 2010: Registration

God and Darwinian Evolution: a day conference in Oxford

2009-09-11T12:15:00.000+01:00

Has Darwin 'killed' God?
Is Christian belief compatible with Darwinian evolution or not?
How do science and faith relate to each other?

November 2009 sees the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's hugely influential
book On The Origin of Species. Since its publication Christians have differed regarding
whether and how Darwinian evolution is compatible with Christian faith. This day conference
brings together Christians who understand the scientific, biblical and theological issues
to guide us through the tangled web of opinions.

Speakers include:
Denis Alexander
Ruth Bancewicz
Ernest Lucas
Stephen Lloyd
John Bimson
Jeremy Blakey

TOPICS INCLUDE:
Evolutionary Creationism
Creation and the Story-line of the Bible
Is Darwinian evolution compatible with Genesis 13?
Is Darwinian evolution compatible with Christian teaching about The Fall and sin?
A Beginner's Guide to the Creation-Evolution Debate

There will also be the chance to see one part of the new, award-winning Test of Faith documentary.
DATE: 13th Nov 2009
TIME: 9:50AM to 4:20PM

LOCATION:
The King's Conference Centre,
Osney Mead,
Oxford,
OX2 0ES

COST: £15 (£10 student concession). The cost includes the conference fee, refreshments and a copy of Think God, Think Science by Ernest Lucas and Michael Pfundner (RRP £9.99).

To book simply click this link and join the debate
http://www.kbctc.org/darwin

Tyndale Fellowship Trienniel Conference

2009-07-09T14:26:00.007+01:00

July 6-9 2009

Tyndale House, Cambridge

Details and Booking form

Bible and Church: Day Conference, London, June 20th 2009

2009-06-20T14:00:00.000+01:00

Bible and Church day conference
20 June 2009 at Westminster Chapel, London.

The conference will bring together experts who care about the Bible and the Church. The purpose of the day is to train Christians in how to respond to the many objections to the gospels which are being made in the contemporary media and in our society.

10:30 - 11:35 Dr Peter (P.J.) Williams - Have we got the history right?

12:00 – 1:05 Dr Dirk Jongkind - Have we got the text right?

2:15 – 3:20 Dr Simon Gathercole - Have we got Jesus right?

3:45 – 4:45 Your Turn!

Equipping Christians to respond when asked about the historical basis of the faith.

More details at www.BibleAndChurch.com

Greek Bible in Byzantine Judaism Conference, Cambridge 25 May, 2009

2009-05-15T14:47:00.000+01:00

Members of the AHRC Greek Bible in Byzantine Judaism Project invite you to the launch of their XML-based online digital edition, 25 May, 2009, at the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge. The programme for the day is:

10:0010:30     Coffee will be served in the faculty lounge

10:3011:00      Nicholas de Lange, Cameron Boyd-Taylor and Julia Krivoruchko (Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge), Introducing the GBBJ digital edition

11:0011:30      Harold Short and Eleonora Durban Litta Modignani Picozzi (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, London), GBBJ and XML

11:3012:00      A hands-on introduction to the GBBJ digital edition (conference participants are encouraged to bring their laps-tops if possible).

12:0012:30      Questions, feedback and discussion.

12:3014:00      Break

14:0014:30      Mariachiara Fincati (Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Florence), The medieval restoration of codex F (Ambrosianus A 147 inf.).

14:3015:00      Reinhart Ceulemans (Centre for Septuagint Studies and Textual Criticism Institute for Early Christian and Byzantine Studies, K. U. Leuven), The Greek Bible in Byzantine Christianity. Towards a systematic approach.

15:0015:30      Andrew Berns (University of Pennsylvania), The Greek Bible in Italian Jewish Culture of the Late Renaissance: the case of David de' Pomis and Moses Provenzali.

15:3016:00      Alison Salvesen (Oriental Institute, Oxford University), The Hexapla: 'Not Jewish enough'?

16:0016:10      Nicholas de Lange, Closing words

At 17:00 Jan Joosten, Professor of Old Testament in the Protestant Theology Faculty,
University of Strasbourg, will deliver the Jeremie Septuagint Lecture 2009 on the subject The Aramaic background of the Seventy: Language, culture and history, in the Runcie Room, followed by a reception.

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'The Bible and recent discoveries' day conference, 25/4/2009

2009-04-25T23:20:00.000+01:00

On Saturday 25 April, Dr Martin Heide from the University of Munich will be speaking at a day conference (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) entitled 'The Bible and recent discoveries', held in Tyndale House, Cambridge.

This will be aimed at lay people and will consider some of the most significant discoveries of recent decades.

Dr Heide has extensive experience reading ancient inscriptions from the time of the Old Testament and in communicating these discoveries to lay audiences.

Cost £15; concessions £10; lunch provided. Places limited to 60. For further details or to book contact Mrs Kathryn Williams, k.j.williams@cantab.net.

Lost in Translation (LXX), 1-day conference, June 24, London

2009-04-24T10:42:00.000+01:00

LOST IN TRANSLATION: STUDIES OF THE SEPTUAGINT
AND BEYOND IN HONOUR OF JENNY DINES
A One Day Conference Heythrop College, University of London

All papers will take place in the Walker Room, 2nd Floor, Main Building

Wednesday 24th of June 2009

9:30-10:10: Registration and Tea/Coffee (Walker Room)

The morning papers will be chaired by Dr Ann Jeffers, Heythrop College.

