With apologies for cross-posting:

I've just seen the announcement in the latest Fortress Press catalogue
of the publication of Kenneth W. Stevenson's _The Lord's Prayer: A Text
in Tradition_.   It's not due out until March.

Has anyone seen an advance copy of it?

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson

--

Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.)

1500 W. Pratt Blvd. #1
Chicago, IL 60626

jgibson000@...

Hello all,

Both Mark Goodacre and Stephen Carlson have mentioned this site in
various fora, so my thanks to them for drawing my attention to it.  I
haven't read through the site as thoroughly as I should, but will be
intrigued to read the book whenever I can get my hands on it.

http://www.didache-garrow.info/

I'd like to invite commentary on the thesis and would folks be
interested in inviting the author for a discussion based on his book?


In other news, in the next month or so I'll have an update to the
list web page, and 2 or 3 files to upload to the website.  One is on
the question of date of Matthew, the other a translation of Jerome's
preface to his commentary, and the third is a list of all
commentaries on Matthew before 1500.

All the best,

Larry Swain

Hello all,

I've made a few changes to the website.  Comments are welcome.

Most noticeable at least in content is the addition of a long time in
coming translation of Jerome's introduction to his commentary on
Matthew.  More of that commentary will appear from time to time,
hopefully sooner than every 3 years.  Other things in progress.

The URL for the list site is:
http://www.geocities.com/theswain/ematthew

All the best,

Larry Swain

Gentlemen:

Are there any scholarly works
that have attempted to demonstrate
that ACCORDING TO MATTHEW
was influenced by Paul, either
directly, or indirectly?  If so, could
someone suggest some works
that treat this subject extensively?
I am only interested in works that may have treated Paul as a possible source,
among
others, for ACCORDING TO MATTHEW.
I am not interested in works that make
a passing comment.  Possibly someone
on this list knows of some work or works
along this line.

Thank you!

Dennis H. White
Eureka, South Dakota
Retired, but no loss of interest.

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

From time to time has been claimed that Matthew is reacting against
Paul/Paulinism. This article, if you can acccess it (it's not online AFAIK)
may be helpful:

David Sim, 'Matthew's Anti-Paulinism: A Neglected Feature of Matthean
Studies', Hervormde Teologiese Studies 58 (2002), pp. 767-83.

Best wishes,
Jacob Knee
(Cam, Glos.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis H White [mailto:dwhite@...]
Sent: 21 August 2004 03:17
To: ematthew@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ematthew] "Paul's Thoughts As Source"

Gentlemen:

Are there any scholarly works
that have attempted to demonstrate
that ACCORDING TO MATTHEW
was influenced by Paul, either
directly, or indirectly?  If so, could
someone suggest some works
that treat this subject extensively?
I am only interested in works that may have treated Paul as a possible
source, among others, for ACCORDING TO MATTHEW.
I am not interested in works that make
a passing comment.  Possibly someone
on this list knows of some work or works along this line.

Thank you!

Dennis H. White
Eureka, South Dakota
Retired, but no loss of interest.

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--- In ematthew@yahoogroups.com, "Dennis H White" <dwhite@v...> wrote:
> Gentlemen:
>
> Are there any scholarly works
> that have attempted to demonstrate
> that ACCORDING TO MATTHEW
> was influenced by Paul, either
> directly, or indirectly?  If so, could
> someone suggest some works
> that treat this subject extensively?
> >
Donald H. Akenson's Saint Saul:  A Skeleton Key to the Historical
Jesus (Oxford, 2000) certainly makes more than a passing reference to
this issue, although it is not his central concern.  i have found it
a highly thoughtful and thought-provoking book by a very careful and
convincing scholar.

for ematthew readers, perhaps his discussion concerning the priority
of according to matthew alone makes the work worth reading.

pax et caritas,
dale caldwell
bellingham, washington

Apologies for cross posting!

It's that time of year again when the Society of Biblical Literature's
Annual Meeting is just round the corner (Nov. 20th-Nov. 23rd) and I
begin to arrange the now traditional (8th annual!) gathering of all
those NT and Biblical e-list members (i.e. XTalkers, B-Greeks, and
members of Corpus Paulinum, John Lit, Kata Markon, Biblical Studies, T-C
List, Ioudaios, Synoptic-L, etc. ) who will be going  to San Antonio for
the SBL  conference.

[For those of you who do not know what the Society of Biblical
Literature is and/or are unfamiliar with the SBL Annual Meeting, go
first to

http://www.sbl-site.org/

and then to

http://www.sbl-site.org/congresses/Congresses_AnnualMeeting.aspx].

The E-Lister's meeting is planned for Saturday, Nov. 20th  at 11am in
(as always) the Exhibition Hall and (with thanks to the stalwart
representatives of  the Gramcord Institute) at the Gramcord Institute
Booth.

As attendees of previous meetings know, this gathering is  a great
opportunity to place a face to an one hitherto known only as an
electronic personality and/or to renew acquaintances made at previous
SBLs.

As I've done in the past 7 years in arranging this meeting, I'd like to
get an advance head count of those of you who are intending to attend
this year's SBL.

I'd also like to know who among the intended attendees is presenting a
paper during the conference (and at what time and place and within what
SBL group or section and under what title).

So this is the first call to write me OFF LIST at jgibson000@...
and let me know

(a) if you will be attending;

(b) if and when and under what aegis you are presenting a paper,

(c) your paper title, AND

(d) what you consider to be your "home"  E-List.

I'll keep everyone updated as the info comes in to me.

Again,  write to me OFF LIST (jgibson000@...)

Looking forward to seeing you in Atlanta!

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson




--

Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.)

1500 W. Pratt Blvd. #1
Chicago, IL 60626

jgibson000@...



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

With apologies for cross posting!

This is the second notice of  the annual gathering of Biblical and
Biblical Studies E-Listers at the upcoming annual meeting of the SBL,
held this year in San Antonio.

[For those of you who do not know what the Society of Biblical
Literature is and/or are unfamiliar with the SBL Annual Meeting, go
first to

http://www.sbl-site.org/

and then to

http://www.sbl-site.org/congresses/Congresses_AnnualMeeting.aspx].

The E-Lister's meeting is planned for Saturday, Nov. 20th  at 11:30 am
(note the slight time change from 11 am)  in Exhibit Hall C of the Henry
B. Gonzalez Exhibition Center and (with thanks to the stalwart
representatives of  the Gramcord Institute) at the Gramcord Institute
Booth (Booth # 452).

As attendees of previous meetings know, this gathering is  a great
opportunity to place a face to an one hitherto known only as an
electronic personality and/or to renew acquaintances made at previous
SBLs.

As I've done in the past 7 years in arranging this meeting, I'd like to
get an advance head count of those of you who are intending to attend
this year's SBL.

I'd also like to know who among the intended attendees is presenting a
paper during the conference (and at what time and place and within what
SBL group or section and under what title).

So this is the first call to write me OFF LIST at jgibson000@...
with a subject header that says something like SBL Meeting, and let me
know

(a) if you will be attending;

(b) if and when and under what aegis you are presenting a paper,

(c) your paper title, AND

(d) what you consider to be your "home"  E-List.

I'll keep everyone updated as the info comes in to me.

Again,  write to me OFF LIST (jgibson000@...)

Looking forward to seeing you in San Antonio (got it right this time!).

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson




--

Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.)

1500 W. Pratt Blvd. #1
Chicago, IL 60626

jgibson000@...



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Hello everyone,

I've gone through the upcoming SBL program and pasted the items of
Matthean interest below.  Note please papers by Stephen Carlson and
Jeffery Gibson too!  The two Basser papers listed just below do not
seem to be online, but I include the links in hopes that they will be
sometime before the conference happens.

I'd like to extend an invitation again to anyone who is giving a
paper on a Matthean related topic to post the paper here for pre-
conference preparation and questions.  I'd also like to ask anyone
who is going to give a post-conference report.

Many Thanks!

Larry Swain


http://www.sbl-site.org/PDF/Dobrovolny_Matthew.pdf

http://www.sbl-site.org/congresses/Basser_Matthew.pdf

http://www.sbl-site.org/PDF/Basser_Midrash.pdf

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Jesus Traditions, Gospels and Negotiating the Roman Imperial World
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #214A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Matthew, Luke, and John: Negotiating Rome's Empire

William R. Herzog, Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Presiding
Warren Carter, St. Paul School of Theology
Food Shortages and Abundance in Matthew: Negotiating Rome's Empire
(30 min)

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New Testament Textual Criticism
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #214B - San Antonio Convention Center

More on Pseudo-agreements among 'Western' Witnesses (30 min)
Sylvie T. Raquel, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
The Text of the Gospel of Matthew in the Writings of Origen (30 min)
Stephen C. Carlson, Fairfax, VA

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Synoptic Gospels
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #204B - San Antonio Convention Center
Greg Carey, Lancaster Theological Seminary, Presiding
Robert J. Miller, Juniata College
Did Matthew Believe in the Virgin Birth? (30 min)
Jeffrey Peterson, Austin School of Theology
Dismissing the Sanhedrin: High Priest and Council in the Synoptics
(30 min)
Jeffrey B. Gibson, Harry S. Truman College


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African Biblical Hermeneutics
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #216B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Methodological Innovations in African Biblical Hermeneutics

"Out of Egypt I Have Called My Son." Matthew's Infancy Narrative
(Matthew 1–2) in Afrocentric Perspective (25 min)
Madipoane Masenya, University of South Africa


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Didache in Context
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #007B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Methodological Reflections

Comparing Matthew with the Didache: Some Methodological Reflections
(25 min)
Clayton N. Jefford, St. Meinrad School of Theology, Respondent (5 min)
J. Christian Wilson, Elon University

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Bible Technologies Group
11/19/2004
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Room: Room #212A - San Antonio Convention Center
Robert Hodgson, American Bible Society, Presiding
Patrick Durusau, Society of Biblical Literature, Presiding
Eugene Nida, American Bible Society
The Modern Translator (45 min)
Mike Perez, American Bible Society
Bible Engagement Tools (45 min)
Break (15 min)
Steven Derose, Bible Technologies Group
Introduction to OSIS (45 min)
OSIS Panel Discussion
Steven Derose, Bible Technologies Group, Panelist
Patrick Durusau, Society of Biblical Literature, Panelist
Mike Perez, American Bible Society, Panelist



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Teaching and the Web: An Introductory Workshop
11/19/2004
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Room: Room #207 - San Antonio Convention Center
Schedule:
9:00am-10:30am - Welcome, Introductions, Needs Assessment

9:45am-10:30am - What Are We Trying to Do? Objectives of Web Teaching
and Learning

10:30am - Break

10:45am - 11:30am - What is Really Happening? Assessing Web Teaching
and Learning

11:30am - 12:30pm - What is Possible from the Technology?
Tools for Content Delivery
Tools for Interaction between Students, Teachers, and Content

12:30pm - Lunch (on own)

1:30pm - 3:30pm (with a break)
How Does a Course "Happen?" Institutional Support for Web Courses

3:30pm - 4:00pm - Additional Resources


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Teaching the Bible in Racially and Culturally Diverse Classrooms
11/19/2004
9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Room: Salon K - Marriott Rivercenter
Co-sponsored by the Society of Biblical Literature, the Wabash Center
for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, and the Fund for
Theological Education
9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Pre-registration required.
Limit 35 participants. The Workshop is currently full.

For information, contact
Lucinda Huffaker, Director Wabash Center
1-800-655-7117
huffakel@....

Greg Carey, Lancaster Theological Seminary, Panelist
Tat-Siong Benny Liew, Chicago Theological Seminary, Panelist
Francisco Lozada, Jr., University of the Incarnate Word, Panelist
Evelyn L. Parker, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist
University, Panelist



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Women's Caucus Workshop
11/19/2004
11:30 AM to 3:30 PM
Room: Salon M - Marriott Rivercenter
Sponsored by the Women's Caucus
This annual workshop, sponsored by the Women's Caucus, provides an
excellent opportunity for women to network with other women in the
field. Bring your lunch and learn strategies in the following areas:
Writing the Dissertation while Balancing Family & Academia by Grace
Kim; Getting Published by Barbara McGraw; Finding a Job in the
Academy by Harriet Luckman; Using Feminist Pedagogy as an Adjunct
Instructor by Paula Trimble Familetti; Gaining Tenure by Rebecca
Moore.


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Biblical Exegetical Software in the Classroom -- Integration 101
11/19/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #214C - San Antonio Convention Center
Joseph M. Fleener, Calvary Baptist Theological Seminary, Presiding
Mark Futato, Reformed Theological Seminary, Panelist (10 min)
Rodney A. Whitacre, Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, Panelist
(10 min)
Thomas J. Finley, Talbot School of Theology, Panelist (10 min)
Discussion (60 min)



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Committee on Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the
Profession
11/19/2004
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Room: Conference 11 - Marriott Rivercenter
Stephen Breck Reid, Bethany Theological Seminary, Presiding
Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder, Vanderbilt University, Member
Mary F. Foskett, Wake Forest University, Member
Jeffrey Kuan, Pacific School of Religion, Member
Joseph Scrivner, Samford University, Member



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Conference of Regional Coordinators
11/19/2004
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Room: Conference 15 - Marriott Rivercenter
Linda S. Schearing, Gonzaga University, Presiding
Christina Bucher, Elizabethtown College, Member
John Lanci, Stonehill College, Member
Troy W. Martin, St. Xavier University, Member
Tammi J. Schneider, Claremont Graduate University, Member
Mark Schuler, Concordia University, Member
Ronald A. Simkins, Creighton University, Member
John T. Strong, Southwest Missouri State University, Member
James Thompson, Abilene Christian University, Member
Holly Toensing, Xavier University, Member
Mark F. Whitters, Detroit, MI, Member
B. Diane Wudel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Member



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Finance Committee
11/19/2004
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Room: Conference 10 - Marriott Rivercenter
Paul J. Achtemeier, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond (Emeritus),
Presiding
Harold W. Attridge, Yale University, Member
Eldon Jay Epp, Case Western Reserve University (Emeritus), Member
Joel Green, Asbury Theological Seminary, Member



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Writers' Workshop
11/19/2004
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Room: Room #211 - San Antonio Convention Center
Patrick Alexander, Brill Academic Publishers, Presiding
John F. Kutsko, Abingdon Press, Presiding

Pre-registration Required.

Research and writing unlock the twin doors to success in the academic
life: success in one's career and success in the classroom. In the
competitive environment of today's academy, getting published can
make the difference between being just another CV in a circular file
and catching the eye of a search or tenure committee. This SBL-
sponsored writing workshop will focus on what the scholar needs to
know to get published. Instruction will include the following: an
overview of scholarly publishing, how turn a dissertation into a
book, proposal writing, finding the right publisher, and what to
expect in the publishing process (from submitting a proposal, to
signing a publishing agreement, to the author's responsibilities).


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Semeia Studies Editorial Board Meeting
11/19/2004
3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Room: Room #003A - San Antonio Convention Center

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BibleWorks Workshop -- Using Its Features and Resources to the Fullest
11/19/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #214C - San Antonio Convention Center

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Programs & Initiatives Committee
11/19/2004
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Room: Conference 9 - Marriott Rivercenter
Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, Princeton Theological Seminary, Member
Pamela Eisenbaum, Iliff School of Theology, Member
Eldon Jay Epp, Case Western Reserve University, Emeritus, Member
Gregory L. Glover, Southminster Presbyterian Church, Member
David L. Petersen, Candler School of Theology, Emory University,
Member



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Conference of Regional Coordinators Dinner
11/19/2004
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Room: Conference 16 - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: Honoring the 2004 Regional Scholars
The 2004 Regional Scholars:
Janet S. Everhart, Simpson College
William H. Krieger, California State University, Pomona
Caroline Johnson Hodge, College of the Holy Cross
Mark Whitters, Wayne State University


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Development Committee
11/19/2004
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Room: Off-site - TBA
Donald Dale Walker, University of Chicago, Presiding
Harold W. Attridge, Yale University, Member
Carolyn Osiek, Texas Christian University, Member
David L. Petersen, Candler School of Theology, Emory University,
Member
Andrew G. Vaughn, Gustavus Adolphus College, Member
L. Michael White, University of Texas, Member



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Employment Information Services Orientation
11/19/2004
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Room: Salon A - Marriott Rivercenter

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Nominating Committee
11/20/2004
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
Room: Conference 10 - Marriott Rivercenter
John T. Fitzgerald, University of Miami, Presiding
Sidnie White Crawford, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Member
Mikeal C. Parsons, Baylor University, Member



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Program Committee
11/20/2004
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
Room: Conference 11 - Marriott Rivercenter
Brian K. Blount, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Karen King, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Member
Francisco Lozada, Jr., University of the Incarnate Word, Member
Carol Meyers, Duke University, Member
Margaret Odell, Saint Olaf College, Member
Gregory E. Stering, University of Notre Dame, Member



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SBL Council Meeting
11/20/2004
8:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Room: Conference 15 - Marriott Rivercenter
Beverly R. Gaventa, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Harold W. Attridge, Yale University, Member
Brian K. Blount, Princeton Theological Seminary, Member
Kristin De Troyer, Claremont School of Theology, Member
Pamela Eisenbaum, Iliff School of Theology, Member
John T. Fitzgerald, University of Miami, Member
Joel Green, Asbury Theological Seminary, Member
Jo Ann Hackett, Harvard University, Member
Kathleen Mary O'Connor, Columbia Theological Seminary, Member
Carolyn Osiek, Texas Christian University, Member
David L. Petersen, Candler School of Theology, Emory University,
Member
Stephen Breck Reid, Bethany Theological Seminary, Member
Linda S. Schearing, Gonzaga University, Member
James VanderKam, University of Notre Dame, Member



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Academic Teaching and Biblical Studies
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #202B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: New Wine: Teaching Content

Sandra L. Gravett, Appalachian State University, Presiding
Yiyi Chen, Peking University
Teaching the Bible in Peking University: Some Observations (35 min)
John Kampen, Bluffton College
Introducing the Study of the New Testament for the Exploration of
Issues of Nonviolence (35 min)
Break (5 min)
Robert F. Shedinger, Luther College and Kristin A. Swanson,
Vanderbilt University
Putting it All together: New Historicism and Teaching the Hebrew
Bible at a Church-related College (35 min)
Bula Maddison, Graduate Theological Union
"Seed" and "Seed" in the Book of Ruth (35 min)



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Biblical Lexicography
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #211 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Today's Hebrew Lexicons: Exploring the Choice

John Lee, Macquarie University, Presiding
Regine Hunziker-Rodewald, Universität Bern
Gesenius / BDB Family (20 min)
John Kaltner, Rhodes College
Koehler-Baumgartner Family (20 min)
Break (20 min)
Kirk E. Lowery, Westminster Theological Seminary
The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew (20 min)
James Aitken, Cambridge, UK
Other Lexicons (20 min)
Erik Eynikel, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen
Theological Lexicons (20 min)
Discussion (30 min)



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Christian Theology and the Bible
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #006D - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Henri deLubac and Theological Interpretation

A. Katherine Grieb, Virginia Theological Seminary, Presiding
Margaret Adam, Duke University
Beyond the Plain Sense: Why Frei when You Can de Lubac? (25 min)
Lewis Ayres, Emory University
Scripture and the Soul: De Lubac's Doctrinal Implications (25 min)
Ann Astell, Purdue University
Biblical Exegesis, Love, and the "Eternal Feminine": Henri de Lubac
Commenting on Teilhard de Chardin (25 min)
Stephen Chapman, Duke University
Reclaiming Multisense Biblical Interpretation (25 min)
Robert Trent Pomplun, Loyola College, Maryland, Respondent (20 min)



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Early Christian Families
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #007C - San Antonio Convention Center
Margaret MacDonald, St. Francis Xavier University, Presiding
Gerald Peterman, Moody Bible Institute
The Roman Father and the Myth of Tollere Liberos (25 min)
Steven Thompson, Avondale College
"Human fathers, disciplinary correctors whom we respected" Heb 12:9
(25 min)
Beth M. Sheppard, Southwestern College
In the Power of the Father: Patria Potestas and God's Children in the
Fourth Gospel (25 min)
Carlos J. Gil, Universidad de Deusto, Spain
Clash of Family Patterns in Corinth (25 min)
Caroline Johnson Hodge, College of the Holy Cross
Mixed Marriage in Ancient Households (25 min)
Harry O. Maier, Vancouver School of Theology
Family Quarrels: The Politics of Discord and the Representation of
Household Division in Greco-Roman Literature and the Pastoral
Epistles (25 min)



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Feminist Hermeneutics of the Bible
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #006C - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Feminist Hermeneutics and Biblical Law: A Walk on the Law Side

Nancy Bowen, Earlham School of Religion, Presiding
Susanna W. Southard, Vanderbilt Unversity
Woman to Woman: A Comparative Study of Women's Status as Represented
in Law Codes of Ancient Israel and Neighboring Nations (30 min)
Susanne Scholz, Merrimack College
"Back Then It Was Legal:" The Epistemological Divide Regarding Rape
Laws In Ancient Israel (30 min)
L. Jean Sheldon, Pacific Union College
Mother Versus Child: A Feminist and Comparative Look at Exodus 21:22–
25 (30 min)
David Tabb Stewart, Southwestern University
The Parturient's Ritual for a Girl: The Puzzle of Double Pollution
(30 min)
Brian Britt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Male Jealousy and the Suspected Sotah (30 min)

This session is being offered collaboratively with the Biblical Law
Section.


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Jesus Traditions, Gospels and Negotiating the Roman Imperial World
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #206B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Jesus, and Gender: Negotiating Rome's Empire

Warren Carter, St. Paul School of Theology, Presiding
Richard Horsley, University of Massachusetts
The Empire of God and the Empire of Rome: Re-contextualizing Jesus'
Proclamation of the Kingdom (30 min)
Brian Kvasnica, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Vying with Roman-allied Priests: Tribute and Tithe-evasion in First-
century Roman Judea (30 min)
William R. Herzog, Colgate Rochester Divinity School
Dissembling, a Weapon of the Weak: The Case of Paying Tribute to
Caesar (Mark 12:13–17) (30 min)
Eric Thurman, Drew University
Novel Men: Empire and Masculinity in the Gospel of Mark and Xenophon
of Ephesus' An Ephesian Tale (30 min)
Colleen M. Conway, Seton Hall University
Imperial Masculinity and the Jesus Traditions (30 min)



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Lamentations in Ancient and Contemporary Contexts
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #213A - San Antonio Convention Center
Chip Dobbs-Allsopp, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Nancy C. Lee, Elmhurst College
Cracking the Order of Retributive Justice (`ayin . . .
pe . . .tsaddq?): Acrostic Reversals in Lamentations (30 min)
Jill Middlemas, University of Oxford
Did Second Isaiah Write Lamentations 3? (30 min)
John Ahn, Yale University
Psalm 137: A Complex Communal Lament (30 min)
LeAnn Snow Flesher, American Baptist Seminary of the West
Zion: Disciplined Adulterous Wife or Endangered Virgin Daughter? (30
min)
Business Meeting (20 min)



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New Testament Textual Criticism
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #215 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Digital Editions of the Gospel of John
This session is devoted to three digital scholarly projects on John
prepared at the Univeristy of Birmingham: the Byzantine Text Edition;
the Principio Project; and the Verbum Project. Presenters include Jon
Balserak, Philip Burton and Ulrich Schmid.

