NTC Research Seminar

Theology. On 13th Nov, Lydia Nelson will give a paper "Identity in Womanist Theological Perspective" at the research seminar of our partner institution, Nazarene Theological College. 4-5pm, Hybrid mode. For information on how to attend please contact Dr Samuel Hildebrandt.

Podcast

Biblical studies. Sarah Parkhouse has spoken with Helen Bond and Dave Roos about the Gospel of Mary on the Biblical Time Machine podcast. Further information.

Nazarene Theological College Updates

 

Partner Institution. Jacob Lett (NTC) presented the paper “An Evangelical Analogia Entis?” at the Tyndale Fellowship in July which will be published as “Toward an Analogia Sanctificationis: Reconsidering Protestant Response to the Analogia Entis,” in Participatio: Journal of the Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship. Samuel Hildebrandt (NTC) was co–chair and presenter (“Positive Loneliness in Lamentations”) at the new research unit “Loneliness in the Biblical World” at ISBL Amsterdam in August and also presented “The Myths of Maths: A Reception History of the Numbers in Numbers 1” at the SOTS Summer Meeting in Oxford. Assisted by Kengoro Goto (PhD–Candidate, NTC), he also saw the first SOTS Book List under his editorship released in July 2024.

Teaching Away Day

Teaching. Holly Morse and Katja Stuerzenhofecker led staff in a teaching away day on 11 September. The theme was ‘approaches to current and future challenges’. The day undertook a holistic review of R&T teaching practice, learning outcomes and assessment, flexible learning and universal design, and DASS and EDI initiatives, and a range of guest speakers from across the University were invited to join. Ketso was used to encourage creative thinking about collaboration about these topics.

New Publication

Biblical studies. Siobhán Jolley has published "A Broken Record? A Feminist Exploration of Mary Magdalene in Music" in The Oxford Handbook of Mary Magdalene, edited by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). Further information.

NTC Research Seminar

Biblical Studies. On 9th Oct, Peter Oakes will give a paper "Encountering Early Manuscripts of Philippians" at the Nazarene Theological College research seminar, 4-5pm. Hybrid. For information on how to attend please contact Dr Samuel Hildebrandt.

Social Anthropology Seminar

Religion and Anthropology. On 14 Oct, Malgorzata Stelmaszyk will present "Living the Dream: Nania Shamanic Experiments and Porous Engagements in the Siberian Far East" at the Social Anthropology Research Seminar. 3-5pm, Humanities Bridgeford Street, Hanson Room (in person only).

NTC Research Seminar

Biblical Studies. On 2nd Oct, MiJa Wi will give a paper "Intercultural Church as a Direction of Travel: Exploring the Journey of a Korean Diaspora Church in the UK" at the research seminar of our partner institution, Nazarene Theological College. 4-5pm, hybrid mode. For information on how to attend please contact Dr Samuel Hildebrandt.

Radio 4, Sunday Programme

Jewish education. Our MA student Yehudis Fletcher is interviewed by Edward Stourton about her charity’s report on the state of Charedi or ultra-Orthodox Jewish schooling. 15 Sept 2024. Interview runs 10:55-15:33. Listen again.

Conference Paper

Jewish studies. HRF Helen Jacobus will be speaking on "The Zodiac in Ancient and Late Antique Judaism" in a workshop entitled 'The Ancient Zodiac in a Cross-Cultural Perspective', as part of the ERC funded project in Berlin: Zodiac - Ancient Astral Science in Transformation at the Institute for the History of Knowledge of the Ancient World, Freie Universität Berlin, 2-4 October 2024. Further information.

New Publication

Biblical studies. George J. Brooke has published "The Performance of Scripture in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament," in Qumran and the New Testament, edited by Jörg Frey, BETL 340 (Leuven: Peeters, 2024), pp. 181-97. Further information.

New Publication

South Asian studies. Honorary Research Fellow John Zavos has a joint authored article in recently published Routledge Handbook of Translation and Migration, edited by Brigid Maher, Loredana Polezzi and Rita Wilson. The contribution is called 'Belonging in the multilingual city: South Asian cultures of religious service in contemporary Britain’. It is co-authored by John Zavos & Hephzibah Israel. Further information.

Conference Paper

Religion and AI. Scott Midson presented a paper titled ‘All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace?’ at the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture 21st biennial conference, 5-8 September 2024, in Skørping under the auspices of Aarhus University, Denmark. Further information.

Social responsibility, Austria

Engaging with international education. Michael Hoelzl has been appointed as a school governor at Lise Meitner Realgymnasium Schottenbastei in Vienna for a three-year period. The special mission of the school is to encourage female pupils to student STEM subjects. Further information.

Social responsibility, Austria

Catholic Studies. Michael Hoelzl is an external advisor to the academic board of the Catholic Social Academy (ksoe) in Vienna.

Social responsibility

Jewish Studies. R&T's MA student Yehudis Fletcher is interviewed in the Jewish Chronicle in relation to her charity's call for further regulation of schools within the Charedi Jewish community, sometimes known as the ultra-Orthodox community. Critical of some aspects of Charedi education she considers the "deliberate denial of secular education" to be a form of "inward-facing extremism," which she believes is detrimental to the community's future. 11 Sept 2024. Further information.

Didsbury Lectures 2024

Christian Theology. The 2024 Didsbury Lectures “Accordance with the Scriptures: The Shape of Christian Theology” are presented by Rev. Prof John Behr, Regius Chair in Humanity at the University of Aberdeen. 14th–17th October at 7.30–8.45pm each evening. Registration is free of charge but mandatory. More information about this lecture series, registration, and previous Didsbury Lectures can be found here. For further inquiries, please contact info@nazarene.ac.uk.

New Publication

Islamic studies. Tom Woerner-Powell has guest-edited a special edition of the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence (Brill) concerned with Muslim approaches to nonviolence. He is co-author of two papers in the edition - one with prominent moral philosopher of nonviolence Andrew Fiala and the other with founder of the academic field of Muslim Peace Studies Mohammed Abu-Nimer. Further information.

Spotlight on Rabun Maroof, alumnus

Religious studies and politics. Rabun Maroof was a student on our BA & MA programmes in Philosophy and Religious Studies 2005-2011 before he returned home to Kurdistan and Iraq. For several years he lectured in philosophy at Salahaddin University, and then became involved in politics, becoming a member of the Kurdistan Parliament, 2013-2018, and leader of the Change Movement Group. He then was appointed as a member of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, 2018-2022, where he was leader of the New Generation Movement. Today he lives in the UK.

Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies

Biblical Studies. Emeritus Professor George J. Brooke has been awarded the highly prestigious 2024 Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies from the British Academy. His field of expertise spans early Judaism and early Christianity, with particular specialism in the Dead Sea Scrolls and their significance for biblical studies. Prof. Brooke said: "I am greatly surprised and honoured to be awarded the British Academy’s Burkitt Medal for 2024. It is a great joy to me that those who nominated me and who ratified the nomination have so strongly affirmed that an academic career spent mostly with the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Jewish literature of the Second Temple period is of major significance for the study of the New Testament and related texts. Indeed, here is an indication that the New Testament must itself be considered in many fundamental respects as Jewish literature. I am enormously grateful to the Academy for bestowing this significant, internationally-renowned award on me."

International Lecture

Biblical studies. Dr Andrew Boakye gave a lecture for church teachers and ministers from the Churches of Christ on unity and conflict resolution based on the Jerusalem Synod of Acts 15 in Tallinn, Estonia on August 16th, 2024. Further information.