Biblical Studies Post-graduate Research Seminar
2025 (Michaelmas Term 2025 - 2026)
September 11th (Thursday), 1pm, Trinity Dining Hall – Lunch – Academic staff associated with the centre are looking forward to meeting and catching up with each other and new and continuing research students as we enter a new academic year.
September 29th, 3pm, Freyne Library and online, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies – Round-table discussion of Gilders, W. K. (2006). Why Does Eleazar Sprinkle The Red Cow Blood? Making Sense of a Biblical ritual. The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 6. https://doi.org/10.5508/jhs.2006.v6.a9.
October 13th, 3pm, Freyne Library and online, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies – Viktor Ber (University of South Bohemia) – ‘Capital Offenses in Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible and the Targumim’
November 3rd, 3pm, Freyne Library and online, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies – Rachel Wilkowski (TCD) – ‘Male and Female in Contemporary Children's Bibles: A Cross-Confessional Analysis’ and Irene Barbotti (TCD) – ‘Beatitudes and Woes in the Architecture of Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian Texts’
November 17th, 3pm, Freyne Library and online, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies – Stephen Carlson (Australia Catholic University) – ‘Angels Arrayed in the Heavenly Host: A New Look at the Elements of the Cosmos in Gal 3:4’
December 8th, 3pm, Freyne Library and online, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies – Round-table discussion of Boyarin, Daniel. ‘Semantic Differences, or “Judaism”/“Christianity”’. In: Words: Religious Language Matters, edited by Ernst van den Hemel and Asja Szafraniec, New York, USA: Fordham University Press, 2016, pp. 163-176.
For further information please contact the Director, Prof David Shepherd at shepherd@tcd.ie.