Michael W. Holmes, Bethel University, Presiding
David Parker, University of Birmingham, Bruce Morrill, University of
Birmingham, Roderic L. Mullen and Hugh Houghton
Digital Editions of the Gospel of John (120 min)
Discussion (30 min)



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Pentateuch
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #007B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: A Farewell to the Yahwist?

Diane M. Sharon, Jewish Theological Seminary, Presiding
Konrad Schmid, University of Zurich and Thomas Romer, University of
Lausanne
The So-Called Yahwist and the Redactional Gap between Genesis and
Exodus (40 min)
Jan Christian Gertz, Mainz University
The Transition between the Books of Genesis and Exodus (Genesis
50/Exodus 1) (25 min)
Thomas B. Dozeman, United Theological Seminary
The Call of Moses and the Book of Genesis (25 min)
Discussion (30 min)
David McLain Carr, Union Theological Seminary, Respondent (15 min)
Christoph Levin, University of Munich, Respondent (15 min)



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Psychology and Biblical Studies
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #208 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Apocalypse and Cosmic Conflict

D. Andrew Kille, Revdak/ InterfaithSpace, Presiding
Michael Willett Newheart, Howard University
Fanning Fanon's Flame: Using the Afro-Caribbean Psychiatrist Frantz
Fanon in Interpreting the Apocalyptic Texts of Terror (25 min)
Paul Fisher, North Carolina
God on Steroids: Apocalyptic as the Medicine of Melancholy
Metaphysicians (25 min)
Barbara M. Leung Lai, Tyndale Seminary
Immersing Ourselves in the Visionary Experience of Daniel: Reading,
Emotive-experiencing, Appropriation (25 min)
Paul N. Anderson, George Fox University
Antichristic Errors...and Errors of the Johannine Antichrists (25 min)
Wayne Rollins, Hartford Seminary, Respondent (20 min)
Business Meeting (30 min)



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SBL Women Student Members' Coffee and Orientation Session
11/20/2004
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Room: Salon M - Marriott Rivercenter
Nyasha Junior, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding



Do you have questions about how to get to the next stage of your
program? Are you stressed about getting through the current stage of
your program? Are you the only one like you at your institution?
Would you like to meet other women facing similar challenges? Come to
this session!

All women student members are invited to join us for an informal
orientation and icebreaker at the 2004 Annual Meeting in San Antonio.
Bring your business cards or address labels with contact information.
Meet other women graduate students. Find support. Make contacts. Get
advice. Win prizes!

Contact SBL-CSWP student representative, Nyasha Junior, if you have
any questions.


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TEXTureS, Gestures, Power: Orientation to Radical Excavation
11/20/2004
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Room: Ballroom C-2 - San Antonio Convention Center
Co-sponsored with the American Academy of Religion
Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Georgetown University, Presiding
David L. Petersen, Candler School of Theology, Emory University,
Presiding
Vincent Wimbush, Claremont Graduate University, Panelist
Charles Hallisey, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Respondent
Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University, Respondent
John G. Renard, Saint Louis University, Respondent



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Asian and Asian-American Hermeneutics
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #203B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Issues in Asian American Hermeneutics and Biblical
Interpretation

Frank Yamada, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Presiding
Max J. Lee, Wheaton College
Disturbing Voices at the Cross of Jesus: What Two Political Bandits
in Luke's Crucifixion Scene (23:39–43) Have to Say to Asian-Americans
about Ideologies of Power (30 min)
Yung Suk Kim, Vanderbilt University
"In Christ" as a Hermeneutical Key for Diversity (30 min)
John Ahn, Yale University
A Light to the Nations: The Sociological Approach in Korean American
Hermeneutics (30 min)
Lai-Ling Ngan, Truett Seminary, Baylor University, Respondent (20 min)



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Best Practices in Teaching Workshop
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #006B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Teaching Biblical Greek

N. Clayton Croy, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Presiding
Joel Harlow, Reformed Theological Seminary, Virtual Campus
Successfully Teaching New Testament Greek Online at the Seminary
Level: A Case Study (30 min)
Steve Walton, London School of Theology
John for Beginners: Helping Greek Learners to Read the New Testament
for the First Time (30 min)
Pierre Johan Jordaan, North West University
Teaching New Testament Greek as Outcome Based Education in a Multi-
lingual, Multi-cultural Setting (30 min)
Randall Buth, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
TPR: Teaching Greek Outside of a Textbook (30 min)
N. Clayton Croy, Trinity Lutheran Seminary
A Baker's Dozen of Tips and Resources for Teaching Biblical Greek (30
min)

The session will conclude with a general discussion of texts,
resources, and aids for teaching Biblical Greek.


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Biblical Scholarship and Disabilities
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #202B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: The Blind, the Deaf, and the Lame: Biblical Representations of
Disability

Bruce C. Birch, Wesley Theological Seminary, Presiding
Hector Avalos, Iowa State University
Introducing "Sensory Criticism" in Biblical and Disability Studies
(27 min)
Thomas Hentrich, Kyoto University
Since When Were Disabled People Considered Impure? A Look at
Leviticus 21:17–22 (27 min)
Jeremy Schipper, Princeton Theological Seminary
Limping into Jerusalem: Disability and Mephibosheth's Entry into
Jerusalem in 2 Samuel 9 (27 min)
Sarah J. Melcher, Xavier University
"I Will Lead the Blind by a Road They Do Not Know:" Disability in
Prophetic Eschatology (27 min)
Gary Alley, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
"Good News to the Poor:" Demarcating Disabilities within the Synoptic
Gospels' and Qumran's Messianic Schemas (27 min)
Business Meeting (15 min)



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Christian Late Antiquity and its Reception
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #006D - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Arabic Christian Literature and Early Christian-Muslim
Relations

Mark Swanson, Luther Seminary, Presiding
Claire Wilde, Catholic University of America
Qur'an, Hadith, and Tafsir: Tools of Early Melkite Apologists? (30
min)
John Lamoreaux, Southern Methodist University
Theodore Abu Qurrah's against the Outsiders: A Newly Discovered
Arabic Work (30 min)
Alexander Treiger, Yale University
Arabic Translations of Greek Patristics: The Case of Pseudo-Dionysius
the Areopagite (30 min)
Jason Zaborowski, Catholic University of America
The Arabic Apocalypse of Samuel of Qalamun and the Disuse of Coptic
Language among Egyptian Christians (30 min)
Break (30 min)



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Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Room: Conference 15 - Marriott Rivercenter
Jane S. Webster, Barton College, Presiding
Kathleen E. Corley, University of Wisconsin, Member
Nyasha Junior, Princeton Theological Seminary, Member
Risa Levitt Kohn, San Diego State University, Member
Heather McKay, Edge Hill College, Member
Lori Rowlett, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Member



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Disputed Paulines
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Room: Conference 13 - Marriott Rivercenter
Margaret MacDonald, St. Francis Xavier University, Presiding
John K. McVay, Andrews University
Ephesians 6:10–20 and Battle Exhortations in Jewish Literature (30
min)
Robert Paul Seesengood, Drew University
Fighting the Good Fight for the Faith: The Gladiator and Pauline
Identity in the Disputed Epistles (30 min)
Gail Streete, Rhodes College
Householders of God versus Spiritual Athletes: The Understanding of
True Ascetic Behavior in the Pastorals (30 min)
Christopher Hutson, Hood Theological Seminary
"A Little Wine": 1 Timothy 5:23 and the Philosophic Training Regimen
(30 min)
Jerry L. Sumney, Lexington Theological Seminary
"I Fill Up What is Lacking in the Afflictions of Christ": Paul's
Vicarious Suffering in Colossians (30 min)
James W. Barker, Vanderbilt University
Authority and Administration in Crete: A Postcolonial Critique of
Titus (30 min)



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Homiletics and Biblical Studies
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Salon G - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: Preaching and Biblical Authority

David Schnasa Jacobsen, Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, Presiding (5 min)
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity School
A Critical Feminist Hermeneutics of Proclamation (10 min)
David Buttrick, Vanderbilt University
Why Do We Need "The Authority of Scripture?" (10 min)
Gail O'Day, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Scripture Preaching Scripture: A Biblical Hermeneutic of Authority
(10 min)
John McClure, Vanderbilt University
The Bible as a "Hard Word:" Homiletical Uses for the De-centering
Authority of the Bible (10 min)
Cain Hope Felder, Howard University
Some Limitations of Dogma and Social Location as Criteria for
Biblical Authority in Preaching (10 min)
Discussion (90 min)



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Israelite Prophetic Literature
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #214D - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Metaphors for God in the Prophets

Johanna Bos, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Presiding
L. Juliana M. Claassens, Baptist Theological Seminary, Richmond
The Mountains Shall Drip Sweet Wine: God's Provision of Food as Image
of Restoration (25 min)
Paul Niskanen, University of St. Thomas
YHWH as Father, Go'el, and Potter in Isaiah 63:7—64:12 (25 min)
Daniel O'Kennedy, University of Stellenbosch
Yahweh as Healer in the Prophetic Books of the Hebrew Bible (25 min)
Else K. Holt, University of Aarhus
The Prophet as a Metaphor for God (?) (25 min)
Matthew R. Schlimm, Duke University
Divergent Accounts of Divine Affectivity in Recent Old Testament
Scholarship (25 min)
Discussion (25 min)



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Israelite Religion in its West Asian Environment
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #217B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Exploring Women's Religion

Neal Walls, Wake Forest University, Presiding
Carol Meyers, Duke University
Interrogating Terracottas: Women's Religious Praxis (25 min)
Ann Fritschel, Wartburg Seminary
Women as Practitioners of Magic (25 min)
Peggy L. Day, University of Winnipeg
Metaphorical Uses and Abuses of Women's Sexuality (25 min)
Break (5 min)
Phyllis Bird, Northwestern University (Emeritus)
"Women's Work": Reflections on Women's Domestic and Cultic Roles (25
min)
Susan Ackerman, Dartmouth College
Women and the Weaving of Cultic Textiles in Ancient Israel (25 min)
Discussion (20 min)



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Jesus Traditions, Gospels and Negotiating the Roman Imperial World
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #214A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Matthew, Luke, and John: Negotiating Rome's Empire

William R. Herzog, Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Presiding
Warren Carter, St. Paul School of Theology
Food Shortages and Abundance in Matthew: Negotiating Rome's Empire
(30 min)
Catherine M. Murphy, Santa Clara University
Pilate's Wife in Postcolonial Perspective (30 min)
Jonathan Pennington, University of St. Andrews
The Kingdom of Heaven against All Earthly Kingdoms (30 min)
Guy D. Nave, Jr., Luther College
It's Time for a Change! Examining the Lukan Demand for Repentance
within the Context of Roman Imperialism (30 min)
Gerhard van den Heever, University of South Africa
Reconceptualizing Christian Origins as Mirroring Roman Imperial
Ideology (30 min)



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Literature and History of the Persian Period
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Conference 18 - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: Review of Lisbeth Fried's The Priest and the Great King:
Temple-Palace Relations in the Persian Empire (Eisenbrauns, 2004)

Daniel Smith-Christopher, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding
Stephen Breck Reid, Bethany Theological Seminary, Panelist (30 min)
John Wright, Point Loma Nazarene University, Panelist (30 min)
John Kessler, Tyndale Seminary, Panelist (30 min)
Lisbeth S. Fried, University of Michigan, Respondent (30 min)
Discussion (30 min)



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New Testament Textual Criticism
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #214B - San Antonio Convention Center
John Brogan, Northwestern College, Presiding
Jennifer Knust, College of the Holy Cross
Early Christian Rewriting and the History of the Pericope Adulterae
(30 min)
P. J. Williams, University of Aberdeen
More on Pseudo-agreements among 'Western' Witnesses (30 min)
Sylvie T. Raquel, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
The Text of the Gospel of Matthew in the Writings of Origen (30 min)
Stephen C. Carlson, Fairfax, VA
The Origin(s) of the "Caesarean" Text (30 min)
Wayne C. Kannaday, Newberry College
All's Well That Ends Well: An Examination of the Possible Influence
of Apologetic Interests on the Endings of Mark's Gospel (30 min)



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Orientation to the SBL Annual Meeting
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Room: Conference 12 - Marriott Rivercenter
New to the Annual Meeting? This session will provide you with an
overview of the program and some hints and tips for not only
surviving the meeting, but making the most of the opportunities it
presents.

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Paul and Politics
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #217C - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Reports from Working Groups on `Peoples History' in
Galatia/Galatians and Corinth/Corinthians
Using projections of relevant images, a panel of respondents will
report on highlights of the discussion from the pre-meeting.
Anticipated topics will include interpretation of the images with
special attention to power relations presented, the images of
the "barbarian" and the female, and potential implications of these
images for our reading of Paul's letter to the Galatians.

Susan Elliott, Plymouth Congregational Church, Presiding
Theme I: Galatians and Images of Empire
Brigitte Kahl, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Reading Galatians in front of the Great Altar of Pergamon (15 min)
Davina C. Lopez, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Reading Galatians in Light of Images of Roman Imperial Gender
Constructs (15 min)
David Lull, Wartburg Theological Seminary, Respondent
Mark Nanos, Rockhurst University, Respondent
Steven Friesen, University of Missouri, Columbia, Respondent
Discussion (30 min)
Negotiating Identity and Boundaries: The Ekklesia in Roman Corinth
Ray Pickett, Lutheran Seminary Program of the Southwest
Negotiating Community Identity in the Corinthian Assembly (15 min)
James C. Walters, Boston University
Paul and Community Formation: What Went Wrong (15 min)
John Lanci, Stonehill College, Respondent (10 min)
Discussion (30 min)



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Psychology and Biblical Studies
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #007B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Psychological Views of Biblical Law, Jesus and Divine
Retribution

Jill McNish, Montclair, NJ, Presiding
Psychology and the Decalogue
Bernhard Lang, University of Paderborn
The Iniquity of the Fathers: A Psychological Reading of the Decalogue
(25 min)
Lyn M. Bechtel, Drew University Theological School
The Psychological Implications of the Fifth Commandment (25 min)
Dereck Daschke, Truman State University
"Thou Shalt Not Covet:" Repression, Israel, and Its Discontents (25
min)
Methods and Models
Chaya Halberstam, King's College, University of London
"The Land Will Vomit You Out": Kristeva's Abject and Divine
Retribution (25 min)
Donald Capps, Princeton Theological Seminary
Pathology, Power, and Presence: A Review of 20th Century Portraits of
the Personality of Jesus (25 min)
Discussion (20 min)



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Recent Uses of Theory in Latino/a Hermeneutics and Teaching of the
Bible
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #207 - San Antonio Convention Center
Sharon H. Ringe, Wesley Theological Seminary, Presiding
Francisco Lozada, Jr., University of the Incarnate Word
Textures of Latino/a Biblical Criticism: Literary to Postcolonial
Theory (25 min)
Fernando Segovia, The Divinity School, Vanderbilt University
Latino/a Criticism as a Contextual, Strategic Option (25 min)
Jean-Pierre Ruiz, St. John's University
At the Borders of Interpretation: Scriptures and the Challenges of
Globalization (25 min)
Francisco Garcia-Treto, Trinity University
Exile in the Hebrew Bible: A Postcolonial Look from the Cuban
Diaspora (25 min)
Leticia Guardiola-Saenz, Drew University
Jesus the Border-crosser: A Postcolonial Representation from John's
Gospel (25 min)
Efrain Agosto, Hartford Seminary
A Postcolonial Commentary on Philippians: Reflections on Using a
Theory for the First Time (25 min)

The organizers of the special session expect to identify and attract
a number of Latino/a scholars who are already working in this area,
and open a venue for presentation and discussion of their work. It is
contemplated that out of this initial effort will evolve a Seminar,
where an increasing number of newer Latino/a scholars will be able to
exert their voices and share their insight as theorists and
practitioners of contextual reading and teaching the Bible from
Latino/a perspectives.


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Rethinking Plato's Parmenides and its Platonic, Gnostic and Patristic
Reception
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #211 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Plotinus and His Predecessors as Interpreters of Plato's
Parmenides

John D. Turner, University of Nebraska, Presiding
Luc Brisson, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
On the Interpretation of the Second Part of Plato's Parmenides:
Numenius, the Gnostics and Plotinus on the Intellect (40 min)
Matthias Vorwerk, Catholic University of America
Plotinus and the Parmenides. Problems of Interpretation (40 min)
Discussion (70 min)

Dinner for members of the seminar will be planned at a local
restaurant after the second session of this unit (see session S20-
XX).


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Synoptic Gospels
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #204B - San Antonio Convention Center
Greg Carey, Lancaster Theological Seminary, Presiding
Robert J. Miller, Juniata College
Did Matthew Believe in the Virgin Birth? (30 min)
Jeffrey Peterson, Austin School of Theology
Dismissing the Sanhedrin: High Priest and Council in the Synoptics
(30 min)
Jeffrey B. Gibson, Harry S. Truman College
Once Again, the "Sign of Jonah" (30 min)
Pamela Shellberg, Marquette University
Cleansing the Lepers and Accepting the Gentiles: The Concept of
Cleansing in Luke-Acts (30 min)



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The Book of the Twelve Prophets
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #213A - San Antonio Convention Center
Barry Jones, Campbell University Divinity School, Presiding
Paul L. Redditt, Georgetown College
The King in the Book of the Twelve (30 min)
Jutta Krispenz, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Distinguishing Joel from Zephaniah: A Test-case in Statistical
Authorship Attribution (30 min)
Laurie J. Braaten, Judson College
The Day(s) of Yhwh and the Fate of the Land: Canonical Interplay
between Joel and Zephaniah. (30 min)
Daniel E. Fleming, New York University
The Day of Yahweh and the New Moon in the Book of Amos (30 min)
Robert A. Harris, Jewish Theological Seminary
Contextual Reading: The Commentary of R. Eliezer of Beaugency on Amos
(30 min)



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The Use, Influence and Impact of the Bible
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #216B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: The Bible in Art, Music and Literature

Eric Christianson, Chester College, Presiding
Judith L. Kovacs, University of Virginia and Christopher Rowland,
University of Oxford
Seeing Anew: Interpretation of John's Apocalypse in the Visual Arts
(30 min)
John E. Stanley, Messiah College
The Apocalypse in Contemporary Music and Music Videos (30 min)
Katie Edwards, University of Sheffield
All About Adam: The Cultural Influence of Biblical Characters in
Western Society (30 min)
David M. Gunn, Texas Christian University
Women and Subjectivity in Judges: From Abelard to Harriet Beecher
Stowe (30 min)
Mark Roncace, Wingate University
Children's Bibles: Wri(gh)ting the Story for Kids (30 min)



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Warfare in Ancient Israel
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #212A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Rhetoric and Metaphor in Text and Context

Frank Ritchel Ames, Colorado Christian University, Presiding
T. M. Lemos, Yale University
Shame and the Mutilation of Enemies in the Hebrew Bible (25 min)
Brad E. Kelle, Point Loma Nazarene University
Wartime Rhetoric: Prophetic Metaphorization of Cities as Female (25
min)
Alice A. Keefe, University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point
Whores, Wars, and Metaphors: Hosea's Sexual Language and His Critique
of Military Violence (25 min)
Duane L. Christensen, Graduate Theological Union
Israel's First War: The War with Amalek (25 min)



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African Biblical Hermeneutics
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #216B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Methodological Innovations in African Biblical Hermeneutics

Justin Ukpong, University of Uyo, Nigeria, Presiding
Musa W. Dube, Scripps College
Hermeneutics of Life: African Women's Feminist Ways of Reading (25
min)
Ernest M. Ezeogu, Regis College, Toronto School of Theology
"Out of Egypt I Have Called My Son." Matthew's Infancy Narrative
(Matthew 1–2) in Afrocentric Perspective (25 min)
Madipoane Masenya, University of South Africa
Struggling to Find "Africa" in South Africa: The Bosadi (Womanhood)
Approach (25 min)
David Tuesday Adamo, Delta State University
Decolonizing the Psalter in Africa (25 min)
Gerald West, University of KwaZulu-Natal
(Ac)claiming the (Extra)ordinary African `Reader' of the Bible (25
min)
Business Meeting (25 min)



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Archaeology of Religion in the Greco-Roman World
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #210A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Archaeology of Sickness and Health in the Ancient
Mediterranean World

Steven Friesen, University of Missouri, Columbia, Presiding
James C. Walters, Boston University
Paul, Community Boundaries, and the Etiology of Sickness in Roman
Corinth (30 min)
Christine Thomas, University of California
"The Greatest of Human Blessings": Health, the Body, and Life
Narrative in Ancient Healing Cults (30 min)
Annette Weissenrieder, University of Heidelberg
"He Is a God:" Acts 28:1–9 in the Light of Iconographical and Textual
Sources Related to Medicine (30 min)
Discussion (30 min)
Business Meeting (15 min)
John Lanci, Stonehill College, Respondent (15 min)



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Bakhtin and the Biblical Imagination
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Salon I - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: Bakhtin, Genre, and Form Criticism

Barbara Green, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Presiding
Martin Buss, Emory University
Dialogue in and among Genres (10 min)
Christopher Fuller, St. Mary's College
Matthew's Genealogy as Eschatological Satire: Bakhtin Meets Form
Criticism (10 min)
Carleen Mandolfo, Colby College
Beyond Form Criticism: Reading Genre Dialogically (10 min)
Carol A. Newsom, Emory University
What Do We Mean by Genre? (10 min)
Michael E. Vines, Lees-McRae College
The Apocalyptic Chronotope (10 min)
Discussion (65 min)
Break (10 min)
Business Meeting (15 min)

Papers will be summarized and not read in their entirety. Complete
papers will be posted on the Bakhtin website,
http://home.nwciowa.edu/wacome/bakhtinsbl.html, after November 1,
2004.


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Bible Translation
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #214B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Choices in Translation and the Audience

Chang-Wook Jung, Chongshin University
Translation of Two Double Negatives in 1 Corinthians 12:15–16 (25 min)
Wilma Ann Bailey, Christian Theological Seminary
When "You Shall Not Kill" became "You Shall Not Murder": Exodus 20:13
(25 min)
Andrea L. Weiss, Jewish Institute of Religion, Hebrew Union College
Figurative Language and Approaches to Biblical Translation (25 min)
Lynell Zogbo, United Bible Societies
Wars and Rumors of Wars: Ideology and Translation (25 min)
Freddy Boswell, SIL
Classifying Cotton Patch Version and Similar Renderings as Adaptive
Retelling rather than Translation (25 min)
Robert Bascom, United Bible Societies
Samson as The Hulk: Transformations of Genre and Media in Translation
(25 min)



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Biblical Criticism and Literary Criticism
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #006D - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Irony in the Bible

Stephen Breck Reid, Bethany Theological Seminary, Presiding
Sharon Alley, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Israel and Amalek: The Artistry of Exodus 17:8–16 (30 min)
Joe Edward Barnhart, University of North Texas
The David Story: The Implied Author's Irony and Ambivalence (30 min)
Carolyn J. Sharp, Yale Divinity School
Foreign Rulers and the Ironizing of Power in the Hebrew Bible (30 min)
Austin Busch, Stanford University
Questioning and Conviction: Double-voiced Discourse in Mark 3:22–30
(The Beelzebul Controversy) (30 min)
Matthew L. Skinner, Luther Seminary
Above the Rules: Ironic Relationships between Paul's Activities and
Custody Settings in Acts 21–28 (30 min)



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Biblical Scholarship from/for Church and Synagogue
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Salon G - Marriott Rivercenter
Fred B. Craddock, The Craddock Center, Presiding
William Brosend, The Louisville Institute, Presiding
Brad R. Braxton, The Divinity School, Vanderbilt University, Panelist
John Donahue, St. Mary's Seminary and University, Panelist
Sharyn Dowd, Baylor University, Panelist
Gregory L. Glover, Southminster Presbyterian Church, Panelist
Walter Harrelson, Wake Forest University, Panelist
Wesley H. Wachob, Glenn United Methodist Church, Panelist



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Book of Acts
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #208 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Ethics and Ethical Discourse in Acts

Thomas Phillips, Colorado Christian University, Presiding
Robert C. Tannehill, Methodist Theological School in Ohio
Do the Ethics of Acts Include the Ethical Teaching in Luke? (30 min)
C. Kavin Rowe, Duke University
Authority and Community: Lukan Dominium in Acts (30 min)
Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinty College
The Genre of Acts and the Ethics of Discourse (30 min)
Robert L. Brawley, McCormick Theological Seminary
Identity and the Aim of an Accomplished Life in Acts (30 min)
Pam Kinlaw, Wheeling Jesuit University
"Devout and God-Fearing:" Cornelius, Pacifism, and Just War (30 min)



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Computer Assisted Research
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #207 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Digital Hermeneutics

James R. Adair, Jr., Religion and Technology Center, Presiding
Peter C. Patton, University of St. Thomas and Richard A. Wright,
Emory University, Emory University
Discovering and Displaying Structure in Hebrew Poetry (30 min)
George Yaeger, Aster Institute
Development of a Noun Phrase Translation Memory Database for
Classical Biblical Hebrew (30 min)
Catherine J. Smith, University of Birmingham
Evaluating Electronic Synopses: The Current State of Play and Future
Directions (30 min)
Ken Penner, McMaster University
Toward a Method of Tagging Hebrew Tense, Aspect, and Mood (30 min)
Business Meeting (30 min)



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Didache in Context
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #007B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Methodological Reflections

Nancy Pardee, Saint Xavier University, Presiding
Nicholas Perrin, Biblical Theological Seminary
Comparing Matthew with the Didache: Some Methodological Reflections
(25 min)
Clayton N. Jefford, St. Meinrad School of Theology, Respondent (5 min)
J. Christian Wilson, Elon University
The Tyranny of Source Criticism and the Unity of Apostolic Writings
(25 min)
Huub Van De Sandt, Tilburg University, Respondent (5 min)
Jonathan Schwiebert, Boston University
Performative Features in the Didache's Eucharistic Prayers (25 min)
Jonathan Draper, University of Natal, Respondent (5 min)
Break (5 min)
Discussion (45 min)
Business Meeting (10 min)



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Egyptology and Ancient Israel
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #006B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Biblical and Ancient Egyptian Dreams

Carolyn Higginbotham, Muskingum College, Presiding (5 min)
Jan W. Van Henten, University of Amsterdam
Judas the Maccabee's Dream (2 Maccabees 15:11–6) and the Egyptian
King's Sickle Sword (30 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Scott Morschauser, Rowan University
The Apple of One's Eye or Bottom of the Barrel? The Divine Elections
of Nebwenenef, High Priest of Amun, and David, King of Israel (30 min)
Discussion (5 min)
John Gee, Brigham Young University
"There Needs No Ghost, My Lord, Come from the Grave to Tell Us This":
Dreams and Angels in Ancient Egypt (30 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Herbert B. Huffmon, Drew University
Prophecy and Prophetic Dreams in Ancient Egypt (30 min)
Discussion (10 min)



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Formation of the Book of Isaiah
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #209 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Isaiah 6 in the Book of Isaiah

Claire R. Mathews McGinnis, Loyola College, Presiding
Francis Landy, University of Alberta
Isaiah 6 and the Book of Isaiah (45 min)
Roy Melugin, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University,
Respondent (25 min)
A. Joseph Everson, California Lutheran University
A Bitter Memory: Isaiah's Commission in Isaiah 6:1–13 (45 min)
Ann Johnston, Bangor Theological Seminary, Respondent (25 min)
Discussion (10 min)



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Hebrew Scriptures and Cognate Literature
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #203B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Responses to Democracy's Ancient Ancestors: Mari and Early
Collective Governance, by Daniel E. Fleming (Cambridge University
Press, 2004)

Mark S. Smith, New York University, Presiding
Lawrence Stager, Harvard University
Kinship and Collective in Israelite Society: Archaeological
Perspectives (35 min)
Karel Van Der Toorn, University of Amsterdam
Collective Aspects of Iron Age II Israel (35 min)
Kurt A. Raaflaub, Brown University
Pre-democratic Greece and the Question of Its Near Eastern Affinities
(35 min)
Daniel E. Fleming, New York University
Response to Papers on Democracy's Ancient Ancestors (15 min)
Discussion (30 min)



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History of Interpretation
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #006C - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: The Bible Performed

Carol Bakhos, University of California, Los Angeles, Presiding
Kristi Upson-Saia, Duke University
Re-writing the Bible: "Orthodox" Theology in the Syriac Dialogue
Hymns (30 min)
Rebecca Raphael, Texas State University, San Marcos
The Madness of King Saul: Oratorio as Exegesis (30 min)
Dan W. Clanton, Jr., University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Trollops and Temptresses: Delilah(s) in 20th Century Popular Music
(30 min)
Scott M. Langston, Southwest Baptist University
The Other Side of the Burning Bush (30 min)



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Manuscript as Icon
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Room: Room #204B - San Antonio Convention Center
David Armstrong, University of Texas, Austin, Presiding
Hieromonk Justin Sinaites, St. Catharine's Monastery, The Sinai
The Sinai Codex Theodosianus: Manuscript as Icon (45 min)
Discussion (15 min)



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Rethinking Plato's Parmenides and its Platonic, Gnostic and Patristic
Reception
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Room: Room #213A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Middle Platonic Parmenides Commentaries: The Anonymous and
Others?

Kevin Corrigan, Emory University, Presiding
Alain Lernould, Université de Lille III
Discussion of G. Bechtle's "The Anonymous Commentary on
Plato's 'Parmenides:'" A Reflection or an Anticipation of Plotinus?
(40 min)
Gerald Bechtle, University of Bern
The Anonymous Parmenides Commentary: New Tendencies in Research? (40
min)
Volker Drecoll, Universität Münster
The Greek Text behind the Parallel Passages in Zostrianus and Marius
Victorinus (40 min)
John D. Turner, University of Nebraska
Gnostic Evidence for the Use of Plato's Parmenides: Multiple Pre-
Plotinian Commentaries? (40 min)
Discussion (20 min)

Dinner for seminar members will be planned at a local restaurant
after the second afternoon session, 7:30-9PM


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Rhetoric and the New Testament
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #007D - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Priestly Discourse in New Testament Writings

C. Jan Swearingen, Texas A & M University, Presiding
Edwin K. Broadhead, Berea College
Mark (10 min)
Vernon K. Robbins, Emory University
Luke-Acts (10 min)
L. Gregory Bloomquist, Saint Paul University
John (10 min)
J. Ayodeji Adewuya, Church of God Theological Seminary
2 Corinthians (10 min)
Russell Sisson, Union College
Philippians (10 min)
David De Silva, Ashland Theological Seminary
Hebrews (10 min)
Robert Webb, McMaster Divinity College
1 Peter (10 min)
Duane Watson, Malone College
1 John (10 min)
Edith M. Humphrey, Pittsburg Theological Seminary
Revelation (10 min)
William Gilders, Emory University, Respondent (20 min)



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Social-scientific Studies of the Second Temple Period
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Room: Room #214A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Historiography: Creating Understanding I

Alice Hunt, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Niels Peter Lemche, University of Copenhagen, Panelist (10 min)
J. Maxwell Miller, Emory University, Respondent (10 min)
Discussion (10 min)
William G. Dever, University of Arizona, Panelist (10 min)
Douglas A. Knight, Vanderbilt University, Respondent (10 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Diana Edelman, University of Sheffield, Panelist (10 min)
Thomas L. Thompson, University of Copenhagen, Respondent (10 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Jerome H. Neyrey, University of Notre Dame, Panelist (10 min)
Ingrid Hjelm, University of Copenhagen, Respondent (10 min)
Discussion (10 min)

Sessions are dedicated to methodology, assumptions, and approaches.
Papers will be published on the section's website
http://home.sjfc.edu/2T prior to the meeting and will be summarized
during the session. Each panelist will address the topic of
historiography, followed by a prepared response and panel discussion.


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Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #214D - San Antonio Convention Center
S. Tamar Kamionkowski, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Presiding
Keith Carley, School of Theology, Auckland, New Zealand
Violence and Compassion: Seeing Connections—Acting Accordingly (25
min)
Chloe Sun, Fuller Theological Seminary
How Does the Portrayal of Ugaritic Deities Shed Light on the "Dark
Side" of God in the Hebrew Scriptures? (25 min)
Joshua Gunyong Kwak, Claremont Graduate University
Conceptuality of Job 29–31 (25 min)
J. Richard Middleton, Roberts Wesleyan College
Is Violence the Primal Sin? The Socio-ethical Significance of
Boundary Transgression in Genesis 3 (25 min)
Alejandro F. Botta, Southern Methodist University
How to Hide an Elephant in the Fifth Avenue: Universality of Sin and
Class Sin in the Hebrew Scriptures (25 min)
Hector Avalos, Iowa State University
Deconstructing the Role of the Prophets in Latino/a Liberation
Theologies (25 min)



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Women in the Biblical World
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #001A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Women and Empire

Claudia Camp, Texas Christian University, Presiding
Richard Horsley, University of Massachusetts
The Roman Imperial Impact on Women in Galilee and the Reflection and
Response in Mark (25 min)
Mary R. D'Angelo, University of Notre Dame
Women, Marriage, and Imperial Exigencies in the Traditions about
Jesus (25 min)
Todd Penner, Austin College and Caroline Vander Stichele, University
of Amsterdam
Imperial Discourse and Gender in Luke-Acts (25 min)
Break (10 min)
Valerie Bridgeman-Davis, Memphis Theological Seminary
The Handmaiden's Tale: Sex, Service, and Sorrow in the Pentateuch (25
min)
Kimberly Stratton, Carleton University
Women, Ritual, and Resistance: Practical Strategies for Gaining Power
in Antiquity (25 min)
Discussion (15 min)



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Introducing the New Critical Edition of the Hebrew Bible: BHQ
11/20/2004
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #204B - San Antonio Convention Center
Kent Richards, Society of Biblical Literature, Presiding



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SBL Presidential Address
11/20/2004
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Room: Ballroom C-3 - San Antonio Convention Center
Carolyn Osiek, Texas Christian University, Presiding
David L. Petersen, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Genesis and Family Values (45 min)



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Donor Reception
11/20/2004
8:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Room: Salon L - Marriott Rivercenter

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Student Members Reception
11/20/2004
10:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Room: Salon K - Marriott Rivercenter

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National Association of Professors of Hebrew
11/21/2004
7:00 AM to 9:00 AM
Room: Conference 13 - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: Annual Breakfast and Business Meeting

Michael V. Fox, University of Wisconsin
Annual Breakfast and Business Meeting (120 min)



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SBL Annual Business Meeting
11/21/2004
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
Room: Conference 17/18 - Marriott Rivercenter

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Academic Teaching and Biblical Studies
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #204B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Pedagogies for Teaching Introductory Bible Classes:
Discussion, Active Learning, and Cooperative Approaches
A workshop for those who teach introductory bible classes at the
undergraduate or masters' level, this session will enable
participants to experience and discuss various strategies for
enhancing student learning through discussion, active learning, and
cooperative learning. Session facilitators will be Dr. Paul Aspan,
Associate Professor of Theology at St. Joseph's University,
Philadelphia, and Dr. Faith Kirkham Hawkins, Assistant Professor of
Youth and Education at Candler School of Theology, Emory University,


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African-American Biblical Hermeneutics
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Salon K - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: Methodology in the Study of Afrodiasporan Biblical
Hermeneutics—Part 1

Theodore Burgh, University of Notre Dame, Presiding (5 min)
Michael Joseph Brown, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
The Blackening of the Bible: The Aims of African American Biblical
Interpretation (25 min)
Keith Augustus Burton, Oakwood College
My Soul's Been Anchored: Faith and Reason in Afrodiasporan Biblical
Hermeneutics (25 min)
Judy Morishima-Nelson, Fuller Theological Seminary
Soul as Ts'aqah: Suffering, Contemporary Experience, and
Afrodiasporan Hermeneutics (25 min)
Peter Nash, Escola Supeior De Teologia
From Rachel to the Queen of Sheba: Recent Developments in African-
American Biblical Hermeneutics in Latin America and the Caribbean (25
min)
Larry D. George, Payne Theological Seminary, Respondent (20 min)
Discussion (25 min)



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Archaeological Excavations and Discoveries: Illuminating the Biblical
World
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #005 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Archaeological Resources for Teaching Bible

John Spencer, John Carroll University, Presiding
J. P. Dessel, University of Tennessee
In Search of the Good Book: Teaching Texts for Biblical Archaeology
(30 min)
Peter Richardson, University of Toronto
Using Archaeological Site-related Information in Religion Courses.
(30 min)
Milton Moreland, Rhodes College
Teaching Texts and Artifacts: Material Culture in the Biblical
Studies Classroom (30 min)
Deborah A. Green, University of Oregon
Subjective Objectivity: Picking and Choosing from Material Culture
(30 min)
Discussion (30 min)



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Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #006B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: The Linguistic Analysis of Mark 13

Matthew Brook O'Donnell, OpenText.org, Presiding
Matthew Brook O'Donnell, OpenText.org, Catherine J. Smith, University
of Birmingham and Randall K. Tan, Spalding University
A "Discourse Grammar" of Mark 13 (35 min)
Edward Adams, Kings College
The Narration of Time in the Discourse of Mark 13 (35 min)
Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College
A Register Analysis of Mark 13: Towards the Context of Situation (35
min)
Cynthia Long-Westfall, University of Surrey, Roehampton, Respondent
(20 min)
Discussion (25 min)



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Biblical Hebrew Poetry
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #214B - San Antonio Convention Center
David M. Howard, Jr., Bethel Theological Seminary, Presiding
Chris Franke, College of St. Catherine
Poetics of Second Isaiah's Idol Polemic (Isaiah 44:9–20) (30 min)
Richard S. Hess, Denver Seminary
The Female's Second Search and a Poetic Form of Focus at the Turning
Point (Song 5:2–8) (30 min)
Steven Horine, Calvary Baptist Theological Seminary
Identification and Role of Wedding Imagery in the Song of Songs (30
min)
Tod Linafelt, Georgetown University
Lyric Poetry and Pseudo-narrative in the Song of Songs (30 min)
Knut M. Heim, Queen's Foundation, Birmingham, Great Britain
"Hearing" with a Difference: Some New Insights into the Nature of
Biblical Parallelism (30 min)
Business Meeting (0 min)



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Biblical Lands and Peoples in Archaeology and Text
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Ballroom C-3 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Second Temple Jerusalem
Co-sponsored by the American Schools of Oriental Research and the
Society of Biblical Literature

Matthew Collins, Society of Biblical Literature, Presiding
Douglas Clark, American Schools of Oriental Research, Presiding (5
min)
Gary Knoppers, The Pennsylvania State University
What Has Jerusalem to Do with Mt. Gerizim? New Light on the History
of Judean-Samarian Relations (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Joshua Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University
Prolegomena on a New Reconstruction of the Herodian Temple: Virtual
Reality and Josephus (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Bernard Frischer, University of Virginia
Prolegomena on a New Reconstruction of the Herodian Temple: Virtual
Reality and Josephus (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Orit Peleg, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Reconstructing King Herod's Royal Stoa: Analysis of the Architectural
Decoration (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Ronny Reich, University of Haifa
Reconstructing the Herodian Stoa on the Temple Mount: The
Confrontation of Written Sources and Archaeological Findings (25 min)
Discussion (10 min)



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Construction of Christian Identities
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Salon J - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: The Construction of Christian Identities in the first two
centuries: A Discussion on recent books and methodological issues

Mauro Pesce, University of Bologna, Presiding (5 min)
Francois Bovon, Harvard University
Emerging Christianity (25 min)
Bruce Winter, Tyndale House
Counter-cultural Corinthian Christianity (25 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Break (5 min)
Panel Discussion: Recent Books and Methodological Issues
Adriana Destro, University of Bologna, Panelist (12 min)
Bruce J. Malina, Creighton University, Panelist (12 min)
Claudio Gianotto, University of Turin, Panelist (12 min)
Ekkehard Stegemann, University of Basel, Panelist (12 min)
Wolfgang Stegemann, Augustana, Panelist (12 min)
Discussion (20 min)

More info: http://web.uniud.it/isr/sanantonio/


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Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #006D - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Gendered Images in Early Jewish and Christian Mystical Texts

Andrei Orlov, Marquette University, Presiding
Kindalee Pfremmer De Long, University of Notre Dame
Secrets, Due Dates, and Contractions: The Literary Motif of
Childbirth in Fourth Ezra (25 min)
Kevin Sullivan, Marquette University
Like Angels in Heaven Part II: Sexuality and Gender of Angels in the
Gospels and Acts (25 min)
Rebecca Lesses, Ithaca College
"He Shall Not Look at a Woman": Gender in the Hekhalot Literature (25
min)
Break (10 min)
Andrea Lieber Merwin, Dickinson College, Respondent (20 min)
Jane D. Schaberg, University of Detroit, Respondent (20 min)
Discussion (25 min)



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Gender, Sexuality and the Bible
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #004 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Body/Text/Politics

Roland Boer, Monash University, Presiding
Janet S. Everhart, Simpson College
Naked Bodies: Transgendering the Gospel of Thomas (30 min)
Susan E. Haddox, Emory University
"May His Soldiers Become Women": The Play of Gender in Hosea and its
Political Implications (30 min)
Charles Rix, Drew University Theological School
Shades of Masculinity: Gendering Sheol and the Rephaim (30 min)
Daniel B. Mathewson, Emory University
The Signifiying Corpse: Textual and Photographic Images of the Dead,
Disfigured Body (30 min)
Yvonne M. Sherwood, University of Glasgow and Stephen D. Moore, Drew
University
"My Father, Behold the Hammer, the Nails, and the Wood; but Where Is
the Lamb for the Offering?" Cross-Reading Moriah and Golgotha (30 min)



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Hellenistic Judaism
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Salon H - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: The Septuagint in Its Hellenistic and Roman Contexts

Sarah Pearce, University of Southampton, Presiding
Martin Rösel, University of Rostock
YAO, YHWH or Kyrios? The Translation of the Divine Name in the Greek
Pentateuch (20 min)
Joachim Schaper, Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen
The Septuagint of Exodus as a Document of Hellenistic Judaism (20 min)
Discussion (20 min)
Break (5 min)
J. Ross Wagner, Princeton Theological Seminary
Identifying the Actualization of Prophecy in the Old Greek Isaiah:
The Question of Context (20 min)
Ronald Troxel, University of Wisconsin
Contemporization and Geographic Names in Septuagint Isaiah (20 min)
Joshua Ezra Burns, Yale University
The `Special Purim' and Interpretation of the Book of Esther in the
Hellenistic Era (20 min)
Discussion (25 min)



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Hellenistic Moral Philosophy and Early Christianity
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #207 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Christian Appropriation of Allegorical Method: The Case of
Origen

John T. Fitzgerald, University of Miami, Presiding
Peter Martens, University of Notre Dame
What Do We Mean by Calling Origen an "Allegorist"? (30 min)
Ilaria Ramelli, Universita Cattolico, Milan
Origen and the Stoic Allegorical Tradition: Continuity and Innovation
(30 min)
Break (5 min)
George R. Boys-Stones, University of Durham
The Truest Account: Origen in Defense of Christian Allegory (30 min)
Annewies Van den Hoek, Harvard University, Respondent (25 min)
Discussion (30 min)

Papers will be available to members of the group on the HMPEC
website. Inquiries may be addressed to the Program Unit Chair.


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History and Literature of Early Rabbinic Judaism
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #212A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Rabbinic Theologies

Reuven Kimelman, Brandeis University, Presiding
Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Bet Morasha of Jerusalem
Between Rabbinic Thought and Rabbinic Theology: Methodological
Reflections (25 min)
Chaya Halberstam, King's College, University of London
The Holy Spirit in the Court of Shem: Theology and Law in Rabbinic
Midrash (25 min)
Jonathan Schofer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
From Rabbinic Text to Rabbinic Thought (25 min)
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Stanford University
Rabbinic Maps of Urban Identities: The Eruv, Mixed Neighborhoods and
Symbolic Boundaries (25 min)
Reuven Kimelman, Brandeis University, Respondent (25 min)
Discussion (25 min)



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Ideological Criticism
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #204A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Land, Ideology, and Bible

Angela Bauer, Episcopal Divinity School, Presiding
Thomas W. Martin, Susquehanna University
"Angels Run Amok": Inverting the Problem of God's Violence against
the Earth in Revelation (40 min)
Hugh S. Pyper, University of Leeds
Daniel Writes Back: Hybridity, Language and Identity in the Book of
Daniel (40 min)
Susanne Scholz, Merrimack College
"Back Then It Was Legal": The Epistemological Divide Regarding Rape
Laws In Ancient Israel (40 min)
Business Meeting (30 min)



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John, Jesus and History
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #214A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: History, Tradition, Theology: The Challenge of the Johannine
Literature

Tom Thatcher, Cincinnati Bible Seminary
Welcome and Announcements (5 min)
Jaime Clark-Soles, Perkins School of Theology, Presiding (5 min)
John Painter, Charles Sturt University
History and Theology in the Johannine Literature (20 min)
Adele Reinhartz, Wilfrid Laurier University
Exclusion, Expulsion, Desertion: The Rhetoric of Separation in the
Gospel of John (20 min)
Gilbert Van Belle, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
John's Literary Unity and the Problem of Historicity (20 min)
D. A. Carson, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
The Challenge of the Balkanization of Johannine Studies (20 min)
Break (10 min)
D. Moody Smith, Duke University Divinity School, Presiding
Discussion (35 min)
Paul Anderson, George Fox University
Getting a Sense of the Session: Leading Questions (15 min)

Papers will be distributed before the meeting and summarized at the
session. To receive copies of the papers, please contact Tom Thatcher
at tom.thatcher@...


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Josephus
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #203B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Josephus on War

Steve Mason, York University, Presiding
Louis Feldman, Yeshiva University
Josephus as Moralist: The War against Amalek (25 min)
Shelly Matthews, Furman University, Respondent (10 min)
Discussion (25 min)
Break (15 min)
James McLaren, Australian Catholic University
Theocracy, Temple, and Tax: Ingredients for the Jewish-Roman War of
66–70 CE (25 min)
Christopher Seeman, University of California, Berkeley, Respondent
(10 min)
Discussion (25 min)
Business Meeting (15 min)

Seminar papers are available in advance at josephus.yorku.ca. They
are summarized, not read in full, at the seminar.


