Translating the Word of God: Synagogues and the Septuagint in the Late Second Temple Period

Wednesday, 17 June 2026, 2pm to 3pm

Date: 17 June 2026
Time: 14:00
Venue: Lecture Room 1, Christ Church, Oxford (also available via Zoom — link on request)

Professor William Schniedewind (Distinguished Professor of Biblical Studies and Northwest Semitic Languages; Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA) will be in Oxford on 16–17 June for three lectures spanning the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Septuagint. This paper argues that the Greek Bible reflects not only Alexandria but also the institutional and theological world of Jerusalem — the rise of synagogues, the public reading of Torah, and the growing understanding of Scripture as the fixed "word of God."

Speaker(s): Professor William Schniedewind

Department: Christ Church (College)