Past seminars

When	Time	Description	Location
22 November 2023	13:30	Decolonising New Testament studies in India Full details	Online
13 November 2023	11:30	Decolonizing the New Testament Texts: A Postcolonial Task/Strategy Full details	Online
16 October 2023	14:00	Pregnancy and Perils: Maternal and Child Health in Luke 1-2 and Its Relevance for Contemporary Challenges, Dr Ma. Marilou S. Ibita, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, and KU Leuven, Belgium Full details	Online
22 June 2023	15:00	Reconsidering the Task, Methods and Aims of Reading the Gospels in the Present Myanmar Context Full details
11 May 2023	15:30	Memory in Early Christian Writings: Between Social and Theological Assessment Full details	Building:One Syndicate Room B
28 November 2022	15:30	Reading Scripture in Latin America: An Evangelical Perspective From the Grassroots Full details	Online
26 May 2022	14:00	Centre for Biblical Studies Research Seminar: God’s Body and Bodies in the Hebrew Bible Full details	Queens Building LT1
2 March 2022	15:00	Centre for Biblical Studies Research Seminar: Dr Jamie Davies, Trinity College Bristol, “Revelation 12–13 and ’systemic’ evil”. Full details	Online, MS Teams
26 January 2022	15:00	The Visual Commentary on Scripture Project Full details	Online, MS Teams
9 June 2021	15:00	Dr Jon Morgan, Honorary Research Fellow Full details	Online event
5 May 2021	15:00	Dr Angela Parker, McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University Full details	Online event
24 March 2021	15:00	Centre for Biblical Studies Research Seminar with Prof Jennifer Strawbridge (University of Oxford) Full details	Online event
24 February 2021	15:00	Centre for Biblical Studies Research Seminar with Dr Ellena Lyell (University of Exeter), Full details	Online event
24 November 2020	15:00	Biblical studies and the Covid Pandemic Full details	Online event
27 October 2020	16:00	Chloe Church, “Receiving the Word in Image: Federico Zuccaro’s The Annunciation Broadcast By Prophets (1565) and the Reception History of the Bible in the Counter-Reformation Full details	Online event
6 April 2020	9:00	Popular Visual Media and the Bible Full details
14 May 2019	16:00	Workshop on Autism and Biblical Studies Full details	XFI Conference Room 1
24 January 2019	13:30	Paul, Peter, and Slaves: Texts and Contexts seminar with Professor Todd Still (Baylor University, US) Full details	Queens Building D
28 November 2018	13:30	Dr Ralph Hochschild, Rich Fool or Rich Farmer? A social-scientific reading of Lk 12: 13-21 Full details	XFI Seminar Room C
19 June 2018	13:30	Centre for Biblical Studies Research Seminar Full details	Building:One Syndicate Room B
21 March 2018	13:00	Centre for Biblical Studies research seminar Full details	Peter Chalk Centre 2.5
14 December 2017	10:30	Holocaust Memorials, Sacrality, and the Biblical Full details	Building:One Syndicate Room B
24 May 2017	15:00	Current Affairs and Biblical Studies Postgraduate Training Workshop Full details	Amory A115
10 May 2017	13:30	Misinterpreter or Critical Resource? Reading Paul with Martin Luther after 500 Years Full details	Amory A239C
23 February 2017	13:00	Memorials of death and mysteries of life: Insights from Pompeii Full details	Peter Chalk Centre 2.4
6 December 2016	15:30	Video Gaming's Reception of The Binding of Isaac, Rebekah Welton (Exeter) Full details	Amory B142
8 November 2016	13:30	Teaching and Torah: The Didache as a First-Century Witness to the Role of Law in Christian Life Full details	XFI Seminar Room C
26 October 2016	13:30	Who are we? A Narrative Analysis of the Identity Formation Processes in Philippians Full details	XFI Seminar Room C
9 - 11 August 2016		Ethnicity/Race/Religion: Identities, Ideologies, and Intersections in Biblical Texts and Interpretation Full details	centre for Biblical Studies
15 June 2016	14:30	Reading Ephesians Full details	XFI Board Room
18 May 2016	12:00	The Influence of the Bible in shaping the negative viewpoint of Korean Christians towards nature Full details	XFI Seminar Room C
16 March 2016	16:00	Love Sechrest, in Conversation Full details	XFI Seminar Room C
29 February 2016	10:30	Why Paul Adopted a 'Weakness Lifestyle', Leanna Rierson Full details	XFI Seminar Room C
11 February 2016	10:15	'Ordinary' Christians and the Bible Full details	The Deanery, Exeter Cathedral
21 September 2015	13:00	New Testament Research Group Meeting Full details	Amory B315
