Persistence of the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scholarship

Registration

Dr Michael Ledger-Lomas (King's College London) and Mr Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge): Introduction

Dr Theodor Dunkelgrün (Cambridge): 'The invention of the Masoretic text: Christian David Ginsburg and Jacob ben Chaim'

Discussion

Coffee break

Mr Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge): 'Tischendorf, Sinai and early modern scholars'

Dr Alison Knight (Cambridge): 'The Revisions of 1611 and 1881: The history of the English Bible in prefaces relating to the Revised Version'

Discussion

Lunch

Dr Gareth Atkins (Cambridge): 'The “Self-interpreting” Bible?'

Dr Michael Ledger-Lomas (King's College London): 'Paraphrasing Paul: From Locke to Conybeare'

Discussion

Coffee break

Professor Roey Sweet (University of Leicester): 'Romano-British antiquarianism and the persistence of the past in the nineteenth-century'

Professor Colin Kidd (University of St. Andrews): 'Anthropology and the old mythographers: the theological origins of a social science'

Discussion

Professor Brian Young (University of Oxford): 'William Cave and the Fathers of the Victorians'

Dr Martha Vandrei (King's College London): 'Nonjurors and the primitive church in the nineteenth century'

Discussion

Coffee

Professor Lori Anne Ferrell (Claremont Graduate University): 'Inventing the Reformation: The Parker Society and the Sixteenth-century Reformation'

Professor Anthony Grafton (Princeton University): 'The Persistence of the Past and the Persistence of the Present: Bernays and Pattison'

Discussion

Lunch

Dr James Kirby (University of Oxford): 'A learned Church: Anglican historians and scholarly continuities, c.1850-1900'

Closing discussion

Coffee and end