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Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #210A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Lexicon and Grammar

L. J. De Regt, United Bible Societies, Presiding
Andrea L. Weiss, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Componential Semantics and the Identification of Biblical Metaphor
(30 min)
Barry L. Bandstra, Hope College
The Biblical Hebrew Lexicon in Functional Perspective (30 min)
Robert D. Holmstedt, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
The Diachronics of Asher (30 min)
Richard M. Wright, Tulane University
Evidence for North Israelite Contributions to Late Biblical Hebrew
(30 min)
Randall Buth, Hebrew University
Double Frontings in Hebrew, Based on the Masoretic Torah (30 min)



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Literature and History of the Persian Period
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Conference 3 & 4 - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: The Walls of Jerusalem in the Persian Period: Historical and
Ideological Reconstructions

John Wright, Point Loma Nazarene University, Presiding
Oded Lipschits, Tel Aviv University
The Builders of the Wall: The Sources and Goals of Nehemiah 3 (30 min)
David Ussishkin, Tel Aviv University
The Borders of Jerusalem in the Persian Period (30 min)
Manfred Oeming, Univeristy of Heidelberg
The Theological Import of Nehemiah's Wall (30 min)
Discussion (30 min)
Sara Japhet, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Shifting Boundaries: The Walls of Jerusalem in Kings and Chronicles
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Manichaean Studies
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #202B - San Antonio Convention Center
Jason Beduhn, Northern Arizona University, Presiding
The Acts of Archelaus as a source on Manichaeism
Madeleine Scopello, Sorbonne
Acta Archelai's Authorial Face in the Polemical Tradition of
Heresiology (30 min)
J. Kevin Coyle, St. Paul University
Hesitant and Ignorant: Mani's Portrayal in the Acta Archelai (30 min)
Paul Mirecki, University of Kansas
Ecstatic Ascent in the Acta Archelai (30 min)
Manichaeism in North Africa
Iain Gardner, University of Sydney
A Letter from the Teacher: Some Comments on Letter-Writing and the
Manichaean Community of Fourth Century Egypt (30 min)
Kevin Kaatz, Macquarie University
The Appeal of Manichaeism in North Africa (30 min)



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Matthew
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Salon G - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: Matthean Jewish Intertexts and Contexts

Dorothy Jean Weaver, Eastern Mennonite University, Presiding
Herbert W. Basser, Queens University
"Son of David," Matthew 21:9 (30 min)
David Bivin, Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research
Jesus' Petros-petra Wordplay (Matthew 16:18): Can Christian Texts Be
Read as Midrash? (30 min)
David M. Moffitt, Duke University
Innocent Bloodshed and the Temple's Doom: Matthew's Allusive Use of
Lamentations (30 min)
Tim Wardle, Duke University
Resurrection and the Holy City: The Isaianic Background of Matthew
27.51–53 (30 min)
Ben Witherington, Asbury Theological Seminary
Neither Law nor Gospel but Wisdom: Rethinking the Sermon on the Mount
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Matthew
11/22/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #216A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Session 2 - The Matthean Community

Jeannine Brown, Bethel Seminary, Presiding
Aaron M. Gale, West Virginia University
Heroes or Hypocrites? The Role of Jewish Scribes in Matthew's Gospel
(30 min)
Daniel W. Ulrich, Bethany Theological Seminary
Worthy Hosts and Guests with a Gospel: A Social Context for Reading
Matthew (30 min)
Mary Kay Dobrovolny, Vanderbilt University
Who Controls the Resources? Economics and Justice in Matthew 20:1–15
(30 min)
Anders Runesson, McMaster University
Divine Judgment in the First Gospel and the Religio-Ethnic Identity
of the Matthean Community (30 min)
Craig S. Keener, Eastern Seminary
"Offspring of Vipers" (Matthew 3:7) (30 min)

Q
11/22/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #212A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: The Kingdom of God and Q

Ronald A. Piper, University of St. Andrews, Presiding (5 min)
Linden Youngquist, California State University, Long Beach
The Kingdom in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Q (20 min)
Joseph Verheyden, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Who is Violating God's Kingdom/Kingship? Q 16,16 and Matthew's and
Luke's Struggle with Q Polemics (20 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Break (5 min)
Shelly Matthews, Furman University
A House Divided? Family in Q's Kingdom (20 min)
Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre, Luther College
A Divided Kingdom Falls: Polemics of Solidarity in Q (20 min)
Halvor Moxnes, University of Oslo
Exorcisms and Power over Place in Q 11:14–23 (20 min)
Discussion (30 min)

For a while (2001 and 2002) the papers of the Matthew Section were posted
at http://www.class.uidaho.edu/jcanders/Matthew/matthew_section.htm.

I wonder, could anyone connected with the Matthew Section possibly say why
it was decided not to do this in 2003 and 2004?

Best wishes,
Jacob Knee
(Cam, Glos.)


-----Original Message-----
From: Larry J. Swain [mailto:theswain@...]
Sent: 07 November 2004 18:52
To: ematthew@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ematthew] Upcoming SBL



Hello everyone,

I've gone through the upcoming SBL program and pasted the items of
Matthean interest below.  Note please papers by Stephen Carlson and
Jeffery Gibson too!  The two Basser papers listed just below do not
seem to be online, but I include the links in hopes that they will be
sometime before the conference happens.

I'd like to extend an invitation again to anyone who is giving a
paper on a Matthean related topic to post the paper here for pre-
conference preparation and questions.  I'd also like to ask anyone
who is going to give a post-conference report.

Many Thanks!

Larry Swain


http://www.sbl-site.org/PDF/Dobrovolny_Matthew.pdf

http://www.sbl-site.org/congresses/Basser_Matthew.pdf

http://www.sbl-site.org/PDF/Basser_Midrash.pdf

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Jesus Traditions, Gospels and Negotiating the Roman Imperial World
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #214A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Matthew, Luke, and John: Negotiating Rome's Empire

William R. Herzog, Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Presiding
Warren Carter, St. Paul School of Theology
Food Shortages and Abundance in Matthew: Negotiating Rome's Empire
(30 min)

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New Testament Textual Criticism
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #214B - San Antonio Convention Center

More on Pseudo-agreements among 'Western' Witnesses (30 min)
Sylvie T. Raquel, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
The Text of the Gospel of Matthew in the Writings of Origen (30 min)
Stephen C. Carlson, Fairfax, VA

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Synoptic Gospels
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #204B - San Antonio Convention Center
Greg Carey, Lancaster Theological Seminary, Presiding
Robert J. Miller, Juniata College
Did Matthew Believe in the Virgin Birth? (30 min)
Jeffrey Peterson, Austin School of Theology
Dismissing the Sanhedrin: High Priest and Council in the Synoptics
(30 min)
Jeffrey B. Gibson, Harry S. Truman College


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African Biblical Hermeneutics
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #216B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Methodological Innovations in African Biblical Hermeneutics

"Out of Egypt I Have Called My Son." Matthew's Infancy Narrative
(Matthew 1–2) in Afrocentric Perspective (25 min)
Madipoane Masenya, University of South Africa


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Didache in Context
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #007B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Methodological Reflections

Comparing Matthew with the Didache: Some Methodological Reflections
(25 min)
Clayton N. Jefford, St. Meinrad School of Theology, Respondent (5 min)
J. Christian Wilson, Elon University

  Search the Preliminary Program Book
To see the entire preliminary program book, leave all the fields
blank and click the submit button.

If there are any errrors in a session you are involved in, please
send the correction to Matthew Collins.

Date   11/19/2004 - 15 sessions 11/20/2004 - 59 sessions 11/21/2004 -
94 sessions 11/22/2004 - 89 sessions 11/23/2004 - 18 sessions
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Bible Technologies Group
11/19/2004
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Room: Room #212A - San Antonio Convention Center
Robert Hodgson, American Bible Society, Presiding
Patrick Durusau, Society of Biblical Literature, Presiding
Eugene Nida, American Bible Society
The Modern Translator (45 min)
Mike Perez, American Bible Society
Bible Engagement Tools (45 min)
Break (15 min)
Steven Derose, Bible Technologies Group
Introduction to OSIS (45 min)
OSIS Panel Discussion
Steven Derose, Bible Technologies Group, Panelist
Patrick Durusau, Society of Biblical Literature, Panelist
Mike Perez, American Bible Society, Panelist



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Teaching and the Web: An Introductory Workshop
11/19/2004
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Room: Room #207 - San Antonio Convention Center
Schedule:
9:00am-10:30am - Welcome, Introductions, Needs Assessment

9:45am-10:30am - What Are We Trying to Do? Objectives of Web Teaching
and Learning

10:30am - Break

10:45am - 11:30am - What is Really Happening? Assessing Web Teaching
and Learning

11:30am - 12:30pm - What is Possible from the Technology?
Tools for Content Delivery
Tools for Interaction between Students, Teachers, and Content

12:30pm - Lunch (on own)

1:30pm - 3:30pm (with a break)
How Does a Course "Happen?" Institutional Support for Web Courses

3:30pm - 4:00pm - Additional Resources


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Teaching the Bible in Racially and Culturally Diverse Classrooms
11/19/2004
9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Room: Salon K - Marriott Rivercenter
Co-sponsored by the Society of Biblical Literature, the Wabash Center
for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, and the Fund for
Theological Education
9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Pre-registration required.
Limit 35 participants. The Workshop is currently full.

For information, contact
Lucinda Huffaker, Director Wabash Center
1-800-655-7117
huffakel@....

Greg Carey, Lancaster Theological Seminary, Panelist
Tat-Siong Benny Liew, Chicago Theological Seminary, Panelist
Francisco Lozada, Jr., University of the Incarnate Word, Panelist
Evelyn L. Parker, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist
University, Panelist



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Women's Caucus Workshop
11/19/2004
11:30 AM to 3:30 PM
Room: Salon M - Marriott Rivercenter
Sponsored by the Women's Caucus
This annual workshop, sponsored by the Women's Caucus, provides an
excellent opportunity for women to network with other women in the
field. Bring your lunch and learn strategies in the following areas:
Writing the Dissertation while Balancing Family & Academia by Grace
Kim; Getting Published by Barbara McGraw; Finding a Job in the
Academy by Harriet Luckman; Using Feminist Pedagogy as an Adjunct
Instructor by Paula Trimble Familetti; Gaining Tenure by Rebecca
Moore.


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Biblical Exegetical Software in the Classroom -- Integration 101
11/19/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #214C - San Antonio Convention Center
Joseph M. Fleener, Calvary Baptist Theological Seminary, Presiding
Mark Futato, Reformed Theological Seminary, Panelist (10 min)
Rodney A. Whitacre, Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, Panelist
(10 min)
Thomas J. Finley, Talbot School of Theology, Panelist (10 min)
Discussion (60 min)



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Committee on Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the
Profession
11/19/2004
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Room: Conference 11 - Marriott Rivercenter
Stephen Breck Reid, Bethany Theological Seminary, Presiding
Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder, Vanderbilt University, Member
Mary F. Foskett, Wake Forest University, Member
Jeffrey Kuan, Pacific School of Religion, Member
Joseph Scrivner, Samford University, Member



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Conference of Regional Coordinators
11/19/2004
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Room: Conference 15 - Marriott Rivercenter
Linda S. Schearing, Gonzaga University, Presiding
Christina Bucher, Elizabethtown College, Member
John Lanci, Stonehill College, Member
Troy W. Martin, St. Xavier University, Member
Tammi J. Schneider, Claremont Graduate University, Member
Mark Schuler, Concordia University, Member
Ronald A. Simkins, Creighton University, Member
John T. Strong, Southwest Missouri State University, Member
James Thompson, Abilene Christian University, Member
Holly Toensing, Xavier University, Member
Mark F. Whitters, Detroit, MI, Member
B. Diane Wudel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Member



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Finance Committee
11/19/2004
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Room: Conference 10 - Marriott Rivercenter
Paul J. Achtemeier, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond (Emeritus),
Presiding
Harold W. Attridge, Yale University, Member
Eldon Jay Epp, Case Western Reserve University (Emeritus), Member
Joel Green, Asbury Theological Seminary, Member



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Writers' Workshop
11/19/2004
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Room: Room #211 - San Antonio Convention Center
Patrick Alexander, Brill Academic Publishers, Presiding
John F. Kutsko, Abingdon Press, Presiding

Pre-registration Required.

Research and writing unlock the twin doors to success in the academic
life: success in one's career and success in the classroom. In the
competitive environment of today's academy, getting published can
make the difference between being just another CV in a circular file
and catching the eye of a search or tenure committee. This SBL-
sponsored writing workshop will focus on what the scholar needs to
know to get published. Instruction will include the following: an
overview of scholarly publishing, how turn a dissertation into a
book, proposal writing, finding the right publisher, and what to
expect in the publishing process (from submitting a proposal, to
signing a publishing agreement, to the author's responsibilities).


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Semeia Studies Editorial Board Meeting
11/19/2004
3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Room: Room #003A - San Antonio Convention Center

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BibleWorks Workshop -- Using Its Features and Resources to the Fullest
11/19/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #214C - San Antonio Convention Center

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Programs & Initiatives Committee
11/19/2004
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Room: Conference 9 - Marriott Rivercenter
Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, Princeton Theological Seminary, Member
Pamela Eisenbaum, Iliff School of Theology, Member
Eldon Jay Epp, Case Western Reserve University, Emeritus, Member
Gregory L. Glover, Southminster Presbyterian Church, Member
David L. Petersen, Candler School of Theology, Emory University,
Member



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Conference of Regional Coordinators Dinner
11/19/2004
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Room: Conference 16 - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: Honoring the 2004 Regional Scholars
The 2004 Regional Scholars:
Janet S. Everhart, Simpson College
William H. Krieger, California State University, Pomona
Caroline Johnson Hodge, College of the Holy Cross
Mark Whitters, Wayne State University


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Development Committee
11/19/2004
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Room: Off-site - TBA
Donald Dale Walker, University of Chicago, Presiding
Harold W. Attridge, Yale University, Member
Carolyn Osiek, Texas Christian University, Member
David L. Petersen, Candler School of Theology, Emory University,
Member
Andrew G. Vaughn, Gustavus Adolphus College, Member
L. Michael White, University of Texas, Member



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Employment Information Services Orientation
11/19/2004
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Room: Salon A - Marriott Rivercenter

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Nominating Committee
11/20/2004
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
Room: Conference 10 - Marriott Rivercenter
John T. Fitzgerald, University of Miami, Presiding
Sidnie White Crawford, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Member
Mikeal C. Parsons, Baylor University, Member



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Program Committee
11/20/2004
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
Room: Conference 11 - Marriott Rivercenter
Brian K. Blount, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Karen King, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Member
Francisco Lozada, Jr., University of the Incarnate Word, Member
Carol Meyers, Duke University, Member
Margaret Odell, Saint Olaf College, Member
Gregory E. Stering, University of Notre Dame, Member



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SBL Council Meeting
11/20/2004
8:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Room: Conference 15 - Marriott Rivercenter
Beverly R. Gaventa, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Harold W. Attridge, Yale University, Member
Brian K. Blount, Princeton Theological Seminary, Member
Kristin De Troyer, Claremont School of Theology, Member
Pamela Eisenbaum, Iliff School of Theology, Member
John T. Fitzgerald, University of Miami, Member
Joel Green, Asbury Theological Seminary, Member
Jo Ann Hackett, Harvard University, Member
Kathleen Mary O'Connor, Columbia Theological Seminary, Member
Carolyn Osiek, Texas Christian University, Member
David L. Petersen, Candler School of Theology, Emory University,
Member
Stephen Breck Reid, Bethany Theological Seminary, Member
Linda S. Schearing, Gonzaga University, Member
James VanderKam, University of Notre Dame, Member



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Academic Teaching and Biblical Studies
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #202B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: New Wine: Teaching Content

Sandra L. Gravett, Appalachian State University, Presiding
Yiyi Chen, Peking University
Teaching the Bible in Peking University: Some Observations (35 min)
John Kampen, Bluffton College
Introducing the Study of the New Testament for the Exploration of
Issues of Nonviolence (35 min)
Break (5 min)
Robert F. Shedinger, Luther College and Kristin A. Swanson,
Vanderbilt University
Putting it All together: New Historicism and Teaching the Hebrew
Bible at a Church-related College (35 min)
Bula Maddison, Graduate Theological Union
"Seed" and "Seed" in the Book of Ruth (35 min)



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Biblical Lexicography
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #211 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Today's Hebrew Lexicons: Exploring the Choice

John Lee, Macquarie University, Presiding
Regine Hunziker-Rodewald, Universität Bern
Gesenius / BDB Family (20 min)
John Kaltner, Rhodes College
Koehler-Baumgartner Family (20 min)
Break (20 min)
Kirk E. Lowery, Westminster Theological Seminary
The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew (20 min)
James Aitken, Cambridge, UK
Other Lexicons (20 min)
Erik Eynikel, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen
Theological Lexicons (20 min)
Discussion (30 min)



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Christian Theology and the Bible
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #006D - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Henri deLubac and Theological Interpretation

A. Katherine Grieb, Virginia Theological Seminary, Presiding
Margaret Adam, Duke University
Beyond the Plain Sense: Why Frei when You Can de Lubac? (25 min)
Lewis Ayres, Emory University
Scripture and the Soul: De Lubac's Doctrinal Implications (25 min)
Ann Astell, Purdue University
Biblical Exegesis, Love, and the "Eternal Feminine": Henri de Lubac
Commenting on Teilhard de Chardin (25 min)
Stephen Chapman, Duke University
Reclaiming Multisense Biblical Interpretation (25 min)
Robert Trent Pomplun, Loyola College, Maryland, Respondent (20 min)



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Early Christian Families
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #007C - San Antonio Convention Center
Margaret MacDonald, St. Francis Xavier University, Presiding
Gerald Peterman, Moody Bible Institute
The Roman Father and the Myth of Tollere Liberos (25 min)
Steven Thompson, Avondale College
"Human fathers, disciplinary correctors whom we respected" Heb 12:9
(25 min)
Beth M. Sheppard, Southwestern College
In the Power of the Father: Patria Potestas and God's Children in the
Fourth Gospel (25 min)
Carlos J. Gil, Universidad de Deusto, Spain
Clash of Family Patterns in Corinth (25 min)
Caroline Johnson Hodge, College of the Holy Cross
Mixed Marriage in Ancient Households (25 min)
Harry O. Maier, Vancouver School of Theology
Family Quarrels: The Politics of Discord and the Representation of
Household Division in Greco-Roman Literature and the Pastoral
Epistles (25 min)



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Feminist Hermeneutics of the Bible
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #006C - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Feminist Hermeneutics and Biblical Law: A Walk on the Law Side

Nancy Bowen, Earlham School of Religion, Presiding
Susanna W. Southard, Vanderbilt Unversity
Woman to Woman: A Comparative Study of Women's Status as Represented
in Law Codes of Ancient Israel and Neighboring Nations (30 min)
Susanne Scholz, Merrimack College
"Back Then It Was Legal:" The Epistemological Divide Regarding Rape
Laws In Ancient Israel (30 min)
L. Jean Sheldon, Pacific Union College
Mother Versus Child: A Feminist and Comparative Look at Exodus 21:22–
25 (30 min)
David Tabb Stewart, Southwestern University
The Parturient's Ritual for a Girl: The Puzzle of Double Pollution
(30 min)
Brian Britt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Male Jealousy and the Suspected Sotah (30 min)

This session is being offered collaboratively with the Biblical Law
Section.


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Jesus Traditions, Gospels and Negotiating the Roman Imperial World
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #206B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Jesus, and Gender: Negotiating Rome's Empire

Warren Carter, St. Paul School of Theology, Presiding
Richard Horsley, University of Massachusetts
The Empire of God and the Empire of Rome: Re-contextualizing Jesus'
Proclamation of the Kingdom (30 min)
Brian Kvasnica, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Vying with Roman-allied Priests: Tribute and Tithe-evasion in First-
century Roman Judea (30 min)
William R. Herzog, Colgate Rochester Divinity School
Dissembling, a Weapon of the Weak: The Case of Paying Tribute to
Caesar (Mark 12:13–17) (30 min)
Eric Thurman, Drew University
Novel Men: Empire and Masculinity in the Gospel of Mark and Xenophon
of Ephesus' An Ephesian Tale (30 min)
Colleen M. Conway, Seton Hall University
Imperial Masculinity and the Jesus Traditions (30 min)



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Lamentations in Ancient and Contemporary Contexts
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #213A - San Antonio Convention Center
Chip Dobbs-Allsopp, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Nancy C. Lee, Elmhurst College
Cracking the Order of Retributive Justice (`ayin . . .
pe . . .tsaddq?): Acrostic Reversals in Lamentations (30 min)
Jill Middlemas, University of Oxford
Did Second Isaiah Write Lamentations 3? (30 min)
John Ahn, Yale University
Psalm 137: A Complex Communal Lament (30 min)
LeAnn Snow Flesher, American Baptist Seminary of the West
Zion: Disciplined Adulterous Wife or Endangered Virgin Daughter? (30
min)
Business Meeting (20 min)



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New Testament Textual Criticism
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #215 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Digital Editions of the Gospel of John
This session is devoted to three digital scholarly projects on John
prepared at the Univeristy of Birmingham: the Byzantine Text Edition;
the Principio Project; and the Verbum Project. Presenters include Jon
Balserak, Philip Burton and Ulrich Schmid.

Michael W. Holmes, Bethel University, Presiding
David Parker, University of Birmingham, Bruce Morrill, University of
Birmingham, Roderic L. Mullen and Hugh Houghton
Digital Editions of the Gospel of John (120 min)
Discussion (30 min)



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Pentateuch
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #007B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: A Farewell to the Yahwist?

Diane M. Sharon, Jewish Theological Seminary, Presiding
Konrad Schmid, University of Zurich and Thomas Romer, University of
Lausanne
The So-Called Yahwist and the Redactional Gap between Genesis and
Exodus (40 min)
Jan Christian Gertz, Mainz University
The Transition between the Books of Genesis and Exodus (Genesis
50/Exodus 1) (25 min)
Thomas B. Dozeman, United Theological Seminary
The Call of Moses and the Book of Genesis (25 min)
Discussion (30 min)
David McLain Carr, Union Theological Seminary, Respondent (15 min)
Christoph Levin, University of Munich, Respondent (15 min)



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Psychology and Biblical Studies
11/20/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #208 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Apocalypse and Cosmic Conflict

D. Andrew Kille, Revdak/ InterfaithSpace, Presiding
Michael Willett Newheart, Howard University
Fanning Fanon's Flame: Using the Afro-Caribbean Psychiatrist Frantz
Fanon in Interpreting the Apocalyptic Texts of Terror (25 min)
Paul Fisher, North Carolina
God on Steroids: Apocalyptic as the Medicine of Melancholy
Metaphysicians (25 min)
Barbara M. Leung Lai, Tyndale Seminary
Immersing Ourselves in the Visionary Experience of Daniel: Reading,
Emotive-experiencing, Appropriation (25 min)
Paul N. Anderson, George Fox University
Antichristic Errors...and Errors of the Johannine Antichrists (25 min)
Wayne Rollins, Hartford Seminary, Respondent (20 min)
Business Meeting (30 min)



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SBL Women Student Members' Coffee and Orientation Session
11/20/2004
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Room: Salon M - Marriott Rivercenter
Nyasha Junior, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding



Do you have questions about how to get to the next stage of your
program? Are you stressed about getting through the current stage of
your program? Are you the only one like you at your institution?
Would you like to meet other women facing similar challenges? Come to
this session!

