Society for Old Testament Study (1917-), learned society

Society for Old Testament Study is a professional association of OT scholars founded in 1917.

History

The Society for Old Testament Study, founded in 1917, is an academic learned society embracing the Old Testament, and its cognate areas such as Hebrew and other Semitic languages, the literature, religion, history, archaeology and sociology of ancient Israel, and the study of the Old Testament in the light of modern literary theory. The 'rules' by which the Society is guided may be found here.

Although it has an international membership of around 450, it meets in the British Isles, and normally organises annual Winter and Summer Meetings (see Conferences), as well as joint meetings every third year with the Dutch and Flemish Old Testament Society. Among the publications that it has sponsored is a distinguished series of volumes surveying the progress of research in Old Testament studies, an annual Book List containing short reviews of recent publications, and a series of Study Guides.

The Presidents of the Society have included the most distinguished British Old Testament Scholars.

A brief history of the Society (1917-1992) has been written by Professor John W. Rogerson, and can be accessed here- http://www.sots.ac.uk/historyofsots.html

(This material was acquired from the SOTS website - http://www.sots.ac.uk/aboutsots.html ).

Meetings

Future Meetings

Winter Meeting 2011, 4th-6th January 2011, at Collingwood College, University of Durham.

Summer Meeting 2011, 18th-21st July 2011, at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, including a joint day with the British Association for Jewish Studies.

Winter Meeting 2012, 3rd January - 5th January 2012, at Collingwood College, University of Durham.

Summer Meeting 2012, 16 July – 19 July 2012, at Hulme Hall, University of Manchester.

Recent Meetings

The most recent meetings were:

Summer Meeting 2010, 19th-23rd July 2010, at the University of Sheffield including the Aileen Guilding Conference

Winter Meeting 2010, 5th-7th January 2010, at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge

Summer Meeting 2009, 26th-30th July 2009, at the University of Lincoln (a SOTS/OTW Joint Meeting, in coordination with the European Association of Biblical Studies)

Winter Meeting 2009, 5th-7th January 2009, at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge

External links

The Society maintains an extensive list of web resources, available here- http://www.sots.ac.uk/resources.html