Oxford New Testament Seminar

Trinity Term 2023

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.


28 April

Oxbridge Graduate Biblical Studies Conference

Hosted at Oriel College

NT Coordinators: Elizabeth Clayton and Benjamin Isachsen


5 May

What’s the Point of … Sacrifice?

* To be held in the Griffiths Room at Keble College. 

David Moffitt, University of St. Andrews


12 May

* Online only

The Johannine Aporias: Editorial or Compositional?

Charles E. Hill, Reformed Theological Seminary


19 May

Whose Paul? Which Judaism?

Matthew Novenson, University of Edinburgh


26 May

* Online only

Epistolary Narrative and Emotion in Colossians

Katherine Hockey, University of Aberdeen


2 June

Ante-Nicene Writers on Law, Sin, and the Spirit in Romans 7.21-8.2

Artur Suski, Campion Hall


9 June

Compositional Practices, Invisible Workers and the Synoptic Problem

Jeremiah Coogan, Jesuit School of Theology/University of Santa Clara


16 June

Jesus in the Scriptures of Israel

Jennie Grillo, University of Notre Dame


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