LINGUISTICS AND THE GREEK VERB - 10-11 July 2015 Tyndale House, Cambridge UK

Recent Discussions and their Implications for NT Exegetes

10-11 July 2015 

Tyndale House, Cambridge

36 Selwyn Gardens, Cambridge, UK CB3 9BA

There has been much discussion within New Testament scholarship over the past two decades on the nature of the Greek verbal system. Unfortunately, this discussion has become largely entrenched and difficult to break into. The planned conference hopes to remedy that by providing an opportunity for
New Testament scholars, Greek linguists, and Classicists to discuss various aspects of the ancient Greek verbal system and explore more detailed linguistic questions regarding the verb. The conference aims to move beyond the entrenched discussions while also working through examples with the attendees in workshop settings.

This conference is an affiliate session of Tyndale Fellowship.

Presenters Include:
Rutger Allan (VU University Amsterdam)
Randall Buth(Biblical Language Center)
Robert Crellin (University of Cambridge)
Helma Dik (University of Chicago)
Stephen Levinsohn(SIL International)
Amalia Moser (University of Athens)
Steven Runge (Faithlife Corporation Stellenbosch University)

Registration
-2 night residency incl. breakfasts/lunch (£145)
-1 night residency incl. breakfast/lunch (£85)
-non-residency incl. lunch (£25)

For a registration form, please email here

Space is limited.

The Use of the Bible in Contemporary Culture, 25th–27th June - University of Chichester

Contemporary western culture contains many references and allusions to the Bible, especially in art, the media, and politics. Such allusions to the words, narratives or motifs of the Bible are often used to inform or reflect public opinion and thereby contribute to current public debate. This conference at the University of Chichester will examine particular examples of these biblical allusions, and the interpretive processes that are involved in their re-appropriation of the Bible.

The conference will focus on three specific areas of interest:

1.      The Bible in politics—the contemporary and historical role of the Bible in politics and political debate.

2.      The Bible in the media and the arts—how the media and arts have used the Bible, especially to reflect or shape public opinion.

3.      Hermeneutics —examining both the interpretive strategies involved in cultural echoes of the Bible, and examining what importance (or even authority) the Bible is seen to have in these situations.

Speakers include

Professor James Dunn, Durham University

Professor James Crossley, University of Sheffield

Professor Yvonne Sherwood, University of Kent

Dr Aaron Rosen, King’s College, London

Nick Spencer, Theos

Call for papers

Papers are welcome from PhD students and established scholars. Presenters will have a 30-minute period for the presentation of their paper and time for questions and comments. If you wish to propose a paper, please send a title and 300-word abstract to Steve Smith (s.c.smith@chi.ac.uk) by Friday 1^st May 2015.

Registration

For registration and further information please see the conference webpage (www.chi.ac.uk/bible). Places are limited: the residential conference fee is £190 (£210 en-suite), with day delegate rates available.

The conference is organised by the University of Chichester in partnership with Bible Society.

The First verse of Genesis: The joy and difficulty of intertextual reading - Lecture

The Israel Studies Annual Lecture Series Presents:

The First verse of Genesis: The joy and difficulty of intertextual reading 

Lecture by Israeli Author: Dror Burstein on Friday 17 October 2014 at 5pm

For more information please click here

Seminar on the OT in the NT, Hawarden

The 2015 Annual Seminar on the Use of the OT in the NT will be held at Gladstone's Library Hawarden from the evening of Wednesday 25th to lunch time on Friday 27th March 2015.
 
This is an opportunity for all those working in this field to come together to share papers, hear about any new developments and publications, and to network informally. Both established scholars and PhD students are very welcome, but places are limited to approx. 20.

If you wish to participate in this year's seminar, please contact the booking office at Gladstone's Library directly to book your room by telephone on 01244 532350 or by email; please note that you cannot reserve your place via the online booking system, as we have made a group booking. Please let the staff know when booking that you are part of the OT in the NT Seminar group, so that they can allocate you to one of the group's reserved rooms. The overall cost will be in the region of £175, depending on what "extras" you opt for (e.g. ensuite bathroom), and a small deposit will be required at the booking stage. When you have booked, please also email the seminar convenor, Susan Docherty on in order to be added to the confirmed list of participants.

