We now invite further bids for small grants in support of these aims. Grants may be awarded for a range of purposes. Examples might include travel and conference costs for a BNTS seminar presenter from abroad; public engagement events highlighting the work of New Testament scholarship; support for the ongoing research of independent scholars; any activity undertaken for the benefit of the Society.
News & Info
BNTS Grants: First Round
We have completed the first round of grants from the Society’s reserves to projects which advance “education through study of and research into the New Testament and related writings” in the UK (from our Constitution), and have made four awards. The successful bids received in the first round were each for £500, as follows:
BNTS Code of Conduct
The BNTS Code of Conduct was updated by the BNTS committee in May 2020, and is available below or by download here. British New Testament Society Code of Conduct The British New Testament Society (BNTS) is committed to making our conferences accessible and productive for everyone, regardless of factors The British New Testament Society (BNTS)…
BNTS 2020 Call for Papers
Proposals for papers are invited for the British New Testament Society meeting 2020 to be held in Durham from Thursday 3 to Saturday 5 September. Paper proposals must include the presenter’s name and institutional affiliation (where appropriate), a title, and an abstract of not more than 300 words, and should be sent directly to the…
BNTS 2021 to be at St Andrews
The BNTS conference for 2021 will be hosted at the University of St Andrews, Thursday 19 to Saturday 21 August 2021. These dates have been selected in view of the university’s start of term date, which is significantly earlier than English, Welsh and Northern Irish universities.
2019 BNTS General Meeting Minutes Available
The minutes from the general meeting of the 2019 BNTS conference are now available to download in pdf form (here).
JIBS First Issue Published
The first issue of the Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies has been published: https://jibs.group.shef.ac.uk/current-issue/. Meredith J C Warren, “Editorial Preface,” 1-5. Caroline Blyth, “Bringing the Apostle Down to Earth: Emily Dickinson Wrestles with Paul,” 6-25. Chris Greenough, “‘Queer Eye’ in Theology and Biblical Studies: ‘Do you have to be queer to do this?‘” 26-41. Matthew R….
Poverty in the Early Church and Today, made freely available online
A new book has been published and made freely available online: Poverty in the Early Church and Today (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2018), edited by Prof Steve Walton and Dr Hannah Swithinbank. Prof Walton writes: I’m very pleased to announce that the wonderful people at Bloomsbury T&T Clark have agreed with the website Knowledge Unlatched to make Poverty in…
Autumn Research Seminars in Sheffield Announced
The Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies (SIIBS) has announced its Autumn Research Seminar series, details in the poster below.
Slides from Prof Candida Moss’s BNTS Presentation
Our first plenary for the 2019 BNTS conference was from Prof Candida Moss on “The Mark of the Nails: Resurrection, Identity, and Bodies in the Doubting Thomas Episode.” Since technical difficulties prevented her slides from being shown, we include them here as a pdf: