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The Tyrwhitt Lecture

The Tyrwhitt lecture is an annual named lecture in Old Testament studies. Robert Tyrwhitt (1735–1817) was sometime fellow at Jesus College and, after resigning his fellowship, a prominent Unitarian. He left £4,000 to the university to support the study of Hebrew.

 

 

  • 2023-24 Jeremy Hutton
  • 2022-23 Yvonne Sherwood, Figures of the Bible and the Book in Colonial Contexts
  • 2021-22 Hugh Williamson, Righteousness in the Book of Isaiah 
  • 2019–20 Loren Stuckenbruck, Recent Developments in Text-Critical Work on the Ge'ez Book of Enoch 
  • 2017–18 John Barton, Theology of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: Jewish and ChristianApproaches
  • 2016–17 Carol Newsom, Sin Consciousness, Self-Alienation, and the Origins of the Introspective Self 
  • 2015-16 Konrad Schmid, How Can the Book of Jeremiah be Dated? Combining and Modifying Linguistic- and Profile-Based Approach
  • 2014–15 Reinhard Kratz, The Old Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • 2013–14 Martti Nissinen, How Mesopotamian love literature helps to understand the Song of Songs
  • 2012–13 Ellen van Wolde, The God Ezekiel envisions
  • 2011–12 Mervyn E.J. Richardson, The Influence of Lexicographers on our Understanding of Biblia Hebraica
  • 2010–11 David Carr, Orientation points in the formation of the Old Testament
  • 2009–10 Robert Hayward, Food, the animals, and human dignity in Jewish perspective: the evidence of the Aramaic Targum
  • 2008–09 George Brooke, The apocalyptic community, the matrix of the teacher, and rewriting scripture
  • 2007–08 Ed Noort, Death and justice: shifting paradigms in the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism
  • 2006–07 Bernd Janowski, The God of Israel and the dead: a historical survey of religion and theology
  • 2005–06 Zipora Talshir, Synchronic and diachronic approaches in the study of the Hebrew Bible
  • 2004–05 Andre Lemaire, Hebrew and Aramaic Inscriptions and the Old Testament
  • 2003–04 Kevin Cathcart, Loanwords in Biblical Hebrew and the dating of Biblical texts

 

 

 

 

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