Offers of papers are welcome, so please send the proposed title and a short abstract by 10th December 2014 to  Susan Docherty. There is no one overall theme to this year's conference, so all abstracts which relate to the general field of the OT in the NT will be considered. Proposers will be informed whether or not their paper has been selected in mid-January, and further details of the timings and running order will be provided then.

Historical Consciousness and Historiography (3000 BC–AD 600)

International and Interdisciplinary Conference

Merton College, University of Oxford, 17–19 September 2014

Conference Theme

Despite ancient and modern critical attempts to separate formal historiography from other conceptions and representations of the past (e.g. myths, legends, folktales), the interpenetration between these strands of historical thinking has been observed in many fields of antiquity. For example, mythological and legendary materials are often present in historiographical sources, while historical events or characters are frequently mythologized in literary traditions. Yet, much remains to be explored in early relations and ongoing interactions between formal historiography and other cognitive and interpretative registers of human reckoning with the past, as well as in the implications of these interactions.

This conference brings together twenty experts, representing twelve research institutions, from Anthropology, Assyriology and Sumerology, Biblical and Jewish Studies, Classics, East Asian Studies, Egyptology, Hittitology, and Indo-European Studies to address three main issues: 
(1) the ways different traditions of historical consciousness informed or contributed to the rise of formal historiography; 
(2) the ways formal historiography and other traditions of historical consciousness interacted during their transmission; and 
(3) the implications of such interactions for cultural heritage, collective memory, and later understandings of history.

Full details and registration here.

Speakers Include:

Nick Allen (Anthroplogy, Oxford), John Baines (Egyptology, Oxford), Emily Baragwanath (Classics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Richard Buxton (Classics, Bristol), Ken Dowden (Classics, Birmingham), Amir Gilan (Hittitology, Tel Aviv), Jonas Grethlein (Classics, Heidelberg), Christina Kraus (Classics, Yale), Alasdair Livingstone (Assyriology, Birmingham), Peter Machinist (Hebrew Bible/Assyriology, Harvard), Dirk Meyer (Chinese Studies, Oxford), Piotr Michalowski (Sumerology/ Assyriology, Michigan; Na’aman Nadav (Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv), Christopher Pelling (Classics, Oxford), Tim Rood (Classics, Oxford), David Schaberg (Chinese Studies, UCLA), Rosalind Thomas (Classics, Oxford),  Henriette van der Blom (Classics, Glasgow/Oxford), Tim Whitmarsh (Classics, Oxford/ Cambridge), Roger Woodard (Classics & Indo-European Studies, University at Buffalo, SUNY).

Galatians: A letter for today

Residential bookings are £150 per person. This price includes single room accommodation for two nights, lunch on Monday, breakfast and lunch on Tuesday and breakfast on Wednesday.

Non residential bookings are £100 per person. This includes lunch on the Monday and Tuesday.

Limited accommodation is available on a first come first served basis, so please book early for the residential option. The deadline for bookings is 30 June.

Full information and booking here.

Romans in a Day

Saturday 19 July 2014. 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.

Professor Douglas Moo, Chair of the Committee on Bible Translation and author of several noted New Testament commentaries presents a one-day journey through all 16 chapters of the letter.

The event will take place in Oxford at Woodstock Road Baptist Church (198 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 7NQ)

The cost of the day will be £15 including lunch. There is a student discount available.

For more information please contact Rosie Chesterton. 

4th University of Birmingham Biblical Studies PG Conference

9am-5pm Wednesday 2 July 2014. 

The Conference will investigate the theme ‘Becoming a Sacred Text’ from the many perspectives and disciplines in Biblical Studies; text-critical, sociological and theological. 

We will be led by our keynote speakers Dr Timothy Michael Law (Göttingen) and Professor James Crossley (Sheffield), scholars at the cutting edge of Biblical research. 

Papers will be presented by a range of postgraduate researchers from across the country involved in Hebrew Bible/OT/NT research and related disciplines. 

Registration is free and includes a buffet lunch. An optional evening dinner for speakers and participants will follow.

Full information here.

