Welcome ETS, IBR, & AAR/SBL Attendees!
Thank you for your interest in McMaster Divinity College. We are excited to be attending the annual meetings of ETS and AAR/SBL this November.
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Come and chat with our Admissions Team at our booth to learn more about our programs, book giveaways, alumni gifts, and more! You can also find a rep from our in-house press, the MDC Press at our booth, view recent titles, and learn how to submit your book proposal or journal article for publishing.
At ETS, look for us at booth 321 at the exhibit hall at Boston Marriott Copley Place.
At AAR/SBL, look for us at booth 333 at the Hynes Convention Center.
Exclusive Dinner Events
We are hosting 2 exclusive dinner events throughout the week for students interested in pursuing doctoral studies at McMaster Divinity College. Learn more about McMaster Divinity College, hear from our alumni, and meet our faculty. If you are exploring further study, we would love for you to join us at one of our events, contact us to learn more.
MDC Sessions
Every year, a group of our faculty, current students, and alumni participate in the annual meetings of ETS, IBR, and AAR/SBL. See the full list of our participants below.
Don’t see your name listed? Contact Daphne to add your session.
ETS
NOVEMBER 18 – NOVEMBER 20
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Faculty Participants
Stanley E. Porter, President & Dean
Tuesday, November 18, 9:00 AM – 12:10 AM
Presenter: The History and Current Status of Greek Linguistics and the Book of RevelationTuesday, November 18, 1:30 PM – 2:10 PM
Presenter: Sociolinguistics and the New Testament: Where from, What, and Where to?Wednesday, November 19, 8:30 AM – 11:40 AM
Moderator: New Testament Canon, Textual Criticism & Apocryphal LiteratureWednesday, November 19, 11:00 AM – 11:40 AM
Presenter: The Christology of the Gospel of Nicodemus/Acts of PilateWednesday, November 19, 3:00 PM – 6:10 PM
Moderator: New Testament Greek Language and ExegesisGordon L. Heath, Professor of Christian History
Tuesday, November 18, 9:50 AM – 10:30 AM
Presenter: Sojourners and Citizens: National Identity in the African Baptist AssociationJames Dvorak, Vice President Academic & Professor of New Testament
Tuesday, November 18, 2:20 PM – 3:00 PM
Presenter: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Paul’s Use of the Language ImitationJames Payton, Professor of Patristics and Historical Theology
Tuesday, November 18, 3:10 PM – 3:50 PM
Presenter: The Impact of the Council of Nicaea: “Already/Not Yet”Clement Y. Wen, Assistant Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology
Tuesday, November 18, 1:30 PM – 2:10 PM
Presenter: Pannenberg and the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381 for World ChristianityMark J. Boda, Professor of Old Testament
Wednesday, November 19, 3:05 PM – 3:35 PM
Presenter: The Historical Setting of JeremiahAmbrose Thomson, Registrar & Assistant Professor of Old Testament
Thursday, November 20, 1:00 PM – 4:10 PM
Moderator: Creedal ChristianityJ. Gregory Davidson, Assistant Affiliate Professor of Old Testament
Thursday, November 20, 1:00 PM – 4:10 PM
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Student Participants
Aaron Jung
Tuesday, November 18, 9:50 AM – 10:30 AM
Presenter: The Core Message of Speeches in ActsYadi Hu
Tuesday, November 18, 2:20 PM – 3:00 PM
Presenter: The Shema Embodied: Jeremiah as a ParadigmJihyung Kim
Tuesday, November 18, 2:20 PM – 3:00 PM
Presenter: Why the Tabernacle, Not the Temple? Hebrews’ Strategic Use of Wilderness MemoryMatthew B. Quintana
Tuesday, November 18, 4:00 PM – 4:40 PM
Presenter: Expanding the Inner-Biblical Context of the Old Testament Allusions in Revelation 19:11-16Isaiah C. Padgett
