THREE DAY-CONFERENCES:

The first, on Temple Music: Meaning and Influence, organized by Margaret Barker, to be held on Saturday 30 May 2009 at the Temple Church in London.

THe second, on the Septuagint at Heythrop College:

LOST IN TRANSLATION: STUDIES OF THE SEPTUAGINT AND BEYOND IN HONOUR OF JENNY DINES

A One Day Conference
Heythrop College, University of London

All papers will take place in the Walker, 2nd Floor, Main Building

Wednesday 24th of June 2009

9:30-10:10: Registration and Tea/Coffee (Walker Room)

The morning papers will be chaired by Dr Ann Jeffers, Heythrop College.

10:10: Introduction

10:10-10:50: Sarah Pearce, University of Southampton.
"Philo's 'Family Values'".

10:50-11:30: Charlotte Hempel, University of Birmingham. The Qumran Yahad in Recent Scholarship.

11:30-12:20: Tessa Rajak, University of Reading.
'Ancestral Laws: What Josephus Made of the Greek
Bible.'

12:20-1:00: Deborah Rooke, King’s College, London
‘Susanna in Handel's Oratorio’.

Lunch – provided (Walker Room)

The afternoon papers will be chaired by Dr Bridget Gilfillan Upton

1:50-2:30: Jim Aitken, CJCR, Cambridge
'The Septuagint and "Alexandrian" scholarship'.

2:30-3:10: Gillian Greenberg, University College London
'Literary Initiative in the Peshitta'.

3:10-3:50: Sean Ryan, Heythrop College.
‘Dislocated Locusts: Re-visions of Joel & Amos in
Revelation 9’

3:50-4:30: Jonathan Norton, Heythrop College. ‘Psuche, Pneuma, and Paul's Rhetorical Surprise’.

4:30 Tea and departure

I can't reproduce the registration form here, but the contact info is:

Ms Mariann Jakab
Heythrop College
University of London
Kensington Square
London W8 5HQ

m.jakab@heythrop.ac.uk
020 7795 4201

Third, a reminder of the Dead Sea Scrolls Conference at Kings College London, for which the registration deadline is 1 May.

All three via Deborah Rooke on the SOTS list.