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Blessing of a New Dawn: Reorienting Christianity’s Relations to Judaism
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Scriptural Vitality: Rethinking Philology & Hermeneutics
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The Unbegotten Begotten Christ: How the Qur’an Agrees with the Gospel of John
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The Book of Job and Innocent Suffering
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Religicide: Confronting the Roots of Anti-Religious Violence
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Qohelet: Search for a Life Worth Living
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Understanding The Hebrew Bible
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The Peshitta and the Making of the Antioch Bible
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The Remarkable Interfaith Initiatives from the Arabian Peninsula: KAICIID and the Abrahamic Family House as Paradigms
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Friends of the Devil: Rebellion and the Construction of Early Islamic Caliphal Sovereignty
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SIKH: Two Centuries of Western Women’s Art & Writing
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Narsai’s Memra 49, on Adam and Eve: O Instructive Fault!
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How Have Discoveries Over the Last Two Centuries Transformed Our Understanding of Genesis 1-11?
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Illuminating The Psalms: 29, 92, and 96, in Many Moments
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Bridge or Barrier? Mary and Christian-Muslim Relations
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Annual Oxford Lent Concerts at Queen’s College Chapel
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Attuning the Mind to the Divine: The Pluriversal Archive of Sikh Liturgical Songs
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Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus on the Problem with the Devil
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The Paradox of Religion as Peace-Maker and Contributor to Violence
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Sacred Art ✍ Sixteen Scripts & Thirteen Scribes in Five Hours
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Psalm 136: Hesed as Praxis
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Byzantine Aristocrat, Monk, Mystic and Dissident: Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022)
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International Panel Discussion on Death and Dying in Interfaith Contexts
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Heavenly Hours: Creation and Time in the Syriac Testament of Adam
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Was Genesis 1 Dependent on Psalm 104?
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Maryam – The Muslim Mary: A Symbol of Devotion, Virtue and Hope
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Animal Suffering in Evolution: A Spectrum of Christian Approaches
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Reimagine Resilience: Storytelling as a Portal to Prevention
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The Seven Penitential Psalms in the Allegorist’s Hands
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Welcoming the Stranger: Abrahamic Hospitality and Its Contemporary Implications
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Christian Trees
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God, Evil, and Suffering in Islam
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Christian-Jewish Relations 1000-1300: Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom
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Dialogue and Fire in a Fragmentary Syriac Martyrdom Narrative
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Why The Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins
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The Origins of the First Anti-Jewish Good Friday Hymns
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Beyond Exegesis: The Psalm Cultures of Ancient Jews and Early Christians
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The Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish-Christian Dialogue
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Poetry Book Launch: So Many Things Are Yours, by Admiel Kosman, trans. Lisa Katz
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Psalm 40 and Messiness of Prayer
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Setting the Stage: The Rose of Performance in Studying Late Ancient Hymnody
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Peace and Interfaith Education: World Interfaith Harmony Week 2024
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Christian Images and Jewish Desecrators: The History of the Allegation in Manuscript Illustrations
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The Talmud among Victorian Christians: Polemics and Humanism in Interfaith Encounters
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Psalm 109: The Prayer No One Wants
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Ephrem the Syrian and a New Beginning in Syriac Poetry
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Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Christian and Muslim Resources for Restorative Justice
11 January, 2024 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Najeeba Syeed, El-Hibri Chair and …
A Jew Reads the Gospels in Syriac: Azariah de Rossi’s Critique of the Vulgate (1577)
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Psalmody as an Alternative to Theodicy
23 November, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Revd Dr John Goldingay to deliver a …
The Manuscript Project at the Coptic Monastery of St Paul the Hermit at the Red Sea, Egypt
