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  • Meet our Faculty at our Virtual Events

    MDC invites you to join us for a virtual meet-and-greet event with our faculty members.

    These events are designed for students interested in our Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Practical Theology degrees. We will briefly introduce you to McMaster Divinity College and give you a chance to get to know our faculty members. Each attendee will receive one of our publications!

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    Meet our New Testament Faculty
    Thursday, December 2, 2021 | 1:30pm (EST)
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    Dr. Stanley Porter

    Dr. Cynthia Westfall

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    Dr. Christopher Land

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    Dr. Francis Pang

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    Dr. Phil Strickland

     

    Meet our Old Testament Faculty
    Tuesday, November 30, 2021 | 2:00pm (EST)
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    Dr. Mark Boda

    Dr. Paul Evans

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    Dr. Gus Konkel

     

    Meet our Ministry Studies Faculty
    Wednesday, December 1, 2021 | 1:30pm (EST)
    *Students interested in our Doctor of Practical Theology degree should register for this event!
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    Dr. Phil Zylla

    Dr. Michael Knowles

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    Dr. Lee Beach

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    Dr. Wendy Porter

     

    Meet our Theological Studies & Church History Faculty
    Monday, November 29, 2021 | 1:30pm (EST)
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    Dr. Gord Heath

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    Dr. Steve Studebaker

    Dr. Jim Payton

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  • Student, Alumni, and Faculty Presentations at ETS/SBL/AAR 2021

    Every year a number of our faculty, students, and alumni participate in the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and the American Academy of Religion (AAR). See where they are participating this year below.


    ETS 73rd Annual Meeting  November 16-28, 2021

    Suk-il Ahn (’16 PhD)
    A Dialogue between the Theology of Ark and Luther’s Theology: Deus Revelatus & Deus Absconditus
    Church History: General Studies
    November 16th, 9:00 AM – 12:10 PM

    Mark J. Boda, Professor of Old Testament
    Moderator
    Old Testament Theology in an Islamic Context
    November 17th, 8:30 AM – 11:40 AM

    Emad Botros (’21 PhD)
    The Reception History of the Golden Calf Narrative: A Biblical Theology in a Middle Eastern-Islamic Context
    Old Testament Theology in an Islamic Context
    November 17th, 8:30 AM – 11:40 AM

    Paul S. Evans, Associate Professor of Old Testament
    The Sources for Chronicles Re-considered: Challenging the Consensus
    Old Testament: General Studies II
    November 18th, 1:00 PM – 4:10 PM

    Sungmin Kim (PhD Student)
    The Functional Letter Perspective and Pauline Epistolography
    New Testament: Pauline Studies I
    November 16th, 9:00 AM – 12:10 PM

    Alan E. Kurschner (’20 PhD)
    Who Sat on the Thrones in Revelation 20:4? Ἐκάθισαν and Its Implications
    Johannine Literature
    November 17th, 3:00 PM – 6:10 PM

    Francis G. H. Pang, Assistant Professor of New Testament
    Moderator
    Other Voices in Interpretation: Evangelicals, Systemic Racism and Reconciliation
    November 17th, 8:30 AM – 11:40 AM

    Darlene Seal (PhD Student)
    The Intersectionality of Gender and Slavery: Paul’s Social Creativity within an Unchangeable System
    Greco-Roman Backgrounds: Marginalization, Women, and Slavery in the GrecoRoman World
    November 18th, 1:00 PM – 4:10 PM

    Chris S. Stevens (’20 PhD)
    Moderator
    New Testament: Matthew
    November 16th, 9:50 AM – 10:30 AM

    A Surprising Union: Peculiar Agreements between Sinaiticus and Claromontanus
    New Testament Canon, Textual Criticism, & Apocryphal Literature
    November 17th, 3:00 PM – 6:10 PM

    Alexander E. Stewart (’19 PhD)
    Divine Violence in Revelation: An Overview and Proposal
    Book of Revelation: New Perspectives on Old Problems
    November 18th, 1:00 PM – 4:10 PM

    Cynthia Westfall, Associate Professor of New Testament
    Biblical and Contextual Perspectives on Race and Culture
    Other Voices in Interpretation: Evangelicals, Systemic Racism and Reconciliation
    November 17th, 8:30 AM – 11:40 AM

