I’m very glad to post information today about the upcoming Septuagint Summer School that will be held at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, not too far away from Vancouver. As you can see if you scroll down to the very bottom of the Institute’s website here, it’s truly a beautiful place — and there’s good scholarship to boot!
This year, the course is from 24-28 June, just after the Montreal Septuagint Symposium, and focuses on translation and legal concepts in the Greek Pentateuch.
If you have been a reader for a while, you will know that this summer school is now a longstanding event in Septuagint scholarship. I have been promoting it for over a decade now, and I myself participated in what I believe was the first one back in 2013 when I was in my master’s degree program. I’ve posted for (almost) every year since then: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.
It seems pertinent to say that this summer school is very important at this point for Septuagint scholarship. Our discipline has not had an easy five years, as some of the leading lights in the field at Oxford and Cambridge have gone out for rather different reasons. Sadly, Cambridge has decided not to continue the tradition of Septuagint scholarship moving forward. What happens at Oxford is yet to be seen. That has made things complex, not least of all for students looking for somewhere to be trained. The fact that the Wevers Summer School continues is therefore of critical importance for sustaining scholarship on the Septuagint.
Details about the course are below in the poster.
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Can you explain what you mean that Cambridge isn’t going to continue LXX scholarship moving forward? I must have missed something?
Hi Parker, yes I believe you must have. The primary supervisor in Septuagint at Cambridge, Jim Aitken, died last spring.
Oh, yes, I did hear about that. I understood you to mean that they won’t replace Aitken and that LXX study at Cambridge won’t exist ever again … is that what you mean? They haven’t replaced Aitken yet as far as I can see, but maybe you’ve heard about their intention to not ever do that? Maybe you know something that isn’t publicly known.
The Faculty has already conducted and concluded a search for a post in Second Temple Judaism, although they have not announced the new appointment. I can’t share more, but I do not expect Septuagint to be a significant part of that person’s research agenda.