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The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics
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Making Sense of “GOD”: What God-Talk Means and Does
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Mary’s Ordeal: A Syriac Narrative Poem on Many and Joseph
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Resurrection of the Human Body according to John of Dara’s Mimro I:4
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A Book for All Seasons: Medieval Liturgical Psalter
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Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God
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‘Conception by ear’ and Redemption of the Human Sensorium in Ephrem’s Thirty-fifth Madrasha on the Church
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A Medieval Franciscan Consults the Jews: Nicholas of Lyra on how to Imagine the Temple
18 July, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Lesley Smith, Professor of Medieval Intellectual …
Psalm 44 and the Book of Job: God on Trial
13 July, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Ignacio Carbajosa, Professor in Old Testament …
Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visual Symbols Draw from the Same Well
10 July, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Ori Soltes, Center for Jewish …
Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Dead Sea Scrolls
3 July, 2023 The greatest discovery in Religious Studies, and in the history of Judaism …
The Dead Sea Scrolls at 75: The Texts, Their Contexts, and the Coalescence of Jewish and Christian Scholarship
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British Library Hebrew Treasures Reveal Interfaith Narratives: The Sana’a Pentateuch
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Oxford Interfaith Forum Welcomes the Singapore Government Delegation
16 June, 2023 We were delighted to welcome Mr Shaun Goh, Senior Director for Community …
The Tao of Mary: Images of the Virgin in the Church of the East
15 June, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Matthew Milliner, Senior Fellow of …
A Jewish Philosophical Approach to Interfaith Relations: Re-reading Genesis According to Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
8 June, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr Miriam Feldmann Kaye, Lecturer in …
From Edessa to South Arabia and Back: The Syriac Story of Bishop Paul and Priest John and Models of Sanctity in the Medieval Middle East
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Mandaeans: A Minority on the Move and their Manuscripts
18 May, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor James McGrath, Clarence L. Goodwin …
Exile and Restoration in the Psalms
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Wrestling with Calculating-Thoughts: Mental Training according to Evagrius of Pontus
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Seventy Languages (and Translations) for Seventy Nations
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Awakened Brain: Science of Spirituality and Human Flourishing
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Oxford Interfaith Forum Welcomes Professor Lisa Miller
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The Popes and the Jews in Sixteenth-Century Italy through the Chronicle of Pope Paul IV
24 April, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr Martina Mampieri, Martin Buber Fellow …
‘Deep cries unto deep’: Julian of Norwich and Psalm 42
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Oxford Interfaith Forum Partakes in the 2023 Ramadan Interfaith Iftar
19 April, 2023 Ramadan is observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting, prayer, …
Greek Music Theory in Muslim Thought: Al-Fārābī’s Great Book on Music
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The Passover Haggadah through the Ages: Jewish Text, Christian Surprises
3 April, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Gary Rendsburg, Distinguished Professor of Jewish …
Returning the Ticket: God and Evil in the Brothers Karamazov
30 March, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Aristotle Papanikolaou, Archbishop Demetrios Chair in …
Easter & Passover in Interfaith Contexts
27 March, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Mary Boys, Skinner & McAlpin Professor of …
Science-Engaged Theology in Judaism: Historical Overview
23 March, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Regents Professor of History, …
Dr Thea Gomelauri Awarded the HM King Abdullah II ibn Al-Hussein Prize
21 March, 2023 Proposed by the HM King Abdullah II ibn Al-Hussein, and HRH Prince …
Doing Comparative Theology Through a Decolonial Lens
20 March, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Syed Atif Rizwan, Assistant Professor of …
Ancient Versions of Psalms in Dialogue: Psalms 49 and 104
16 March, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr John Screnock, Tutor in Old …
Material and Linguistic History of Arabic Manuscripts in Muslim and Jewish Contexts
13 March, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr Nick Posegay, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow …
By the Rivers of Babylon?! The Shared Melodies of Jewish and Christian Early-Modern Cultures
9 March 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr Diana Matut, Coordinator of the …
Bouncing Back from the Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience
4 May, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor V. Ram Ramanathan, Edward A. …
Can Nature be ‘Red in tooth and Claw’ in the Thought of Augustine?
27 February, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr Stan Rosenberg, Executive Director of Scholarship …
Where does One Encounter the Divine? Dialogue Between the Sexes in the Talmud
23 February, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Admiel Kosman, Professor of Talmud and …
Can Aristotle’s Ideas on Akrasia Shed Light on the Account of Original Sin in Gen 3:1-6?