Registration forms and enquiries should be directed to Michael Clark

The Annual Ullendorff Lecture in Semitic Philology

SAMARITAN MANUSCRIPT CULTURE AND THE ORAL TRANSMISSION OF THE SAMARITAN TORAH

Professor Stefan Schorch, Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg

5.00pm, Thursday, 8th May, 2014

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site), Room 8-9.

All are welcome. The event will be followed by a reception.

The speaker will examine the relationship between the written transmission of the Samaritan Pentateuch in its manuscripts, dating from the 11th century onwards, and its oral transmission in liturgical reading. The lecture will include a description of the phonology of the Samaritan Hebrew pronunciation and a discussion of its historical background.

Amsterdam Summer School

Reading the Bible in Amsterdam: Texts, Traditions, and Interpretation
30 June - 11 July 2014

The course deals with the complex interrelationships between texts, traditions, and interpretations in the field of biblical studies. The topics addressed in the course range from issues related to textual criticism (what texts exist, how were they used, and how were they published?), to topics related to their transmission and translation, as well as the establishment of interpretative traditions, to questions related to philosophical and theological hermeneutics (what is the role of reading communities, how ‘objective’ isthe interpretation of a text, etc.). By discussing these various aspects of biblical interpretation in the context of one course, an interdisciplinary view of biblical interpretation can be achieved that is otherwise hardly possible. 

The professors in Biblical Studies of VU University Amsterdam combine their expertise to create this unique course. The setting of Amsterdam and VU gives an extra impetus to the questions at stake in the course: while VU University has strong ties with Christian theology, the postmodern and postsecular setting of Amsterdam, and the broad academic setting in which the Faculty of Theology of VU University is located provides a context that invites exploring new questions and going beyond disciplinary and theological boundaries. Tradition and innovation meet in new and exciting ways.

Syriac Christianity in Context
14 - 25 July 2014

Syriac Christianity is one of the best hidden secrets of the Christian tradition and is more often than not ignored in curricula and handbooks. Recently, however, given the political developments in Syria, knowledge of this particular branch of Christian tradition has become much needed again. In this unique course, experts from VUUniversity and guest lecturers offer a thorough introduction into its most important aspects. This will notably include the development of Syriac versions of the Scriptures and their transmission, the emergence of Syriac theology and the interrelationship between theology and biblical interpretation and translation. Also, the complex relationship of Syriac theology to emerging Islam, and to Western and Eastern theology will be paid attention to, as well as to Syriac Christianity’s current, difficult, existence in Syria itself. The latter part of the course will be developed in relation to the course that history will take in Syria in the coming months. Exchange with the Syriac immigrant/refugee community in the Netherlands will also give an impression of the ongoing life of Syriac Christianity and its interpretation of Scripture and tradition. In sum, the course offers a unique opportunity for studying the complex interrelationship between tradition, identity formation, and interpretation in the case of Syriac Christianity from the past till the present.

Details and online booking here.

Summer Hebrew Ulpan for University Students

Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies
University of Cambridge
Sunday 29 June – Friday 11 July, 2014

Details here.

The course is designed for university students. It will offer the following levels: total beginners, lower intermediate and intermediate. It will consist of 3 - 4 daily hours of intensive language tuition as well as various activities, including: a visit to the Taylor-Schechter Genizah collection, a visit to the Wren Library at Trinity College, lectures on related topics, Shabbat dinner at the Chabad House, and screenings of Israeli films.

The 2014 programme has yet to be finalised but will broadly follow the outline of last year's programme. The extra curricular activities (lectures, films and visits) will be updated and this year's programme will be available at a later date.

Prospective students may be interested in some photographs and participant feedback from the Ulpan.

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Tuition fee for the Ulpan (not including accomodation): £500
Accommodation in college (bed and breakfast): £500
Deposit: £100 (non-refundable)
Cheques should be made payable to "University of Cambridge".
Other expenses: text book (required) £25.00
Also, please note that lunches and evening meals are not provided.
Application Form
Application deadline: applications must be received by Friday, 13th June, 2014.

