THE GLASGOW SYMPOSIUM ON ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE OLD TESTAMENT is tomorrow. Here is the schedule:

SOCIAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF OLD TESTAMENT TEXTS AND APOCRYPHA

GLASGOW UNIVERSITY
Friday 27th August 2004

10.30-11.05
Neil Glover (University of Glasgow)
Ruth The Moabite Infiltrator

11.05-11.40
Philip Esler (University of St Andrews)
The Role of Hannah in 1 Samuel 1-2: A Narrative and Social-Scientific
Interpretation

11.40-11.55 COFFEE

11.55-12.30
Louise Lawrence (University of Glasgow)
�The Joy of Text�? Sanctified Subversions in the Song of Songs and Bedouin Poetry

12.30-1.05
Seth Kunin (University of Aberdeen)
Rethinking Biblical Sacrifice from a Structuralist Perspective

1.05-2.00 LUNCH

2.00�2.35
Jim Davila (University of St Andrews)
Ritual in the Old Testament Apocrypha

2.35-3.10
Alison Kelly (University of Dublin)
Prophets, Kings and the �Out of Egypt� Motif in the Book of Hosea

3.10-3.45
Nicolas Wyatt (University of Edinburgh)
Marriage, Mayhem and Murder: An Everyday Story Of Royal Folk

3.45-4.00 TEA

4.00-4.35
Sarah Nicholson (University of Glasgow)
Father /Daughter Myths (Tamar, Ruth, Levite's Concubine and Lot's Daughters)

You can access the oral version of my paper, "Ritual in the Old Testament Apocrypha," by clicking on the link. Actually, the online version is somewhat longer than the oral version. The latter has to fit into a 35-minutes-with-discussion time slot.

No blogging tomorrow. I leave for Glasgow early in the morning and don't expect to be back until very late.