Groningen-Leuven-Oxford Network Conference, 8-9 March 2021
University of Oxford | Oriel Centre for the Study of the Bible
Hebrew Bible and Jewish Antiquity
For any questions please contact: Stefania Beitia, PA to Professor Hindy Najman and Administrator for the Oriel Centre for the Study of the Bible (stefania.beitia@oriel.ox.ac.uk)
Lula Mae Blocton, Summer Ease, 1975
Session I
Chair: Hindy Najman (Oriel)
Day 1
9:00 – 9:30 Arjen Bakker (University of Groningen)
Keynote & Opening Remarks: Cosmic Cycles of Praise: from Enoch to the Dead Sea Scrolls and beyond
9:30 – 10:00 Rebekah Van Sant Clark (Oriel)
Diaspora as Wilderness in the Book(s) of Esther
10:00 – 10:30 Danilo Verde (KU Leuven)
Keeping the Wounds Gaping: on the socio-cultural function of the Psalms after the Babylonian catastrophe
Break
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30 Barry Hartog (Protestant Theology University, Groningen) Cosmopolitan Qumran
11:30 – 12:00 Gemma Hayes (University of Groningen)
The Literary Concerns of a Scribe from Qumran
12:00 – 12:30 Ayhan Aksu (University of Groningen)
Imported scrap paper? Papyrus as a writing material in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Lunch
12:30 – 1:30
Session II (part 1)
Chair: Mladen Popović (University of Groningen)
1:30 – 2:00 Tim Lee (Wycliffe)
The Greek Minor Prophets Scroll and Kaige Tradition within Greek Bible Translations and Second Temple Judaism
2:00 – 2:30 Bryan Beeckman (KU Leuven)
Verba Rara Amicorum Iob: The Greek rendering of Hebrew absolute Hapax Legomena in the speeches of Eliphaz, Bildad and Elihu in LXX Job
2:30 – 3:00 Eelco Glas (University of Groningen)
The Formalities of Fiction in Philo’s Biblical Biographies
Break
3:00 – 3:30
Session II (part 2)
Chair: Eibert Tigchelaar (KU Leuven)
3:30 – 4:00 Drew Longacre (University of Groningen)
Stylistic Paleographic Analysis and the Forms and Functions of the Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls
4:00 – 4:30 Hila Dayfani (Oriel)
The Textual Value of 4QpaleoGenEx(l)
4:30 – 5:00 Mladen Popović (University of Groningen) & Maruf Dhali (University of Groningen)
Keynote: Dating Undated Manuscripts: artificial intelligence, radiocarbon dating and palaeography of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Session III
Chair: Hindy Najman (Oriel)
9:00 – 9:30 Hector Patmore (KU Leuven)
Day 2
Morning Keynote: Does 11QApocryphal Psalms contain an exorcistic rite?
9:30 – 10:00 Daniel Waller (Oriel)
How to Imagine a Demon: pain, illness, and the shape of demonic bodies in Late Antique Judaism
10:00 – 10:30 Shannon Parrott (Wycliffe)
Apparel Oft Proclaims the (Jerusale)man: the priority of dress and formation of the subject in Isaiah 61:10-11
Break
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30 Hallel Baitner (Wolfson)
Here and There – Mutual Influence of Textual Parallels
11:30 – 12:00 Ruwan van der Iest (University of Groningen)
From Aramaic to Judean Law: on the individuality and development of the legal system attested in the Aramaic papyri discovered on Elephantine Island
12:00 – 12:30 Shlomi Efrati (KU Leuven)
‘To Till It and Tend It’: the agricultural wisdom of Musar LaMevin reconsidered
Lunch
12:30 – 1:30
Session IV
Chair: Arjen Bakker (University of Groningen)
1:30 – 2:00 Alexander McCarron (St Catherine’s)
Deconstructing the Aramaic Fragments of the Enochic Theophany in 4QEna and 4QEnc (1 Enoch 1:1-9)
2:00 – 2:30 Judith Clark (Oriel)
Liturgy and Heavenly Beings within the Hebrew Bible
2:30 – 3:00 Wenyue Qiang (St. Cross)
The Divine Discourse in the Temple Scroll and the Book of Jubilees
Break
3:00 – 3:30
3:30 – 4:00 Sarah Wisialowski (Oriel)
Confession in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls
4:00 – 4:30 Jiani Sun (Oriel)
Flowers of Evil: constructing the wicked in Wisdom of Solomon
4:30 – 5:00 Eibert Tigchelaar (KU Leuven) & Hindy Najman (Oriel)
Keynote & Closing Remarks: Authorship and Intention: rethinking scholarly constructions