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Contact:
Rachel Williams
Ulpan Organizer
Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge, CB3 9DA
Tel: 01223-335106
Email: ulpan@ames.cam.ac.uk

The St Andrews Symposium for Biblical and Early Christian Studies

Call for Papers and Symposium Information 2-3 June 2014

Ancient Readers & Their Scriptures: The Texts, Reading Strategies, and the Versions of the Hebrew Bible in Second Temple and Early Judaism

Plenary addresses will be delivered by Martin Karrer (Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal/Bethel) and Philip Alexander (University of Manchester). Keynote addresses will also be given by William Tooman (University of St Andrews), Jonathan Norton (Heythrop College London), Susan Docherty (Birmingham), and Willem Smelik (University College London).

Cost: Early Bird (1 December-1 February) £30; Standard (2 February-30 May) £50. Applications for travel grants are available to students upon request. Registration opens 1 December.  

We are accepting abstracts of 300 words for short papers (20-25 mins) addressing the following questions relating to how Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls & Pseudepigrapha, New Testament, and Rabbinic Judaism/Early Christian Writings interacted with and reused the texts and versions of the Hebrew Bible:
Abstracts accepted until 1 February 2014. 

•  Compositional techniques
• Reading strategies of the Hebrew Bible in antiquity
• Vorlage(n) of quotations and allusions to the Hebrew Bible
• Intertextuality
• The reuse of sacred texts and traditions
•  The text of the Hebrew Bible as reflected in the literature of Second Temple Judaism
• Theological reuse of the Hebrew Bible
• Translation techniques
• Related Topics 

      Please send all abstracts to John Dunne and Garrick Allen
Short papers submitted by 31 August 2014 will be considered for inclusion in a conference proceedings volume.

A Christian Response to Islam

Saturday 30 November 2013

10.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.

Tyndale House, Cambridge

Revd Colin Chapman

Hardly a day passes without some item in the national or international news about Muslims and Islam. Christians are bound to feel challenged - if not threatened - by the many issues that are raised - cultural, social, political and theological. How can Christians work through these complex questions and develop genuinely Christian attitudes to Muslims and Islam?

Session 1. 10.00 - 11.20

· What is Islam?

· How are we to understand the different faces of Islam?

· An overview of the history of Islam

· Theological questions:

e.g. Are Muslims and Christians worshiping the same God? What does the Qur’an say about Jesus?

Session 2. 11.40 – 1.00

· Understanding political Islam today

· Relating to Muslims in the UK and sharing the gospel

· Any questions

Colin Chapman was teaching Islamic Studies at the Near East School of Theology in Beirut, Lebanon, until retirement began in 2004. Before that he was Principal of Crowther Hall, the Church Mission Society Training College in Selly Oak, Birmingham, and taught at Trinity College, Bristol, after having worked with his family in Egypt and Lebanon as a mission partner with the CMS.

His books include Cross and Crescent: Responding to the Challenges of Islam (IVP), Whose Promised Land? and Whose Holy City? Jerusalem and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Lion).

3rd University of Birmingham Biblical Studies Post Grad Day Conference

“Unity and Diversity in Text and Tradition”

The Conference will investigate the realities of unity and diversity in scriptural texts, their transmission and the traditions which grow up around them. We will be led in these investigations by our keynote speakers Dr Christian Kreinecker (Birmingham) and Dr Jonathan G. Campbell (Bristol), scholars at the cutting edge of Biblical research. 

 

Papers will be presented by a range of postgraduate researchers from across the country involved in Hebrew Bible/New Testament research and related disciplines. 

 

Registration is free of charge and includes a buffet lunch. An optional evening dinner for speakers and participants will follow. 

 

Registration form here.

Please email this form by 26 June 2013 to: Michael Clark, Postgraduate School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.

GOTT ALS MENSCH

 Christologische Perspektiven

18. Theologische Studienkonferenz

Arbeitskreis für evangelikale Theologie (AfeT)

8. – 11. September 2013

im Evangelischen Allianzhaus in Bad Blankenburg (Thüringen)

Download a programme here.

The Ullendorff Lecture in Semitic Philology

EDWARD ULLENDORFF AND THE STUDY OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES

Professor Simon Hopkins

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

5.00pm, Wednesday, 22nd May, 2013

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site), Room 8-9.