10:10: Introduction

10:10-10:50: Sarah Pearce, University of Southampton.
"Philo's 'Family Values'".

10:50-11:30: Charlotte Hempel, University of Birmingham.
The Qumran Yahad in Recent Scholarship.

11:30-12:20: Tessa Rajak, University of Reading.
'Ancestral Laws:
What Josephus Made of the Greek Bible.'

12:20-1:00: Deborah Rooke, King's College, London
'Susanna in Handel's Oratorio'.

Lunch provided (Walker Room)

The afternoon papers will be chaired by Dr Bridget Gilfillan Upton

1:50-2:30: Jim Aitken, CJCR, Cambridge
'The Septuagint and "Alexandrian" scholarship'.

2:30-3:10: Gillian Greenberg, University College London
'Literary Initiative in the Peshitta'.

3:10-3:50: Sean Ryan, Heythrop College.
'Dislocated
Locusts: Re-visions of Joel & Amos in
Revelation 9'

3:50-4:30: Jonathan Norton, Heythrop College.
'Psuche,
Pneuma, and Paul's Rhetorical Surprise'.

4:30 Tea and departure

HEYTHROP COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Heythrop College, University of London.

Wednesday 24th June 2009 between 9.30am - 5.00pm
Conference fee: £15 (lunch will be provided)
Cheques should be made payable to 'Heythrop College'

I would like to attend the Conference and enclose
a cheque for £15 for the entrance fee:

Name ______________________________________________________________

Address ______________________________________________________________

Telephone ________________________ Mobile
_______________________________

Email ______________________________________________________________

Please return this form together with payment by 1st of June 2009 to:

Ms Mariann Jakab Heythrop College
University of London Kensington Square
London W8 5HQ m.jakab {AT} heythrop.ac.uk
020 7795 4201
You will receive confirmation of your successful booking via email.

Responding to Secularism: Christian Witness in a Dogmatic Public Culture

2009-04-23T15:13:00.000+01:00

You are invited to register for:
Responding to Secularism: Christian Witness in a Dogmatic Public Culture
Friday April 24 2009, 10.00 - 5.00 Tyndale House

Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics (KLICE) and the Gospel and Our Culture Network are hosting a conference on how Christians should understand and respond to a secularist public culture. The speakers are:

Professor John G Stackhouse, Jr (Regent College, Vancouver)
Rev J Andrew Kirk (formely University of Birmingham)
Dr Elaine Storkey (Tearfund/Church Army)
Dr Dominic Erdozain (King's College, London).

For further details and a booking form, contact Tania Raiola (administrator@tyndale.cam.ac.uk), or visit the KLICE website: http://www.klice.co.uk/.

Jonathan Chaplin
KLICE Director

British NT Conference, 3rd 5th September 2009

2009-04-15T17:00:00.000+01:00

BRITISH NEW TESTAMENT CONFERENCE
3rd 5th September 2009

The University of Aberdeen looks forward to
welcoming delegates to the 28th Conference of the
British New Testament Society. Details of the conference can be
accessed from the Society's website
(www.bnts.org.uk), and will be updated as more
information becomes available (including a conference programme and some travel
options).

The plenary speakers are:
(1) Dr Helen Bond, University of Edinburgh
(2) Prof David Parker, University of Birmingham
(3) Dr Todd Klutz, University of Manchester

Registrations for this conference can be made
online at www.abdnpayments.co.uk/store. Select
'Divinity & Religious Studies' from the left
menu, and navigate to the BNTC conference.
Delegates will be invited to enter their name and
contact details, their preferred conference
package (Full board; non-residential); their seminar option; their research
interests; and any special requirements. Payment is made securely online.

Full Board £180 or £150 if received before 5 June 2009
Non-resident (including lunch, dinner) £100
or £85 if received before 5 June 2009
Reservations and payments to be made at the secure 'online' site:
www.abdnpayments.co.uk/store

Final date to receive bookings: 2nd August 2009
Additional donation (voluntary): Delegates may
also make a donation to the Society's Travel Fund
for nonsalaried individuals, by sending a cheque
made payable to the British New Testament Society
to the conference address below.

The University campus is about 1.5 miles from the
city centre and its railway station, and about 20
minutes from the airport. Look out for the
limited number of £19 advance ticket prices for a
berth on the sleeper rail service from London
Euston. Aberdeen is also served by daily flights
from 20 british airports as well as a number of
other european airports (www.aberdeenairport.co.uk).

Conference contact details:
Email: bntc@abdn.ac.uk
Post: BNTC, Divinity & Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen,
ABERDEEN,
AB24 3UB

Symposium: Greek: A Language in Evolution, St Andrews

2009-03-25T12:53:00.000Z

Greek: A Language in Evolution:
An International Symposium in Honor of Antonios N. Jannaris
14-17 June 2009, New Hall, St Andrews University, Scotland

Organized by Chrys C. Caragounis

The Year 2009 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the premature death of Antonios N. Jannaris. He was then 56 years of age. By that time he had produced at least eighteen books and over thirty other studies in Greek, English, German and French. His Greek-English, and German-Greek Dictionaries were the best in existence in those days. But from the standpoint of Greek scholarship, his abiding contribution was his unique Historical Greek Grammar, a project that has never again been attempted by anyone. This book, after 112 years since its original publication, continues to be published (by G. Olms, Hildesheim) and serve the needs of the historical researcher of the Hellenic language.

