Welcome ETS/SBL/AAR attendees!

ETS 72nd Annual Meeting

Pastoral Epistles | November 16, 1:30 – 2:25 PM
Stanley E. Porter, President and Dean
Arguments For and Against Pauline Authorship of the Pastoral Epistles

Old Testament: Psalms and Wisdom Literature | November 16, 8:30 – 9:25 PM
Daniel Kim (PhD student)
How Parental Teaching in Prov. 1–9 Uses the OT Canon In Light of Culler’s Presupposition Theory

New Testament: General Studies | November 17, 2:30 – 3:25 PM
Zachary Dawson (PhD student)
The Theological Consequences of Q in Light of Recent Synoptic Gospel Research

Church History: Mission to Muslims | November 18, 6:30 – 7:25 PM
Gordon Heath, Professor of Christian History
‘The accursed partnership of Turk and Teuton’: American Churches and the Armenian Genocide

New Testament Greek Language and Exegesis | November 19, 2:30 – 3:25 PM
Ji Hoe Kim (PhD student)
Beyond the Paragraph: Using Cohesive Harmony for Grouping Paragraphs in James 1 as a Test Case

Johannine Literature | November 19, 5:30 – 6:25 PM
Tat Yu Lam (PhD ’20)
A Study of Johannine Σημεῖα in Light of the Tabernacle Σημεῖα Using John 4:46–54 as an Example

Old Testament Prophetic and Apocalyptic Books | November 19, 6:30 – 7:25 PM
Julie Dykes (PhD student)
Inverting Good and Evil: Thematic Chiasm in the Woes of Isaiah 5

Septuagint Studies | November 20, 8:30 – 9:25 AM
Jennifer Brown Jones (PhD ’20)
Paper title TBA

Models of God | November 20, 2:30 – 3:25 PM
Andrew Gabriel (PhD ’10)
A Pentecostal Perspective on the Filioque Controversy

Evangelicals and Gender | November 20, 8:30 – 9:25 PM
Cynthia Long Westfall, Associate Professor of New Testament
Male and Female, One in Christ: Galatians 3:26–29

SBL/IBR/AAR 2020 Annual Meetings

P30-306 International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies | Monday, November 30, 5:00pm-6:30pm
Claude E. Cox, Adjunct Professor
The Translator’s Commitment to Preserving Elements of the Linguistic Makeup of the Source Text in Old Greek Job

S1-303 SBL Biblical Hebrew Poetry Section | Tuesday, December 1, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Meghan D. Musy (PhD)
Hearing the Ascent: Exploring Voicing and Movement in the Psalms of the Ascents

S2-212 SBL Ritual in the Biblical World Section | Wednesday, December 2, 1:00pm-3:00pm
Goran Zivkovic (PhD student)
Exiles in the Homeland: Ritual Purification and (Re)construction of the Social Identity of Israel in Zechariah

P2-307 IBR Research Group – Biblical Violence | Wednesday, December 2, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Joel Barker (PhD)
“I Will Strike Them Down”: The Function of Threats of Divine Violence in Numbers: The Function of Threats of Divine Violence in Numbers

S7-102SBL Book of the Twelve Prophets Section | Thursday, December 3, 10:00am-12:00pm
Goran Zivkovic (PhD student)
Blending the Seemingly Unblendable: Purity in the Book of Malachi

S7-105 SBL Intertextuality and the Hebrew Bible/Intertextuality in the New Testament | Monday, December 7, 10:00am-12:00pm
Respondent: Cynthia Long Westfall, Associate Professor of New Testament
Theme: Human Violence in the Hebrew Bible, Early Jewish Writings, and the New Testament

P7-207 IBR Theme: Emerging Scholarship in Biblical Studies | Monday, December 7, 1:00pm-3:00pm
Kevin Foth (PhD Student)
Toward a Poetics of the Righteous and the Wicked in the Psalms

S8-103 SBL Biblical Hebrew Poetry Section | Tuesday, December 8, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
Presiding: Beth M. Stovell (PhD)
Theme: Blessing and Cursing in Ancient Hebrew Poetry and Beyond

S8-209 SBL Nature Imagery and Conceptions of Nature in the Bible Consultation | Tuesday, December 8, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Presiding: Mark J. Boda, Professor of Old Testament
Theme: Tree Images (in the Wild and in Agriculture): Themes and Functions

S8-301/A8-315 SBL Reading, Theory, and the Bible Section | Tuesday, December 8, 4:00pm-6:00pm
David J. Fuller (PhD)
Coding and Speech, Writing and Desire: Reading 2 Enoch with Deleuze and Guattari

S8-401 SBL Intertextuality in the New Testament Section | Tuesday, December 8, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Xiaxia Xue (PhD)
Paul’s Concept of the Messiah in the Letter to the Romans: An Intertextual Analysis

P9-306 IBR Research Group – Isaiah and Intertextuality | Wednesday, December 9, 5:00 PM–7:00 PM
Beth M. Stovell (PhD)
Of King and Coal: Hearing and Hardening: Ezekiel’s Intertextual Use of Isaiah in Conceptualizing Divine Presence and Prophetic Call

Mark Boda, Professor of Old Testament
Isaiah in Zechariah: Assyria and Babylon in the Redemptive Plan for Zion 

S10-103 SBL Literature and History of the Persian Period Section | Thursday, December 10, 1:00am-12:00pm
David J. Fuller (PhD)
Finding a (Persian) Home for Habakkuk: Context and Criteria for Situating Prophecy

P10-304 IBR Research Group – Linguistics and the Biblical Text | Thursday, December 10, 5:00pm-7:00pm
David J. Fuller (PhD)
Cohesion as a Criterion for the Pragmatics of Biblical Hebrew Word Order: A New Proposal

A8-315/S8-301 Sacred Texts, Theory, and Theological Construction Unit and SBL Reading, Theory and the Bible Unit | Tuesday, December 8, 4:00pm-6:00pm
David J. Fuller (PhD)
Coding and Speech, Writing and Desire: Reading 2 Enoch with Deleuze and Guattari

A10-111 Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit | Thursday, December 10 11:00am-1:00pm
Lily An Kim (DPT Student)
Missing and Murdered Esther, Metis ‘Queen’ of the Munsee: Spiritual Mutism and Colonial Origins in North America