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.

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-...

I am delighted to have accepted membership of the editorial board for Bloomsbury's Library of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies series! bloomsbury.com/us/series/the-…

The last of the Society for Old Testament Study conference papers is now happening: Oliver McTernan 'Biblical Scholarship and Contemporary Conflicts'

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.

The Society for Old Testament Study Winter Meeting is happening online! The first paper Olga Y. Fabrikant-B.: Exegetical Sign-Acts in the Book of Jeremiah

I'm delighted to have accepted a position as a Research Fellow at UFS for 3 years!

Books I have published this year!

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'!

Lecture 7 of Michaelmas term!

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...

Lecture 6 of Michaelmas term.

Lecture 5 of term: Creation mythologies.

There were approximately 35 people for the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament seminar today with Dr Rebekah Van Sant (Oxford): 'Deception, Subversion, and Femininity in the book of Esther and the Joseph Narrative'!

Lecture 4 of term: Diaspora, identity, and belonging.

There was standing room only today for Professor David Janzen's paper to the graduate seminar here in Oxford: 'Trauma Theories, Category Mistakes, and Postexilic Judah as a Traumatized Society'.

It was a joy to give my third lecture of the term today.

Today's Hebrew Bible/Old Testament seminar was Professor Christl Maier (Marburg): The Book of Jeremiah as a Cultural Trauma Narrative. It was fantastic to see so many participants.

I am so excited to share news of this volume, which is soon to be released online, which I have co-edited with Alex Kirk for HEBAI 'Does Wisdom have a Sense of Humour?: Exploring Humour in Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes, and Cognate Literatures'.

I was delighted to find my lecture hall was full again for second week of term!

The hard copy of my new book has arrived!! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

It was a delight to see a seminar of nearly 40 people today to hear Dr Danilo Verde speak on 'Trauma and Ideology in the Book of Lamentations'.

What a delight it was to attend Professor Anthony Reddie's book launch last night! Living Black Theology Decolonizing Knowledge: OUP 2025

What a brilliant start to the term with a packed lecture hall - no seats were left this afternoon!

Fresher's dinner!

... here is the new volume on Pain in the Hebrew Bible that I co-edited with Danilo Verde and Martina Weingärtner in hard copy!

Really excited to share this news!! My new book is now officially published!! The link is here, just waiting to receive hard copies. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

It was a high point of the year to do a booklaunch for the Death Imagined volume with Karolina Sekita last night! The volume is free to download here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/.../97818020...

I had a wonderful morning today with A-level students doing research-led outreach. I used an article which I published on Ezekiel as a springboard to a wider discussion. The students were great. Thank you to the access team and departmental colleagues for making this possible!

Degree day!

I'm really excited to be convening the Hebrew Bible /Old Testament seminar this term. We have a brilliant line-up of international and national speakers coming to Oxford with research focused on the theme of Trauma and the Hebrew Bible!

I'm very pleased to see this new special issues of the Journal Biblische Notizen is now out!! Thank you to the co editors Danilo Verde and Martina Weingartner as well as all the wonderful contributors!! www.herder.de/bn-nf/hefte/...

The Death Imagined book is Liverpool University Press's most read right now, and has been for a while!! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

The afternoon session for the panel I co-convened was really well-attended and the panel discussions were fascinating!

I'm so proud to have co-convened this panel here in IOSOT Berlin. There were three excellent papers (and two further in the second session, with a panel discussion)!

Did you know that @katherinesouthwood.bsky.social is the new series editor of our Biblical Interpretation series? We’re seeking proposals - especially those engaging with new methodologies and hermeneutics! Got a book idea or manuscript ready? Get in touch with me! www.brill.com/BINS