All are welcome. The event will be followed by a reception.

Edward Ullendorff (1920-2011) was one of the most distinguished scholars in the field of Semitic philology in the second half of the twentieth century. The Ullendorff lectures in Semitic philology have been made possible by a generous donation from his widow, Dina Ullendorff.

The speaker in this year’s lecture, Professor Simon Hopkins, will discuss the general approach of the late Professor  Edward Ullendorff to the study of Semitic languages and will describe several aspects of the subject in which he took a particular interest and about which he wrote.

Examples will be given of the way Semitic philology has been applied in the field of Biblical translation and exegesis, using textual material from the world of the medieval Middle East (in Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic) and from Ethiopia (in Ge'ez and Amharic).

The lecture will sketch some of the changes that have occurred in the study of Semitic languages since the 1930s when Professor Ullendorff was a student in Jerusalem.

Summer Hebrew Ulpan for University Students

Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies

invites you to

Summer Hebrew Ulpan
for University Students
Led by Mrs Rachel Williams
Language Teaching Officer at the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

at the

University of Cambridge
Sunday, 30th June - Friday, 12th July, 2013

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The course is designed for university students. It will offer the following levels: total beginners, lower intermediate and intermediate. It will consist of 3 - 4 daily hours of intensive language tuition as well as various activities, including: a visit to the Taylor-Schechter Genizah collection, a visit to the Wren Library at Trinity College, lectures on related topics, Shabbat dinner at the Chabad House, and screenings of Israeli films.

A limited number of scholarships may be available.

For further details, please go to this link: here

First Annual Thiselton Lecture in Biblical Interpretation: Wed 5th June 2013

We are delighted to announce the first annual Thiselton Lecture in Biblical Interpretation, named after Revd Professor Canon Anthony Thiselton, former Principal of St John’s and former Professor at the University of Nottingham.

Anthony will be giving the first lecture:
‘Beyond the Horizon: Pressing issues in biblical interpretation today.’
The programme for the day will be as follows:

10.30  Arrivals

11.00 The Thiselton Lecture

12.00 Plenary discussion

12.45  Lunch

  1.30   Short responses from faculty at St John’s

            a. Issues in interpretation and the field of Biblical Studies

            b. Questions arising for philosophy and ecclesiology

            c. Interpretation and its implications for Christian ministry

  2.30   Plenary discussion and concluding comments

  3.00   Reception

We are very pleased to offer the lecture in conjunction with Bible Society, who are sponsoring the event.

This also functions as the central event for a research day in Biblical Studies for St John’s research students, which will be led by Dr David Firth.

To register for the day, please email Ruth Taylor. There is no charge for attendance, but there will be a modest charge for lunch.

Next year’s lecture will be given by Dr Richard Briggs of the University of Durham, date to be confirmed.

Revd Dr Ian Paul
Lecturer in NT and Practical Theology

http://www.stjohns-nottm.ac.uk/first-annual-thiselton-lecture-in-biblical-interpretation/

The Ullendorff Lecture in Semitic Philology

EDWARD ULLENDORFF AND THE STUDY OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES

Professor Simon Hopkins

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

5.00pm, Wednesday, 22nd May, 2013

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site), Room 8-9.

All are welcome. The event will be followed by a reception.

Edward Ullendorff (1920-2011) was one of the most distinguished scholars in the field of Semitic philology in the second half of the twentieth century. The Ullendorff lectures in Semitic philology have been made possible by a generous donation from his widow, Dina Ullendorff.

The speaker in this year’s lecture, Professor Simon Hopkins, will discuss the general approach of the late Professor  Edward Ullendorff to the study of Semitic languages and will describe several aspects of

the subject in which he took a particular interest and about which he wrote.

Examples will be given of the way Semitic philology has been applied in the field of Biblical translation and exegesis, using textual material from the world of the medieval Middle East (in Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic) and from Ethiopia (in Ge'ez and Amharic).

The lecture will sketch some of the changes that have occurred in the study of Semitic languages since the 1930s when Professor Ullendorff was a student in Jerusalem. 