His tragic death (of heart attack) occurred on the 26th April 1909 aboard the vessel Majestic of the White Star Company on his way from Southampton to New York. The Atlantic Ocean became his grave.

Fifteen international Scholars, experts in the various periods of the Greek Language, are coming to St Andrews, the place where Jannaris taught, to pay their tribute to Antonios Jannaris and, following in his steps, to take research further by their original contributions

Details at: http://www.lsn.se/2509/Announcements.htm

Legacy of Christian Scholarship Conference, July 16-18, 2009, Kansas City

2009-03-06T11:54:00.000Z

You are invited to: The True Significance in the Academy: The Legacy of Christian Scholarship Conference, July 16-18, 2009

The International Institute for Christian Studies Vision conference is an academic gathering with serious intellectual discourse in a worshipful environment that nourishes both hearts and minds. This conference will explore what we as Christian academicians and professional should pass on to future generations. Join us for this three days of stimulating discussions, challenging speakers, and fantastic Christian fellowship.

You are invited to submit a 300-word abstract for a paper to be presented at the True Significance in the Academy: The Legacy of Christian Scholarship conference. This interdisciplinary conference is sponsored by the International Institute for Christian Studies and Christian Studies International of Canada. Walter Kaiser, Elaine Storkey and Dean Trulear will be the plenary speakers. Papers will be presented on the theme of the long-term impact of Christian scholarship on the academy. Papers should address issues such as: What difference does research and teaching make over time? What legacy should Christian scholars leave for the next generation? In a world of immediacy and relevance, why is research and scholarship critically important both to the Church and the larger world?
The conference will include the following tracks: 1) the legacy (impact and influence) of Christian scholarship; 2) understanding how Christian scholarship leaves a legacy through communicating and/or applying a Christian worldview, 3) the legacy and impact of a Christian worldview in/on specific disciplines and 4) conversion narratives of academicians who came to belief in Christ through a Christian scholar (i.e., a benefactor of a legacy). Engagement of the conference theme is welcome from either a disciplinary or an interdisciplinary perspective.
For details on the conference, please see the attached document or visit us online at http://www.iics.com/conference.html. Sign up before May 29^th, 2009 and receive 10% off the registration fee. We look forward to seeing you in July!

Dr. Daryl McCarthy
President, International Institute for Christian Studies
Mobile: 913-980-4427 Office 913-962-4422 Website: www.iics.com

Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls and Biblical Interpretation Conference, April, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary

2009-02-12T12:47:00.001Z

Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls and Biblical Interpretation Conference

April 23-24, 2009, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary

2095 Appling Road, Cordova, TN 38088, (901)-751-8453

On April 23-24, 2009 MABTS will host a conference on �Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls.� This conference will include world class archaeologists, authors, and researchers as well as Old and New Testament scholars. The speakers will include Kirk Kilpatrick, Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew, Dean of the Masters and Associates Program, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary; Stephen Ortiz, Associate Professor of Archaeology and Biblical Backgrounds and Director of the Charles C. Tandy Archaeology Museum, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; Lawrence H. Schiffman, renowned author and the Ethel and Irvin A. Edelman Professor in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University; Michael R. Spradlin, President, Chairman and Professor of Evangelism; Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew,

Practical Theology, and Church History, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary; Emanuel Tov, renowned author, Department of the Bible, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; James Clair Vanderkam, renowned author; and John A. O�Brien Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame; and Steven L. Cox, Professor of the New Testament and Greek, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary.

The registration cost is $25 for students, $30.00 for alumni, and $50 for others. Registration includes snacks and a banquet meal. Meal selections will be either beef, chicken or kosher. The conference and banquet will be held on the MABTS campus. On April 23, the conference runs from 2:00 p.m. through 9:30 p.m. (the banquet will be from 5:45 through 6:45 p.m.) and on April 24, the conference runs from 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. We have blocked rooms at the following hotels:

Wingate Inn Hampton Inn & Suites

2270 North Germantown Parkway 2935 N. Germantown Road

Memphis, TN 38016 Bartlett, TN 38133-4001

901-386-1110 901-382-2050

Total= 80 rooms Total= 25 rooms

$92.99 $119.00

Fairfield Inn & Suites Hyatt Place

6010 Macon Cove 7905 Giacosa Place

Memphis, TN 38134 Memphis, TN 38133

901-384-0010 901-371-0010 ext. 5103

Total= 30 rooms $119.00

$89.95

DVDs of this conference will be available for $39.95. For more information please view upcoming announcements on the MABTS website http://www.mabts.edu/ if you would like to register online. If you have call any questions please call Dr. Steven Cox at 901-751-3020 or email Dr. Cox at scox@mabts.edu.

Book of Acts seminar at BNTC, 3-5 Sep'09 Call for papers

2009-01-28T11:57:00.000Z

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Book of Acts seminar at the British New Testament Conference
University of Aberdeen, 3-5 September 2009

This seminar aims to be a forum for considering Acts from various angles:
historical, literary, textual-critical, theological, archaeological,
the social world, possible links/parallels with other biblical and
ancient writings, and so on. We are very happy to include discussion
of topics which relate Acts to the wider contexts of Luke-Acts and
the Pauline corpus, where they are relevant and helpful to the study
of Acts. Papers are welcome from both research students and more
established scholars.

