Exegesis: from East to West

Day Conference: Sat, Feb 16 2013, 10am
Heythrop College, London

The Society's fourth one-day conference took place on 16th February 2013 at Heythrop College, South Kensington, London. The conference will consider the influence of modes of exegesis originating in one religious tradition on the reading of the scriptures of another. Areas covered will be Latin and Greek Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Hinduism, involving examples of both dialogue and polemic.

The speakers will include: Reinhart Ceulemans (Goettingen), Martin Ganeri (Heythrop), Anthony Lappin (Manchester), Sergio la Porta (Fresno, CA), Lesley Smith (Oxford), David Thomas (Birmingham), Joanna Weinberg (Oxford).

Oxford: Bodleian, MS. Or. 62, fol. 59r . A thirteenth-century Hebrew Psalter with Latin glosses. Copyright: Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Day Conference: Sat, Feb 16 2013, 10am
Heythrop College, London

Oxford: Bodleian, MS. Or. 62, fol. 59r . A thirteenth-century Hebrew Psalter with Latin glosses. Copyright: Bodleian Library, Oxford.