Katherine Southwood
@katherinesouthwood
Professor of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament, University of Oxford. CV:
The next paper is: Walter Moberly, ‘Creation and Fall: Towards Understanding Genesis 1-3’
The next paper is Gary A. Rendsburg, ‘Towards a New Ugaritic Dictionary’
Moritz Franz Adam, ‘What is an Author? Authorship and Ambiguity between Classical and Jewish Literature’
The second paper of the conference is Kengoro Goto, ‘How to Identify Northern Hebrew Features with New Criteria: Examples and Benefits’
The morning of the conference has begun with Sarah Turner-Smith 'Did Adam hide because he was naked? Fear, obedience, and piety in the first human family’
The Society for Old Testament Study conference continues with the presidential paper by David Firth 'The Psalter and Theodicy'
The Society for Old Testament Study conference began by celebrating a Festschrift for Katharine Dell "Wisdom at the interface between God and Humans: Essays in honor of Katharine Dell".
Schools dinner, St John's, Oxford, 2026. A truly outstanding cohort finish their examinations, and their undergraduate degrees.
I am really looking forward to giving the 24th Annual Lecture for the International Centre for Biblical Interpretation 'Humanising Job' next Wednesday!
I'm very excited to be giving a lecture at UFS tomorrow!
Last night's book launch of the new monograph 'Body Language: Voice, Embodiment, and Textuality in the Hebrew Bible.' by Jacqueline Vayntrub was a lively intellectual discussion and it was great fun! Thank you to everybody who participated.
Book launch forthcoming! Please do come and join us (please RSVP to do so) if you are in the area.
It is a joy to be at a crowded book launch for John Screnock tonight! global.oup.com/academic/pro... www.baylorpress.com/978148131022...
Essay on cusp of publication: "The motif of Joseph’s weeping: disenfranchised grief and ritually revisiting the past to reclaim the future" Unheard Voices Cultural Anthropological Approaches to Physical Suffering . Ed. Alexiana D. Fry, Regine Hunziker-Rodewald, Andrei C. Aioanei
St John's College, Oxford, Theology Subject dinner. Past and present students met and shared stories over a delicious meal. It was a delightful occasion.
One more (see above) from last night's book launch for John!
What a delight it was to host a book launch last night in honour of John Day! Religion in Ancient Israel: Studies in Honour of John Day. Edited by Southwood, K. E., Weeks, S., and Williamson, H. G. M, LBHOTS. London: T&T Clark, 2025. bloomsbury.com/uk/religion-...
The third paper of the Society for Old Testament Studies today was my own: 'The Crisis of the Humanities and OT/HB Studies'.
The second of the Society for Old Testament Study conference papers was Charlotte Hempel: The Story of the Coins from Qumran.
I'm delighted to have accepted a position as a Research Fellow at UFS for 3 years!
Last lecture, the students came with presents (thanks!), and it was well-attended!
Dr Alexiana Fry spoke at today's crowded Hebrew Bible / Old Testament graduate seminar on: 'Trauma, Self-defence, and revenge in Esther'!
It was a pleasure to hear a paper today by Professor Roseanne Liebermann (Aarhus University) on 'Animal Metaphors for Trauma and Illness in the Psalms'.
"Does Wisdom Have a Sense of Humour? Exploring Humour in Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, and Cognate Literatures", Edited by Alexander T. Kirk, Katherine E. Southwood. From the panel at SBL to the HEBAI publication link, below! www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/article/d...