Hebrew, Jewish and Early Christian Studies Research Seminar

This seminar meets on Mondays at 2.30pm. Convenor: Professor James Carleton Paget. 

Papers at the seminar range over Hebrew and Jewish studies, on topics from the Greek and Roman periods onwards, and Roman-period Christianity in its Jewish setting. 

Foci of interest from time to time have included:

• Philo and Josephus; 
• Jewish inscriptions and papyri;
• Rabbinic texts; 
• Jewish biblical interpretation; 
• Greek-speaking Judaism from ancient to modern times;
• Hebrew, Greek and Latin as Jewish languages; 
• Jewish aspects of New Testament and patristic writings;
• Jews and Christians in the Roman empire; 
• Roman Judaea; 
• Mediaeval Jewish-Christian relations; Hebrew in the church;
• Jewish and Christian prayer and hymnody;
• The history of the synagogue; 
• Early modern reaction to Jewish mysticism, and 
• Byzantine Hebrew literature.