Oxford New Testament Seminar

Trinity Term 2024

Fridays 2.30 p.m. in the Lecture Theatre, H B Allen Centre (25 Banbury Road), Keble College  

* except as noted below, and subject to confirmation in the weekly email circular. 

Online access, if any, will be advised in our weekly email to the NT Seminar circulation list.  Alumni, visiting scholars and others may contact OxfordNTSeminar@gmail.com to request an invitation.


26 April

Finding Onesimus: Historical Imagination, Reconstruction and Reception of Paul’s Letter to Philemon

Esau McCaulley, Wheaton College, IL


3 May

– 2024 Oxbridge Graduate Biblical Studies Conference –

To be hosted in Cambridge.

Oxford’s New Testament speakers: Elizabeth Clayton (HMC) and Tyler Brown (Keble)


10 May

Deification in Greek Philosophy and the New Testament

(Philosophy and New Testament Christology 1/3)

James Bernard Murphy, Dartmouth College, NH


17 May

Wages from God in Matthew and Paul

Zachary Wagner, Keble College


24 May

Jewish Hospitality as Counter-Cultural Masculinity in Luke and Acts

Benjamin Isachsen, Balliol College


31 May

The Annunciation (PNTC 2/3)

Mark Wynn, Oriel College (in dialogue with Markus Bockmuehl)


7 June

Paul, Divestment, and Salvific Almsgiving

Hunter Brown, Keble College


14 June

The Consciousness of the Historical Jesus (PNTC 3/3)

Austin Stevenson, Palm Beach Atlantic University


A printable poster of this term’s NT Seminar programme is also available to download here.