Universities of Durham, Manchester and Sheffield
Biblical Studies Postgraduate Training Day
Thursday 1st May 2014
Renold Building, North Campus, University of Manchester
(http://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=6507 Building Number 8)
From 10.15 Coffee, Renold Building Enigma Café (Ground Floor C)
Renold Building Room F6 (Third Floor)
NEW TESTAMENT APART FROM PAUL
Chair: Peter Oakes
11.00 Yoonjong Kim (Manchester)
Applying Psychological Criticism to the New Testament:
A Methodological Consideration
11.25 Tiffany Webster (Sheffield)
Exegetical Mapping: An Experiment in Developing a Discipline-Specific
Participatory Visual Research Tool for Use in Contextual Biblical Study
11.50 Francis Cousins (Durham)
Use of ζήτησις (seeking, debate) in Acts 15
12.15 Katie Girsch (Durham)
“Begotten with Imperishable Seed”:
Ethnicity and Procreative Imagery in 1 Peter 1
12.40 Lunch
PAUL
Chair: Todd Klutz
13.50 Benedict Kent (Manchester)
Pauls’ Christology and the Language of Roman Patronage:
Power Dynamics in Phil. 2:6-11.
14.15 Robbie Giggs (Durham)
Galatians: Life-Giving Death
14.40 David Harvey (Manchester)
Honour and Shame
15.05 Jeannette Hagen (Durham)
Participation by Faith: An Exegetical Examination of 1 Corinthians
15.30 Bus/Walk to South Campus
Further optional part of the programme:
Samuel Alexander Building A7, South Campus
16.00 William Tooman (St Andrews)
Reflections on Diachronic and Synchronic Approaches to Hebrew Biblical
Texts
17.30 Drinks in the Kro Bar (Oxford Road)
Renold Building Room G6 (Fourth Floor)
HEBREW BIBLE/OLD TESTAMENT
Chair: George Brooke
11.00 Paul Jones (Durham)
Have You Heard the One about Two Prophets, a Donkey and a Lion?
A Reading of 1 Kings 13
11.25 Hilary Perry (Sheffield)
105 Years Not Out: Israel in the Afterlife of the Scofield Reference Bible
11.50 Jiseong Kwon (Durham)
Divine Control in Job and Deutero-Isaiah
12.15 General Discussion
12.40 Lunch
POST-BIBLICAL
Chair: Maria Haralambakis
13.50 Jessica Keady (Manchester)
Towards Gendered Social Realities: The Constructions of Everyday Impurities
in the Laws of the Damascus Document
14.15 Barry Hartog (Leuven/Manchester)
4Q163 from a Greek Perspective
14.40 Deok Hee Jung (Sheffield)
Oikoumenē in Graeco-Roman and Jewish Contexts
15.05 Katie Woolstenhulme (Durham)
Matriarchal Barrenness in Genesis Rabbah
15.30 Bus/Walk to South Campus
Further optional part of the programme:
Samuel Alexander Building A7, South Campus
16.00 William Tooman (St Andrews)
Reflections on Diachronic and Synchronic Approaches to Hebrew Biblical
Texts
17.30 Drinks in the Kro Bar (Oxford Road)