While I am no longer in Durham (and now an alum! Yeah for being done!) I was pleased to hear that they will have an excellent group of presenters for the NT seminar this term (see below). Note: John Barclay is not presenting as he is on leave. Loren Stuckenbruck, as I have announced some time ago, has moved back to America to teach at Princeton.
Programme:
12 October Prof Francis Watson: “Rethinking Gospel Origins”
19 October Dr Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer: “Philo and the
Septuagint”
26 October Dr Lutz Doering: tbc
2 November Prof John Riches: “What is ‘precritical
interpretation’?”
9 November Dr Tony Cummins: “Gospel Narrative and Cultural
Criticism: Reading the Gospel of John in a Secular World”
16 November Prof Larry Hurtado: “Jesus and God in the New
Testament”
23 November NO SEMINAR
30 November Dr Wendy Sproston: tbc
7 December Dr Stephen Barton: “Eschatology and the Emotions
in Early
Christianity”
14 December Dr Bill Telford: “Mark’s Portrait of Jesus”