An evening with Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali Dinner and talk

The Saints’ Projects’ Trust presents

a fund raising event

An evening with

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali

Dinner and talk

“The Upside Down Kingdom:

a southern hemisphere perspective”

Wednesday 12 June 7.00 - 10.00pm

(drinks purchasable from 6pm)

At St. Paul’s Church, Hills Road, Cambridge

Price £17.50

Cheques made out to Saints’ Projects’ Trust and sent to:

La Maison du Steak, 125 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1PG

For more information email: here

The Website: here

Unbelievable? The Conference 2013

Sat 25 May, 9.30am - 5.30pm
The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London, EC1Y 4SD

Now in its third year, Unbelievable? The Conference is the leading UK event for apologetics and evangelism.

Speakers: Alister McGrath, Amy Orr Ewing, Peter S Williams, Fuz Rana, Dr Trevor Stammers, Kurt Jaros.

Book in here.

An Audience with The Dalai Lama

Saturday 20th April 2013
1.00-2.45pm
St John's College Chapel

"The Path to Peace and Happiness in a Global Society"

You are invited to apply for a ticket to attend this talk, however numbers are restricted.

Entrance to this talk is on the basis of Ticket and Photo ID only.

For security reasons you are requested not to bring a bag.

The talk will begin at 1.30pm, but everyone attending is requested to be in their seats 30 minutes prior to the start (1pm).

Apply for a ticket here.


Duncan Dormor
President and Dean,
St John's College
Cambridge
CB2 1TP

Summer Hebrew Ulpan

University of Cambridge
Sunday, 30th June - Friday, 12th July, 2013


The Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies invites you to Summer Hebrew Ulpan for University Students.

Led by Mrs Rachel Williams, Language Teaching Officer at the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

The course is designed for university students. It will offer the following levels:
total beginners, lower intermediate and intermediate.

It will consist of 3 - 4 daily hours of intensive language tuition as well as various activities, including: a visit to the Taylor-Schechter Genizah collection, a visit to the Wren Library at Trinity College, lectures on related topics, Shabbat dinner at the Chabad House, and screenings of Israeli films.

A limited number of scholarships may be available.

For further details, see the programme here.

Prospective students may be interested in some photographs and participant feedback from the Ulpan here.

Tuition and accommodation (bed and breakfast): £500
Tuition only (without accommodation): £250
Deposit: £100 (non-refundable)
Cheques should be made payable to "University of Cambridge".

Other expenses: text book (required) £25.00, tea & coffee for the two weeks £10.00.
Also, please note that lunches and evening meals are not provided.

Application deadline: applications must be received by Wednesday, 19th June, 2013.

Contact:
Rachel Williams
Ulpan Organizer
Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge, CB3 9DA

Tel: 01223-335106

Global Warming & Equitable Development: Ethical and Political Priorities

On Wednesday 6 March 2013 at 5.00pm

FISHER HOUSE
Guildhall Street, Cambridge CB2 3NH.


A unique event jointly organised by The Fisher House and the Von Hügel Institute and sponsored by The Tablet:

Global Warming & Equitable Development: Ethical and Political Priorities
A seminar on the ethical implications of the debate on the origins of global warming and climate change. Four scientists will discuss whether and to what extent these are caused by human activities - the anthropogenic origins of climate change while politicians, theologians and philosophers will discuss the ethical and political implications of the answer to this question. Most scientists and policy-makers accept that climate change is occurring but is it caused by human beings? If it is, then policy choices such as the forms of energy that are produced will have to be made. These choice will have an impact on developing countries including the emerging economies who often have quite different approaches to the environmental question to the developed countries.

The seminar will be chaired by

Lord Williams of Oystermouth (Rowan Williams) Master of Magdalene College, former Archbishop of Canterbury

Panel Members:
Professor Sir Brian Hoskins FRS, Director of Grantham Institute of Climate Change, London
Professor Richard Lindzen Professor of Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Sir Colin Humphreys Director of Research, Department of Materials Science, Cambridge
Professor John Loughlin L’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, Von Hügel Institute Director, Cambridge
Professor Christopher Whitty Chief Scientific Advisor, Department for International Development
Lord Deben (John Selwyn Gummer) Chair of Committee on Climate Change

The seminar will be followed by refreshments. No booking required, everyone welcome.

