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Friday, March 02, 2012

Second St. Andrews Graduate Conference

FOLLOWING UP last year's highly successful conference, for which a conference volume is now in the making:
The 2nd St Andrews Graduate Conference for Biblical and Early Christian Studies
Manuscripts and their Texts: Perspectives on Textual Criticism - 8-9 June 2012


St Mary's College, University of St Andrews

Call for Papers
The program thus far:
With an emphasis on textual criticism, the second St Andrews Graduate Conference for Biblical and Early Christian Studies is aimed at graduate students and early career scholars. Contributors are welcomed from the following fields of research: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible, Pseudepigrapha & Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, and Early Christianity.

We have four invited plenary speakers:

Prof. Kristin De Troyer (St Andrews)
Dr. Johannes Magliano-Tromp (Leiden)
Dr. Peter M. Head (Cambridge)
Prof. Karla Pollmann (St Andrews)

We will also have a special invited lecture from Dr. Grant Macaskill (St Andrews), on his edition of the Slavonic text of 2 Enoch.

Conference sessions will be chaired by plenary speakers followed by papers grouped by topic.
The deadline for paper proposals is 20 March. Follow the relevant link above for more information.

More on last year's conference here.