Wednesday, November 19, 8:30 AM – 9:10 AM
Presenter: The Theology and Ethics of the Davidic Genealogy in Ruth 4:18-22 and 1 Chronicles 2:9-15Namhyo Kim
Wednesday, November 19, 3:50 PM – 4:30 PM
Presenter: Revisiting the Kingdom and Priests in Revelation: A Grammatical-Metaphorical Analysis of βασιλεἰαJeyoon Park
Thursday, November 20, 1:50 PM – 2:30 PM
Presenter: Romans 8:28 Revisited: Textual CriticismJacob Tomc
Thursday, November 20, 2:40 PM – 3:20 PM
Presenter: A National Treasure: The Overlooked Value of the Torah in the Chronicler’s Josiah Narrative -
Alumni Participants
Alan E. Kurschner
Tuesday, November 18, 9:00 AM – 9:40 AM
PresenterSung Min Park
Tuesday, November 18, 11:30 AM – 12:10 PM
Presenter: Shaping Christian Identity in Acts 1-6: an Indexical Cycle Analysis of the Jerusalem ChurchTuesday, November 18, 4:00 PM – 4:40 PM
Presenter: Sociolinguistic Approaches to the Corinthian Epistles: Language Style and Linguistic TheologyDudley Brown
Tuesday, November 18, 11:30 AM – 12:10 PM
Presenter: The Underground Railroad and its Intersection with the Black Baptist ChurchChris S. Stevens
Tuesday, November 18, 9:00 AM – 12:10 PM
Moderator: New TestamentWednesday, November 19, 3:50 PM – 4:30 PM
Presenter: Are Creedal Christianity and Textual Criticism Friends or Foes?Don Springer
Tuesday, November 18, 1:30 PM – 2:10 PM
Presenter: Seeds of Nicaea: Substance and Light in the Writings of IrenaeusJennifer Brown Jones
Wednesday, November 19, 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM
Presenter: The Emperor’s New Clothes? Reading 1 Timothy 2 with the Grain of GenesisZachary K. Dawson
Wednesday, November 19, 8:30 AM – 11:40 AM
Moderator: Luke-ActsWednesday, November 19, 5:30 PM – 6:10 PM
Presenter: The Essential Sociolinguistic Principles of Register Analysis for New Testament ExegesisMegan Roberts
Thursday, November 20, 1:50 PM – 2:30 PM
Presenter: Forgiveness and MemoryDave I. Yoon
Thursday, November 20, 1:00 PM – 4:10 PM
Moderator: New Testament
AAR/SBL/IBR
NOVEMBER 21 – NOVEMBER 25
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Faculty Participants
Paul Evans, Professor of Old Testament
Friday, November 21, 10:34 AM – 10:44 AM
Respondent: Chronicler’s History GroupSaturday, November 22, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Presider: An Invited Panel on New Methodologies Emerging Out of the Digital Humanities and Their Potential Use for Central Questions in the Study of Chronicles and Ezra-NehemiahMark J. Boda, Professor of Old Testament
Friday, November 21, 7:00PM – 8:30 PM
Respondent: Ellen Davis, “A Path through the Wilderness: Tracing the Covenantal Economics of Pslams”
Monday, November 24, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Presider: Thematic Session on LexicographyTuesday, November 25, 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM
Review: Reading the Bible amid the Environmental Crisis, S. Doane, Book Review PanelFrancis G.H. Pang, Assistant Professor of New Testament
Saturday, November 22, 2:30 PM – 2:55 PM
Presenter: Is Πίστις a Healthcare Currency? The Gospel of Mark as a Test CaseChristopher Land, Associate Professor of New Testament and Linguistics
Sunday, November 23, 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Presenter: Putting Words in Their Place: Teaching Syntactic Paradigms Using OpenText.org 2.0Cynthia Long Westfall, Associate Professor of New Testament
Monday, November 24, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
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Student Participants
Jacob Tomc
Friday, November 21, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
IBR Presenter: “Thus I will Act for the Sake of My Servants”: a Synchronic Reading of Isaiah’s Communal Lament (63:7-64:11) and Its Divine Rejoinder (65:1-66:24)Woonghee Lee