Cambridge Semitic Philology Seminar

Monday, 3 December, 2012.

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Room 8/9.

2.00 pm          Martin Worthington
‘The placement of -ma and Babylonian verse structure’

2.30 pm          Aaron Hornkohl
‘“Aramaisms” and the Periodization of Ancient Hebrew:
 Some Methodological Considerations’

3.00 pm           Olga Vinnichenko
 ‘Aramaic and Neo-Assyrian’

3.30 pm          Tea/coffee

4.00 pm          Paul Noorlander
‘Neo-Aramaic Alignment in a Historical Perspective:
 Some Preliminary Remarks’

4.30 pm          Kathrin Egger
‘Grammatical voice in Neo-Aramaic’

5.00 pm         Lidia Napiorkowska
‘Lexically based phonological variation in a Neo-Aramaic dialect’

5.30 pm         Geoffrey Khan
‘Word order typologies in Neo-Aramaic and their background’

All are welcome

Symposium, "Appropriation of Scripture in the Emergence of Christianity"

Trinity Theological College, Perth, Western Australia
22nd-23rd July 2013

Keynote Speakers: Larry Hurtado, Roland Deines, Mark Seifrid, and Allan Chapple.

Proposals for elective papers that relate in some way to the theme are welcome, and should be received by 31st January, 2013.

Further details here.

Day Conference in Papyrology and Early Christianity/Biblical Studies

Wednesday 7 November 2012

Tyndale House is pleased to host a day conference featuring research papers on a variety of topics connecting papyrology and Biblical studies and reading seminars for those who want to learn more about reading Greek texts on papyrus. All are welcome (some knowledge of Greek is recommended!), for the whole day or particular sessions.

Programme:
9:00 Arrive and Coffee

9:25 -10:15: Jim Aitken (Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge), ‘Septuagint Vocabulary and the Zenon Papyri’

10:20-11:10: Michael Theophilos (Australian Catholic University & St Edmund’s College, Cambridge), ‘The Birth of the Papyrologist and the Editio Princeps: Why Do My Eyes Hurt?’

Coffee

11:40-12:30: Peter M. Head (Tyndale House & St Edmund’s College, Cambridge), ‘Letter Writing and Letter Delivery in the Archive of Claudius Tiberianus (P. Mich. 467-480) and the New Testament’

LUNCH (provided – free if RSVP)

2:00-3:20: Reading seminar in documentary texts (Michael Theophilos and others)

Coffee

3:40 – 5:00: Reading seminar in literary texts (Michael Theophilos and others)

If you want lunch please RSVP by email or phone 01223 566601.

Location link here.

Tyndale House, 36 Selwyn Gardens, Cambridge, CB3 9BA

‘HABIT MATTERS: THE BODILY CHARACTER OF THE VIRTUES’

PROFESSOR STANLEY HAUERWAS DUKE UNIVERSITY

VON HUGEL INSTITUTE SILVER JUBILEE COMMEMORATION LECTURE (1987-2012)

This year the Von Hügel Institute celebrates its Silver Jubilee and we are delighted to have Professor Stanley Hauerwas to deliver the Jubilee Lecture: ‘Habit Matters: The bodily Character of the Virtues’. 

The 2012 VHI Silver Jubilee Lecture is part of a Public Lecture Tour by Professor Hauerwas (the other lectures being at the Centre for Catholic Studies, University of University and Blackfriars Oxford). The Lecture will be chaired by Professor Mary McAleese, former President of Ireland, Honorary Fellow of St Edmund's College, and Patron of the Von Hügel Institute.

Professor Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School. His work cuts across disciplinary lines as he is in conversation with systematic theology, philosophical theology and ethics, political theory, as well as the philosophy of social science and medical ethics.

The event will take place on

Tuesday, 30th October 2012, 5:30pm

Venue: Cripps Auditorium (Magdalene College)

1-3 Chesterton Road

Cambridge CB4 3AD

Info and website here.

Seminar-Workshop in Scripture and Philosophy

'The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture'

Dr Yoram Hazony (Shalem Center, Jerusalem)

Thursday, 11 October at 5:00 pm
Junior Common Room, Faculty of Divinity

All are welcome.
If interested in attending, please contact Dr Daniel Weiss receive some brief background reading.