If you (or someone you know) is interested in offering a paper,
please make contact with me as soon as possible (ideally by the end
of April, and by the end of May at the latest), so that we can make
plans. It would be helpful to have a working title and brief sketch
of the topic(s) which the paper would cover. Papers could be longer,
requiring a whole seminar session for discussion (90 minutes) or
shorter, filling half a session (45 minutes). Responses by post, fax
or email are all fine, although email is preferred.

If you have any questions about the seminar, please do get in touch with me.
Steve Walton <s.walton[AT}LST.ac.uk>

New Testament and Ethics Study Groups of the Tyndale Fellowship Triennial Conference July 6-11 2009

2008-12-19T16:22:00.000Z

This year we hope to be studying Aspects of New Testament ethics in our group sessions. As part of our programme we look forward to have Dr Richard Burridge with us and speaking about his new book Imitating Jesus An Inclusive Approach to New Testament Ethics; there will be responses by Drs John Nolland and Michael Thompson.

We will welcome offers of other papers/half papers on other aspects of NT ethics. Also if you have ideas of speakers who might be able to come or of topics that should be covered (eg grace and law, honouring the emperor, etc.!), do let us know, though we are unlikely to be able to accept all offers.

Please feel warmly invited to the conference, and do tell research students and others who might like to come. For details of the arrangements see the Tyndale House website.

David Wenham Jonathan Chaplin

Conference: Hymns and Narrative in Antiquity. University of Wales Lampeter, 9-10 May 2009

2008-11-28T19:17:00.000Z

Call for papers:

The Dept of Classics at UWL is organising a conference (on May 9/10)
on the subject of Hymns in/as Narratives, Narratives in Hymns, etc. in
Greek (and perhaps also Latin) from the archaic and classical periods
of Greece until Late Antiquity/early Christianity, with speakers from
classics, theology and late antiquity backgrounds; the aim is to
produce a volume on the genre of hymns (and hymnic texts, texts
containing hymns etc.) across this time period and across the 'pagan'
- Christian traditions, focussing in particular on the way they are
used as/for narrative(s).

So far we have Profs Nicholas Richardson and Ewen Bowie of Oxford and
Prof Bill Furley of Heidelberg, among others, on the classics side,
covering literary hymns from the Homeric through Hellenistic to
Imperial periods, and including some hymns preserved on papyri and
epigraphically as well as the mainstream literary ones; on the
theology side so far, Paul Middleton from Lampeter who is going to
speak on hymnic elements in the book of Revelation. We are still
looking for one or two more contributors on early Christian / late
antique hymns—ideally we want at least one contribution on a/some hymn
(s) which are stand-alone rather than embedded in a larger text, and/
or on verse hymns, to make fruitful comparisons and discussion of the
development of the classical hymn genre by later and Christian authors
(if there are such texts, however preserved/transmitted). If anyone
would be interested in contributing to this conference and the
projected volume to follow, please get in touch with
o.hodkinson{AT]lamp.ac.uk (and please pass on this announcement to anyone
you think might be interested beyond this mailing list).

BNTS Forwarded on behalf of Steve Moyise

2008-09-18T14:51:00.000+01:00

The Annual Seminar for the Study of the Old Testament in the New Testament
will take place at St Deiniol's Library, North
Wales, from Fri-Sun April 3-5th 2009.

Offers of full papers (45 mins) and short papers (30mins) are welcome.
Please send title and brief abstract to Steve
Moyise (s.moyise ((AT)) chi.ac.uk).
The cost of the conference will be approximately £115 full board.

Prof Steve Moyise
University of Chichester

Tyndale Lectures, July 7-11, Cambridge

2008-07-09T15:00:00.000+01:00

Tyndale Lectures 2008.

Tuesday 8 July 5.00pm Tyndale New Testament Lecture
Dr Michael Bird: �New Testament Theology Re-loaded�

Tuesday 8 July 8.00 pm Tyndale Christian Doctrine Lecture
Dr David Rainey: �The Established Church and Evangelical Theology: John Wesley�s Ecclesiology�

Wednesday 9 July 5.00pm Biblical Archaeology Lecture
Dr Alan Millard: �Interpretation and Misinterpretation: Can Archaeology be decisive?'

Wednesday 9 July 8.00 pm Tyndale Biblical Theology Lecture
Dr Keith Hacking: �The Journey Theme and New Testament Spirituality: A Biblical and Contemporary Model�

Thursday 10July 11.30 am Tyndale Philosophy of Religion Lecture
Dr Patrick Richmond: �Religious Experience and Scientific Atheism�

Thursday 10 July 5.00 pm Tyndale EST Lecture
Dr Jonathan Chaplin: �The Bible, the State and Religious Diversity: Theological Foundations for �Principled Pluralism��

Thursday 10 July 8.00 pm Tyndale OT Lecture
Dr Doug Ingram: �Educating Readers: Qohelet as Teacher (with a sideways glance at Jesus)�

Lectures will be held at Tyndale House, 36 Selwyn Gardens, Cambridge, CB3 9BA

Tania Raiola
Administrator
The Tyndale Fellowship
36 Selwyn Gardens
Cambridge
CB3 9BA

Tel 01223 566602
Fax 01223 566608
http://www.tyndalehouse.com/

Greek Study Day, 15th Sep 2008, Cambridge

2008-06-04T12:37:00.000+01:00

7th Annual Greek Study Day, 15th September 2008
Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge

