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Bible History Weekend

The weekend of the 6th-8th May was the ‘Bible History’ Weekend at Highfields Church, Cardiff.

A series of different events are planned as part of the 2011 celebrations to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Version of the Bible. For this weekend Highfields teamed up with CICC (Cymru Institute of Contemporary Christianity), the world renowned Tyndale House (Wales Tour: www.bibleandchurch.com) and the new Cardiff Chamber Orchestra.

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Events held during this special weekend:

Bible and Church: Moral Objections to the Old Testament (Highfields Church, from May 06, 2011 12:00 PM to May 06, 2011 02:00 PM)
06 May - Can I believe the Bible? - 12noon
Bible and Church: History & Text (Highfields Church, from May 07, 2011 09:00 AM to May 07, 2011 01:00 PM)
07 May - Have we got the History and Text right? - 09:00am
Bible and Music: A Night for Japan (Highfields Church - Chapel, from May 07, 2011 07:30 PM to May 07, 2011 10:00 PM)
07 May - A wonderful, eclectic evening of music - 7:30pm
Celebrating the Bible (Highfields Church, from May 08, 2011 09:30 AM to May 08, 2011 10:45 AM)
08 May - Morning Service - 09:30am - Dr Peter J Williams - Joshua 1:1-9
Celebrating the Bible (Highfields Church, from May 08, 2011 11:15 AM to May 08, 2011 12:30 PM)
08 May - Morning Service - 11:15am - Dr Peter J Williams - Joshua 1:1-9
The Voices of God (Highfields Church, from May 08, 2011 06:30 PM to May 08, 2011 07:45 PM)
08 May - Evening Service - 6:30pm - Rev Peter Baker - Psalm 19
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Bible History Weekend

About Our Speakers
Peter J Williams

Dr Peter J. Williams is the Warden of Tyndale House, Cambridge. He was educated at Cambridge University, where he received his MA, MPhil and PhD, in the study of ancient languages related to the Bible.

After his PhD he was on staff in the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University (1997-1998), and thereafter taught Hebrew and Old Testament at Cambridge University 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 Warden of Tyndale House, Cambridge.

He is married to Kathryn with two children, Magdalena and Leo. Commenting on Peter's appointment to Tyndale House, Professor Don A. Carson, Research Professor in New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Illinois, USA, said: "Not many scholars can speak competently across as many technical fields as can Pete."

Dirk Jongkind

Dr Dirk Jongkind is a Dutch biblical scholar who finished his PhD at Cambridge University on Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest complete copy of the New Testament.

After his PhD he was employed by the British Library to carry out research on Codex Sinaiticus and he has published a book entitled Scribal Habits in Codex Sinaiticus (2007). He has also recently re-edited the edition of the Greek New Testament of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, and carried out significant work on the legal language used in and outside the New Testament.

Currently he is the Research Fellow in New Testament Text and Language at Tyndale House, Cambridge and the John W. Laing Fellow at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. He is married to Marion, with six children.

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