Fridays, 11:10am, in the Martin Hall unless otherwise stated All welcome. For enquiries, please contact Dr Peter Atkins: peter.atkins@ed.ac.uk Semester 1: Autumn 2025 DateSpeaker(s)Topic18 SeptemberIn-Person and Online Divinity Cross-School Seminar: Religion and PlaceRegister25 September Divinity All School Seminar: Book Launch of Bruce Gordon’s “The Bible: A Global History”3 OctoberSuzanna Millar (University of Edinburgh)“Recent Research on Biblical Beasts: Reflections on the Oxford Handbook of the Bible and Animals”10 OctoberSandra Jacobs (Leo Baeck College & King’s College London)“Women’s Financial Agency in the Persian Period: A Glimpse Outside the Hebrew Bible” [on Zoom]24 OctoberDoren Snoek (University of St Andrews)“Odysseus’ Scar, Aqhatu’s Bow, and Taxonomy in the Hebrew Bible”7 November Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, University of Cardiff “The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of EgyptJoint event with New College Festival of Books and BeliefRegister28 NovemberSam Newington (University of Aberdeen)“Cosmic Beautification and Defilement in Greek and Biblical Creation Narratives” This article was published on 2024-03-19
