Bloomsbury Summer School
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2022 Course timetable
Monday 4 to Friday 8 July
PROPHETS AND PROPHECY IN THE HEBREW BIBLE AND THE NEAR EAST
Course Director: Prof. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Cardiff University)
Monday 4 July
10:45* – 11:00
Students assemble in BSS Common Room or login to Zoom*
11:00 – 11:30
BSS Director’s Welcome Address
11:30 – 13:00
1. Constructing Prophetic Divination
Welcome Lunch in BSS Common Room (14:00 Short optional tour of UCL with the Director)
14:30 – 15:45
2. Ancient Near Eastern Sources
16:15 – 17:30
3. Greek Sources
Tuesday 5 July
10:00 – 11:15
4. Biblical Sources
11:45 – 13:00
5. Prophecy and Ecstasy
14:15 – 15:30
6. Prophets and Temples
16:00 – 17:15
7. Prophets and Kings
Wednesday 6 July
10:00 – 11:15
8. Prophets and Gender
11:45 – 13:00
9. Amos
14:15 – 15:30
10. Hosea
16:00 – 17:15
11. Jonah
Thursday 7 July
10:00 – 11:15
12. Isaiah: Part 1
11:45 – 13:00
13. Isaiah: Part 2
14:15 – 15:30
14. Isaiah: Part 3
16:00 – 17:15
15. Isaiah: Part 4
Friday 8 July
10:00 – 11:15
16. Isaiah: Part 5
11:45 – 13:00
17. Isaiah: Part 6
14:15 – 15:30
18. Isaiah: Part 7
16:00 – 17:15
19. Isaiah: Conclusion
17:15 – 19:00
End-of-Course Drinks Party and Online Social (guests welcome)
* All times are London UK time; Zoom waiting room opens 15 minutes prior to the start.
NB: Timetables, once published, are unlikely to change, but remain provisional until the first day of the course.