The Greek Study Day is aimed at those teaching New Testament Greek in
universities and colleges. It provides an opportunity to hear about
different methods and textbooks, to share experiences and to develop
new ideas and approaches for teaching. This year's programme is
presently being put together - if you would like to offer a session,
or to register your interest in receiving further information, please
contact:

Jane McLarty
Lucy Cavendish College
Cambridge CB3 0BU

NT Ethics Study Day, London 10 June 2008

2008-06-02T15:49:00.000+01:00

Imitating Jesus
Engaging Richard Burridge's Inclusive Approach to New Testament Ethics

New Testament Study Day

Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Council Room, Main Building, Strand

10.30am                       Welcome & Introduction: Dr Lutz Doering

10.45am                        Professor Christopher Rowland (Oxford)
'You have died to the law through the body of Christ': A Neglected Aspect of New Testament Theology and Ethics The Perspective of Reception History
Followed by an open discussion chaired by Dr Lutz Doering

12.00                            Sandwich Lunch

1.15pm                         Professor Werner Wolbert (University of Salzburg)
What Kind of 'Ethics' is New Testament Ethics?
Followed by an open discussion chaired by Professor Clemens Sedmak

2.30pm                         Coffee Break

3pm                             Short statements: L. Doering, S.Ticciati, C. Sedmak

3.30pm                         Panel discussion on R. Burridge, Imitating Jesus (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007) and questions from the plenum, chaired by Professor Clemens Sedmak
Panel Members: E. Adams, B. Quash, D. Rooke, C. Rowland,
W. Wolbert, and R. Burridge

4.30pm                          Concluding response: Rev Dr Richard Burridge

4.45pm                         Drinks Reception

5.30pm                          End

Please reply by Wednesday 4 June 2008
with a a cheque (made out to King's College London) for £14.00
Ariane Dreysse
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
King's College London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS

IICS Engaging Our World Conference, 17-19 July, Kansas

2008-05-06T10:21:00.001+01:00

IICS Engaging Our World Conference,
July 17-19, 2008, in Kansas City

You can find more information at http://www.iics.com/conference.html.

Understanding and Communicating a Christian Worldview

What is a Christian worldview? What are the components of a Christian worldview? What is the biblical or theological basis for a comprehensive Christian worldview? How does a Christian worldview differ from other approaches to reality? How can scholars help others outside the academic community develop a Christian worldview? How does a Christian worldview relate to the global mission of the Church? How did key Christian thinkers develop or articulate their worldview? How has dualism affected our ability to develop and live a full-orbed Christian worldview? What is the relationship between a Christian worldview and personal spiritual formation? How should a worldview shape a Christian's teaching?

Applying a Christian Worldview

How does a Christian worldview relate to specific issues in our world today such as immigration, justice, racial reconciliation, economic development, human trafficking, genetic research, slavery, pornography, chauvinism, racism, abuse of the environment, AIDS, disease research, poverty, war, abortion, corruption and other issues? What are ways in which the local church can more faithfully and rigorously apply a Christian worldview to its own life and to social and cultural issues?

The Role And Impact Of A Christian Worldview In Specific Disciplines

How should a Christian worldview relate to and influence particular disciplines? What scholars in particular fields have developed a robust Christian worldview in that discipline? We are interested in this discussion as it relates to all disciplines--the natural sciences, the social sciences, the humanities, law, education, business and the arts.

Scholars Who Came To Faith As Adults

If you came to faith during your academic career, you may choose to tell your story and then relate lessons you learned in your pilgrimage.

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Abstract Submission

To submit an abstract, please send:

1. A 300-word abstract of your paper describing the content and relationship to the theme of the conference. Please indicate which of the 4 categories listed above your submission falls under.

2. Your curriculum vita, including complete contact information.

Deadline for proposal submission: May 23, 2008

Submissions must be sent by email and acknowledgement will be made by email. Accepted presenters will be notified by email after May 23, 2008. The actual conference paper presentations will be 30 minutes followed by ten minutes for discussion. If accepted for presentation, presenters must submit an electronic copy of their full paper to IICS by July 17, 2008.

Presenters will be responsible for their travel, lodging and registration expenses. Thank you for your participation.

I look forward to seeing you there.

Dr. Daryl McCarthy
President, International Institute for Christian Studies

The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth, Nottingham 19-20 June 2008

2008-05-06T09:59:00.000+01:00

THE POPE AND JESUS OF NAZARETH

In the wake of Pope Benedict's recent publication, 'Jesus of
Nazareth', the Centre of Theology and Philosophy and the Department of
Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham are
holding a workshop on 'The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth' on 19th and
20th June 2008 in Nottingham. This event is being supported by the
British Academy.

Speakers include Professor John Milbank, Professor Markus Bockmuehl,
Professor emeritus Geza Vermes FBA, Archbishop Martínez, Fergus Kerr
OP, Professor Walter Moberly, Olivier-Thomas Venard OP and Dr James
Crossley.

Please follow the link…

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/BNTS/files
to the discussion board for the poster, full programme and booking
form.

Dr Angus Paddison, Research Fellow
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD
www.nottingham.ac.uk/theology/

Conference: 'The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth' 19-20 June 2008, Nottingham

2008-03-31T14:40:00.001+01:00

The Centre of Theology and Philosophy and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham are organising a conference on 'The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth' on 19th and 20th June 2008 in Nottingham.

