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

• Week 1 (15 Jan.) Cambridge, AMES, Room 7
  Geoffrey Khan (Cambridge)
  Remarks on the Biblical Hebrew Yiqtol Form

  Week 2 (22 Jan.) Oxford, Oriel College, Harris Seminar Room
  Vladimir Olivero (Cambridge)
  The Importance of the Ancient Versions for the Description of Biblical Hebrew

  Week 3 (29 Jan.) Online Only (Zoom Meeting Hosted at Cambridge)
  Christian Locatel (Cambridge)
  Syntax and Hermeneutics: Relative Clauses and the Tiberian Accents

  Week 4 (5 Feb.) Oxford, Oriel College, Harris Seminar Room
  Harald Samuel (Oxford)
  Linguistic Variety in Qumran and the Quest for a Literary Standard Language

  Week 5 (12 Feb.) Cambridge, AMES, Room 7
  Ambjörn Sjörs (Cambridge)
  Notes on Tense Shifting in the Psalms

  Week 6 (19 Feb.) Oxford, Oriel College, Harris Seminar Room
  Dorota Molin (Oxford & Cambridge)
  Word Order: Stylistic, Dialectal and Diachronic Variation

  Week 7 (26 Feb.) Cambridge, AMES, Room 7
  Ian Atkinson (Cambridge)
  Poetic Structures and Word Order in Biblical Hebrew

  Week 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)