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Thank you for your interest in McMaster Divinity College. We are located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, approximately one hour from Toronto, take a virtual tour of our campus here. Please explore the links above and sign up for one of our events below! We would love to chat with you about any questions you might have, please reach out to us by phone, email, text, or schedule an appointment using the links on the right.
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Meet our faculty at a virtual meet-and-greet
MDC invites you to join us for a virtual meet-and-greet event with our Faculty.
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 and their research interests. Each attendee will receive one of our publications (Canada and US mailing addresses only).
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Meet our New Testament Faculty
Thursday, December 1, 2022 | 1:30pm (ET)
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Meet our Old Testament Faculty
Thursday, December 1, 2022 | 3:30pm (ET)
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Meet our Ministry Studies Faculty
Thursday, December 1, 2022 | 1:30pm (ET)
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Meet our Theological Studies & Church History Faculty
Thursday, December 1, 2022 | 3:30pm (ET)
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Student, Alumni, and Faculty Presentations at ETS/SBL/AAR 2022
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).
ETS 74th Annual Meeting – November 15-17, 2022
Faculty Participants
Stanley E. Porter, President & Dean
Tuesday, November 15, 9:00 AM – 12:10 PM
Moderator: New Testament Greek Language and ExegesisTuesday, November 15, 3:40 PM – 4:20 PM
What is the Basis of Dodd’s Realized Eschatology?Wednesday, November 16, 8:30 AM – 9:10 AM
The Dating Game: The 2022 Edition for New Testament ManuscriptsMark J. Boda, Professor of Old Testament
Wednesday, November 16, 10:10 AM – 10:50 AM
Continuity and Discontinuity as Legitimation in the Early Persian Imperial Context and Ezra 1-6Wednesday, November 16, 5:30 PM – 6:10 PM
Justice in ZechariahThursday, November 17, 1:30 PM – 4:40 PM
Moderator: Old Testament Theology, Review of M. Daniel Carroll R.’s The Lord RoarsAugust H. Konkel, Professor of Old Testament
Wednesday, November 16, 11:00 AM – 11:40 AM
Justice for a geber: The Hiddenness of Wisdom in Job
Cynthia Long Westfall, Associate Professor of New Testament
Wednesday, November 16, 3:00 PM – 6:10 PM
Moderator: Evangelicals and Women: Songs of Women in the BibleStudent Participants
Matthew Bovard
Tuesday, November 15, 11:30 AM – 12:10 PM
Doxological and Didactic: A Comparison of Jeremiah 10:1–16 in the Hebrew and Greek TraditionsJihyung Kim
Tuesday, November 15, 2:00 PM – 5:10 PM
Moderator: New Testament HebrewsTuesday, November 15, 2:00 PM – 5:10 PM
The Function of Abel and His Offering in Hebrews 12:24Jae-Seung Lim
Tuesday, November 15, 2:00 PM – 5:10 PM
Places Where We Were Made Holy: Two Tabernacles in the Book of HebrewsSung Min Park
Tuesday, November 15, 10:40 AM – 11:20 AM
The Patterns of the Variances of Nomina Sacra: Sacred Language Ideology of the Early ChurchAlumni Participants
Joel Barker
Thursday, November 17, 4:00 PM – 4:40 PM
Holiness in Matrimony: Theological Reflections on the Case of Suspected Infidelity (Num 5:11-31)Jennifer Brown Jones
Tuesday, November 15, 10:40 AM – 11:20 AM
The Baby and the Bathwater: The Interlinear Paradigm, Polysystem Theory, and the Greek PsalterDavid I. Yoon
Wednesday, November 16, 9:10 AM – 9:40 AM
Honor-Shame, Hierarchy, and the Antioch Incident: How Paul’s Conviction Subverts Cultural Norms
SBL & AAR Annual Meeting – November 19-22, 2022
Faculty Participants
Mark J. Boda, Professor of Old Testament
Saturday, November 19, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Respondent: Climate and Weather in the BibleMonday, November 21, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Panelist: Review of Dalit Rom-Shiloni’s Voices from the RuinsMonday, November 21, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Presiding: Nature Imagery in the ProphetsJames D. Dvorak, Vice President Academic & Professor of New Testament
Saturday, November 19, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
