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OLD TESTAMENT

The Old Testament Study Group of Tyndale Fellowship exists to promote evangelical scholarship that takes seriously the authority of the Bible and rigorous academic study by engaging with issues in our wider world.

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​We meet in-person at the annual Tyndale Fellowship conference, along with the Fellowship's other study groups.

Chair

Brittany Melton

bmelton@regent-college.edu

Co-Chair

Chris Ansberry

ansberrycb@gcc.edu 

Programme: Old Testament Study Group

Tyndale Fellowship Conference, 30 June - 2 July 2025

All seven study groups of the Tyndale Fellowship meet concurrently in the same venue, sharing mealtimes, coffee breaks, Tyndale Fellowship Lectures, a prayer meeting, worship service and members' meeting. Attendees are welcome to spend time in the other study groups during the conference.

Theme: Wrestling with difficult texts
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All texts present difficulties, ranging from text-critical and semantic questions to syntactical, literary, or structural issues. Old Testament texts are no different. And as Christian Scripture, Old Testament texts also present ethical or moral difficulties. The 2025 Old Testament Study Group will seek to wrestle with difficult texts, specifically Old Testament texts that raise ethical or moral problems and open helpful horizons for thinking through these issues. 

Monday 30 June

16:00 - 18:30

  • Charlie Hadjiev, St Padarn’s Institute (UK), 'Why is the temple profaned by disfigured priests? Leviticus 21 and its contexts'

  • Philip Jenson, Ridley Hall (UK), 'The same sex texts of Leviticus: the conflict of interpretations'

  • Isabelle Hamley, Ridley Hall (UK), 'From Abraham to Jepthah, via Sodom and Gibeah: An intertextual reading of Judges 11 and 19'

Tuesday 1 July

10:00 - 12:30

  • Jill Firth, Ridley College Melbourne (Australia), ‘Remember how I stood before you’: Prophecy, Prayer, and Imprecation in Jeremiah 18:19–23'

  • Julie Woods, 'Nahum, Dulce Et Decorum Est, and Reconciliation'

  • Beth Stovell, Ambrose University (Canada) 'War, Women, and Wrath: Troubling Texts in the Twelve'

13:30 - 15:00 

Tyndale Fellowship Lecture in Old Testament: 

Professor H.G.M. Williamson, University of Oxford (UK), ''As originally given': What does the Tyndale Fellowship's doctrinal statement mean?'

15:30 - 16:15

Members' Planning Meeting

17:00 - 18:30

  • Jamie Grant, Highland Theological College (UK), 'Ecclesiastes and the Hermeneutics of Difficulty'

  • Tim Davy, All Nations Christian College (UK), 'Difficult Joy and the Book of Job'

Wednesday 2 July

10:00 - 12:30

  • Simon Stocks, Spurgeon’s College (UK), 'Voicing Hatred in the Psalms'

  • David Cohen, Morling College (Australia), 'Psalm 88, Divine Hiddenness, Theistic Dissonance, and the Enigmatic God'

  • Israel Steinmetz, The Bible Seminary (USA), '‘Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks’: Imprecatory psalms, moral injury, and the presence of God'

  • Jonathan Saunders, Regent College (Canada), '‘How will we sing Yahweh’s song on foreign soil?’:Reading Psalm 137 as a Spiritual'

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