Last night's book launch of the new monograph 'Body Language: Voice, Embodiment, and Textuality in the Hebrew Bible.' by Jacqueline Vayntrub was a lively intellectual discussion and it was great fun! Thank you to everybody who participated.
Book launch forthcoming! Please do come and join us (please RSVP to do so) if you are in the area.
It is a joy to be at a crowded book launch for John Screnock tonight!
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Essay on cusp of publication:
"The motif of Joseph’s weeping: disenfranchised grief and ritually revisiting the past to reclaim the future" Unheard Voices Cultural Anthropological Approaches to Physical Suffering . Ed. Alexiana D. Fry, Regine Hunziker-Rodewald, Andrei C. Aioanei
St John's College, Oxford, Theology Subject dinner. Past and present students met and shared stories over a delicious meal. It was a delightful occasion.
One more (see above) from last night's book launch for John!
What a delight it was to host a book launch last night in honour of John Day!
Religion in Ancient Israel: Studies in Honour of John Day. Edited by Southwood, K. E., Weeks, S., and Williamson, H. G. M, LBHOTS. London: T&T Clark, 2025.
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I am delighted to have accepted membership of the editorial board for Bloomsbury's Library of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies series!
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Thank you.
The last of the Society for Old Testament Study conference papers is now happening: Oliver McTernan 'Biblical Scholarship and Contemporary Conflicts'
The third paper of the Society for Old Testament Studies today was my own: 'The Crisis of the Humanities and OT/HB Studies'.
The second of the Society for Old Testament Study conference papers was Charlotte Hempel: The Story of the Coins from Qumran.
The Society for Old Testament Study Winter Meeting is happening online!
The first paper Olga Y. Fabrikant-B.: Exegetical Sign-Acts in the Book of Jeremiah
I'm delighted to have accepted a position as a Research Fellow at UFS for 3 years!
Books I have published this year!
Congratulations, Candida!!!
Last lecture, the students came with presents (thanks!), and it was well-attended!
Dr Alexiana Fry spoke at today's crowded Hebrew Bible / Old Testament graduate seminar on: 'Trauma, Self-defence, and revenge in Esther'!
Lecture 7 of Michaelmas term!
It was a pleasure to hear a paper today by Professor Roseanne Liebermann (Aarhus University) on 'Animal Metaphors for Trauma and Illness in the Psalms'.
"Does Wisdom Have a Sense of Humour? Exploring Humour in Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, and Cognate Literatures", Edited by Alexander T. Kirk, Katherine E. Southwood. From the panel at SBL to the HEBAI publication link, below!
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Lecture 6 of Michaelmas term.
Lecture 5 of term: Creation mythologies.
There were approximately 35 people for the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament seminar today with Dr Rebekah Van Sant (Oxford): 'Deception, Subversion, and Femininity in the book of Esther and the Joseph Narrative'!
Lecture 4 of term: Diaspora, identity, and belonging.
There was standing room only today for Professor David Janzen's paper to the graduate seminar here in Oxford: 'Trauma Theories, Category Mistakes, and Postexilic Judah as a Traumatized Society'.
