Monday, October 6, 4:30-6:00 (Location TBA): Kelli Gardner, PhD student in Hebrew Bible, will be presenting her paper, “Woman-as-City: A Reversed Trope in the Song of Songs.”

Monday, October 20, 4:30-6:00 (Location TBA): David Vanderhooft, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Boston College, will be presenting a paper entitled “Ezekiel in Babylon.”

Monday, October 27, 4:30-6:00 (Location TBA): Naphtali Meshel, Assistant Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies at Princeton University, will be presenting a paper entitled “The Other Grammurs.”

Monday, November 10, 4:30-6:00 (Location TBA): Matt Richey, PhD student in NELC, will present a paper entitled “Local Northwest Semitic Scripts of the Early Iron Age.”

Wednesday, December 3, 4:30-6:00 (Location TBA): In honor of the recent publication of books by Prof. Jeffrey Stackert (A Prophet Like Moses: Prophecy, Law, and Israelite Religion) and Prof. Simeon Chavel (Oracular Law and Priestly  Historiography in the Torah), the workshop will be hosting a book party. Two students, Nathan Mastnjak, PhD student in NELC, and Richard Zaleski, PhD student in New Testament, will offer brief remarks in response to the books, which will be followed by light refreshments and informal conversation.