Cambridge Scholars Network

Dirk Jongkind will lead the 2011 Cambridge Scholars Network.

Dirk Jongkind is a Dutch biblical scholar who finished his PhD at Cambridge University. His main scholarly interest is in the Greek text of the Bible and the Graeco-Roman backdrop of Acts and the letters. Currently, he is the Research Fellow in New Testament at Tyndale House and the John W. Laing Fellow at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. He is working on legal language in and outside the New Testament. The focus of his work includes textual criticism of the Greek Bible, with emphases on grammar and lexicography, epigraphy, papyrology, and archaeology of the Graeco-Roman world and the relation of New Testament background and exegesis.

Daniel Hill (Ph.D. King’s College) is a Temporary Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. His courses focus on episte­mology, philosophy of religion, logic, and the comparison of Plato, Descartes, and Kant’s metaphysics. His main research interests are phi­losophy of religion, theory of action, intention in applied ethics, philosophical theology, and metaphysics. Daniel is a member of the Society of Christian Philosophers and Secretary of the Tyndale-House Study Group in Philoso­phy of Religion.

Bruce A Little has Masters degrees in Apologetics and Religion and a PhD in Philosophy of Religion. Presently, he is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he has been on faculty since 2001.  He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Apologetics at Carolina Evangelical Divinity School. For over a decade, he has travelled widely in Europe and Asia, lecturing in universities, teaching in a variety of schools and presenting papers at conferences. He has published in various professional journals and written the book A Creation-Order Theodicy: God and Gratuitous Evil.

Alison Watkin (PhD, Cambridge University) is a Research Fellow in Public International Law at St John’s College, Cambridge University.  Her research and teaching interests include International Human Rights Law (especially the rights of non-citizens, counter-terrorism, and human rights) and International Legal Theory.

Chris Watkin completed his doctoral thesis in philosophy (on the relation of deconstruction and phenomenology) at Cambridge Universityin 2006, looking particularly at the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricœur, and Jean-Luc Nancy. In 2006, he was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he is currently working on atheism in contemporary continental thought.

Peter (P.J.) Williams is the Warden (CEO) of Tyndale House. He received his MA, MPhil and PhD, in the study of ancient languages related to the Bible from Cambridge University. After his PhD, he was on staff in the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University (1997–1998), and thereafter taught Hebrew and Old Testament there as Affiliated Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic and as Research Fellow in Old Testament at Tyndale House, Cambridge (1998–2003). From 2003 to 2007 he was on the faculty of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, where he became a Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Deputy Head of the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy. In July 2007 he became the youngest Warden in the history of Tyndale House. He also retains his position as an honorary Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies at the University of Aberdeen and is a member of the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Cambridge.

Schedule and Location: The 2011 Cambridge Scholars Network is scheduled to take place from 8 -14 July at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University (see pictures below). Participants will arrive at 12.30 on Friday, 8 July. Light refreshments will be available and guided historical tours of Cambridge will occur thereafter. Later in the afternoon, participants will depart for a weekend retreat.

Participants will then return to Sidney Sussex on Sunday afternoon for the remainder of the Network, which will end at 11.30 on Thursday, 14 July. Those participants who do not live in the Cambridge area will be lodging at the college. All participants will have opportunities to explore Cambridge with their colleagues.

The cost of attending the Cambridge Scholars Network is:

Early Registration - Apply by 31 December, 2010

Non-Residents of Cambridge - €390

Residents of Cambridge* - €190

Regular Registration - Apply by 30 February, 2011

Non-Residents of Cambridge - €490

Residents of Cambridge* - €290

Late Registration - Apply by 30 April, 2011

Non-Residents of Cambridge - €590

Residents of Cambridge* - €390

*Residents of Cambridge are charged a lesser rate as they’ll not require lodging for the portion of the program that is hosted at Sidney Sussex.

A limited number of partial scholarships/bursaries are available.

Click here for a brochure describing the Cambridge Scholars Network.

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