
McMaster Divinity College
Hamilton , ON
Start: 01:00 PM
End: 02:00 PM
At this week’s Theological Research Seminar, Sungmin (Iain) Park will be presenting, “Sacred Language Ideologies in Jewish Traditions”
Read the abstract and bio below.
All are welcome to attend in Camelford Hall (room 226) at McMaster Divinity College at 1:00pm or via livestream at the link below:
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Abstract
Bio
Sung Min Park is Research Fellow at McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton) and Lecturer at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the East (Toronto). He actively engages in the fields of historical sociolinguistics and biblical studies. He has presented several papers in the annual meetings of ETS, SBL, NARNiHS, HiSoN, and LSA. In addition, several of his journal articles in these fields are set to be published in 2025. His research interests include the religious languages (Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Syriac, and Latin), style, linguistic ideology, and language policy within the Greco-Roman world. Sung Min’s Ph.D. dissertation, titled “The Prestige Language of Christianity in the Book of Acts: Historical Sociolinguistic Approaches to Multilingualism in the Greco-Roman World,” is forthcoming in Brill’s Linguistic Biblical Studies series.
About TRS
The MDC Theological Research Seminar (TRS) is a bimonthly gathering for all MDC students and faculty. TRS meets from 1:00 PM to 1:50 PM on alternating Mondays, and includes about thirty minutes for the paper presentation and twenty minutes for discussion.
All advanced degree students are invited to present a paper and share your research with your colleagues. TRS is an excellent opportunity to “test drive” a paper you will be presenting at an upcoming conference and receive helpful feedback on your current research projects. Thinking about submitting an article to a journal and want some interaction first? TRS will provide it. Just published an article or an essay and want to share it us? TRS is an excellent opportunity to broadcast it.
This year the organizing committee consists of Dr. James Dvorak, Dr. Phil Zylla, and Dr. Gord Heath. To submit a paper, contact a member of the organizing committee.