20 February, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Revd Dr Dancho Azagra, Chaplain of Grandpont …
Serendipitous Manuscripts: Karma Pakshi’s Memoirs, Past Lives, and Poetry
15 February, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Charles Manson, Librarian for the Tibetan Collections …
Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras: an Orthodox Dialogue with Islam
13 February, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Jeremy Ingpen, Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, …
The Art of Sacred Sound in the Muslim Context: Psalms and Islam
9 February, 2023 As a part of the World Interfaith Harmony Week, we are delighted …
Awake, My Soul! Psalms: 44; 57; 133; 143
6 February, 2023 As a part of the World Interfaith Harmony Week, we are delighted …
Oxford Interfaith Forum Organises a Live Music Event with Professor Delvyn Case
6 February, 2023 Oxford Interfaith Forum welcomed Prof Delvin Case, Founder of Deus Ex Musica, …
No Peace Among Nations and Religions without Interreligious Learning and Peace Education!
30 January, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Johannes Lähnemann, Emeritus Chair of …
From the People of the Book to the Books of the People: Christian Literature and the 19th Century Ottoman Turkish Literary World
26 January, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Laurent Mignon, Professor of Turkish Literature …
Development in Catholic Teaching about and Relations with Jews since World War II
23 January, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Philip Cunningham, Professor at the Department …
Climate, God, and Uncertainty: A Transcendental Naturalistic Approach to Bruno Latour
18 January, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Arthur Petersen (DPhil DPA PhD …
Matta el-Meskin/Matthew the Poor: a ‘Contemporary Desert Father’ on Christian Unity
16 January, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr Anthony O’ Mahony, University of Oxford, UK, …
Psalm 106: Fall of Jerusalem and Lamentations Ch. 3
12 January, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Mark Boda, McMaster Divinity College, …
Holman Hunt’s ‘The Light of the World’: Imperialist Icon or Universal Symbol?
9 January, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Revd Canon Dr Joanna Collicutt to lead …
The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life
19 December, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Lisa Miller, Professor of Psychology and …
Psalm 37:25, Innocent Suffering, and Divine Recompense
15 December, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Joel Kaminsky, Morningstar Professor of …
Signs of Miraculousness: The Inimitability of Jacob of Serugh’s Teaching
13 December, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Revd Dr Iskandar Bcheiry, Metadata Editor …
Elijah the Prophet’s Varied Eschatological Roles in Jewish and Christian Discourse
12 December, 2022 We are honoured to welcome Dr Chana Shacham-Rosby, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Halpern …
Dr Eboo Patel About His New Book ‘We Need To Build’
8 December, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr Eboo Patel, the Founding President …
Music, Poetry, and Psalm 131 in Christian Liturgy
7 December, 2022 We are delighted to welcome Revd Dr Adam Carlill, Vicar of Tilehurst …
How Christians Can Learn from the Devotional Poetry of Hindu South India
5 December, 2022 We are delighted to welcome Professor Francis Clooney, SJ, FBA, Parkman Professor of …
Literary Form and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible
1 December, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Robert Alter, Emeritus Professor of Hebrew …
Speaking Specifically in a Multireligious Conversation with Science
28 November, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Revd Dr Greg Cootsona, California State University, …
Reorienting Christian Understandings of Judaism: Insights from Biblical Scholarship
21 November, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Mary Boys, Skinner & McAlpin Professor …
Spurring Colonialism and Slavery: Protestants and Catholics United in their Use of Psalm 132
17 November, 2022 We are delighted to welcome Reverend Professor Melody Knowles, Vice President of Academic …
From Passive to Active: Gender and Atonement in Mary’s Tours of Hell
14 November, 2022 We are honoured to welcome Professor Meghan R. Henning, Associate Professor of …
Epistolary Style in Coptic Letters from the Late Third Century to the Early Fifth Century
10 November, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr Myriam Wissa, Catholic University of America, USA, …
Historical Suffering and Agency: Alternative Conceptions of Power in the Jewish Philosophical Thought of Hermann Cohen