‘Refresh My Heart in the Messiah’: The Language of Social Identity (Re-)Formation in PhilemonSunday, November 20, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Presiding: SBL Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics SectionPaul S. Evans, Associate Professor of Old Testament
Saturday, November 19, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
A Dis-chronological Reading of the Hezekiah-Sennacherib Narrative in 2 Kgs 18:13–19:37 in Light of Known Assyrian Negotiations for Wanted Persons
Cynthia Long Westfall, Associate Professor of New Testament
IBR: Friday, November 18, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Am I Not an Apostle? Authorship and the Signs of an ApostleSaturday, November 19, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Presiding: Book Review Panel of Stefan Alkier and David M. Moffitt, New Testament Basics: A Guide for Reading and Interpreting the Text (Fortress, 2022)Claude Cox, Adjunct Professor
Saturday, November 19, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
A New, Critical Edition of Armenian Deuteronomy, Forty Years after Its “Diplomatic” Predecessor: Reflections and Results of a New CollationStudent Participants
Julie Dykes
Saturday, November 19, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
When the Clay Talks Back: What the Potter/Clay Metaphor in Isaiah 40–66 Reveals about Humanity’s Relationship to GodJihyung Kim
Saturday, November 19, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Memory as a Possible Means of Hebrews’ Quotation of the Old Testament: Hebrews 1 as a Test CaseYan Ma
Sunday, November 20, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
A Methodological Proposal for New Testament Discourse Analysis: Rhetorical Structure Theory and Its Application to John 8:31–59Sunday, November 20, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Learning Style Approaches in Christian EducationVinh T. Nguyen
Monday, November 21, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
The Integrity of Philippians: An Examination of Letter Collection Practices in Antiquity
Goran Zivkovic
Saturday, November 19, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Rites of Passage Reimagined: The Transformative Function of Imagined Rituals in the Haggai–Zechariah 1–8 CorpusSunday, November 20, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Rites of Space Passage: Ritual Production of Space in Zechariah 7–8Alumni Participants
Traci Birge
(IBR) Friday, November 18, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Exegesis of Exodus 4:24–26Sunday, November 20, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Respondent in Session on Approaches and Their Case StudiesEsther G. Cen
Sunday, November 20, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Discourse, Identity, and Power: What 1 Cor 1:10–4:21 DoesCaroline Schleier Cutler
Saturday, November 19, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Biblical Scholars Working to Be Better Allies: Reading the Gospel of Mark in Solidarity with the Harry Potter AudienceZachary K. Dawson
Sunday, November 20, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Modeling Transitivity for Characterization Analysis in New Testament Greek with Application to Acts 10:1–11:18Megan Roberts
Saturday, November 19, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Memory Formation as Spiritual Formation: Broken Memory and Isaiah’s Vision of ComfortDarlene Seal
Saturday, November 19, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Shaping Social Identity through Language: A Methodological Proposal and Application to 1 Cor 10:1–22 in Its Discourse ContextSaturday, November 19, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
“These Things Were Written for Us”: Scriptural Re-interpretation and Social Creativity in the Corinthian LettersBeth Stovell
(IBR) Friday, November 18, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Change and the Book of the TwelveSaturday, November 19, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Respondent: Emotions in the PsalterSaturday, November 19, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Presiding: Reading Biblical Hebrew Poetry and the World in front of the TextXiaxia Xue
(IBR) Friday, November 18, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Reading the Bible with the East Asian ChurchSaturday, November 19, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Presiding: SBL Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics Section (Theme TBA)
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