Septuagint Institute

News and Events

September 18-20, 2008 Conference
The Septuagint Institute, with the generous support of The Priscilla and Stanford Reid Trust, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Oxford University Press, hosted an international Septuagint conference and the Canadian launch of A New English Translation of the Septuagint (Oxford University Press) at Trinity Western University. The conference theme was "Septuagint Translation(s): Retrospect and Prospect." Special guest speakers included Albert Pietersma (University of Toronto), Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University, Pennsylvania), Jan Joosten (Université Marc Bloch, France), Wolfgang Kraus (University of Saarland, Germany), Alison Salvesen (Oxford University), Melvin Peters (Duke University, North Carolina), and Cameron Boyd-Taylor (University of Cambridge). To see the Call for Papers, click here. For a list of all speakers and paper titles/abstracts, click here. For the conference schedule, click here.

Valuable Septuagint Library Donated to TWU
The valuable personal library of Prof. John William Wevers of the University of Toronto is now at TWU. Read the story of how this came about and a media report concerning this development.

October 11, 2006
The Society of Biblical Literature Commentary on the Septuagint (SBLCS), a multi-volume series sponsored by the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS), is now underway. All four Septuagint Institute fellows will be writing commentary volumes. Septuagint Institute director Dr. Rob Hiebert is one of two joint-editors-in-chief of this commentary series.

September 28-29, 2006 Conference
God, the Bible, and the Qur'an (September 28)
Descriptions of God in Ancient and Modern Monotheistic Traditions (September 29). Click here for more information.

September 17, 2005 Inaugural
Septuagint Institute launched at Trinity Western University. Scholars and Septuagint enthusiasts gathered for the inauguration of North America's new hub of Septuagint research.