    Moderator
    Evangelicals and Women
    November 17th, 3:00 PM – 6:10 PM

    Moderator
    Evangelicals and Women: Song of Women in the Old Testament
    November 18th, 1:00 PM – 4:10 PM

    David I. Yoon (’19 PhD)
    Paul’s Ethics in Galatians: Revisiting the Function of the Paraenesis in Light of the Body
    Pauline Studies: Galatians
    November 17th, 3:00 PM – 6:10 PM


    SBL/AAR Annual Meetings  November 20-23, 2021

    Lily An Kim (DPT Student)
    Receiving Child Survivors of the Holocaust
    Religion and Human Rights Unit and Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit (AV22-419)
    Virtual: November 22, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM (CT)

    Hojoon J. Ahn (PhD Student)
    Should Christians Continue to Consume Animal Foods in an Era of Crisis? A Nutritional-Intertextual Study of Genesis 1:29-30 during the Pandemic
    Ecological Hermeneutics (SV21-230)
    Virtual: November 21, 5:50 PM – 6:15 PM (CT)

    Joel Barker (’11 PhD)
    Cursed to Bless: Intention and Outcome in the Oracles of Balaam
    Biblical Hebrew Poetry (S22-210)
    In-Person: November 22, 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM (CT)

    Mark J. Boda, Professor of Old Testament
    Panelist
    Exile (Forced Migrations) in Biblical Literature (SV21-323)
    Virtual: November 21, 4:30 PM – 4:55 PM (CT)

    Ethical Strategies in Haggai-Malachi: The Impact of Shifting Genre on Moral Formation
    Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity/Biblical Ethics (S23-136)
    In-Person: November 23, 9:05 AM – 9:30 AM (CT)

    Jennifer Brown Jones (’20 PhD)
    Sweeter than Honey: A Lyric Reading of Psalm 19
    Biblical Hebrew Poetry (S21-211)
    In-Person: November 21, 2:30 PM – 2:55 PM (CT)

    Doosuk Kim (PhD Student)
    Information Structure of the Greek New Testament: A Methodological Proposal and an Application to Romans 14:1-15:13
    Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics (S22-209)
    In-Person: November 22, 2:00 PM – 2:25 PM (CT)

    Sungmin Kim (PhD Student)
    A Discussion on Functional Sentence Perspective of the Prague School of Linguistics and Its Application to 1 Thess 1:2-4
    Biblical Greek and Linguistics (S22-209)
    In-Person: November 22, 2:30 PM – 2:55 PM (CT)

    Craig Price, Vinh Nguyen (PhD Student)
    Power and Authority as Apostolic Strategy: An Assessment of Pauline Ideology in 1 Corinthians 4
    Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics (S22-209)
    In-Person: November 22, 3:00 PM – 3:25 PM (CT)

    Stanley E. Porter, President and Dean
    Panelist
    Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics (S20-113)
    Virtual: November 20, 9:02 AM – 9:25 AM (CT)

    Beth Stovell (’12 PhD)
    Presiding
    Institute for Biblical Research: Research Group – The Book of the Twelve Prophets in Biblical Scholarship
    In-Person: November 19, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM (CT)

    Fruit for Food, Leaves for Healing: Archaeobotany, Conceptual Metaphor, and Ezekiel 47
    In-Person: November 20, 9:01 AM – 9:25 AM (CT)

    Presiding
    Biblical Hebrew Poetry (S22-210)
    In-Person: November 22, 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM (CT)

    Panelist
    Israelite Prophetic Literature (S21-126a)
    In-Person: November 21, 9:55 AM – 10:05 AM (CT)

    David I. Yoon (’19 PhD)
    ‘Who Is and Who Was and Who Is to Come’: Another Look at the Doxological Opening of John’s Apocalypse in Light of the Framework of Verbal Aspect
    John’s Apocalypse and Cultural Contexts Ancient and Modern (S20-330)
    In-Person: November 20, 4:49- PM – 5:08 PM (CT)

    Goran Zivkovic (PhD Student)
    Rites in and out of Place: The Role of Ritual in the Construction of Space in the Book of Haggai
    Space, Place, and Lived Experience in Antiquity (S20-347)
    In-Person: November 20, 4:01 PM – 4:30 PM

    From Ruined (חרב) House to Ruined (חרב) Land (Hag 1:9–11): Ritual and Ecological Ethics in Haggai
    Ecological Hermeneutics (S23-11)
    In-Person: November 23, 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM (CT)