Articles tagged with 'religions-and-theology' | University of Manchester

Due to popular demand, the deadline for entries for The University of Manchester Making a Difference Awards has been extended.The new closing date is midnight on 24 January 2021. It is hoped the extension will help anyone struggling to meet the deadl...

The University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (SALC) will be hosting a celebration to mark the strength and resilience of its students in a virtual event.The celebration will take place at 3pm on Wednesday 16 December 2020, an...

Professor George Brooke is Rylands Professor Emeritus and one of the foremost experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls. He acted as consultant on the recent Leverhulme project which revealed text on the Rylands Dead Sea Scroll fragments. We sat down with Prof...

Dr Holly Morse, Lecturer in Bible, Gender and Culture in the Department of Religions and Theology, has published a new volume offering a re-evaluation of the meanings and myths of Eve. Encountering Eve’s Afterlives: A New Reception Critical Approa...

The Centre for Biblical Studies extends its congratulations to Peter Oakes, currently Professor of New Testament, who has just been appointed to the Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis. This prestigious Chair was established in 1904 a...

Siobhán Jolley, a PhD candidate in the Centre for Biblical Studies, participated in the prestigious residential research programme at the British School at Rome (BSR).

A virtual guide that tells the story of what it was like to live in New Testament times has been launched by the Centre for Biblical Studies. Led by Prof Peter Oakes, this vivid new resource transports readers to Pompeii, where the city’s rich evi...

Last month (17 October), the 2019 outing for the Manson Memorial Lecture brought lively discussions on religion and sociology thanks to an engaging talk by Prof Andréas Dettwiler of the University of Geneva. The professor of Theology gave a paper ...

Siobhán Jolley, a PhD candidate in the Centre for Biblical Studies, spent July in Germany, on a German (and) Theology Summer School at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. Siobhán followed in the footsteps of fellow PhD candidates Sam Rogers ...

Peter Oakes has just returned from the annual meeting of the Society of New Testament Studies (SNTS), held this year in Marburg, Germany. The Oberhessische Presse - on the 1 August 2019 - dedicated a half-page spread to the opening because the las...

The BGC is a new research centre, bringing biblical and gender studies together with issues faced by men and women in the contemporary church. The Sophia Network’s ‘Minding the Gap’ report recently demonstrated that, although women make up 65% of ...

On 28 May 2019, PhD students and staff from the Centre for Biblical Studies travelled to Durham for the Northern Universities’ Postgraduate Day For Biblical Studies. The event brought together students from The University of Manchester, Durham Uni...

Prof Peter Oakes recently gave a paper at the Early Synagogue Archeology Conference in Lausanne. The last decade has seen a mushrooming of our awareness of remains of First- and early Second-Century synagogues in Galilee and Judaea. On 10-11 Ap...

Professor Peter Oakes has a new publication: ‘The Christians and their Politeuma in Heaven: Philippians 3:20 and the Herakleopolis Papyri’, In the Crucible of Empire: The Impact of Roman Citizenship upon Greeks, Jews and Christians. Katell Berthelot ...

Members of the Centre for Biblical Studies participated in a two-day colloquium on the theme of Love, Boundaries and Sacred Texts. The colloquium, born in part from the long-standing association between the University of Manchester and the Univers...

On 28 November members of the Centre for Biblical Studies were delighted to be among the audience for Prof Peter Oakes' Inaugural Lecture. Prof Oakes' distinguished career brought him to the University of Manchester in 1997 and his enormous contri...

Members of the Centre for Biblical Studies had the opportunity to participate in an academic study trip to Northern Greece. The group also included faculty and postgraduate research students from two other universities (Liverpool Hope and KU Leuv...

On Saturday, 24 November 2018, members of the Ehrhardt Seminar were delighted to make a day-trip to Chester to visit the Dean John Saul Howson exhibition at the Cathedral Library. The visit was organised by Prof George Brooke, the Rylands Professo...

The University of Manchester has launched a collection of essays from researchers which looks closely at extremism and social cohesion in the UK.