Archived Research Seminar 2025-26
TCBS Research Seminar 2025-26
Michaelmas Term
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.
Hilary Term
January 19th, 3pm, Freyne Library, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies and online – Round-table discussion of Gregory R. Lanier, ‘As It Is Written’ … Where? Examining Generic Citations of Scripture in the New Testament. Journal for the Study of the New Testament 2021, Vol. 43(4) 570–604.
January 26th, 3pm, Freyne Library, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies and online – Hairuo Wang and Catherine Swift (QUIP session)
February 9th, 3pm, Freyne Library, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies and online – Andrew Perrin (Athabasca University, Canada) – Rethinking the Scope and Setting of a Fragmentary Daniel Manuscript from Qumran Cave Four.
February 23rd, 3pm, Freyne Library, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies and online – Krueger Tumiwa and Ivan Petrovski (QUIP session)
March 9th, 3pm, Freyne Library, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies and online – Ivy Lin and Cameron Mack (QUIP session)
March 23rd, 3pm, Freyne Library, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies and online – Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki) – Working the god(s)' garden: Conceptualization of Divine Work in its Persian and ANE context.
April 13th, 3pm, Freyne Library, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies and online – Garrett Galvin (Franciscan School of Theology, California) – Goodness, Blessing, and Order: The Influence of Genesis 1 on the Book of Genesis.
May 14-16th, The Light of the Word: Exploring Stained Glass and the Bible, an international interdisciplinary symposium.