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

My own IOSOT paper! Can body-imagination help us to overcome epistemic injustice when we encounter Job?

IOSOT began! With an introduction Anette Schellenberg-Lagler

IOSOT Presidential paper. Bernd Schipper 'Egyptian Demotic papyri and the Hebrew Bible: Towards a new Paradigm on Egypt and the Bible'

Kenneth Ngwa Mirian and the Cushite woman: Africana biblical hermeneutics and the quest for liberation after liberation

I'm very excited to see my new book is now on the publisher webpage for Palgrave's Critical University Studies series! link.springer.com/book/9783032...

I'm very excited to see my essay published here alongside so many other insightful contributors!

John Day, ‘How should we explain the seeming dislocation between the Sons of God(s) incident in Genesis 6:1-4 and the subsequent Flood Story?’. Society for Old Testament Study conference, Durham.

Brandon Hurlbert (Durham), ‘YHWH as a Gentle Warrior in Psalm 18’. Society for Old Testament Study, Durham.

Business meeting Society for Old Testament Study, Durham.

Escaped for an early morning sun in the sea!

Durham cathedral! Another of today's many highlights.

Jacqueline Vayntrub (Yale), ‘Speaking and Hearing in Instruction and Petition’ Society for Old Testament Study, Durham.

PG/ECR Short Papers Society for Old Testament Study, Durham.

Panel Presentations and Discussion: ‘Challenges and Issues in Writing an ICC Commentary Today’ – chaired by Stuart Weeks (OT series editor). Contributions from Hugh Williamson, John Day, and Jacqueline Vayntrub. Society for Old Testament Study, Durham.

Richard Briggs "Dungeons and Dragons: History and truth in Readings of Daniel 6 and 14" (Society for Old Testament Study, Durham).

Dwight Swanson "Biblical Studies and the Qur'an: Current Trends" (Society for Old Testament Study Conference, Durham).

Presidential address, Stuart Weeks, "What the Scribes did to Tobit".

The Society for Old Testament Study (SOTS) conference has begun, up in Durham! I started the conference back at St Mary's, my alma mater, then chatted with friends!

I came into work earlier to find more thank you cards and this extraordinary end of year gift: a notebook inscribed with my initials. I'm so very grateful. This will be used in future tutorials!

It was a real treat to have Joel Baden come and talk with us today for a paper on "who wrote the Bible - and who cares?"

Katherine southwood @Katheri20819365 End of term presents, last tutorial of the academic year now completed. Students are the best.

Schools dinner for the finalists! What a talented group of people.

The hard copy arrived today!

Congratulations to Yannis Ng Wing on passing her doctoral viva "Witnessing the Text: A Critical Empathic Approach to Ecclesiastes with Affect, Trauma and Bystander Perspectives"! It was a pleasure to be the external examiner today in Leeds.

I'm really excited to see this book which I've co-edited with Karolina Sekita 'Death Imagined: Ancient Perceptions of Death and Dying' has now been published and is freely available open access! Many thanks to all the excellent contributors! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

J. Alberto Pardes (Cambridge) Some Medical terms in Greek Leviticus: Between Translation and Stylistic Affinities