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Every year, a number of MDC’s faculty, students, and alumni participate in the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), Institute of Biblical Literature (IBR), Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and American Academy of Religion (AAR). See the full list of each of their presentations below:
ETS 75th Annual Meeting – November 14-16, 2023
Faculty Participants
Stanley E. Porter, President & Dean
Tuesday, November 14, 2:00 PM – 2:40 PM
Jews, Gentiles, and Salvation in Luke-Acts
Wednesday, November 15, 8:30 AM – 11:40 AM
Moderator: New Testament Canon, Textual Criticism, & Apocryphal Literature
Wednesday, November 15, 11:00 AM – 11:40 AM
Authors, Authorship, and the New Testament Canon
Thursday, November 16, 1:00PM – 4:10PM
Moderator: New Testament Greek Language and Exegesis
Thursday, November 16, 1:00PM – 1:40PM
A Natural Language Approach to Koine Greek Exegesis
Cynthia Long Westfall, Associate Professor of New Testament
Tuesday, November 14, 2:00 PM – 5:10 PM
Moderator: Evangelicals and Women
Wednesday, November 15, 8:30 AM – 11:40 AM
Moderator: Evangelicals and Women
Wednesday, November 15, 6:01 PM – 6:09 PM
Response to Harmon’s view of typology
John W. Hilber, Professor of Old Testament
Wednesday, November 15, 4:45 PM – 5:35 PM
Weighing Prophecy: Deuteronomy and Prophetism in the ANE
James R. Payton, Professor of Patristics and Historical Theology
Wednesday, November 15, 3:15 PM – 3:55 PM
Humanity Always Changing: An Essential Component in Gregory of Nyssa’s Theological Anthropology
Mark J. Boda, Professor of Old Testament
Wednesday, November 15, 3:15 PM – 6:25 PM
Moderator: Old Testament
James D. Dvorak, Vice President Academic & Professor of New Testament
Thursday, November 16, 2:40 PM – 3:20 PM
Considering the Constraints of Context in the Exegetical Process
Don Springer, Adjunct Professor of Theology and Patristics
Thursday, November 16, 2:40 PM – 3:20 PM
The Mistaken Theological Anthropology of Irenaeus of Lyon
Student Participants
Matthew B. Quintana
Tuesday, November 14, 2:00 PM – 2:40 PM
The Intertextual and Theological Interpretive Potential of LXX Isaiah: A Study in Isa 65:17-25
Sung Min Park
Thursday, November 16, 2:40 PM – 3:20 PM
Historical Sociolinguistic Approach to Social Identities of Believers and Sinners in John 9:1–41
Julie Dykes
Thursday, November 16, 3:05 PM – 3:25 PM
Feminist and Minority Readings of the Divine Warrior
Alumni Participants
Ambrose Thomson
Tuesday, November 14, 11:30 AM – 12:10 PM
‘I Will Make Your Name Great’: The Name of Humanity and the Better Name of Israel
Thursday, November 16, 1:00 PM – 4:10 PM
Moderator: Theological Anthropology
David I. Yoon
Tuesday, November 14, 11:30 AM – 12:10 PM
Conditional Immortality Under Fire: Identifying the Semantic Fallacies of Annihilationism
SBL & AAR Annual Meeting – November 18-21, 2023
Faculty Participants
Paul S. Evans, Associate Professor of Old Testament
Friday, November 17, 1:00PM – 3:00 PM
Something New under the Sun: A Chronicles Commentary without Constant Comparison to Samuel-Kings
Sunday, November 19, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
The Book of Isaiah’s Diverse Perspectives on Judahite Leadership in the Period of the Assyrian Crisis in the Late Eighth Century BCE
Cynthia Long Westfall, Associate Professor of New Testament
Saturday, November 18, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Hebrews and Paul
Francis Pang, Assistant Professor of New Testament
Sunday, November 19, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Rejection, Redemption, or Somewhere in Between? Teaching Disability in a Confessional Setting
Monday, November 20, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Topical Ointment: A Canonical Approach to Disability Midrash
Mark J. Boda, Professor of Old Testament
Sunday, November 19, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Hope, Zion, the Remnant, and Kingship in the Book of the Twelve
Christopher D. Land, Associate Professor of Old Testament and Linguistics
Sunday, November 19, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Constraints on Modifier Selection in Greek Nominal Constructions
Student Participants
Julie Dykes
Friday, November 17, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
The Importance of Divine Mother Imagery in Isaiah’s Theology of God
Chris Landon
Saturday, November 18, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Despite Her Best Efforts: A Narrative Appraisal of the Role of Prophets in the Book of Judges
Matthew B. Quintana
Sunday, November 19, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Reading the Superscriptions with the Church Fathers: A Study on the Role of the Headings in the Book of Psalms
Sung Min Park
Sunday, November 19, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Persona of Jesus and the Samaritan Woman: Sociolinguistic Approach to the Gospel of John 4:1-30
Jae-Seung LIm
Sunday, November 19, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Relationship between the Old and New Cultus in Hebrews as Seen through Gilles Deleuze’s Anthropological Lenses
Jihyung Kim
Monday, November 20, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
We Are Jesus’ House: A Socio-narratological Analysis of Hebrews 3:1-6
Alumni Participants
Yan Ma
Friday, November 17, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
A Register Analysis of Phil. 2:6-11
Sunday, November 19, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
An Intertextual Analysis on Ἐγώ Eἰμι in John 8:24 and 8:28
Goran Zivkovic
Saturday, November 18, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
From Wilting to Flourishing: The Reimagining of Nature in the Haggai-Zechariah 1-8 Corpus
Tuesday, November 21, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Ecological Nature of Rituals: Ritual Production of Environment in the Book of Joel
Phillip David Strickland
Saturday, November 18, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
The Legacy of Paul and the Apostasy of “the Hebrews”: A Study in the History of Biblical Interpretation
Ryder A. Wishart
Tuesday, November 21, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Biographies or Folk Literature? Revisiting the Gospel-Genre Debate