Public Lectures at Chester Beatty Library

The Bible and Biblical Languages in Ireland
Spring 2017 Public Lecture Series 
at the Chester Beatty Library

This series is sponsored by Dublin City University’s School of Theology,
Philosophy, and Music, The Chester Beatty Library, and the Irish
Research Council.

4 May, 13:10, Dr Brad Anderson
Ireland and the Old Testament: Transmission, Translation, and Significance

Dr Brad Anderson is Lecturer in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Dublin City
University, and currently serves as President of the Irish Biblical Association.
He is the author of An Introduction to the Study of the Pentateuch
(Bloomsbury, 2017).

15 June, 14:00, Dr Jonathan Kearney [for friends of the library]
How Arabic became a Jewish and Christian Language

Dr Jonathan Kearney, Lecturer in Jewish and Islamic Studies, Dublin City
University and author of Rashi: Linguist Despite Himself (2012).

27 July, 13:10, Dr Jill Unkel
Speaking in Tongues: The Many Languages of the Chester Beatty Bibles

Dr Jill Unkel is the Curator of the Western Collections in the Chester Beatty
Library. She has curated a number of exhibitions including, most recently,
Wicked Wit: Darly’s Comic Prints (2015-16), for which she wrote the
accompanying catalogue.


This event is organized by Dr. Garrick Allen, the primary investigator on the IRC funded HoskBib project.