THEOLOGY FOR ALL EVENT Sat 29th Sept

Same-sex marriage: What are Christians to make of it?

Many Christians in Britain today are unsure what to make of the fierce debate over same-sex marriage.  They are often more unsure about how to meaningfully answer the questions that people around them are asking.  Are traditionalists simply clinging to an understanding of marriage that Britain no longer needs nor believes in?  Or are there profound issues at stake that the reformers are ignorant of?  What beliefs about sex, identity and marriage are different sides of the debate depending on?  How can Christians make their vision for marriage intelligible to secular thinkers?  What case do we have to make?  If these are the kind of issues you are wrestling with, this event is for you!

Saturday 29th September 2012

Revd Dr Sean Doherty

Tyndale House, Cambridge

10am - 1pm


Early Bird ticket £8 (by 8 Sep) / TFA members £5
Standard ticket £12 / TFA members £8

To book or for more information click here
www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/TFA
TFA@theologyforall.org   01223 566601

CJCR Colloquium: Christian Anti-Judaism in Baroque Music 23-24 September 2012

The Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations (Woolf Institute, Cambridge) is delighted to announce that it is hosting a colloquium


Christian Anti-Judaism in Baroque Music. 
The colloquium will be held on 23 and 24 September 2012 and take place at Lucy Cavendish College Cambridge.


The speakers at the colloquium will be CJCR Visiting Fellow, Michael Marissen (Swarthmore College), Ruth HaCohen (Hebrew University), and Jeanne Swack (University of Wisconsin, Madison).


Registration required. Bursaries for graduate students available.
For further details and the registration form, please see link

Summer Hebrew Ulpan for University Students

Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies

invites you to

Summer Hebrew Ulpan
for University Students
Led by Mrs Rachel Williams
Language Teaching Officer at the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

at the

University of Cambridge
Sunday, 1st July - Friday, 13th July 2012

The course is designed for university students. It will offer the following levels: total beginners, lower intermediate and intermediate. It will consist of 3 - 4 daily hours of intensive language tuition as well as various activities, including: a visit to the Taylor-Schechter Genizah collection, a visit to the Wren Library at Trinity College, lectures on related topics, Shabbat dinner at the Chabad House, and screenings of Israeli films.

For further details, see the programme.

Prospective students may be interested in some 

photographs and participant feedback from the Ulpan.

Accommodation:	Wolfson Court - the city annexe of Girton College

Directions & location maps:	Wolfson Court - the city annexe of Girton College
	Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

Travelling to Cambridge:

The Cambridge City Tourism website provides maps and full information about transport to and around Cambridge. Cambridge is an extremely difficulty city to bring a car to: parking spaces are limited and expensive, traffic in the City is very congested and restrictions abound. Parking is not permitted at the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies. The conference organisers are unable to provide parking elsewhere for delegates' cars.

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Tuition and accommodation (bed and breakfast): £500
Tuition only (without accommodation): £250

Deposit: £100 (non-refundable)
Cheques should be made payable to "University of Cambridge".

Other expenses: text book (required) £25.00, tea & coffee for the two weeks £10.00.
Also, please note that lunches and evening meals are not provided.

Application Form

Application deadline: applications must be received by Wednesday, 20th June, 2012.

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Contact:

Rachel Williams
Ulpan Organizer
Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge, CB3 9DA

Tel: 01223-335106

Email 

Paul's Letter to the Galatians & Christian Theology Conference

10 - 14 July 2012

Full details here.

First Keynote Lecture: N.T. Wright, Jesus as Messiah in Galatians. Lower College Hall, St Salvator’s.
Second Keynote Lecture: Oliver O’Donovan (Edinburgh) Flesh and Spirit (Gal 5:16-26).
Third Keynote Lecture: Richard Hays (Duke, NC) Apocalyptic Poetics in Galatians: Paternity, Passion, and Participation.

St Mary's College
The School of Divinity
University of St Andrews
South Street
St Andrews
Fife KY16 9JU


Tel: +44 (0)1334 462850
Fax: +44 (0)1334 462852
Email.