The publication of the book Jesus of Nazareth on 16 April 2007 was an unprecedented event: never before had a reigning Pope published personal reflections on Jesus. The book engages not just with New Testament scholarship but also with fundamental methodological questions related to historical criticism. Moreover, it resonates with wider questions of scriptural reading, Christology, ecclesiology and relations with Judaism and Islam. This conference is the first extended theological discussion in the UK on Joseph Ratzinger's book.

Among the confirmed speakers, there will be Professor John Milbank, Professor Markus Bockmuehl, Professor emeritus Geza Vermes, Archbishop Martínez, Fergus Kerr OP, Professor Walter Moberly, Olivier-Thomas Venard OP and Professor Mona Siddiqui.

We are inviting research students to submit proposals for short papers. We are particularly looking for contributions that will raise questions and stimulate debate. The papers should be ready for circulation prior to the conference and may be published by SCM in a collection of essays edited by Adrian Pabst and Angus Paddison.

The University of Nottingham has made available a number of bursaries to help cover the costs of transportation and accommodation for the selected students.

The deadline for submitting abstracts of no more than 250 words is 15th April 2008. Abstracts should be emailed by attachment to adrian.pabst@nottingham.ac.uk and angus.paddison@nottingham.ac.uk

Adrian Pabst Angus Paddison Leverhulme Research Fellow Research Fellow

Conference on Bible + Justice

2008-03-06T18:16:00.001Z

The 2008 Conference on Bible & Justice: Featuring Hauerwas, Gorringe,
& Rogerson
29 May - 1 June
The University of Sheffield
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/bibs/bibleandjustice/

The 2008 Conference on Bible & Justice, which will bring scholars from around
the world to explore how the ancient texts of the Bible can play an active role
in addressing modern social concerns, has attracted great interest.

Paper proposals have been received from Australia, India, Kenya, South Africa,
the Americas, and Europe, promising to create a rich and diverse environment in
which issues of Bible and Justice will be addressed. To give a preview of what
is to come, the titles of our keynote and invited speakers have been placed on
our website's "Programme" page:
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/bibs/bibleandjustice/programme.html

EXTENDED ABSTRACT DEADLINE
Although we have received more abstracts than we were originally able to
accommodate, recent availability of additional conference space has allowed us
to extend the call for abstracts until 14th February. We encourage those who
have not had time to submit an abstract to do so. Information on submitting
abstracts on the areas of human rights, economic justice, and environmental
justice can be found on our website:
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/bibs/bibleandjustice/abstracts.html

REGISTRATION STILL OPEN
We would also like to encourage anyone who wishes to participate as a delegate
to visit our website and register. Registration and housing information can be
found at:
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/bibs/bibleandjustice/registration.html

If you have any further questions about the conference, please do not hesitate
to contact our conference organizer, Matthew Coomber, at:
bibleandjustice@sheffield.ac.uk

Conference: Biblical Women and their Afterlives

2008-03-06T18:10:00.000Z

You are warmly invited to an interdisciplinary conference at Trinity College,
Oxford (16-18 March 2008) entitled 'Biblical Women and their Afterlives: New
Testament Characters'.

This is part of an AHRC funded project, in collaboration with Boston
University, to explore the reception history of biblical women in art,
music, literature and theology.

Colleagues in Boston organised a conference on the afterlives of women from the
Hebrew Bible in 2007 (to be published in 2008 by Sheffield Phoenix Press: Women
at the Margin. Lesser-Known Characters from the Hebrew Bible). Our forthcoming
conference will therefore focus on the reception of New Testament women.

We are attaching a copy of the conference programme and the booking form.
Please contact Chris Joynes (christine.joynes@trinity.ox.ac.uk) if you require
any further information.

We do hope to welcome many of you to our conference in March.

Best wishes,
Chris Joynes
Christopher Rowland

Centre for the Reception History of the Bible
www.crhb.org

BIBLICAL WOMEN & THEIR AFTERLIVES:
NEW TESTAMENT CHARACTERS

Trinity College, Oxford
16-18th March 2008

Conference Programme

All lectures take place in The Danson Room, Trinity College

Sunday 16th March

4.00-4.45 Registration & tea/coffee

4.45 Welcome

5.00-5.40 Mary Magdalene as witness of apocalypse
Christopher Rowland (University of Oxford)

6.00 Dinner

7.30-8.30 Poetry reading and Film
(including the specially commissioned poem 'To cast a stone' by the
acclaimed Irish writer John F. Deane)

Monday 17th March

9.00-9.40 Mary, Marty and Mel Melanie J. Wright (Open University)

9.40-10.20 Just Another Jewish Mother? Mary in the Jewish Imagination
Lesleigh Cushing-Stahlberg (Colgate University)

10.20-11.00 Belittling Mary: Insult Genre,
Humiliation and the Early Development of
Mariology
John Darr (Boston College)

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.10 The Work of St. Luke's Own
Hand: The Black Virgins of Western Europe
Sarah Jane Boss (University of Wales, Lampeter)

12.30 Lunch

1.30 Trip to Christ Church Picture Gallery

3.00-3.40 Imagining Salomé, or how la sauterelle became la femme fatale
Diane Apostolos-Cappadona (Georgetown University)
3.40-4.20 Vamp Till Ready: Salome in Music with a special emphasis on Richard
Strauss's 1905 Opera
Fiona Maddocks (music critic for the London Evening Standard)
4.20-4.40 Tea

