New Testament Research Seminars
The New Testament Research Seminar has a long and distinguished history, dating back to its establishment under FC Burkitt in c. 1912. Membership then, which was by invitation, was for Cambridge academics, not just from Theology but also from related disciplines, and visitors from other Universities also attended; of those days an early member wrote:
"After all it was terrifying, if you were unlearned and a newcomer, to take your place at that table, or to sit on a chair at the other end of the room and gaze on the learned from afar."
Our purpose is still shared serious academic engagement, but we hope it is somewhat less terrifying.
Members are drawn from the Faculty and others with a specialist interest in the field in Cambridge, as well as from visiting scholars spending time in Cambridge; graduate students in the field are valued members, and participation in the Seminar is a core element of the research programme for doctoral students.
Papers cover a wide range of themes and approaches within the general field of New Testament study, including the wider context of the history and thought of the period and of early Christianity, and are followed by extensive discussion. Speakers come from Cambridge, from other universities in the UK, and from overseas.
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NEW TESTAMENT RESEARCH SEMINAR EASTER TERM 2025
Tuesdays in even weeks, 4:00-5:30pm, Lightfoot Room
Prof. Simon Gathercole (sjg1007@cam.ac.uk)
There will be an extra New Testament seminar in what is known in Oxford as “noughth week”.
On Tuesday 29th April, John Kloppenborg will be giving a paper:
“Cultic Associations in Mediterranean Antiquity?”
This will be at the usual time of 4pm—5.30pm in the Lightfoot Room.
The other meetings will be:
13th May James Crossley “The Next Quest of the Historical Jesus”
27th May Peter Head tba.
All welcome