Join us for this year’s Ethel M. Wood Lecture with Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou (University of Exeter) on the topic:

'Socialising with Figurines: Miniature Worlds within and beyond Iron Age Judah’.

The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.

All are welcome. Tickets are free, but booking is essential.

Francesca Stavrakopoulou is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion at the University of Exeter. She is an internationally renowned scholar and award-winning author, specializing in material religion, death studies, and the ancient religious cultures in which the Hebrew Bible emerged. Her most recent monograph, God: An Anatomy (Picador 2021 and Knopf 2022), explored ancient constructs of divine corporeality. It won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for Non-Fiction, was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, and named a Best Book of the Year in the Economist, the Sunday Times, and Publishers Weekly. Professor Stavrakopoulou is well known for her public engagement work, which includes writing and presenting the BBC TV documentary series Bible's Buried Secrets, and narrating the serialization of her most recent book on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.

The Ethel M. Wood Lecture is a University of London annual lecture which was endowed by Mrs Ethel M. Wood in 1947. Since its foundation many distinguished speakers have lectured on topics within the broad field of Biblical Studies. The lectures are designed for students and informed members of the general public.

Top Image: Judaean female clay "pillar figurines". Jerusalem, Beer-Sheva, Tel Erani (8th-6th BCE). Wikimedia / Israel Museum,  CC-BY-SA-3.0