7 November, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Shira Billet, Associate Professor of Jewish …
Judaism and Islam: Shared Music and Prayer
3 November, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Mark Kligman, Herb Alpert School …
Environmentalisms in Qur’anic Perspective: Creatures and Resources
31 October, 2022 We are delighted to welcome Professor Anna Gade, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor …
The Kennicott Bible: The Greatest Bible Ever Written
27 October, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Gary Rendsburg, Distinguished Professor of …
Strangers on a Train: Climate Change, Jewish Thought, and the Duty of Witness
25 October, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Laurie Zoloth, Margaret E. Burton …
Midrash Tehillim on Psalm 24
20 October, 2022 We are delighted to welcome Rabbi Burton Visotzky, Appleman Professor Emeritus of …
Sarah and the Akedah: a Syriac Narrative Poem on Genesis 22
13 October, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Sebastian Brock FBA, to lead …
The Interfaith Space of Music and Poetry: The Case of the Babylonian Jews’ Shbaḥoth
6 October, 2022 We are delighted to welcome Dr Merav Rosenfeld-Hadad, University of Cambridge, UK, …
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Holistic Wisdom from a Chinese Perspective
3 October, 2022 We are delighted to welcome Jacob Chengwei Feng, Fuller Theological SEminary, Fellow …
Eschatology and Theodicy in the Qu’ran
28 September, 2022 We are deeply honored to welcome Professor Salih Sayilgan, Georgetown University, USA, and …
Psalm 19: Muslim Reflections on Creation
22 September, 2022 We are delighted to welcome Dr Zeyneb Sayilgan, Muslim Scholar at the …
Reflections on Science & Religion: Contradictory or Complementary?
20 September, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Rabbi Professor Abraham Skorka, Senior Research Fellow …
🕯️Science and Religion: An Interfaith Invitation for Fresh Narratives
In Memoriam . . . 🕯️ Professor Tom Mcleish, FRS, the Inaugural Professor of Natural …
The Paterik of the Kyivan Caves Monastery: Monk Polikarp in Discourse 14
15 September, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Archpriest Professor Andrew Louth, FBA, Emeritus Professor of …
Inspiration in Interfaith Contexts
13 September, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome a very distinguished panel of interfaith …
Land as Fountain of Life: Agrarian Reading of Psalms
8 September, 2022 We are delighted to welcome Professor Ellen Davis, Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished …
An Islamic Philosophy of Plurality: Shah Waliullah of Delhi (1703-62) on the Unity and Diversity of Humanity
5 September, 2022 We are delighted to welcome Dr Fitzroy Morrissey, Examination Fellow of the …
Eschatology and Politics in Christianity
31 August, 2022 We are honored to welcome Dr Elizabeth Phillips, Woolf Institute, to lead …
Jacob of Sarug on the Canaanite Woman (Mt 15:21-28, Mk 7:24-30): Biblical Storytelling and Models of Faith
25 August, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Willard Prescott …
Psalm 46: Singing in Hope and Defiance
15 August, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Chair of Medieval German …
Embodied Cognition and the Soul: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Christian Eschatology
11 August, 2022 We are delighted to welcome Rebekah Wallace, University of Oxford, to lead …
Eicha as Presentiment: Reading Lamentations in the Era of Climate Change
4 August, 2022 On 6-7 August, Jews around the world will observe the religious holiday …
The End of All Things Is at Hand: A Christian Eschatology in Conversation with Science and Islam
28 July, 2022 The Oxford Interfaith Forum presents Professor Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Professor of Systematic Theology …
Commemorating the saints at Turfan: Mart Shir and Mar Barshabba
25 July, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr Erica Hunter, University of Cambridge, to lead …
Reaching beyond Metaphysics: God of Love, God beyond Being in Two Traditions
18 July, 2022 We are delighted to welcome Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, FBA, Distinguished Professor of …
When Music Meets Psalms: Psalm 130
11 July, 2022 We are delighted to invite you to a special session of the …
The Revelation at Sinai in Early Synagogue Poetry
7 July, 2022 We are honoured to welcome Professor Raymond Scheindlin, Jewish Theological Seminary, USA, to …
The Opening Prayers of Saint Gregory of Narek’s Book of Lamentations
27 June, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Theo Maarten van Lint, Calouste Gulbenkian Professor …
Developments in Catholic Teaching on Eschatology
20 June, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome The Most Reverend Kevin McDonald KC*HS, The …