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Semester 2: Spring 2025
| Date | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| 31 January | Casey Strine (University of Sheffield) | “Dim? Narrow? Non-existent? Ezekiel’s View on the Restoration of Israel” |
Tuesday 11 February 4:10pm | Jakub Zbrzezny (University of Aberdeen) and Ahmad Hroub (Independent Scholar) | “(A) Reading (of) the Bible among Muslims of the rural West Bank: Initial Outcomes and Prospective Directions” (Joint session with Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations using ICMR Zoom information) |
28 February (Held on Zoom only) | Emily Gathergood (University of Nottingham) | “Not Killing Eve: Divine Midwifery in the Eschatological Age” |
| 14 March | William Tooman (University of St Andrews) | “Crafting Complexity: Character Comparison/Contrast in Ancient Greek and Hebrew Literature” |
| 21 March | Alison Jack (University of Edinburgh) | “The Bible in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney” |
| 28 March | Matthew Novenson, Princeton Theological Seminary “The Universal Polytheism and the Case of the Apostle Paul” Followed by Drinks Reception |
Semester 1: Autumn 2024
| Date | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| 27 September | Stuart Weeks (Durham Univeristy) | “Why Do We Read Qohelet the Ways We Do?” |
| 11 October | Helen Bond (The University of Edinburgh) | “Life Writing and the Fall of Jerusalem: Mark’s Gospel in its Historical and Literary Context” |
| Wednesday 16 October | Book Launch of: 'David Grumett, The Bible and Farm Animal Welfare' & Arthur Walker-Jones and Suzanna Millar, 'Ask the Animals: Developing a Biblical Animal Hermeneutic' (Joint session with Theology & Ethics and CTPI) | |
| 25 October | Holly Morse (University of Manchester) | “Seeing Hidden Crimes: Visual Art as Witness to Violence against Biblical Women” |
| 1 November | Nathanael Vette (University of Edinburgh) | “Noon of the Living Dead: Romans Omens and Matthew’s Zombie Apocalypse (Matt 27:51-53)” |
| 22 November | Decolonising Biblical Studies Postgraduate Reading Group |