All women student members are invited to join us for an informal
orientation and icebreaker at the 2004 Annual Meeting in San Antonio.
Bring your business cards or address labels with contact information.
Meet other women graduate students. Find support. Make contacts. Get
advice. Win prizes!

Contact SBL-CSWP student representative, Nyasha Junior, if you have
any questions.


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TEXTureS, Gestures, Power: Orientation to Radical Excavation
11/20/2004
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Room: Ballroom C-2 - San Antonio Convention Center
Co-sponsored with the American Academy of Religion
Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Georgetown University, Presiding
David L. Petersen, Candler School of Theology, Emory University,
Presiding
Vincent Wimbush, Claremont Graduate University, Panelist
Charles Hallisey, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Respondent
Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University, Respondent
John G. Renard, Saint Louis University, Respondent



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Asian and Asian-American Hermeneutics
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #203B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Issues in Asian American Hermeneutics and Biblical
Interpretation

Frank Yamada, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Presiding
Max J. Lee, Wheaton College
Disturbing Voices at the Cross of Jesus: What Two Political Bandits
in Luke's Crucifixion Scene (23:39–43) Have to Say to Asian-Americans
about Ideologies of Power (30 min)
Yung Suk Kim, Vanderbilt University
"In Christ" as a Hermeneutical Key for Diversity (30 min)
John Ahn, Yale University
A Light to the Nations: The Sociological Approach in Korean American
Hermeneutics (30 min)
Lai-Ling Ngan, Truett Seminary, Baylor University, Respondent (20 min)



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Best Practices in Teaching Workshop
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #006B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Teaching Biblical Greek

N. Clayton Croy, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Presiding
Joel Harlow, Reformed Theological Seminary, Virtual Campus
Successfully Teaching New Testament Greek Online at the Seminary
Level: A Case Study (30 min)
Steve Walton, London School of Theology
John for Beginners: Helping Greek Learners to Read the New Testament
for the First Time (30 min)
Pierre Johan Jordaan, North West University
Teaching New Testament Greek as Outcome Based Education in a Multi-
lingual, Multi-cultural Setting (30 min)
Randall Buth, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
TPR: Teaching Greek Outside of a Textbook (30 min)
N. Clayton Croy, Trinity Lutheran Seminary
A Baker's Dozen of Tips and Resources for Teaching Biblical Greek (30
min)

The session will conclude with a general discussion of texts,
resources, and aids for teaching Biblical Greek.


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Biblical Scholarship and Disabilities
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #202B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: The Blind, the Deaf, and the Lame: Biblical Representations of
Disability

Bruce C. Birch, Wesley Theological Seminary, Presiding
Hector Avalos, Iowa State University
Introducing "Sensory Criticism" in Biblical and Disability Studies
(27 min)
Thomas Hentrich, Kyoto University
Since When Were Disabled People Considered Impure? A Look at
Leviticus 21:17–22 (27 min)
Jeremy Schipper, Princeton Theological Seminary
Limping into Jerusalem: Disability and Mephibosheth's Entry into
Jerusalem in 2 Samuel 9 (27 min)
Sarah J. Melcher, Xavier University
"I Will Lead the Blind by a Road They Do Not Know:" Disability in
Prophetic Eschatology (27 min)
Gary Alley, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
"Good News to the Poor:" Demarcating Disabilities within the Synoptic
Gospels' and Qumran's Messianic Schemas (27 min)
Business Meeting (15 min)



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Christian Late Antiquity and its Reception
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #006D - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Arabic Christian Literature and Early Christian-Muslim
Relations

Mark Swanson, Luther Seminary, Presiding
Claire Wilde, Catholic University of America
Qur'an, Hadith, and Tafsir: Tools of Early Melkite Apologists? (30
min)
John Lamoreaux, Southern Methodist University
Theodore Abu Qurrah's against the Outsiders: A Newly Discovered
Arabic Work (30 min)
Alexander Treiger, Yale University
Arabic Translations of Greek Patristics: The Case of Pseudo-Dionysius
the Areopagite (30 min)
Jason Zaborowski, Catholic University of America
The Arabic Apocalypse of Samuel of Qalamun and the Disuse of Coptic
Language among Egyptian Christians (30 min)
Break (30 min)



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Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Room: Conference 15 - Marriott Rivercenter
Jane S. Webster, Barton College, Presiding
Kathleen E. Corley, University of Wisconsin, Member
Nyasha Junior, Princeton Theological Seminary, Member
Risa Levitt Kohn, San Diego State University, Member
Heather McKay, Edge Hill College, Member
Lori Rowlett, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Member



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Disputed Paulines
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Room: Conference 13 - Marriott Rivercenter
Margaret MacDonald, St. Francis Xavier University, Presiding
John K. McVay, Andrews University
Ephesians 6:10–20 and Battle Exhortations in Jewish Literature (30
min)
Robert Paul Seesengood, Drew University
Fighting the Good Fight for the Faith: The Gladiator and Pauline
Identity in the Disputed Epistles (30 min)
Gail Streete, Rhodes College
Householders of God versus Spiritual Athletes: The Understanding of
True Ascetic Behavior in the Pastorals (30 min)
Christopher Hutson, Hood Theological Seminary
"A Little Wine": 1 Timothy 5:23 and the Philosophic Training Regimen
(30 min)
Jerry L. Sumney, Lexington Theological Seminary
"I Fill Up What is Lacking in the Afflictions of Christ": Paul's
Vicarious Suffering in Colossians (30 min)
James W. Barker, Vanderbilt University
Authority and Administration in Crete: A Postcolonial Critique of
Titus (30 min)



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Homiletics and Biblical Studies
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Salon G - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: Preaching and Biblical Authority

David Schnasa Jacobsen, Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, Presiding (5 min)
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity School
A Critical Feminist Hermeneutics of Proclamation (10 min)
David Buttrick, Vanderbilt University
Why Do We Need "The Authority of Scripture?" (10 min)
Gail O'Day, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Scripture Preaching Scripture: A Biblical Hermeneutic of Authority
(10 min)
John McClure, Vanderbilt University
The Bible as a "Hard Word:" Homiletical Uses for the De-centering
Authority of the Bible (10 min)
Cain Hope Felder, Howard University
Some Limitations of Dogma and Social Location as Criteria for
Biblical Authority in Preaching (10 min)
Discussion (90 min)



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Israelite Prophetic Literature
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #214D - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Metaphors for God in the Prophets

Johanna Bos, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Presiding
L. Juliana M. Claassens, Baptist Theological Seminary, Richmond
The Mountains Shall Drip Sweet Wine: God's Provision of Food as Image
of Restoration (25 min)
Paul Niskanen, University of St. Thomas
YHWH as Father, Go'el, and Potter in Isaiah 63:7—64:12 (25 min)
Daniel O'Kennedy, University of Stellenbosch
Yahweh as Healer in the Prophetic Books of the Hebrew Bible (25 min)
Else K. Holt, University of Aarhus
The Prophet as a Metaphor for God (?) (25 min)
Matthew R. Schlimm, Duke University
Divergent Accounts of Divine Affectivity in Recent Old Testament
Scholarship (25 min)
Discussion (25 min)



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Israelite Religion in its West Asian Environment
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #217B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Exploring Women's Religion

Neal Walls, Wake Forest University, Presiding
Carol Meyers, Duke University
Interrogating Terracottas: Women's Religious Praxis (25 min)
Ann Fritschel, Wartburg Seminary
Women as Practitioners of Magic (25 min)
Peggy L. Day, University of Winnipeg
Metaphorical Uses and Abuses of Women's Sexuality (25 min)
Break (5 min)
Phyllis Bird, Northwestern University (Emeritus)
"Women's Work": Reflections on Women's Domestic and Cultic Roles (25
min)
Susan Ackerman, Dartmouth College
Women and the Weaving of Cultic Textiles in Ancient Israel (25 min)
Discussion (20 min)



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Jesus Traditions, Gospels and Negotiating the Roman Imperial World
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #214A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Matthew, Luke, and John: Negotiating Rome's Empire

William R. Herzog, Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Presiding
Warren Carter, St. Paul School of Theology
Food Shortages and Abundance in Matthew: Negotiating Rome's Empire
(30 min)
Catherine M. Murphy, Santa Clara University
Pilate's Wife in Postcolonial Perspective (30 min)
Jonathan Pennington, University of St. Andrews
The Kingdom of Heaven against All Earthly Kingdoms (30 min)
Guy D. Nave, Jr., Luther College
It's Time for a Change! Examining the Lukan Demand for Repentance
within the Context of Roman Imperialism (30 min)
Gerhard van den Heever, University of South Africa
Reconceptualizing Christian Origins as Mirroring Roman Imperial
Ideology (30 min)



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Literature and History of the Persian Period
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Conference 18 - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: Review of Lisbeth Fried's The Priest and the Great King:
Temple-Palace Relations in the Persian Empire (Eisenbrauns, 2004)

Daniel Smith-Christopher, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding
Stephen Breck Reid, Bethany Theological Seminary, Panelist (30 min)
John Wright, Point Loma Nazarene University, Panelist (30 min)
John Kessler, Tyndale Seminary, Panelist (30 min)
Lisbeth S. Fried, University of Michigan, Respondent (30 min)
Discussion (30 min)



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New Testament Textual Criticism
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #214B - San Antonio Convention Center
John Brogan, Northwestern College, Presiding
Jennifer Knust, College of the Holy Cross
Early Christian Rewriting and the History of the Pericope Adulterae
(30 min)
P. J. Williams, University of Aberdeen
More on Pseudo-agreements among 'Western' Witnesses (30 min)
Sylvie T. Raquel, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
The Text of the Gospel of Matthew in the Writings of Origen (30 min)
Stephen C. Carlson, Fairfax, VA
The Origin(s) of the "Caesarean" Text (30 min)
Wayne C. Kannaday, Newberry College
All's Well That Ends Well: An Examination of the Possible Influence
of Apologetic Interests on the Endings of Mark's Gospel (30 min)



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Orientation to the SBL Annual Meeting
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Room: Conference 12 - Marriott Rivercenter
New to the Annual Meeting? This session will provide you with an
overview of the program and some hints and tips for not only
surviving the meeting, but making the most of the opportunities it
presents.

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Paul and Politics
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #217C - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Reports from Working Groups on `Peoples History' in
Galatia/Galatians and Corinth/Corinthians
Using projections of relevant images, a panel of respondents will
report on highlights of the discussion from the pre-meeting.
Anticipated topics will include interpretation of the images with
special attention to power relations presented, the images of
the "barbarian" and the female, and potential implications of these
images for our reading of Paul's letter to the Galatians.

Susan Elliott, Plymouth Congregational Church, Presiding
Theme I: Galatians and Images of Empire
Brigitte Kahl, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Reading Galatians in front of the Great Altar of Pergamon (15 min)
Davina C. Lopez, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Reading Galatians in Light of Images of Roman Imperial Gender
Constructs (15 min)
David Lull, Wartburg Theological Seminary, Respondent
Mark Nanos, Rockhurst University, Respondent
Steven Friesen, University of Missouri, Columbia, Respondent
Discussion (30 min)
Negotiating Identity and Boundaries: The Ekklesia in Roman Corinth
Ray Pickett, Lutheran Seminary Program of the Southwest
Negotiating Community Identity in the Corinthian Assembly (15 min)
James C. Walters, Boston University
Paul and Community Formation: What Went Wrong (15 min)
John Lanci, Stonehill College, Respondent (10 min)
Discussion (30 min)



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Psychology and Biblical Studies
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #007B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Psychological Views of Biblical Law, Jesus and Divine
Retribution

Jill McNish, Montclair, NJ, Presiding
Psychology and the Decalogue
Bernhard Lang, University of Paderborn
The Iniquity of the Fathers: A Psychological Reading of the Decalogue
(25 min)
Lyn M. Bechtel, Drew University Theological School
The Psychological Implications of the Fifth Commandment (25 min)
Dereck Daschke, Truman State University
"Thou Shalt Not Covet:" Repression, Israel, and Its Discontents (25
min)
Methods and Models
Chaya Halberstam, King's College, University of London
"The Land Will Vomit You Out": Kristeva's Abject and Divine
Retribution (25 min)
Donald Capps, Princeton Theological Seminary
Pathology, Power, and Presence: A Review of 20th Century Portraits of
the Personality of Jesus (25 min)
Discussion (20 min)



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Recent Uses of Theory in Latino/a Hermeneutics and Teaching of the
Bible
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #207 - San Antonio Convention Center
Sharon H. Ringe, Wesley Theological Seminary, Presiding
Francisco Lozada, Jr., University of the Incarnate Word
Textures of Latino/a Biblical Criticism: Literary to Postcolonial
Theory (25 min)
Fernando Segovia, The Divinity School, Vanderbilt University
Latino/a Criticism as a Contextual, Strategic Option (25 min)
Jean-Pierre Ruiz, St. John's University
At the Borders of Interpretation: Scriptures and the Challenges of
Globalization (25 min)
Francisco Garcia-Treto, Trinity University
Exile in the Hebrew Bible: A Postcolonial Look from the Cuban
Diaspora (25 min)
Leticia Guardiola-Saenz, Drew University
Jesus the Border-crosser: A Postcolonial Representation from John's
Gospel (25 min)
Efrain Agosto, Hartford Seminary
A Postcolonial Commentary on Philippians: Reflections on Using a
Theory for the First Time (25 min)

The organizers of the special session expect to identify and attract
a number of Latino/a scholars who are already working in this area,
and open a venue for presentation and discussion of their work. It is
contemplated that out of this initial effort will evolve a Seminar,
where an increasing number of newer Latino/a scholars will be able to
exert their voices and share their insight as theorists and
practitioners of contextual reading and teaching the Bible from
Latino/a perspectives.


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Rethinking Plato's Parmenides and its Platonic, Gnostic and Patristic
Reception
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #211 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Plotinus and His Predecessors as Interpreters of Plato's
Parmenides

John D. Turner, University of Nebraska, Presiding
Luc Brisson, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
On the Interpretation of the Second Part of Plato's Parmenides:
Numenius, the Gnostics and Plotinus on the Intellect (40 min)
Matthias Vorwerk, Catholic University of America
Plotinus and the Parmenides. Problems of Interpretation (40 min)
Discussion (70 min)

Dinner for members of the seminar will be planned at a local
restaurant after the second session of this unit (see session S20-
XX).


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Synoptic Gospels
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #204B - San Antonio Convention Center
Greg Carey, Lancaster Theological Seminary, Presiding
Robert J. Miller, Juniata College
Did Matthew Believe in the Virgin Birth? (30 min)
Jeffrey Peterson, Austin School of Theology
Dismissing the Sanhedrin: High Priest and Council in the Synoptics
(30 min)
Jeffrey B. Gibson, Harry S. Truman College
Once Again, the "Sign of Jonah" (30 min)
Pamela Shellberg, Marquette University
Cleansing the Lepers and Accepting the Gentiles: The Concept of
Cleansing in Luke-Acts (30 min)



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The Book of the Twelve Prophets
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #213A - San Antonio Convention Center
Barry Jones, Campbell University Divinity School, Presiding
Paul L. Redditt, Georgetown College
The King in the Book of the Twelve (30 min)
Jutta Krispenz, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Distinguishing Joel from Zephaniah: A Test-case in Statistical
Authorship Attribution (30 min)
Laurie J. Braaten, Judson College
The Day(s) of Yhwh and the Fate of the Land: Canonical Interplay
between Joel and Zephaniah. (30 min)
Daniel E. Fleming, New York University
The Day of Yahweh and the New Moon in the Book of Amos (30 min)
Robert A. Harris, Jewish Theological Seminary
Contextual Reading: The Commentary of R. Eliezer of Beaugency on Amos
(30 min)



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The Use, Influence and Impact of the Bible
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #216B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: The Bible in Art, Music and Literature

Eric Christianson, Chester College, Presiding
Judith L. Kovacs, University of Virginia and Christopher Rowland,
University of Oxford
Seeing Anew: Interpretation of John's Apocalypse in the Visual Arts
(30 min)
John E. Stanley, Messiah College
The Apocalypse in Contemporary Music and Music Videos (30 min)
Katie Edwards, University of Sheffield
All About Adam: The Cultural Influence of Biblical Characters in
Western Society (30 min)
David M. Gunn, Texas Christian University
Women and Subjectivity in Judges: From Abelard to Harriet Beecher
Stowe (30 min)
Mark Roncace, Wingate University
Children's Bibles: Wri(gh)ting the Story for Kids (30 min)



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Warfare in Ancient Israel
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #212A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Rhetoric and Metaphor in Text and Context

Frank Ritchel Ames, Colorado Christian University, Presiding
T. M. Lemos, Yale University
Shame and the Mutilation of Enemies in the Hebrew Bible (25 min)
Brad E. Kelle, Point Loma Nazarene University
Wartime Rhetoric: Prophetic Metaphorization of Cities as Female (25
min)
Alice A. Keefe, University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point
Whores, Wars, and Metaphors: Hosea's Sexual Language and His Critique
of Military Violence (25 min)
Duane L. Christensen, Graduate Theological Union
Israel's First War: The War with Amalek (25 min)



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African Biblical Hermeneutics
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #216B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Methodological Innovations in African Biblical Hermeneutics

Justin Ukpong, University of Uyo, Nigeria, Presiding
Musa W. Dube, Scripps College
Hermeneutics of Life: African Women's Feminist Ways of Reading (25
min)
Ernest M. Ezeogu, Regis College, Toronto School of Theology
"Out of Egypt I Have Called My Son." Matthew's Infancy Narrative
(Matthew 1–2) in Afrocentric Perspective (25 min)
Madipoane Masenya, University of South Africa
Struggling to Find "Africa" in South Africa: The Bosadi (Womanhood)
Approach (25 min)
David Tuesday Adamo, Delta State University
Decolonizing the Psalter in Africa (25 min)
Gerald West, University of KwaZulu-Natal
(Ac)claiming the (Extra)ordinary African `Reader' of the Bible (25
min)
Business Meeting (25 min)



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Archaeology of Religion in the Greco-Roman World
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #210A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Archaeology of Sickness and Health in the Ancient
Mediterranean World

Steven Friesen, University of Missouri, Columbia, Presiding
James C. Walters, Boston University
Paul, Community Boundaries, and the Etiology of Sickness in Roman
Corinth (30 min)
Christine Thomas, University of California
"The Greatest of Human Blessings": Health, the Body, and Life
Narrative in Ancient Healing Cults (30 min)
Annette Weissenrieder, University of Heidelberg
"He Is a God:" Acts 28:1–9 in the Light of Iconographical and Textual
Sources Related to Medicine (30 min)
Discussion (30 min)
Business Meeting (15 min)
John Lanci, Stonehill College, Respondent (15 min)



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Bakhtin and the Biblical Imagination
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Salon I - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: Bakhtin, Genre, and Form Criticism

Barbara Green, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Presiding
Martin Buss, Emory University
Dialogue in and among Genres (10 min)
Christopher Fuller, St. Mary's College
Matthew's Genealogy as Eschatological Satire: Bakhtin Meets Form
Criticism (10 min)
Carleen Mandolfo, Colby College
Beyond Form Criticism: Reading Genre Dialogically (10 min)
Carol A. Newsom, Emory University
What Do We Mean by Genre? (10 min)
Michael E. Vines, Lees-McRae College
The Apocalyptic Chronotope (10 min)
Discussion (65 min)
Break (10 min)
Business Meeting (15 min)

Papers will be summarized and not read in their entirety. Complete
papers will be posted on the Bakhtin website,
http://home.nwciowa.edu/wacome/bakhtinsbl.html, after November 1,
2004.


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Bible Translation
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #214B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Choices in Translation and the Audience

Chang-Wook Jung, Chongshin University
Translation of Two Double Negatives in 1 Corinthians 12:15–16 (25 min)
Wilma Ann Bailey, Christian Theological Seminary
When "You Shall Not Kill" became "You Shall Not Murder": Exodus 20:13
(25 min)
Andrea L. Weiss, Jewish Institute of Religion, Hebrew Union College
Figurative Language and Approaches to Biblical Translation (25 min)
Lynell Zogbo, United Bible Societies
Wars and Rumors of Wars: Ideology and Translation (25 min)
Freddy Boswell, SIL
Classifying Cotton Patch Version and Similar Renderings as Adaptive
Retelling rather than Translation (25 min)
Robert Bascom, United Bible Societies
Samson as The Hulk: Transformations of Genre and Media in Translation
(25 min)



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Biblical Criticism and Literary Criticism
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #006D - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Irony in the Bible

Stephen Breck Reid, Bethany Theological Seminary, Presiding
Sharon Alley, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Israel and Amalek: The Artistry of Exodus 17:8–16 (30 min)
Joe Edward Barnhart, University of North Texas
The David Story: The Implied Author's Irony and Ambivalence (30 min)
Carolyn J. Sharp, Yale Divinity School
Foreign Rulers and the Ironizing of Power in the Hebrew Bible (30 min)
Austin Busch, Stanford University
Questioning and Conviction: Double-voiced Discourse in Mark 3:22–30
(The Beelzebul Controversy) (30 min)
Matthew L. Skinner, Luther Seminary
Above the Rules: Ironic Relationships between Paul's Activities and
Custody Settings in Acts 21–28 (30 min)



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Biblical Scholarship from/for Church and Synagogue
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Salon G - Marriott Rivercenter
Fred B. Craddock, The Craddock Center, Presiding
William Brosend, The Louisville Institute, Presiding
Brad R. Braxton, The Divinity School, Vanderbilt University, Panelist
John Donahue, St. Mary's Seminary and University, Panelist
Sharyn Dowd, Baylor University, Panelist
Gregory L. Glover, Southminster Presbyterian Church, Panelist
Walter Harrelson, Wake Forest University, Panelist
Wesley H. Wachob, Glenn United Methodist Church, Panelist



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Book of Acts
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #208 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Ethics and Ethical Discourse in Acts

Thomas Phillips, Colorado Christian University, Presiding
Robert C. Tannehill, Methodist Theological School in Ohio
Do the Ethics of Acts Include the Ethical Teaching in Luke? (30 min)
C. Kavin Rowe, Duke University
Authority and Community: Lukan Dominium in Acts (30 min)
Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinty College
The Genre of Acts and the Ethics of Discourse (30 min)
Robert L. Brawley, McCormick Theological Seminary
Identity and the Aim of an Accomplished Life in Acts (30 min)
Pam Kinlaw, Wheeling Jesuit University
"Devout and God-Fearing:" Cornelius, Pacifism, and Just War (30 min)



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Computer Assisted Research
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #207 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Digital Hermeneutics

James R. Adair, Jr., Religion and Technology Center, Presiding
Peter C. Patton, University of St. Thomas and Richard A. Wright,
Emory University, Emory University
Discovering and Displaying Structure in Hebrew Poetry (30 min)
George Yaeger, Aster Institute
Development of a Noun Phrase Translation Memory Database for
Classical Biblical Hebrew (30 min)
Catherine J. Smith, University of Birmingham
Evaluating Electronic Synopses: The Current State of Play and Future
Directions (30 min)
Ken Penner, McMaster University
Toward a Method of Tagging Hebrew Tense, Aspect, and Mood (30 min)
Business Meeting (30 min)



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Didache in Context
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #007B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Methodological Reflections

