Monday, October 7th, 4:30-6:00pm in Swift 200, Cathleen Chopra-McGowan, PhD student in Hebrew Bible at the Divinity School, will present a paper entitled, “Festivals and the Promotion of Political Ideology in the Hebrew Bible.”
Monday, October 21st, 2:30-4:00 in Swift 106, Joel Baden, Associate Professor of Old Testament at Yale Divinity School, will present a paper entitled, “Leviticus 16: What’s in a Layer?”
Thursday, November 7th, 4:30-6:00 in Swift 208, Nathan Mastnjak, PhD student in NELC, will present a paper entitled, “The Transformation of Deuteronomy in Jeremiah.”
Monday, December 9th, 4:30-6:00 in Swift 403, James Covington, PhD student in New Testament at the Divinity School, will present his paper entitled, “How to Do Things with God’s Words: Translation Techniques of Divine Speech Acts in LXX Genesis.” Co-Sponsored by the Early Christian Studies Workshop.