New Approaches to Hebrew Philology
Middle Eastern Linguistics and Philology (Cambridge) & Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (Oxford)
Joint Seminar Series Convened by Geoffrey Khan, Dorota Molin, and Hindy Najman
Talks run from 14:30 to 16:00 each Monday in Room 7 (AMES, Cambridge) or the Harris Seminar Room* (Oriel College, Oxford) as noted below
Program for Lent Term, 2024
Please note that the first session is on the Monday immediately before the start of Lent Full Term
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Week 1 (15 Jan.) Cambridge, AMES, Room 7
Geoffrey Khan (Cambridge)
Remarks on the Biblical Hebrew Yiqtol FormWeek 2 (22 Jan.) Oxford, Oriel College, Harris Seminar Room
Vladimir Olivero (Cambridge)
The Importance of the Ancient Versions for the Description of Biblical HebrewWeek 3 (29 Jan.) Online Only (Zoom Meeting Hosted at Cambridge)
Christian Locatel (Cambridge)
Syntax and Hermeneutics: Relative Clauses and the Tiberian AccentsWeek 4 (5 Feb.) Oxford, Oriel College, Harris Seminar Room
Harald Samuel (Oxford)
Linguistic Variety in Qumran and the Quest for a Literary Standard LanguageWeek 5 (12 Feb.) Cambridge, AMES, Room 7
Ambjörn Sjörs (Cambridge)
Notes on Tense Shifting in the PsalmsWeek 6 (19 Feb.) Oxford, Oriel College, Harris Seminar Room
Dorota Molin (Oxford & Cambridge)
Word Order: Stylistic, Dialectal and Diachronic VariationWeek 7 (26 Feb.) Cambridge, AMES, Room 7
Ian Atkinson (Cambridge)
Poetic Structures and Word Order in Biblical HebrewWeek 8 (4 Mar.) Oxford, Oriel College, Harris Seminar Room
Roundtable Discussion – chaired by Ben Kantor, Geoffrey Khan, Dorota Molin and Hindy Najman
*At Oriel College, consult at the Porter’s lodge to get the 4-digit code to access the Harris Seminar Room.
If you have any questions about the HBOT sessions taking place in Oxford, please be in touch with the Oxford Centre for the Study of the Bible (ocsb@oriel.ox.ac.uk)
For questions about the MELP sessions running in Cambridge, please contact Paul Noorlander at AMES (pmn32@cam.ac.uk)