Nancy Pardee, Saint Xavier University, Presiding
Nicholas Perrin, Biblical Theological Seminary
Comparing Matthew with the Didache: Some Methodological Reflections
(25 min)
Clayton N. Jefford, St. Meinrad School of Theology, Respondent (5 min)
J. Christian Wilson, Elon University
The Tyranny of Source Criticism and the Unity of Apostolic Writings
(25 min)
Huub Van De Sandt, Tilburg University, Respondent (5 min)
Jonathan Schwiebert, Boston University
Performative Features in the Didache's Eucharistic Prayers (25 min)
Jonathan Draper, University of Natal, Respondent (5 min)
Break (5 min)
Discussion (45 min)
Business Meeting (10 min)



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Egyptology and Ancient Israel
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #006B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Biblical and Ancient Egyptian Dreams

Carolyn Higginbotham, Muskingum College, Presiding (5 min)
Jan W. Van Henten, University of Amsterdam
Judas the Maccabee's Dream (2 Maccabees 15:11–6) and the Egyptian
King's Sickle Sword (30 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Scott Morschauser, Rowan University
The Apple of One's Eye or Bottom of the Barrel? The Divine Elections
of Nebwenenef, High Priest of Amun, and David, King of Israel (30 min)
Discussion (5 min)
John Gee, Brigham Young University
"There Needs No Ghost, My Lord, Come from the Grave to Tell Us This":
Dreams and Angels in Ancient Egypt (30 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Herbert B. Huffmon, Drew University
Prophecy and Prophetic Dreams in Ancient Egypt (30 min)
Discussion (10 min)



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Formation of the Book of Isaiah
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #209 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Isaiah 6 in the Book of Isaiah

Claire R. Mathews McGinnis, Loyola College, Presiding
Francis Landy, University of Alberta
Isaiah 6 and the Book of Isaiah (45 min)
Roy Melugin, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University,
Respondent (25 min)
A. Joseph Everson, California Lutheran University
A Bitter Memory: Isaiah's Commission in Isaiah 6:1–13 (45 min)
Ann Johnston, Bangor Theological Seminary, Respondent (25 min)
Discussion (10 min)



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Hebrew Scriptures and Cognate Literature
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #203B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Responses to Democracy's Ancient Ancestors: Mari and Early
Collective Governance, by Daniel E. Fleming (Cambridge University
Press, 2004)

Mark S. Smith, New York University, Presiding
Lawrence Stager, Harvard University
Kinship and Collective in Israelite Society: Archaeological
Perspectives (35 min)
Karel Van Der Toorn, University of Amsterdam
Collective Aspects of Iron Age II Israel (35 min)
Kurt A. Raaflaub, Brown University
Pre-democratic Greece and the Question of Its Near Eastern Affinities
(35 min)
Daniel E. Fleming, New York University
Response to Papers on Democracy's Ancient Ancestors (15 min)
Discussion (30 min)



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History of Interpretation
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #006C - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: The Bible Performed

Carol Bakhos, University of California, Los Angeles, Presiding
Kristi Upson-Saia, Duke University
Re-writing the Bible: "Orthodox" Theology in the Syriac Dialogue
Hymns (30 min)
Rebecca Raphael, Texas State University, San Marcos
The Madness of King Saul: Oratorio as Exegesis (30 min)
Dan W. Clanton, Jr., University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Trollops and Temptresses: Delilah(s) in 20th Century Popular Music
(30 min)
Scott M. Langston, Southwest Baptist University
The Other Side of the Burning Bush (30 min)



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Manuscript as Icon
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Room: Room #204B - San Antonio Convention Center
David Armstrong, University of Texas, Austin, Presiding
Hieromonk Justin Sinaites, St. Catharine's Monastery, The Sinai
The Sinai Codex Theodosianus: Manuscript as Icon (45 min)
Discussion (15 min)



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Rethinking Plato's Parmenides and its Platonic, Gnostic and Patristic
Reception
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Room: Room #213A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Middle Platonic Parmenides Commentaries: The Anonymous and
Others?

Kevin Corrigan, Emory University, Presiding
Alain Lernould, Université de Lille III
Discussion of G. Bechtle's "The Anonymous Commentary on
Plato's 'Parmenides:'" A Reflection or an Anticipation of Plotinus?
(40 min)
Gerald Bechtle, University of Bern
The Anonymous Parmenides Commentary: New Tendencies in Research? (40
min)
Volker Drecoll, Universität Münster
The Greek Text behind the Parallel Passages in Zostrianus and Marius
Victorinus (40 min)
John D. Turner, University of Nebraska
Gnostic Evidence for the Use of Plato's Parmenides: Multiple Pre-
Plotinian Commentaries? (40 min)
Discussion (20 min)

Dinner for seminar members will be planned at a local restaurant
after the second afternoon session, 7:30-9PM


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Rhetoric and the New Testament
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #007D - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Priestly Discourse in New Testament Writings

C. Jan Swearingen, Texas A & M University, Presiding
Edwin K. Broadhead, Berea College
Mark (10 min)
Vernon K. Robbins, Emory University
Luke-Acts (10 min)
L. Gregory Bloomquist, Saint Paul University
John (10 min)
J. Ayodeji Adewuya, Church of God Theological Seminary
2 Corinthians (10 min)
Russell Sisson, Union College
Philippians (10 min)
David De Silva, Ashland Theological Seminary
Hebrews (10 min)
Robert Webb, McMaster Divinity College
1 Peter (10 min)
Duane Watson, Malone College
1 John (10 min)
Edith M. Humphrey, Pittsburg Theological Seminary
Revelation (10 min)
William Gilders, Emory University, Respondent (20 min)



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Social-scientific Studies of the Second Temple Period
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Room: Room #214A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Historiography: Creating Understanding I

Alice Hunt, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Niels Peter Lemche, University of Copenhagen, Panelist (10 min)
J. Maxwell Miller, Emory University, Respondent (10 min)
Discussion (10 min)
William G. Dever, University of Arizona, Panelist (10 min)
Douglas A. Knight, Vanderbilt University, Respondent (10 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Diana Edelman, University of Sheffield, Panelist (10 min)
Thomas L. Thompson, University of Copenhagen, Respondent (10 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Jerome H. Neyrey, University of Notre Dame, Panelist (10 min)
Ingrid Hjelm, University of Copenhagen, Respondent (10 min)
Discussion (10 min)

Sessions are dedicated to methodology, assumptions, and approaches.
Papers will be published on the section's website
http://home.sjfc.edu/2T prior to the meeting and will be summarized
during the session. Each panelist will address the topic of
historiography, followed by a prepared response and panel discussion.


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Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #214D - San Antonio Convention Center
S. Tamar Kamionkowski, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Presiding
Keith Carley, School of Theology, Auckland, New Zealand
Violence and Compassion: Seeing Connections—Acting Accordingly (25
min)
Chloe Sun, Fuller Theological Seminary
How Does the Portrayal of Ugaritic Deities Shed Light on the "Dark
Side" of God in the Hebrew Scriptures? (25 min)
Joshua Gunyong Kwak, Claremont Graduate University
Conceptuality of Job 29–31 (25 min)
J. Richard Middleton, Roberts Wesleyan College
Is Violence the Primal Sin? The Socio-ethical Significance of
Boundary Transgression in Genesis 3 (25 min)
Alejandro F. Botta, Southern Methodist University
How to Hide an Elephant in the Fifth Avenue: Universality of Sin and
Class Sin in the Hebrew Scriptures (25 min)
Hector Avalos, Iowa State University
Deconstructing the Role of the Prophets in Latino/a Liberation
Theologies (25 min)



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Women in the Biblical World
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #001A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Women and Empire

Claudia Camp, Texas Christian University, Presiding
Richard Horsley, University of Massachusetts
The Roman Imperial Impact on Women in Galilee and the Reflection and
Response in Mark (25 min)
Mary R. D'Angelo, University of Notre Dame
Women, Marriage, and Imperial Exigencies in the Traditions about
Jesus (25 min)
Todd Penner, Austin College and Caroline Vander Stichele, University
of Amsterdam
Imperial Discourse and Gender in Luke-Acts (25 min)
Break (10 min)
Valerie Bridgeman-Davis, Memphis Theological Seminary
The Handmaiden's Tale: Sex, Service, and Sorrow in the Pentateuch (25
min)
Kimberly Stratton, Carleton University
Women, Ritual, and Resistance: Practical Strategies for Gaining Power
in Antiquity (25 min)
Discussion (15 min)



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Introducing the New Critical Edition of the Hebrew Bible: BHQ
11/20/2004
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #204B - San Antonio Convention Center
Kent Richards, Society of Biblical Literature, Presiding



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SBL Presidential Address
11/20/2004
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Room: Ballroom C-3 - San Antonio Convention Center
Carolyn Osiek, Texas Christian University, Presiding
David L. Petersen, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Genesis and Family Values (45 min)



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Donor Reception
11/20/2004
8:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Room: Salon L - Marriott Rivercenter

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Student Members Reception
11/20/2004
10:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Room: Salon K - Marriott Rivercenter

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National Association of Professors of Hebrew
11/21/2004
7:00 AM to 9:00 AM
Room: Conference 13 - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: Annual Breakfast and Business Meeting

Michael V. Fox, University of Wisconsin
Annual Breakfast and Business Meeting (120 min)



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SBL Annual Business Meeting
11/21/2004
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
Room: Conference 17/18 - Marriott Rivercenter

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Academic Teaching and Biblical Studies
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #204B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Pedagogies for Teaching Introductory Bible Classes:
Discussion, Active Learning, and Cooperative Approaches
A workshop for those who teach introductory bible classes at the
undergraduate or masters' level, this session will enable
participants to experience and discuss various strategies for
enhancing student learning through discussion, active learning, and
cooperative learning. Session facilitators will be Dr. Paul Aspan,
Associate Professor of Theology at St. Joseph's University,
Philadelphia, and Dr. Faith Kirkham Hawkins, Assistant Professor of
Youth and Education at Candler School of Theology, Emory University,


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African-American Biblical Hermeneutics
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Salon K - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: Methodology in the Study of Afrodiasporan Biblical
Hermeneutics—Part 1

Theodore Burgh, University of Notre Dame, Presiding (5 min)
Michael Joseph Brown, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
The Blackening of the Bible: The Aims of African American Biblical
Interpretation (25 min)
Keith Augustus Burton, Oakwood College
My Soul's Been Anchored: Faith and Reason in Afrodiasporan Biblical
Hermeneutics (25 min)
Judy Morishima-Nelson, Fuller Theological Seminary
Soul as Ts'aqah: Suffering, Contemporary Experience, and
Afrodiasporan Hermeneutics (25 min)
Peter Nash, Escola Supeior De Teologia
From Rachel to the Queen of Sheba: Recent Developments in African-
American Biblical Hermeneutics in Latin America and the Caribbean (25
min)
Larry D. George, Payne Theological Seminary, Respondent (20 min)
Discussion (25 min)



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Archaeological Excavations and Discoveries: Illuminating the Biblical
World
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #005 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Archaeological Resources for Teaching Bible

John Spencer, John Carroll University, Presiding
J. P. Dessel, University of Tennessee
In Search of the Good Book: Teaching Texts for Biblical Archaeology
(30 min)
Peter Richardson, University of Toronto
Using Archaeological Site-related Information in Religion Courses.
(30 min)
Milton Moreland, Rhodes College
Teaching Texts and Artifacts: Material Culture in the Biblical
Studies Classroom (30 min)
Deborah A. Green, University of Oregon
Subjective Objectivity: Picking and Choosing from Material Culture
(30 min)
Discussion (30 min)



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Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #006B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: The Linguistic Analysis of Mark 13

Matthew Brook O'Donnell, OpenText.org, Presiding
Matthew Brook O'Donnell, OpenText.org, Catherine J. Smith, University
of Birmingham and Randall K. Tan, Spalding University
A "Discourse Grammar" of Mark 13 (35 min)
Edward Adams, Kings College
The Narration of Time in the Discourse of Mark 13 (35 min)
Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College
A Register Analysis of Mark 13: Towards the Context of Situation (35
min)
Cynthia Long-Westfall, University of Surrey, Roehampton, Respondent
(20 min)
Discussion (25 min)



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Biblical Hebrew Poetry
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #214B - San Antonio Convention Center
David M. Howard, Jr., Bethel Theological Seminary, Presiding
Chris Franke, College of St. Catherine
Poetics of Second Isaiah's Idol Polemic (Isaiah 44:9–20) (30 min)
Richard S. Hess, Denver Seminary
The Female's Second Search and a Poetic Form of Focus at the Turning
Point (Song 5:2–8) (30 min)
Steven Horine, Calvary Baptist Theological Seminary
Identification and Role of Wedding Imagery in the Song of Songs (30
min)
Tod Linafelt, Georgetown University
Lyric Poetry and Pseudo-narrative in the Song of Songs (30 min)
Knut M. Heim, Queen's Foundation, Birmingham, Great Britain
"Hearing" with a Difference: Some New Insights into the Nature of
Biblical Parallelism (30 min)
Business Meeting (0 min)



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Biblical Lands and Peoples in Archaeology and Text
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Ballroom C-3 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Second Temple Jerusalem
Co-sponsored by the American Schools of Oriental Research and the
Society of Biblical Literature

Matthew Collins, Society of Biblical Literature, Presiding
Douglas Clark, American Schools of Oriental Research, Presiding (5
min)
Gary Knoppers, The Pennsylvania State University
What Has Jerusalem to Do with Mt. Gerizim? New Light on the History
of Judean-Samarian Relations (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Joshua Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University
Prolegomena on a New Reconstruction of the Herodian Temple: Virtual
Reality and Josephus (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Bernard Frischer, University of Virginia
Prolegomena on a New Reconstruction of the Herodian Temple: Virtual
Reality and Josephus (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Orit Peleg, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Reconstructing King Herod's Royal Stoa: Analysis of the Architectural
Decoration (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Ronny Reich, University of Haifa
Reconstructing the Herodian Stoa on the Temple Mount: The
Confrontation of Written Sources and Archaeological Findings (25 min)
Discussion (10 min)



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Construction of Christian Identities
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Salon J - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: The Construction of Christian Identities in the first two
centuries: A Discussion on recent books and methodological issues

Mauro Pesce, University of Bologna, Presiding (5 min)
Francois Bovon, Harvard University
Emerging Christianity (25 min)
Bruce Winter, Tyndale House
Counter-cultural Corinthian Christianity (25 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Break (5 min)
Panel Discussion: Recent Books and Methodological Issues
Adriana Destro, University of Bologna, Panelist (12 min)
Bruce J. Malina, Creighton University, Panelist (12 min)
Claudio Gianotto, University of Turin, Panelist (12 min)
Ekkehard Stegemann, University of Basel, Panelist (12 min)
Wolfgang Stegemann, Augustana, Panelist (12 min)
Discussion (20 min)

More info: http://web.uniud.it/isr/sanantonio/


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Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #006D - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Gendered Images in Early Jewish and Christian Mystical Texts

Andrei Orlov, Marquette University, Presiding
Kindalee Pfremmer De Long, University of Notre Dame
Secrets, Due Dates, and Contractions: The Literary Motif of
Childbirth in Fourth Ezra (25 min)
Kevin Sullivan, Marquette University
Like Angels in Heaven Part II: Sexuality and Gender of Angels in the
Gospels and Acts (25 min)
Rebecca Lesses, Ithaca College
"He Shall Not Look at a Woman": Gender in the Hekhalot Literature (25
min)
Break (10 min)
Andrea Lieber Merwin, Dickinson College, Respondent (20 min)
Jane D. Schaberg, University of Detroit, Respondent (20 min)
Discussion (25 min)



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Gender, Sexuality and the Bible
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #004 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Body/Text/Politics

Roland Boer, Monash University, Presiding
Janet S. Everhart, Simpson College
Naked Bodies: Transgendering the Gospel of Thomas (30 min)
Susan E. Haddox, Emory University
"May His Soldiers Become Women": The Play of Gender in Hosea and its
Political Implications (30 min)
Charles Rix, Drew University Theological School
Shades of Masculinity: Gendering Sheol and the Rephaim (30 min)
Daniel B. Mathewson, Emory University
The Signifiying Corpse: Textual and Photographic Images of the Dead,
Disfigured Body (30 min)
Yvonne M. Sherwood, University of Glasgow and Stephen D. Moore, Drew
University
"My Father, Behold the Hammer, the Nails, and the Wood; but Where Is
the Lamb for the Offering?" Cross-Reading Moriah and Golgotha (30 min)



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Hellenistic Judaism
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Salon H - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: The Septuagint in Its Hellenistic and Roman Contexts

Sarah Pearce, University of Southampton, Presiding
Martin Rösel, University of Rostock
YAO, YHWH or Kyrios? The Translation of the Divine Name in the Greek
Pentateuch (20 min)
Joachim Schaper, Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen
The Septuagint of Exodus as a Document of Hellenistic Judaism (20 min)
Discussion (20 min)
Break (5 min)
J. Ross Wagner, Princeton Theological Seminary
Identifying the Actualization of Prophecy in the Old Greek Isaiah:
The Question of Context (20 min)
Ronald Troxel, University of Wisconsin
Contemporization and Geographic Names in Septuagint Isaiah (20 min)
Joshua Ezra Burns, Yale University
The `Special Purim' and Interpretation of the Book of Esther in the
Hellenistic Era (20 min)
Discussion (25 min)



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Hellenistic Moral Philosophy and Early Christianity
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #207 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Christian Appropriation of Allegorical Method: The Case of
Origen

John T. Fitzgerald, University of Miami, Presiding
Peter Martens, University of Notre Dame
What Do We Mean by Calling Origen an "Allegorist"? (30 min)
Ilaria Ramelli, Universita Cattolico, Milan
Origen and the Stoic Allegorical Tradition: Continuity and Innovation
(30 min)
Break (5 min)
George R. Boys-Stones, University of Durham
The Truest Account: Origen in Defense of Christian Allegory (30 min)
Annewies Van den Hoek, Harvard University, Respondent (25 min)
Discussion (30 min)

Papers will be available to members of the group on the HMPEC
website. Inquiries may be addressed to the Program Unit Chair.


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History and Literature of Early Rabbinic Judaism
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #212A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Rabbinic Theologies

Reuven Kimelman, Brandeis University, Presiding
Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Bet Morasha of Jerusalem
Between Rabbinic Thought and Rabbinic Theology: Methodological
Reflections (25 min)
Chaya Halberstam, King's College, University of London
The Holy Spirit in the Court of Shem: Theology and Law in Rabbinic
Midrash (25 min)
Jonathan Schofer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
From Rabbinic Text to Rabbinic Thought (25 min)
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Stanford University
Rabbinic Maps of Urban Identities: The Eruv, Mixed Neighborhoods and
Symbolic Boundaries (25 min)
Reuven Kimelman, Brandeis University, Respondent (25 min)
Discussion (25 min)



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Ideological Criticism
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #204A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Land, Ideology, and Bible

Angela Bauer, Episcopal Divinity School, Presiding
Thomas W. Martin, Susquehanna University
"Angels Run Amok": Inverting the Problem of God's Violence against
the Earth in Revelation (40 min)
Hugh S. Pyper, University of Leeds
Daniel Writes Back: Hybridity, Language and Identity in the Book of
Daniel (40 min)
Susanne Scholz, Merrimack College
"Back Then It Was Legal": The Epistemological Divide Regarding Rape
Laws In Ancient Israel (40 min)
Business Meeting (30 min)



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John, Jesus and History
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #214A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: History, Tradition, Theology: The Challenge of the Johannine
Literature

Tom Thatcher, Cincinnati Bible Seminary
Welcome and Announcements (5 min)
Jaime Clark-Soles, Perkins School of Theology, Presiding (5 min)
John Painter, Charles Sturt University
History and Theology in the Johannine Literature (20 min)
Adele Reinhartz, Wilfrid Laurier University
Exclusion, Expulsion, Desertion: The Rhetoric of Separation in the
Gospel of John (20 min)
Gilbert Van Belle, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
John's Literary Unity and the Problem of Historicity (20 min)
D. A. Carson, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
The Challenge of the Balkanization of Johannine Studies (20 min)
Break (10 min)
D. Moody Smith, Duke University Divinity School, Presiding
Discussion (35 min)
Paul Anderson, George Fox University
Getting a Sense of the Session: Leading Questions (15 min)

Papers will be distributed before the meeting and summarized at the
session. To receive copies of the papers, please contact Tom Thatcher
at tom.thatcher@...


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Josephus
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #203B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Josephus on War

Steve Mason, York University, Presiding
Louis Feldman, Yeshiva University
Josephus as Moralist: The War against Amalek (25 min)
Shelly Matthews, Furman University, Respondent (10 min)
Discussion (25 min)
Break (15 min)
James McLaren, Australian Catholic University
Theocracy, Temple, and Tax: Ingredients for the Jewish-Roman War of
66–70 CE (25 min)
Christopher Seeman, University of California, Berkeley, Respondent
(10 min)
Discussion (25 min)
Business Meeting (15 min)

Seminar papers are available in advance at josephus.yorku.ca. They
are summarized, not read in full, at the seminar.