4.20-5.00 Herodias Goes Headhunting
Caroline Vander Stichele (University of Amsterdam)

5.00-5.40 The Many Faces of Junia(s): The Afterlife of Romans 16:7
Paula Gooder (Birmingham)

6.00 Dinner

8.00 Concert

Tuesday 18th March

9.00-9.40 The Samaritan Woman at the Well in Liturgy and Chant
Ruth Steiner (Catholic University of America)

9.40-10.20 Too Hot to Handle? The Woman Taken in
Adultery in Late Antique Christian Liturgy, Text and Art
Jennifer Knust (Boston University)

10.20-11.00 Mary Magdalene as Joculatrix Domini: Franciscan Music and
Vernacular Homiletics in Medieval German and English Dramas
Peter Loewen (Shepherd School of Music, Rice University)

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.10 The Mannerist Magdalene Paintings by Michele Tosini
Heidi Hornik (Baylor University)

12.30 Lunch

For further information contact: Dr Christine Joynes, Trinity College,
Oxford. OX1 3BH
Tel: 01865 321827; Email: christine.joynes@trinity.ox.ac.uk

CONFERENCE BOOKING FORM

BIBLICAL WOMEN AND THEIR AFTERLIVES:
NEW TESTAMENT CHARACTERS

Trinity College, Oxford

16-18th March 2008

Name & Title:

Address:

Tel:

Email:

Option 1: Full Conference fee (fee includes 2 lunches and 2 dinners
during the conference, including 3 course conference dinner with wine,
morning and afternoon refreshments)

Waged: £95 Unwaged: £75

Option 2: Day rate:

Waged £25 (per day) Unwaged: £20 (per day)

Sun 16th March Mon 17th March Tues 18th March
(includes afternoon tea (includes morning coffee (includes morning
cofffee
and dinner) lunch and afternoon tea) and lunch)

Conference dinner (Monday evening): £35
(includes 3 course meal with wine)

B&B accommodation is available at Trinity College at a cost of £37 per
night. Early booking is advised due to the limited number of rooms,
which will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

I require accommodation for:

Sun 16th - Mon 17th March Mon 17th - Tues 18th March

Special requirements (e.g. dietary, mobility,
other) ......................................
.......................................................................................................................................................................................
...........................

I enclose a cheque (payable to CRHB) for £

Please return booking form together with payment to: Dr Christine
Joynes, Trinity College, Oxford. OX1 3BH.

Call for Papers: Book of Acts seminar at the British New Testament Conference

2008-03-06T18:07:00.000Z

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Book of Acts seminar at the British New Testament Conference
University of Durham, 4-6 September 2008

I am writing to invite papers for the Book of Acts seminar group at
this year's British New Testament Conference. The conference takes
place at the University of Durham, 4 to 6 September 2008.

This seminar aims to be a forum for considering Acts from various
angles:
historical, literary, textual-critical, theological, archaeological,
the social world, possible links/parallels with other ancient
writings, and so on. We are very happy to include discussion of topics
which relate Acts to the wider contexts of Luke-Acts and the Pauline
corpus, where they are relevant and helpful to the study of Acts,
although the focus of the seminar is studying Acts. Papers are welcome
from both research students and more established scholars.

If you (or someone you know) is interested in offering a paper, please
make contact with me as soon as possible (ideally by the end of April,
and by the end of May at the latest), so that I can make plans. It
would be helpful to have a working title and brief sketch of the
topic(s) which the paper would cover. Papers could be longer,
requiring a whole seminar session for discussion (90 minutes) or
shorter, filling half a session (45 minutes). Responses by post, fax
or email are all fine, although email is preferred.

Please pass the word around about the Acts seminar, and encourage
others who may wish to offer a paper to contact me soon. Do forward
this email to others who may be interested. A copy of this notice is
in PDF format in the 'Files' section of the BNTS google group section
- http://groups.google.com/group/BNTS/files

; please will you display
it on your departmental/college notice boards?

If you have any questions about the seminar, please do get in touch
with me.

With warm regards

Steve Walton <s.walton@LST.ac.uk>
--

Dr Steve Walton <s.walton@lst.ac.uk>
Senior Lecturer in Greek and New Testament Studies
London School of Theology, Green Lane, Northwood, Middlesex, HA6 2UW
tel: 01923 456326; fax: 01923 456327; http://www.lst.ac.uk
Skype username: steve.walton

Tyndale Fellowship Study Groups 2008

2008-03-05T10:31:00.000Z

TYNDALE FELLOWSHIP
Study Groups
July 2008

Location:
Tyndale House, Cambridge

Old Testament

Chair: Gordon Wenham . Secretary: David Firth .

July 9 - 11

Tyndale Lecture by Doug Ingram

Details & Programme

Philosophy of Religion

Chair: Paul Helm . Secretary: Harold Cunningham

July 9 - 11

Tyndale Lecture by Patrick Richmond

Details & Programme

Christian Doctrine

Chair : Tom Noble . Secretary: David Rainey

July 7 - 9

Tyndale Lecture by David Rainey

Details & Programme

New Testament

Chair: David Wenham . Secretary: Michael Bird .

July 7 - 9 Theme: Perspectives on Peter

Tyndale Lecture by Michael Bird

Details & Programme

Biblical Theology

Chair: Desmond Alexander . Secretary: Keith Hacking .

