Programme of Research Seminars 2009-10: Semester 1

The seminar is usually held on Mondays from 2:00-4:00 in the Jessop West Exhibition Space, 1 Upper Hanover Street.

Semester 1  
Monday, 28 September Plenary Seminar
Note change of venue:2 pm Room SGLT21

Introductory Meeting
3 pm Jessop West Exhibition Space
All graduate students meet together from 3.30 in Jessop West
Monday, 12 October Dr James Crossley, University of Sheffield

Jewish/Judean Identity, the ‘Land’, and Other
Problems with Social Scientific Criticism of the New
Testament

Note change of time: 3 pm Jessop West Exhibition Space
Monday, 19 October Bill Goodman
A Short History of Longing in the Psalms and Song of Songs

Chris Meredith
In Lieu of Bike-sheds: The Spatiality of Love in the Song of
Songs


Yongchi Rhie
Toward an Authentically Korean Biblical Interpretation:
Shamanism and the Bible in Dialogue
Monday, 26 October Dr Martin O’Kane, University of Wales, Lampeter
Esau's Hare: The Biblical Esau in Reception History
and Visual Culture
Monday, 2 November Barrie Bowman
Opening the Exile: Spatial Construction in Jeremiah 24

Joseph Poon
Leviathan-Behemoth Tradition in Rev 13:1-18 and Related
Texts


Che Marston
Arguments and Justifications for BDSM as an Aspect of
Sexual Relations in a Christian Marriage
Monday, 9 November Dr Stuart Weeks, University of Durham

Ecclesiastes: Towards an Introduction
Monday, 30 November Neil Trueman
topic to be announced

Emmanuel Twum-Baah
Let the Hebrews Hear: Metonymy in 1 Samuel 4 and 13

Daniel Ho
The Meaning of οὐ δεδούλωται (not enslaved) in 1 Corinthians 7.15 and the Light It Can Shed on
Understanding 1 Corinthians 9.19-23
Monday, 7 December Professor Halvor Moxnes, University of Oslo

Identity in Jesus’ Galilee: Between Ethnicity and Intersectionality
Monday, 14 December Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
Lachish: A Household Archaeological Approach

Timothy Hyun
Great Time and Job as a Reader in Job 3

Blanche Yan
Goy/goyim in the Psalms