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Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #210A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Lexicon and Grammar

L. J. De Regt, United Bible Societies, Presiding
Andrea L. Weiss, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Componential Semantics and the Identification of Biblical Metaphor
(30 min)
Barry L. Bandstra, Hope College
The Biblical Hebrew Lexicon in Functional Perspective (30 min)
Robert D. Holmstedt, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
The Diachronics of Asher (30 min)
Richard M. Wright, Tulane University
Evidence for North Israelite Contributions to Late Biblical Hebrew
(30 min)
Randall Buth, Hebrew University
Double Frontings in Hebrew, Based on the Masoretic Torah (30 min)



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Literature and History of the Persian Period
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Conference 3 & 4 - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: The Walls of Jerusalem in the Persian Period: Historical and
Ideological Reconstructions

John Wright, Point Loma Nazarene University, Presiding
Oded Lipschits, Tel Aviv University
The Builders of the Wall: The Sources and Goals of Nehemiah 3 (30 min)
David Ussishkin, Tel Aviv University
The Borders of Jerusalem in the Persian Period (30 min)
Manfred Oeming, Univeristy of Heidelberg
The Theological Import of Nehemiah's Wall (30 min)
Discussion (30 min)
Sara Japhet, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Shifting Boundaries: The Walls of Jerusalem in Kings and Chronicles
(30 min)



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Manichaean Studies
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #202B - San Antonio Convention Center
Jason Beduhn, Northern Arizona University, Presiding
The Acts of Archelaus as a source on Manichaeism
Madeleine Scopello, Sorbonne
Acta Archelai's Authorial Face in the Polemical Tradition of
Heresiology (30 min)
J. Kevin Coyle, St. Paul University
Hesitant and Ignorant: Mani's Portrayal in the Acta Archelai (30 min)
Paul Mirecki, University of Kansas
Ecstatic Ascent in the Acta Archelai (30 min)
Manichaeism in North Africa
Iain Gardner, University of Sydney
A Letter from the Teacher: Some Comments on Letter-Writing and the
Manichaean Community of Fourth Century Egypt (30 min)
Kevin Kaatz, Macquarie University
The Appeal of Manichaeism in North Africa (30 min)



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Matthew
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Salon G - Marriott Rivercenter
Theme: Matthean Jewish Intertexts and Contexts

Dorothy Jean Weaver, Eastern Mennonite University, Presiding
Herbert W. Basser, Queens University
"Son of David," Matthew 21:9 (30 min)
David Bivin, Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research
Jesus' Petros-petra Wordplay (Matthew 16:18): Can Christian Texts Be
Read as Midrash? (30 min)
David M. Moffitt, Duke University
Innocent Bloodshed and the Temple's Doom: Matthew's Allusive Use of
Lamentations (30 min)
Tim Wardle, Duke University
Resurrection and the Holy City: The Isaianic Background of Matthew
27.51–53 (30 min)
Ben Witherington, Asbury Theological Seminary
Neither Law nor Gospel but Wisdom: Rethinking the Sermon on the Mount
(30 min)



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Matthew
11/22/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #216A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Session 2 - The Matthean Community

Jeannine Brown, Bethel Seminary, Presiding
Aaron M. Gale, West Virginia University
Heroes or Hypocrites? The Role of Jewish Scribes in Matthew's Gospel
(30 min)
Daniel W. Ulrich, Bethany Theological Seminary
Worthy Hosts and Guests with a Gospel: A Social Context for Reading
Matthew (30 min)
Mary Kay Dobrovolny, Vanderbilt University
Who Controls the Resources? Economics and Justice in Matthew 20:1–15
(30 min)
Anders Runesson, McMaster University
Divine Judgment in the First Gospel and the Religio-Ethnic Identity
of the Matthean Community (30 min)
Craig S. Keener, Eastern Seminary
"Offspring of Vipers" (Matthew 3:7) (30 min)

Q
11/22/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #212A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: The Kingdom of God and Q

Ronald A. Piper, University of St. Andrews, Presiding (5 min)
Linden Youngquist, California State University, Long Beach
The Kingdom in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Q (20 min)
Joseph Verheyden, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Who is Violating God's Kingdom/Kingship? Q 16,16 and Matthew's and
Luke's Struggle with Q Polemics (20 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Break (5 min)
Shelly Matthews, Furman University
A House Divided? Family in Q's Kingdom (20 min)
Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre, Luther College
A Divided Kingdom Falls: Polemics of Solidarity in Q (20 min)
Halvor Moxnes, University of Oslo
Exorcisms and Power over Place in Q 11:14–23 (20 min)
Discussion (30 min)











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> http://www.sbl-site.org/PDF/Dobrovolny_Matthew.pdf
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> http://www.sbl-site.org/congresses/Basser_Matthew.pdf
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> http://www.sbl-site.org/PDF/Basser_Midrash.pdf
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> S20-60
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> Jesus Traditions, Gospels and Negotiating the Roman Imperial World
> 11/20/2004
> 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
> Room: Room #214A - San Antonio Convention Center
> Theme: Matthew, Luke, and John: Negotiating Rome's Empire
>
> William R. Herzog, Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Presiding
> Warren Carter, St. Paul School of Theology
> Food Shortages and Abundance in Matthew: Negotiating Rome's Empire
> (30 min)
>
> S20-62
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> New Testament Textual Criticism
> 11/20/2004
> 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
> Room: Room #214B - San Antonio Convention Center
>
> More on Pseudo-agreements among 'Western' Witnesses (30 min)
> Sylvie T. Raquel, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
> The Text of the Gospel of Matthew in the Writings of Origen (30 min)
> Stephen C. Carlson, Fairfax, VA
>
> S20-68
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> Synoptic Gospels
> 11/20/2004
> 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
> Room: Room #204B - San Antonio Convention Center
> Greg Carey, Lancaster Theological Seminary, Presiding
> Robert J. Miller, Juniata College
> Did Matthew Believe in the Virgin Birth? (30 min)
> Jeffrey Peterson, Austin School of Theology
> Dismissing the Sanhedrin: High Priest and Council in the Synoptics
> (30 min)
> Jeffrey B. Gibson, Harry S. Truman College
>
>
> S20-101
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> African Biblical Hermeneutics
> 11/20/2004
> 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
> Room: Room #216B - San Antonio Convention Center
> Theme: Methodological Innovations in African Biblical Hermeneutics
>
> "Out of Egypt I Have Called My Son." Matthew's Infancy Narrative
> (Matthew 1–2) in Afrocentric Perspective (25 min)
> Madipoane Masenya, University of South Africa
>
>
> S20-109
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> Didache in Context
> 11/20/2004
> 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
> Room: Room #007B - San Antonio Convention Center
> Theme: Methodological Reflections
>
> Comparing Matthew with the Didache: Some Methodological Reflections
> (25 min)
> Clayton N. Jefford, St. Meinrad School of Theology, Respondent (5 min)
> J. Christian Wilson, Elon University
>
> ----------
> Jesus Traditions, Gospels and Negotiating the Roman Imperial World
> 11/20/2004
> 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
> Room: Room #206B - San Antonio Convention Center
> Theme: Jesus, and Gender: Negotiating Rome's Empire
>
> Warren Carter, St. Paul School of Theology, Presiding
> Richard Horsley, University of Massachusetts
> The Empire of God and the Empire of Rome: Re-contextualizing Jesus'
> Proclamation of the Kingdom (30 min)
> Brian Kvasnica, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
> Vying with Roman-allied Priests: Tribute and Tithe-evasion in First-
> century Roman Judea (30 min)
> William R. Herzog, Colgate Rochester Divinity School


> S20-60
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> Jesus Traditions, Gospels and Negotiating the Roman Imperial World
> 11/20/2004
> 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
> Room: Room #214A - San Antonio Convention Center
> Theme: Matthew, Luke, and John: Negotiating Rome's Empire
>
> William R. Herzog, Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Presiding
> Warren Carter, St. Paul School of Theology
> Food Shortages and Abundance in Matthew: Negotiating Rome's Empire
> (30 min)
> Catherine M. Murphy, Santa Clara University
> Pilate's Wife in Postcolonial Perspective (30 min)
> Jonathan Pennington, University of St. Andrews
> The Kingdom of Heaven against All Earthly Kingdoms (30 min)
> Guy D. Nave, Jr., Luther College
> It's Time for a Change! Examining the Lukan Demand for Repentance
> within the Context of Roman Imperialism (30 min)
> Gerhard van den Heever, University of South Africa
> Reconceptualizing Christian Origins as Mirroring Roman Imperial
> Ideology (30 min)
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
>> S20-62
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> New Testament Textual Criticism
> 11/20/2004
> 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
> Room: Room #214B - San Antonio Convention Center
> John Brogan, Northwestern College, Presiding
> Jennifer Knust, College of the Holy Cross
> Early Christian Rewriting and the History of the Pericope Adulterae
> (30 min)
> P. J. Williams, University of Aberdeen
> More on Pseudo-agreements among 'Western' Witnesses (30 min)
> Sylvie T. Raquel, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
> The Text of the Gospel of Matthew in the Writings of Origen (30 min)
> Stephen C. Carlson, Fairfax, VA
> The Origin(s) of the "Caesarean" Text (30 min)
> Wayne C. Kannaday, Newberry College
> All's Well That Ends Well: An Examination of the Possible Influence
> of Apologetic Interests on the Endings of Mark's Gospel (30 min)
>
>
>
>> S20-68
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> Synoptic Gospels
> 11/20/2004
> 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
> Room: Room #204B - San Antonio Convention Center
> Greg Carey, Lancaster Theological Seminary, Presiding
> Robert J. Miller, Juniata College
> Did Matthew Believe in the Virgin Birth? (30 min)
> Jeffrey Peterson, Austin School of Theology
> Dismissing the Sanhedrin: High Priest and Council in the Synoptics
> (30 min)
> Jeffrey B. Gibson, Harry S. Truman College
> Once Again, the "Sign of Jonah" (30 min)
> Pamela Shellberg, Marquette University
> Cleansing the Lepers and Accepting the Gentiles: The Concept of
> Cleansing in Luke-Acts (30 min)
>
>
>

> ----------
> S21-21
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> Matthew
> 11/21/2004
> 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
> Room: Salon G - Marriott Rivercenter
> Theme: Matthean Jewish Intertexts and Contexts
>
> Dorothy Jean Weaver, Eastern Mennonite University, Presiding
> Herbert W. Basser, Queens University
> "Son of David," Matthew 21:9 (30 min)
> David Bivin, Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research
> Jesus' Petros-petra Wordplay (Matthew 16:18): Can Christian Texts Be
> Read as Midrash? (30 min)
> David M. Moffitt, Duke University
> Innocent Bloodshed and the Temple's Doom: Matthew's Allusive Use of
> Lamentations (30 min)
> Tim Wardle, Duke University
> Resurrection and the Holy City: The Isaianic Background of Matthew
> 27.51–53 (30 min)
> Ben Witherington, Asbury Theological Seminary
> Neither Law nor Gospel but Wisdom: Rethinking the Sermon on the Mount
> (30 min)
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
>
>
>  S22-17
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> Matthew
> 11/22/2004
> 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
> Room: Room #216A - San Antonio Convention Center
> Theme: Session 2 - The Matthean Community
>
> Jeannine Brown, Bethel Seminary, Presiding
> Aaron M. Gale, West Virginia University
> Heroes or Hypocrites? The Role of Jewish Scribes in Matthew's Gospel
> (30 min)
> Daniel W. Ulrich, Bethany Theological Seminary
> Worthy Hosts and Guests with a Gospel: A Social Context for Reading
> Matthew (30 min)
> Mary Kay Dobrovolny, Vanderbilt University
> Who Controls the Resources? Economics and Justice in Matthew 20:1–15
> (30 min)
> Anders Runesson, McMaster University
> Divine Judgment in the First Gospel and the Religio-Ethnic Identity
> of the Matthean Community (30 min)
> Craig S. Keener, Eastern Seminary
> "Offspring of Vipers" (Matthew 3:7) (30 min)
>
> Q
> 11/22/2004
> 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
> Room: Room #212A - San Antonio Convention Center
> Theme: The Kingdom of God and Q
>
> Ronald A. Piper, University of St. Andrews, Presiding (5 min)
> Linden Youngquist, California State University, Long Beach
> The Kingdom in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Q (20 min)
> Joseph Verheyden, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
> Who is Violating God's Kingdom/Kingship? Q 16,16 and Matthew's and
> Luke's Struggle with Q Polemics (20 min)
> Discussion (10 min)
> Break (5 min)
> Shelly Matthews, Furman University
> A House Divided? Family in Q's Kingdom (20 min)
> Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre, Luther College
> A Divided Kingdom Falls: Polemics of Solidarity in Q (20 min)
> Halvor Moxnes, University of Oslo
> Exorcisms and Power over Place in Q 11:14–23 (20 min)
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>
>
> For a while (2001 and 2002) the papers of the Matthew Section were posted
> at http://www.class.uidaho.edu/jcanders/Matthew/matthew_section.htm.
>
> I wonder, could anyone connected with the Matthew Section possibly say why
> it was decided not to do this in 2003 and 2004?
>

I too have wondered this.  It seems that the page itself hasn't really been
updated at all in almost 3 years.
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There's also the paper below that may be of interest:

S21-101
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Ancient Fiction and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative
11/21/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #211 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Social Reality and Ancient Narratives

Robert Cousland, University of British Columbia
The Social Context of the Matthean Chorus (30 min)

Best wishes,
Jacob Knee
(Cam, Glos.)


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From: Larry Swain [mailto:theswain@...]
Sent: 07 November 2004 22:03
To: ematthew@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [ematthew] Upcoming SBL II


The last message had a lot of stuff in it that wasn't what I intended to
send--I apparently cut and paste a lot more than I wanted.  So here again is
hopefully a more useful listing.


>
>
> http://www.sbl-site.org/PDF/Dobrovolny_Matthew.pdf
>
> http://www.sbl-site.org/congresses/Basser_Matthew.pdf
>
> http://www.sbl-site.org/PDF/Basser_Midrash.pdf
>
> S20-60
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
[snip]

Apologies for cross posting.

I have lost a file in which I recorded the title, the bibliographic
details,  and the opening words of an article by E. Von Dobschutz on the
Sign of Jonah (to the effect of "nobody to this day has been able to
offer a satisfactory explanation of "the Sign of Jonah:).

I wonder if any one here knows what this article is? If so, I'd be very
grateful if you'd provide me with its details.

With thanks in advance.

Jeffrey Gibson

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Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.)

1500 W. Pratt Blvd. #1
Chicago, IL 60626

jgibson000@...

I'm pleased to announce that, thanks to help from Mark Goodacre, XTalk
will soon be holding a Seminar with Gerd Ludemann,  Professor of
History and Literature of Early Christian at Georg-August-University
Göttingen, Germany, on Professor Ludemann's recent book  _The
Resurrection of Christ: A Historical Inquiry_ (Prometheus Books: 2004).

The seminar will begin January 2nd, 2005 and run for three weeks.

More detailed information on the Seminar (including its protocols and
instructions for subscribing to it)  will be sent out at a later date.

In the meantime, list members who wish to participate in the Seminar
will want to read Professor Ludemann's book.

Yours,

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At 11:02 PM 11/7/2004 +0100, Larry Swain wrote:
>> New Testament Textual Criticism
>> 11/20/2004
>> 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
>> Room: Room #214B - San Antonio Convention Center
>>
>> More on Pseudo-agreements among 'Western' Witnesses (30 min)
>> Sylvie T. Raquel, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
>> The Text of the Gospel of Matthew in the Writings of Origen (30 min)
>> Stephen C. Carlson, Fairfax, VA

Actually, my paper is titled  "The Origin(s) of the 'Caesarean' Text".
I believe Sylvie Raquel is doing the paper on the text of Matthew in
Origen (and Pete Williams on the Pseudo-Agreements).

Stephen
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>
> At 11:02 PM 11/7/2004 +0100, Larry Swain wrote:
> >> New Testament Textual Criticism
> >> 11/20/2004
> >> 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
> >> Room: Room #214B - San Antonio Convention Center
> >>
> >> More on Pseudo-agreements among 'Western' Witnesses (30 min)
> >> Sylvie T. Raquel, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
> >> The Text of the Gospel of Matthew in the Writings of Origen (30 min)
> >> Stephen C. Carlson, Fairfax, VA
>
> Actually, my paper is titled  "The Origin(s) of the 'Caesarean' Text".
> I believe Sylvie Raquel is doing the paper on the text of Matthew in
> Origen (and Pete Williams on the Pseudo-Agreements).
>
> Stephen

Hi Stephen,

I thought I had read on a listserv somewhere else that you were doing something
on the Caesarean text, so was a little surprised at this.  Here is the session
as it appears in the Online Program from SBL:

S20-62
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New Testament Textual Criticism
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #214B - San Antonio Convention Center
John Brogan, Northwestern College, Presiding
Jennifer Knust, College of the Holy Cross
Early Christian Rewriting and the History of the Pericope Adulterae (30 min)
P. J. Williams, University of Aberdeen
More on Pseudo-agreements among 'Western' Witnesses (30 min)
Sylvie T. Raquel, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
The Text of the Gospel of Matthew in the Writings of Origen (30 min)
Stephen C. Carlson, Fairfax, VA
The Origin(s) of the "Caesarean" Text (30 min)
Wayne C. Kannaday, Newberry College
All's Well That Ends Well: An Examination of the Possible Influence of
Apologetic Interests on the Endings of Mark's Gospel (30 min)

So I apparently I cut off my cut and paste too soon?  Sorry about that....
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I am working on an article on the Sign of Jonah for the Synoptic Gospels
section of the upcoming SBL and I'm wondering if anyone here can help me
out with something that I'll  need to comment on.

As you know, for Matthew (and for Luke as well) the occasion of the
demand that prompts Jesus' sign of Jonah remark is an excorcism/healing
of a "dumb" demoniac.  What I'd like to know is whether there is any
special purity or boundary significance in "dumbness".  The very fact
that a "sign" is demanded after Jesus heals the "dumb" man would seem to
indicate that there is, given that in the Synoptic tradition "signs" are
only asked for either to certify the truth of a distrusted prophecy, or
to establish the validity of a disputed claim that a certain course of
action and the person initiating it are "of God"( i.e. really consistent
with his will and purposes).

But if so, what is it?  Is "dumbness" something that designates a person
as "not of "Israel"?  As under a curse?  As one who does not deserve the
mercy of God?  Is the healing of "dumbness" something that could be seen
as an extension of the mercies of God to those who were ordinarily
thought of as undeserving of them?

Thanks in advance.

Yours,

Jeffrey
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1500 W. Pratt Blvd. #1
Chicago, IL 60626

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With apologies for cross posting.

Matthew presents the feeding of the 4000 (Matt. 15:32-39) as the
occasion of his second account of the story of a demand for a sign
(Matt. 16:1-4; cf.  Matt 12:38-39).  What is the scholarly consensus
nowadays regarding Matthew's assumptions about the ethnicity of the
4000?  Is it that they are Gentiles?  If so, what evidence is pointed to
as supporting this contention?  I note, for starters, that the stories
which immediately precede that feeding of the 400 seem to locate Jesus
in Gentile territory and have him healing at least one Gentile.  Then
there's the curious fact that those who witness Jesus' healings of "the
lame, the maimed, the blind, the dumb that they have brought out to him,
give glory to "the God of Israel"  when they saw the cures that Jesus
wrought, which would seem to indicate that they and those whom Jesus
heals are not Jews.  Anything else?

Thanks in advance.

Yours,

Jeffrey

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1500 W. Pratt Blvd. #1
Chicago, IL 60626

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Dear Jeffrey,

Two points.

Firstly, have you   looked into the symbolism of numbers in the two accounts?
There may be something there.

In the first feeding, said to be of Israel (Matt 14), the narrative employs the
numbers 5 (number of books of the law) and 12 (number of the tribes of Israel).
Hence, 5,000 people are fed using 5 loaves of bread, and with 12 baskets of
leftover.

In the second feeding, said to be of the Gentiles (Matt 15), the narrative
employs the numbers 4 (four corners of the earth, four winds) and 7 (seventy is
the number of the nations, the LXX). Hence, 4,000 people are fed using 7 loaves,
and with 7 baskets of leftover.

Secondly, it might help to point out that in these accounts Matthew is following
Mark, and Mark (7:24), more than Matthew (15:21-22), makes it clear that the
feeding of the 4,000 takes place in Gentile territory (Mark 7:24).

Ernest M. Ezeogu, PhD
Toronto School of Theology
   -----Original Message-----
   From: Jeffrey B. Gibson [mailto:jgibson000@...]
   Sent: November 14, 2004 3:39 PM
   To: Crosstalk2
   Cc: Synoptic-L; ematthew
   Subject: [ematthew] the occasion of the demand for a sign in Matt. 16:1


   With apologies for cross posting.

   Matthew presents the feeding of the 4000 (Matt. 15:32-39) as the
   occasion of his second account of the story of a demand for a sign
   (Matt. 16:1-4; cf.  Matt 12:38-39).  What is the scholarly consensus
   nowadays regarding Matthew's assumptions about the ethnicity of the
   4000?  Is it that they are Gentiles?  If so, what evidence is pointed to
   as supporting this contention?  I note, for starters, that the stories
   which immediately precede that feeding of the 400 seem to locate Jesus
   in Gentile territory and have him healing at least one Gentile.  Then
   there's the curious fact that those who witness Jesus' healings of "the
   lame, the maimed, the blind, the dumb that they have brought out to him,
   give glory to "the God of Israel"  when they saw the cures that Jesus
   wrought, which would seem to indicate that they and those whom Jesus
   heals are not Jews.  Anything else?

   Thanks in advance.

   Yours,

   Jeffrey

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   1500 W. Pratt Blvd. #1
   Chicago, IL 60626

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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

"Glorifying the God of Israel" implies to me that they were Jews.  I
understand how a reader might conclude that this "God of Israel" implies
non-Israelites, but it doesn't seem odd to me to have a Jewish crowd using that
phrase.
  I always assumed the crowd was Jewish until I read your post.  The previous
Syro-Phoenician woman was very clearly specified as non-Jewish.  I assumed a
similar specification would be needed for the crowd if it was non-Jewish.
     Also there are two other problems with a non-Jewish identity.  Would
non-Jews be called "this evil and adulterous generation"?  Adulterous implies
Israel, not gentile listeners.  The gentiles are not God's people, therefore
cannot be adulterous.  Second, the "sign of Jona" would mean a lot more to a
Jewish
audience than a non-Jewish audience.  Jonah, of course, was the figure of a
Jewish story.
     What intrigues me on this issue is something of a parallel in the Gospel
of John 6:26.  Jesus had fed the 5000 (not 4000, I know), and there was the
crossing of the sea, and the audience is clearly Jewish, as part of the
discourse occurres in the synagogue.  Jesus tells the crowd, "Amen, amen I say
to you,
you do not seek me because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of
the loaves."   Matthew's crowd seeks signs but John's crowd does not -- it just
seeks to fill its belly.  If John was familiar with the synoptics, this
contrast in John is quite intriguing.

Jim Miller


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Dear Jeffrey:

This is a question of geography and demography. In
both Matt. 16:1-4 and  Matt 12:38-39 Jesus is in Upper
Galilee. Mt 15:21-28 he is in Lebanon at Saida (Sidon)
and Sur (Tyre). Mt 15:29-39 Jesus travels 35 miles NE
from Sur (Tyre) to Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee; also
Lake Tiberias). Mt 15:29b places him on a mountain
along the Lake Kinneret rim. Where is uncertain. The
demographic mix would be predominantly Jewish.

Best regards,
John


>   Sent: November 14, 2004 3:39 PM
>   To: Crosstalk2
>   Cc: Synoptic-L; ematthew
>   Subject: [ematthew] the occasion of the demand for
> a sign in Matt. 16:1
>
>
>   With apologies for cross posting.
>
>   Matthew presents the feeding of the 4000 (Matt.
> 15:32-39) as the
>   occasion of his second account of the story of a
> demand for a sign
>   (Matt. 16:1-4; cf.  Matt 12:38-39).  What is the
> scholarly consensus
>   nowadays regarding Matthew's assumptions about the
> ethnicity of the
>   4000?  Is it that they are Gentiles?  If so, what
> evidence is pointed to
>   as supporting this contention?  I note, for
> starters, that the stories
>   which immediately precede that feeding of the 400
> seem to locate Jesus
>   in Gentile territory and have him healing at least
> one Gentile.  Then
>   there's the curious fact that those who witness
> Jesus' healings of "the
>   lame, the maimed, the blind, the dumb that they
> have brought out to him,
>   give glory to "the God of Israel"  when they saw
> the cures that Jesus
>   wrought, which would seem to indicate that they
> and those whom Jesus
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John Lupia wrote:

> Dear Jeffrey:
>
> This is a question of geography and demography. In
> both Matt. 16:1-4 and  Matt 12:38-39 Jesus is in Upper
> Galilee. Mt 15:21-28 he is in Lebanon at Saida (Sidon)
> and Sur (Tyre). Mt 15:29-39 Jesus travels 35 miles NE
> from Sur (Tyre) to Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee; also
> Lake Tiberias). Mt 15:29b places him on a mountain
> along the Lake Kinneret rim. Where is uncertain. The
> demographic mix would be predominantly Jewish.

Even assuming that the Matthew's geography is as precise as you believe it is
(and
why do you insist on using terminology for the places named at Matt. 15:21 and
15:29 that the Matthew himself doesn't use?), there is still the fact that you
haven't taken account of -- that the mutes were *brought* to Jesus.  The real
issue is where they were brought from, not where Jesus is.