July 9 - 11 Theme: The Significance of Exodus Themes for Biblical Theology

Tyndale Lecture by Keith Hacking

Details & Programme

Ethics and Social Theology with Religion, Culture & Communication

Ethics and Social Theology Chair: David Hilborn . Secretary: Jonathan Chaplin .

July 9 - 11 Theme: Political Theology (revised)

Tyndale Lecture by Jonathan Chaplin

Details & Programme

Biblical Archaeology

Chair: Alan Millard

No date set.

Tyndale Lecture by Alan Millard

Details & Programme

Members can add posts

2008-03-05T09:28:00.003Z

Events can be posted by any member of Tyndale Fellowship, Theology for All or Tyndale House.

The types of posts which are welcome:
Conferences, seminars, exhibitions which are worth travelling to attend

Please email posts to TyndaleNotices@gmail.com
There will be a delay caused by a human who weeds out anything irrelevant, irreverent, or irritating.

Please bear in mind that although the primary viewers of these notices are friends of Tyndale House, they are nevertheless public.

David IB

Biblical & Theological Studies Events

Transforming the Mind: Wisdom and Wonder

BRITISH NEW TESTAMENT CONFERENCE 2012: CALL FOR PAPERS

Seminar for the study of the OT in the NT

SCRIPTURE AND MODERNITY SEMINAR Lent Term 2012

Teaching the Abrahamic Religions:

Graham Davies lecture

Hebrew and the Hebrew Tradition

Vatican II 50 Years On: The New Evangelization

Call for Papers, SOTN

Theology For All Conference 2011

Centre for the Study of Christian Origins

Asia Mobilising for Integral Mission

WOOLF INSTITUTE

Configuring Communities: The Socio-Political Dimensions of Ancient Epistolography

Texts in Transit: The Cultural Afterlife of the King James Bible

KLICE Lunchtime Talk

Veritas Forum: Good without God?

The Annual Semitic Philology Lecture

Reading the Bible Ethically

CALL FOR PAPERS, Budapest September 16-18, 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Bible: Culture, Community and Society.

BNTS BNTC: The New Testament and Contemporary Society Seminar

Early Christian Writers and the Text of the New Testament

Cambridge Celebrates 400 Years of the King James Bible

Inaugural Lecture of Dr Josef Meri

HOLY WRIT? AUTHORITY AND RECEPTION

Freed to Inspire: The Renewal of English Catholic Biblical Studies in the 20th Century

MSt in The Study of Jewish-Christian Relations

Celebrating Alexander Crummell: CFP, Symposium

Call for Papers

Being a Christian in the Academic World

Mesopotamian Seminar Series

Lunchtime Tech Demo's at Tyndale House

'The Septuagint and the Old Testament in the New - SOTS: Aileen Guilding Conference

The Present Moment

University of Cambridge Faculty of Divinity Academic Conference

Call for papers PREACHING THE GOSPEL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Symposium: Life and Death in Judaism and Islam

Annual Semitic Philology Lecture

Colloquium: John's Gospel and Intimations of Apocalyptic

Beyond Individualism: Applying A New Sexual Ethic

Workshop - Religion and Identity in the Ancient World - 22-23 April, Durham

Call for Papers, Acts Seminar

Religion and Identity in the Ancient World: ­ Call for papers

Bible and Church 2010

Invention, rewriting, usurpation: Discursive fights over religious traditions in antiquity : International conference 31 May - 4 June 2010

DEADLINES

God and Darwinian Evolution: a day conference in Oxford

Tyndale Fellowship Trienniel Conference

July 6-9 2009

Tyndale House, Cambridge

Bible and Church: Day Conference, London, June 20th 2009

Greek Bible in Byzantine Judaism Conference, Cambridge 25 May, 2009

'The Bible and recent discoveries' day conference, 25/4/2009

Lost in Translation (LXX), 1-day conference, June 24, London

Responding to Secularism: Christian Witness in a Dogmatic Public Culture

British NT Conference, 3rd ­ 5th September 2009

Symposium: Greek: A Language in Evolution, St Andrews

Legacy of Christian Scholarship Conference, July 16-18, 2009, Kansas City

Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls and Biblical Interpretation Conference, April, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary

Book of Acts seminar at BNTC, 3-5 Sep'09 Call for papers

New Testament and Ethics Study Groups of the Tyndale Fellowship Triennial Conference July 6-11 2009

Conference: Hymns and Narrative in Antiquity. University of Wales Lampeter, 9-10 May 2009

BNTS Forwarded on behalf of Steve Moyise

Tyndale Lectures, July 7-11, Cambridge

Greek Study Day, 15th Sep 2008, Cambridge

NT Ethics Study Day, London 10 June 2008

IICS Engaging Our World Conference, 17-19 July, Kansas

The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth, Nottingham 19-20 June 2008

Conference: 'The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth' 19-20 June 2008, Nottingham

Conference on Bible + Justice

Conference: Biblical Women and their Afterlives

Call for Papers: Book of Acts seminar at the British New Testament Conference

Tyndale Fellowship Study Groups 2008

TYNDALE FELLOWSHIP Study Groups July 2008

Old Testament

Philosophy of Religion

Christian Doctrine

New Testament

'The Septuagint and the Old Testament in the New - SOTS: Aileen Guilding Conference

Religion and Identity in the Ancient World: Call for papers

British NT Conference, 3rd 5th September 2009

TYNDALE FELLOWSHIP
Study Groups
July 2008