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.
- 2024–25 Charlotte Hempel
- 2023-24 Jeremy Hutton, Of Prophets, Prepositions, and Passing Water: Dialectal Evidence for the Northern Heritage of Samuel–Kings
- 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