Besides that, are there no mountains  PARA THN QALASSAN THS GALILAIAS that are
Gentile territory?  And what do you make of the description in Matt. 15:38 that
the healings take place somewhere away from and outside of the region of
Magadan?
.
JG
--

Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.)

1500 W. Pratt Blvd. #1
Chicago, IL 60626

jgibson000@...

--- "Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000@...>
wrote:

>
>
> John Lupia wrote:
>
> > Dear Jeffrey:
> >
> > This is a question of geography and demography. In
> > both Matt. 16:1-4 and  Matt 12:38-39 Jesus is in
> Upper
> > Galilee. Mt 15:21-28 he is in Lebanon at Saida
> (Sidon)
> > and Sur (Tyre). Mt 15:29-39 Jesus travels 35 miles
> NE
> > from Sur (Tyre) to Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee;
> also
> > Lake Tiberias). Mt 15:29b places him on a mountain
> > along the Lake Kinneret rim. Where is uncertain.
> The
> > demographic mix would be predominantly Jewish.
>
> Even assuming that the Matthew's geography is as
> precise as you believe it is


First, it is what the text says. Second, you are the
one who wishes to know the demography of the mutes. To
ignore the geographic locale that can be considered in
answering or attempting to answer the question, would,
in my opinion, fail to be a complete investigation on
the question and would leave you open to criticism on
that point. Third, I was imprecise myself since I
noticed a lapsus calami on my part when I wrote "Jesus
travels 35 miles NE" when it should have read "Jesus
travels 35 miles SE". Sorry for the typo. Fourth, it
has nothing to do with what I personally believe. I
was pointing out essential material that must be
considered using scientific criteria.




(and
> why do you insist on using terminology for the
> places named at Matt. 15:21 and
> 15:29 that the Matthew himself doesn't use?),


The nomenclature of the geographic places is properly
given with both modern or contemporary names as well
as those given by Matthew or any other antique writer
(the ancient names) as a standard academic form as I
was taught back in graduate biblical studies.


there
> is still the fact that you
> haven't taken account of -- that the mutes were
> *brought* to Jesus.


This is selective on your part. You choose to not give
credence to Matthew's geography but at the same time
choose to completely believe "that the mutes were
*brought* to Jesus. How do you make determinations on
which parts of the text you selectively choose to
believe and discard or disregard?  Moreover, the lame,
blind and mutes were among the crowd that came to
Jesus from the geographic location on the Lake
Kinneret rim that might be identifiable in light of Mt
16:5,13. Since traveling to the other side of the Lake
Kinneret rim placed them within walking distance of
Caesarea Philippi NE it indicates that the time of the
healing of the lame, blind and mutes he was NW in
Upper Galilee as I said yesterday. Being NE in the
district of Caesarea Phili put Jesus then on the
east-west highway, an international trade route
running from there to Sur (Tyre), Lebanon and
Damascus, Syria. If Jesus and the crowds with the
infirm had convened there then your inquiry regarding
Gentile ethnicity would be further strengthened and
legitimized. However, Mt 16:5 tells us they crossed
over to the other side to be in that location. So,
hence, the crux of your question becomes severely
weakened in any attempt to identify the infirm with
Gentile specific ethnicity. However, if you
selectively choose to disregard Matthew's geography
the question of demography will remain open and
answerable exclusively by other criteria that ignores
geography.


The real
> issue is where they were brought from, not where
> Jesus is.


This needs to be seriously reconsidered by you if you
are to be taken seriously.

> Besides that, are there no mountains  PARA THN
> QALASSAN THS GALILAIAS that are
> Gentile territory?  And what do you make of the
> description in Matt. 15:38 that
> the healings take place somewhere away from and
> outside of the region of Magadan?

  See my above comments regarding this. Curiously, you
selectively choose to believe this and are aware that
Jesus, in Matthew's description, is on the west side,
not the east. If they are away from Magadan (Magdala)
they are obviously north or possibly south, but
certainly, not east prohibited by Mt 16:5.

Cheers,
John

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With apologies for cross posting!

This is the third and final notice of  the annual gathering of Biblical
and Biblical Studies E-Listers at the annual meeting of the SBL that
begins in two day's time in San Antonio, Texas.

(For details, see
http://www.sbl-site.org/congresses/Congresses_AnnualMeeting.aspx).

The E-Lister's meeting is planned for Saturday, Nov. 20th  at 11:30 am
(note the slight time change from 11 am)  in Exhibit Hall C of the Henry
B. Gonzalez Exhibition Center and (with thanks to the stalwart
representatives of  the Gramcord Institute) at the Gramcord Institute
Booth (Booth # 452).

As attendees of previous meetings know, this gathering is  a great
opportunity to place a face to an one hitherto known only as an
electronic personality and/or to renew acquaintances made at previous
SBLs.

Included here is a lists of all E-Listers who have let me know that they
will be attending the SBL Meeting (not all of whom, unfortunately, will
be able to come to the E-Lister's gathering), along with notices of
papers they are presenting and/or sessions in which they are
participating/presiding.

Apologies if I've left anyone out who has contacted me about this.

If you have not yet contacted me,  but will be attending the meeting,
please write me OFF LIST at jgibson000@... and let me know the
following ASAP. (I'll post a final head count tomorrow morning)

(a) if and when and under what aegis you are presenting a paper,

(b) your paper title, AND

(c) what you consider to be your "home"  E-List.

As ever,

Jeffrey
--

Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.)

1500 W. Pratt Blvd. #1
Chicago, IL 60626
jgibson000@...


*******
B-Greek

John Schwandt (New St. Andrews College, National Biblical Greek Exam)
No paper

Cindy Westfall
No paper--right now,  I'm sceduled as a respondant to to papers Sunday
at 9:00, but  as a new co-chair of the Biblical Greek Language and
Linguistics Section, I've stepped down and will chair it instead.

Sandra Hack Polaski
Paper: "New Creation: A New Beginning in Pauline Theology." in the
Pauline Epistles Section, Session S23-13 a  paper titled

Randall Buth
Paper: "Teaching Greek Outside of a Textbook" in S20-52  Best Practices
in Teaching Workshop 11/20/2004 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM

and

"Double Frontings in Hebrew, Based on the Masoretic Torah"  in S21-18
Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew 11/21/2004 Sunday 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Norman Hutchinson
No Paper

Carlton Winbery
No Paper

Joseph Weaks, Senior Minister, Bethany Christian Church, Dallas
No Paper

Susan Jeffers, Adjunct faculty,Bethany Theological Seminary and Earlham
School of Religion
I'm giving a paper at the Quaker Theological Discussion Group Meeting
Friday evening (an Additional Meeting).  It's a retrospective for the
50th anniversary of our little journal "Quaker Religious Thought".

*******
Biblical Studies

Jim West
No Paper

******
Corpus Paulinum

Kent L. Yinger, Assoc. Prof. of NT George Fox University
No Paper

Mark D. Nanos, Rockhurst University Soebbing Visiting Scholar
Responding to papers on the subject of "Galatians and Images of Empire"
in the Paul and Politics Group, S20-64, on Sat. 1pm to 3:30pm. Room
CC-217C.

Perry L. Stepp,  Associate Professor of Biblical Studies Kentucky
Christian University
No Paper

Ray Picket
Presenting a paper entitled “Negotiating Community Identity in the
Corinthian Assembly” in the Paul and Politics Group Saturday morning
(S20-64), Saturday 1:00 pm.

Eli Elliot
Presiding for Paul & Politics Group Session S29-64 at 1:00pm on
Saturday:
Theme: Reports from Working Groups on "Peoples History" in
Galatia/Galatians and Corinth/Corinthians
Theme I: Galatians and Images of Empire
Theme II: Negotiating Identity Boundaries: The Ekklesia in Roman Corinth

******
E-Matthew

James C. Miller
No Paper

*******
Megillot

Ken Penner, McMaster/DSS
Paper: "Toward a Method of Tagging Hebrew Tense, Aspect, and Mood " in
S20-108 Computer Assisted Research 11/20/2004 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM Room
#207 - San Antonio Convention Center

and

"Greek Names for Hebrew and Aramaic: A Case for Lexical Revision" in
S22-5 Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics 11/22/2004 9:00 AM to
11:30 AM Room #214B - San Antonio Convention Center

*******
Hugoye

Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Assoc. Prof. of Religion, Haverford College
Paper: "Rabbinic Holiness between  Chosenness and Spiritual Achievement"
in  S22-113: History  and Literature of Early Rabbinic Judaism 4-6:30pm,
11/22/04 room CC #213A.

*******
Ioudaios

Robert A. Kraft, University of Pennsylvania
Parer:  "From Jewish Scribes to Christian Scriptoria: Issues of
Continuity and  Discontinuity"  in
SBL S22-110, "Early Jewish Christian Relations Section in concert with
New Testament Textual
Criticism and Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds, Monday, 4-6:30
in  CC-207

Jim Davila, Lecturer in Early Jewish Studies, St. Mary's College,
University of St. Andrews
Paper:   "Astrology and the Descenders to the Chariot";  Also chairing a
session of the Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism Group

*******
John Lit

Armand J. "Joe" Gagne Jr., University of South Carolina Sumter
No Paper

Elizabeth Danna
No Paper

Stan Harstine, Friends University
Paper:  “Un-Doubting Thomas: Recognition Scenes in the Ancient World” in
Johannine Section, Tuesday
morning

Michael Willett Newheart, Associate Professor of New Testament Language
and Literature, Howard University School of Divinity
Paper:  "Fanning Fanon's Flame: Using the Afro-Caribbean Psychiatrist
Frantz Fanon in Interpreting the Apocalyptic Texts of Terror," 9:00 am
Saturday in the Psychology and Biblical Studies section

*****
Kata Markon

Geert Van Oyen, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
Paper: "The Meaning of Jesus' Death in the Gospel of Mark. A Real Reader
Perspective" in The Mark Group.

Jesper Svartvik, Th.D., Fellow of the Swedish Research Council at Lund
University, Centre for Theology & Rel. Studies
Paper: "To Whom is the Chricstian Femal Slave in Thrall?" in the African
American Hermeneutics Section

*******
Synoptic -L

Stephen C. Carlson, Fairfax, VA
Paper: "The Origin(s) of the "Caesarean" Text"  in S20-62New Testament
Textual Criticism Section, 11/20/2004, 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM Room #214B -
San Antonio Convention Center

Paul Buckley
No Paper

*******
XTalk

Mark Goodacre,  Dept of Theology and Religion,  University of Birmingham

Paper: Scripturalization in Mark's Crucifixion Narrative
(http://ntgateway.com/Markcrucif.doc), Mark Group, Sunday 21 November, 1
pm.

Jeffrey B. Gibson, Harry S Truman College
Paper: "Once Again, the "Sign" of Jonah" in S20-68Synoptic Gospels
11/20/2004 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #204B - San Antonio Convention Center

Gordon Raynal
No Paper

Gail Dawson
No Paper

Bob Webb
Presenting a summary of a paper entitled "Intertexture and Argumentative
Strategy within Priestly Discourse in First Peter" in the Rhetoric and
the New Testament section (Saturday, 4pm - 6pm).

********

With apologies for cross posting!

Here is the final list of names of all E-Listers who have let me know
that they
will be attending the SBL Meeting (not all of whom, unfortunately, will
be able to come to the E-Lister's gathering), along with notices of
papers they are presenting and/or sessions in which they are
participating/presiding.

As ever,

Jeffrey
--

Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.)

1500 W. Pratt Blvd. #1
Chicago, IL 60626
jgibson000@...


*******
B-Greek

John Schwandt (New St. Andrews College, National Biblical Greek Exam)
No paper

Cindy Westfall
No paper--right now,  I'm sceduled as a respondant to to papers Sunday
at 9:00, but  as a new co-chair of the Biblical Greek Language and
Linguistics Section, I've stepped down and will chair it instead.

Sandra Hack Polaski
Paper: "New Creation: A New Beginning in Pauline Theology." in the
Pauline Epistles Section, Session S23-13 a  paper titled

Randall Buth
Paper: "Teaching Greek Outside of a Textbook" in S20-52  Best Practices
in Teaching Workshop 11/20/2004 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM

and

"Double Frontings in Hebrew, Based on the Masoretic Torah"  in S21-18
Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew 11/21/2004 Sunday 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Norman Hutchinson
No Paper

Carlton Winbery
No Paper

Joseph Weaks, Senior Minister, Bethany Christian Church, Dallas
No Paper

Susan Jeffers, Adjunct faculty,Bethany Theological Seminary and Earlham
School of Religion
I'm giving a paper at the Quaker Theological Discussion Group Meeting
Friday evening (an Additional Meeting).  It's a retrospective for the
50th anniversary of our little journal "Quaker Religious Thought".

*******
Biblical Studies
Naama Zahavi-Ely, College of William and Mary
Paper: "The Convention of Multiple Speaking Voices in Biblical Hebrew
Poetry"
S22-32 Biblical Hebrew Poetry (this section is not in the printed
program), 11/22/2004, 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Room: #218 - San Antonio
Convention
Center


Jim West
No Paper

******
Corpus Paulinum

Kent L. Yinger, Assoc. Prof. of NT George Fox University
No Paper

Mark D. Nanos, Rockhurst University Soebbing Visiting Scholar
Responding to papers on the subject of "Galatians and Images of Empire"
in the Paul and Politics Group, S20-64, on Sat. 1pm to 3:30pm. Room
CC-217C.

Perry L. Stepp,  Associate Professor of Biblical Studies Kentucky
Christian University
No Paper

Ray Picket
Presenting a paper entitled “Negotiating Community Identity in the
Corinthian Assembly” in the Paul and Politics Group Saturday morning
(S20-64), Saturday 1:00 pm.

Eli Elliot
Presiding for Paul & Politics Group Session S29-64 at 1:00pm on
Saturday:
Theme: Reports from Working Groups on "Peoples History" in
Galatia/Galatians and Corinth/Corinthians
Theme I: Galatians and Images of Empire
Theme II: Negotiating Identity Boundaries: The Ekklesia in Roman Corinth

Jerry L. Sumney, Professor of Biblical Studies, Lexington Theological
Seminary
Paper: "'I fill Up What is Lacking in the Afflictions of Christ:' Paul's
Vicarious Suffering in
Colossians." in the Disputed Paulines Consultation on Saturday
afternoon.

Brett Burrowes, Lecturer in Religious Studies, Siena College
No Paper

******
E-Matthew

James C. Miller
No Paper

*******
Megillot

Ken Penner, McMaster/DSS
Paper: "Toward a Method of Tagging Hebrew Tense, Aspect, and Mood " in
S20-108 Computer Assisted Research 11/20/2004 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM Room
#207 - San Antonio Convention Center

and

"Greek Names for Hebrew and Aramaic: A Case for Lexical Revision" in
S22-5 Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics 11/22/2004 9:00 AM to
11:30 AM Room #214B - San Antonio Convention Center

*******
Hugoye

Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Assoc. Prof. of Religion, Haverford College
Paper: "Rabbinic Holiness between  Chosenness and Spiritual Achievement"
in  S22-113: History  and Literature of Early Rabbinic Judaism 4-6:30pm,
11/22/04 room CC #213A.

*******
Ioudaios

Robert A. Kraft, University of Pennsylvania
Parer:  "From Jewish Scribes to Christian Scriptoria: Issues of
Continuity and  Discontinuity"  in
SBL S22-110, "Early Jewish Christian Relations Section in concert with
New Testament Textual
Criticism and Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds, Monday, 4-6:30
in  CC-207

Jim Davila, Lecturer in Early Jewish Studies, St. Mary's College,
University of St. Andrews
Paper:   "Astrology and the Descenders to the Chariot";  Also chairing a
session of the Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism Group

*******
John Lit

Armand J. "Joe" Gagne Jr., University of South Carolina Sumter
No Paper

Elizabeth Danna
No Paper

Stan Harstine, Friends University
Paper:  “Un-Doubting Thomas: Recognition Scenes in the Ancient World” in
Johannine Section, Tuesday
morning

Michael Willett Newheart, Associate Professor of New Testament Language
and Literature, Howard University School of Divinity
Paper:  "Fanning Fanon's Flame: Using the Afro-Caribbean Psychiatrist
Frantz Fanon in Interpreting the Apocalyptic Texts of Terror," 9:00 am
Saturday in the Psychology and Biblical Studies section

*****
Kata Markon

Geert Van Oyen, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
Paper: "The Meaning of Jesus' Death in the Gospel of Mark. A Real Reader
Perspective" in The Mark Group.

Jesper Svartvik, Th.D., Fellow of the Swedish Research Council at Lund
University, Centre for Theology & Rel. Studies
Paper: "To Whom is the Chricstian Femal Slave in Thrall?" in the African
American Hermeneutics Section

*******
Synoptic -L

Stephen C. Carlson, Fairfax, VA
Paper: "The Origin(s) of the "Caesarean" Text"  in S20-62New Testament
Textual Criticism Section, 11/20/2004, 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM Room #214B -
San Antonio Convention Center

Paul Buckley
No Paper

*******
XTalk

Zeba Crook
Paper: "Modeling Exchange in the Biblical Era."
Sunday Morning, S21-26 Social Sciences and the Interpretation of the
Hebrew Scriptures Section,
9-11:30am, CC-203.

Mark Goodacre,  Dept of Theology and Religion,  University of Birmingham

Paper: Scripturalization in Mark's Crucifixion Narrative
(http://ntgateway.com/Markcrucif.doc), Mark Group, Sunday 21 November, 1
pm.

Jeffrey B. Gibson, Harry S Truman College
Paper: "Once Again, the "Sign" of Jonah" in S20-68Synoptic Gospels
11/20/2004 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #204B - San Antonio Convention Center

Gordon Raynal
No Paper

Gail Dawson
No Paper

Bob Webb
Presenting a summary of a paper entitled "Intertexture and Argumentative
Strategy within Priestly Discourse in First Peter" in the Rhetoric and
the New Testament section (Saturday, 4pm - 6pm).

********

Had just been checking on the JBS site and found an article of
possible interest that I don't believe has been mentioned here yet:
http://journalofbiblicalstudies.org/issue9/Critique.pdf

I haven't read it yet myself, so can neither pan nor endorse it, but
thought I'd pass it on.

Larry Swain

With apologies -- the correct address for subscribing to the Ludemann
Seminar is Ludemann_Seminar-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson

--

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1500 W. Pratt Blvd. #1
Chicago, IL 60626

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The moderators of the XTalk Discussion List
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-- Professor of History and Literature of Early Christian at
Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, Director of the Institute of
Early Christian Studies, Theological Faculty  Director of the Archive
"Religionsgeschichtliche Schule", Theological Faculty --  has agreed to
conduct a three week online Seminar with XTalk members and other
interested parties on the ideas and arguments set out in his most recent
book The Resurrection of Christ: A Historical Inquiry_ (Prometheus,
2004)

The Seminar will begin on Sunday, January 2nd, 2005, and run until
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The Seminar's Home page is:
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So as to be managed effectively, the Seminar will be conducted on a
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Questions and comments submitted to the Seminar by approved Seminar
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Posts sent to Professor Lüdemann  will be answered by him on a daily
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Topics for discussion are the issues and arguments raised in Professor
Lüdemann's book _The Resurrection of Christ_.  Therefore the major
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the book, see below).

To apply for membership in the Seminar, send a blank e-mail message to:

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PLEASE NOTE that while applications for membership in the Seminar are
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Nothing should be sent in to the Seminar until the eve of its opening
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Questions or comments about the Seminar may be sent to the following
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**********
_The Resurrection of Christ: A Historical Inquiry_  by Gerd Lüdemann

Although the resurrection is the keystone dogma of Christian belief, and
Sunday churchgoers rarely if ever think to question it, scholarly
research shows with the utmost clarity that from a historical standpoint
Jesus was not raised from the dead. In fact, it is almost universally
recognized among scholars of New Testament textual criticism that the
gospel narratives describing the resurrection appearances are not
reliable eyewitness accounts, but expressions of faith written by the
first Christian believers long after the death of Jesus.

In this thorough exegesis of the primary texts dealing with the
resurrection of Jesus, New Testament expert Gerd Lüdemann (University of
Göttingen) presents compelling evidence that shows the resurrection was
not a historical event and further argues that this development leaves
little, if any, basis for Christian faith as presently defined.

Beginning with Paul's testimony in I Cor. 15: 3-8, in which the apostle
declares that Jesus "has been raised on the third day in accordance with
the scriptures," Lüdemann systematically evaluates every reference to
Jesus' resurrection in the New Testament, as well as apocryphal
literature. He examines the purpose of the text writers, the ways in
which they reworked tradition, and the historical value of each account.
Through this approach, he offers a reconstruction of the probable course
of events as well as the circumstances surrounding Jesus' death on the
cross, the burial of his body, his reported resurrection on the third
day, and subsequent appearances to various disciples.

Since the historical evidence leads to the firm conclusion that Jesus'
body was not raised from the dead, Lüdemann argues that the origin of
the Easter faith must be sought in the visionary experiences of
Christianity's two leading apostles. From a modem perspective this leads
to the inescapable conclusion that both primary witnesses to Jesus'
resurrection, Peter and Paul, were victims of self-deception.

In conclusion, he asks whether in light of the non-historicity of Jesus'
resurrection, thinking people today can legitimately and in good
conscience still call themselves Christians.

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With apologies for cross posting:

Just a reminder that out Seminar with Gerd Ludemann on his book _The
Resurrection of Christ_ begins on Monday, Jan 3rd.

We will accept and begin to review messages to Professor Ludemann from
5pm EST (USA) Sunday, January 2nd.

For details of the seminar,  including information on it's scope and
purpose and method for subscribing to it,  see the reposting below of
the Seminar's initial announcement (with subscription address
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Yours,

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********
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
XTalk ONLINE SEMINAR WITH GERD LÜDEMANN

The moderators of the XTalk Discussion List
(http://ntgateway.com/xtalk/) are pleased to announce that Gerd
Lüdemann -- Professor of History and Literature of Early Christian at
Georg-August-University Göttingen,
Germany, Director of the Institute of Early Christian Studies,
Theological Faculty  Director of the Archive
"Religionsgeschichtliche Schule", Theological Faculty --  has agreed to
conduct a three week online Seminar
with XTalk members and other interested parties on the ideas and
arguments set out in his most recent book
The Resurrection of Christ: A Historical Inquiry_ (Prometheus, 2004)

The Seminar will begin on Sunday, January 2nd, 2005, and run until
Saturday, January 22nd, 2005.

The Seminar's Home page is:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ludemann_Seminar

So as to be managed effectively, the Seminar will be conducted on a
subscription only basis.

Questions and comments submitted to the Seminar by approved Seminar
members will be subject to
selection by the Seminar's moderators.

Posts sent to Professor Lüdemann  will be answered by him on a daily
basis.

Topics for discussion are the issues and arguments raised in Professor
Lüdemann's book _The Resurrection
of Christ_.  Therefore the major prerequisite for anyone wishing to
participate in the Seminar is familiarity with
the contents and theses of this work (for a précis of the book, see
below).

To apply for membership in the Seminar, send a blank e-mail message to:

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PLEASE NOTE that while applications for membership in the Seminar are
being accepted immediately,
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Nothing should be sent in to the Seminar until 5pm EST on the eve of its
opening day, Sunday, January 2nd, 2005.

Questions or comments about the Seminar may be sent to the following
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Jeffrey Gibson

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