28 May 2015	14:00	Women and Children in the earliest House Churches Full details	Building:One Syndicate Room B
26 - 27 March 2015		Exodus and the 21st Century Bible Film Full details
10 December 2014	14:00	Bowls and the Bible Full details	Old Library 136
7 October 2014	14:00	"Killing Enmity": The Enigma of Violence in the New Testament Full details	Queens Building N
11 June 2014	16:15	Paul and the Corruption of Creation: Romans 8 and Genesis 3 Full details	Amory B218
2 April 2014	10:00	Day Workshop Full details	XFI Seminar Room B
5 December 2013	15:00	Biblical proof-texting and the nuclear age Full details	Amory A239AB
16 October 2013	16:00	An ecclesiology in Acts? Full details	Amory B218
2 October 2013	16:00	Judaism or Judaisms? – Some Critical Reflections on a New Trend in Biblical Scholarship Full details	Amory B218
18 June 2013	17:30	A Social Identity Theory Approach to Identities and Beliefs Illustrated with New Testament and Contemporary Applications Full details	XFI Henderson Lecture Theatre
12 June 2013	16:00	Early Christian Meeting Places: Continuing the Conversation Full details	Amory A239AB
22 May 2013	12:00	'The ritual performance of difference in Ezra 9-10' Full details	Amory A239AB
6 March 2013	16:00	'Like the Birds of the Sky and the Lilies of the Fields': An Orthodox Eco-Exegetical Reading of Matthew 6:25-34 in an Age of Anxiety Full details	Amory, SWMTC Library (room 255)
5 March 2013	15:00	Paul and the Imperial Cults in Thessaloniki Full details	Newman Collaborative Lecture Theatre (C/D)
19 February 2013	12:00	"The Jewish People, Hardened in Unbelief": The Changing Interpretations of 1 Pet 2.4-10 in German New Testament Scholarship 1855-1978 Full details	Amory, SWMTC Library (room 255)
19 February 2013	10:30	Sense and Stigma: "Sensory-Disabled" Characters in the Gospels Full details	Amory, SWMTC Library (room 255)
22 May 2012	12:00	"Beyond the lost: Slaves in the Lukan parables" and "The Thessalonian Correspondence: Insights into current issues in British and German research" Full details	Amory A239C
8 May 2012	17:00	"Waking the Dead: Religion, Secularism, and Coping with Corpses" Full details	Queens Building LT2
8 May 2012	14:00	Is an Ecological Reading of Lamentations Possible? An Embodied, Dialogic Exploration of Lamentations 1 Full details
27 March 2012	15:30	Place, Pilgrimage and Promise: the Bible in a time of global environmental crisis Full details	Amory B308
27 March 2012	14:00	An Ecological Reading of Paul Full details	Amory B308
6 March 2012	14:00	The Erotic Life of Manuscripts: A History of NT Textual Criticism and the Biological Sciences Full details	Amory B402
31 January 2012	14:00	Re-envisioning the Olympic Games: Paul's Use of Athletic Imagery in Philippians Full details	Amory
7 December 2011	16:00	The Mormon Canaanite: Biblical Scholarship, Evangelicals, and the Other Full details	Amory, SWMTC Library (room 255)
21 October 2011	10:00	The KJV: Origins and Influence Full details	Kay Building
15 June 2011	14:00	"Almost Exclusively Houses"? Early Christian Meeting Places Full details
9 March 2011	12:00	"For Good Remembrance before God in this Place": An Analysis of the Votive Inscriptions from Mount Gerizim Full details	Amory, SWMTC Library (room 255)
26 January 2011	16:00	John Barclay in informal conversation Full details
8 December 2010	16:00	Ekphrasis: its rhetorical dimensions and cultural assumptions Full details	Queens Building 1E
3 November 2010	15:00	The Bible's Buried Secrets: Biblical Scholarship on TV Full details
3 November 2010	13:30	Studies of Paul and Poverty: Reactions to Bruce Longenecker’s Remember the Poor: Paul, Poverty and the Greco-Roman World (Eerdmans, 2010) Full details
10 November 2009	15:00	The House Church in the Book of Acts Full details	Amory, SWMTC Library (room 255)
10 November 2009	13:00	Folk religion, goddess worship, and dealing with the dead: On the popularity of popular religion Full details	Amory, SWMTC Library (room 255)
22 October 2009		An Ecological Reading of the Gospel of Matthew Full details
22 October 2009		What are pre-modern readings of the Bible and why should we bother? Full details
17 June 2009	14:00	Treason, Treason: A Case of Illicit Masculinity in 2 Kings 11 Full details
17 June 2009	12:00	The proper way to divorce a demon Full details
15 October 2008	14:00	Ancestor ideologies and the territoriality of the dead in the Hebrew Bible Full details

Listed below are the previous seminars the Centre has held.