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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