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Upcoming Conference on 'Politics and Compromise in the Hebrew Bible'
Trinity College 14–15 December, 2024
In conjuction with the University of Divinity, Trinity College will hold an international conference this December, hosting leading researchers who are expanding the contours of political theology in the field of biblical studies. This conference follows on from an online event in 2020, which bore fruit in the publication in Germany of a diverse collection of essays, Theologies in the Hebrew Bible (Brill Schöningh, 2023), edited by Prof. Mark Brett and Assoc.Prof. Rachelle Gilmour.
The over-arching theme of the conference this year will be that of political compromise. Some recent studies have denied that there are examples of political compromise in the Hebrew Bible, at least if politics is understood in a modern sense to include public deliberation and negotiated outcomes. A number of scholars have argued, however, that there are numerous biblical examples of compromise, not least in the formation of the Israelite monarchies and in the making of the Pentateuch. Research in this area includes new methodological and conceptual proposals, as well as consideration of a diversity of literary genres and their historical interactions.