Saturday, November 22, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Presenter: Why Did the Persian Empire Move the Governor’s Residence from Mizpah to Ramat-Rahel?Sungshin Kim
Saturday, November 22, 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Presenter: Translation Technique and Narrative Analysis of the Greek Versions of JonahStephen Choi
Sunday, November 23, 1:50 PM – 2:15 PM
Presenter: Perhaps Josiah Is Innocent After All: A Comparative Narrative Analysis of 2 Chronicles 35:20-25 and BeyondMatthew B. Quintana
Sunday, November 23, 5:40 PM – 6:05 PM
Presenter: The Curious Case of Chronicles in the Peshitta: Midrashic Targum, Illegible Vorlage, Variant Literary Edition, or None of the Above?Monday, November 24, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Presenter: His King Will Be More Exalted Than Whom? Revisiting the Agag/Gog Variant in Numbers 24:7bIsaiah C. Padgett
Monday, November 24, 4:25 PM – 4:45 PM
Presenter: From Text, to Context, to Contextualization: A Comparison of the Hebrew and Greek Texts of Ruth 4 with Special Attention to Its Reception in Ruth Rabbah and Early Patristic WritingsYadi Hu
Monday, November 24, 4:25 PM – 4:50 PM
Presenter: Communal Liturgy or Liturgical Irony: A Text World Theology Illustration of the Multivalent Interpretations of the Communal Penitential Prayer in Jer 3:22b-25Jihyung Kim
Monday, November 24, 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Presenter: Situating the Heroes of Faith within Israel’s Wilderness: Hebrews 11 through the Lens of Social Memory -
Alumni Participants
Meghan Musy
Friday, November 21, 9:30 AM – 9:55 AM
IBR Presenter: Hearing Violence in the Royal Psalms: Exploring the Ethics and Voicing of Yahweh’s Kingship in the PsalterSunday, November 23, 4:00 PM – 4:25 PM
Presenter: Hearing the Voices of Psalm 32: Exploring the Strategic Multivocality of Biblical Hebrew PoetryMegan Roberts
Friday, November 21, 9:50 AM – 10:10 AM
IBR Presenter: Memory and Memory Problems in Isaiah 40-55 in the Context of Isaiah 1-39Traci Birge
Saturday, November 22, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Presenter: Seeing Ourselves in the “Other”: Using Cognitive Narrative Character Analysis to Understand the Ammonite King in Judges 11Alexander Coe Stewart
Saturday, November 22, 3:00 PM – 3:25 PM
Presenter: Embroidered for the Royal Priesthood: Psalm 139:13-15, Body Image, and the Image of GodMonday, November 24, 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM
Presenter: The Twilight Zone: “Ephah” (עֵיפָה, “Evening Dusk”), a Lexical Dilemma in Amos 4:13 and Related TextsJoel Barker
Saturday, November 22, 4:28 PM – 4:56 PM
Presenter: Daring to Speak for God: Ethics and the Use of the Prophetic Voice in Haggai and Zechariah 1-8Goran Zivkovic
Sunday, November 23, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Presider: Ritual Failure and Change in the Book of the Twelve ProphetsDave I. Yoon
Sunday, November 23, 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Presenter: Register, Idiolect, and the New Testament WritingsKevin Foth
Sunday, November 23, 4:25 PM – 4:50 PM
Presenter: Good and Wise: Constructing the Concept of the Ideal Human in Proverbs 10-15Jennifer Brown Jones
Sunday, November 23, 4:25 PM – 4:50 PM
Presenter: Metaphorical Textiles: The Implications of Dress for Interpreting Galatians 3:26-29James A. Libby
Sunday, November 23, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Presenter: A New Linguistically-Informed Database of the Greek New Testament (The LI-GNT)Xiaxia Xue
Monday, November 24, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Presenter: The Attitudinal Meaning and the Identity Formation in Gal 1-2
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