Congratulations to all of our faculty, students, and alumni participating in this year’s annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and the American Academy of Religion (AAR). See the list of participants below.
ETS 73rd Annual Meeting November 16-28, 2021
Suk-il Ahn (’16 PhD)
A Dialogue between the Theology of Ark and Luther’s Theology: Deus Revelatus & Deus Absconditus
Church History: General Studies
November 16th, 9:00 AM – 12:10 PM
Mark J. Boda, Professor of Old Testament
Moderator
Old Testament Theology in an Islamic Context
November 17th, 8:30 AM – 11:40 AM
Emad Botros (’21 PhD)
The Reception History of the Golden Calf Narrative: A Biblical Theology in a Middle Eastern-Islamic Context
Old Testament Theology in an Islamic Context
November 17th, 8:30 AM – 11:40 AM
Paul S. Evans, Associate Professor of Old Testament
The Sources for Chronicles Re-considered: Challenging the Consensus
Old Testament: General Studies II
November 18th, 1:00 PM – 4:10 PM
Sungmin Kim (PhD Student)
The Functional Letter Perspective and Pauline Epistolography
New Testament: Pauline Studies I
November 16th, 9:00 AM – 12:10 PM
Alan E. Kurschner (’20 PhD)
Who Sat on the Thrones in Revelation 20:4? Ἐκάθισαν and Its Implications
Johannine Literature
November 17th, 3:00 PM – 6:10 PM
Francis G. H. Pang, Assistant Professor of New Testament
Moderator
Other Voices in Interpretation: Evangelicals, Systemic Racism and Reconciliation
November 17th, 8:30 AM – 11:40 AM
Darlene Seal (PhD Student)
The Intersectionality of Gender and Slavery: Paul’s Social Creativity within an Unchangeable System
Greco-Roman Backgrounds: Marginalization, Women, and Slavery in the GrecoRoman World
November 18th, 1:00 PM – 4:10 PM
Chris S. Stevens (’20 PhD)
Moderator
New Testament: Matthew
November 16th, 9:50 AM – 10:30 AM
A Surprising Union: Peculiar Agreements between Sinaiticus and Claromontanus
New Testament Canon, Textual Criticism, & Apocryphal Literature
November 17th, 3:00 PM – 6:10 PM
Cynthia Westfall, Associate Professor of New Testament
Biblical and Contextual Perspectives on Race and Culture
Other Voices in Interpretation: Evangelicals, Systemic Racism and Reconciliation
November 17th, 8:30 AM – 11:40 AM
Moderator
Evangelicals and Women
November 17th, 3:00 PM – 6:10 PM
Moderator
Evangelicals and Women: Song of Women in the Old Testament
November 18th, 1:00 PM – 4:10 PM
David I. Yoon (’19 PhD)
Paul’s Ethics in Galatians: Revisiting the Function of the Paraenesis in Light of the Body
Pauline Studies: Galatians
November 17th, 3:00 PM – 6:10 PM
SBL/AAR Annual Meetings November 20-23, 2021
Lily An Kim (DPT Student)
Receiving Child Survivors of the Holocaust
Religion and Human Rights Unit and Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit (AV22-419)
Virtual: November 22, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM (CT)
Hojoon J. Ahn (PhD Student)
Should Christians Continue to Consume Animal Foods in an Era of Crisis? A Nutritional-Intertextual Study of Genesis 1:29-30 during the Pandemic
Ecological Hermeneutics (SV21-230)
Virtual: November 21, 5:50 PM – 6:15 PM (CT)
Joel Barker (’11 PhD)
Cursed to Bless: Intention and Outcome in the Oracles of Balaam
Biblical Hebrew Poetry (S22-210)
In-Person: November 22, 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM (CT)
Mark J. Boda, Professor of Old Testament
Panelist
Exile (Forced Migrations) in Biblical Literature (SV21-323)
Virtual: November 21, 4:30 PM – 4:55 PM (CT)
Ethical Strategies in Haggai-Malachi: The Impact of Shifting Genre on Moral Formation
Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity/Biblical Ethics (S23-136)
In-Person: November 23, 9:05 AM – 9:30 AM (CT)
Jennifer Brown Jones (’20 PhD)
Sweeter than Honey: A Lyric Reading of Psalm 19
Biblical Hebrew Poetry (S21-211)
In-Person: November 21, 2:30 PM – 2:55 PM (CT)
Doosuk Kim (PhD Student)
Information Structure of the Greek New Testament: A Methodological Proposal and an Application to Romans 14:1-15:13
Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics (S22-209)
In-Person: November 22, 2:00 PM – 2:25 PM (CT)
Sungmin Kim (PhD Student)
A Discussion on Functional Sentence Perspective of the Prague School of Linguistics and Its Application to 1 Thess 1:2-4
Biblical Greek and Linguistics (S22-209)
In-Person: November 22, 2:30 PM – 2:55 PM (CT)
Craig Price, Vinh Nguyen (PhD Student)
Power and Authority as Apostolic Strategy: An Assessment of Pauline Ideology in 1 Corinthians 4
Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics (S22-209)
In-Person: November 22, 3:00 PM – 3:25 PM (CT)
Stanley E. Porter, President and Dean
Panelist
Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics (S20-113)
Virtual: November 20, 9:02 AM – 9:25 AM (CT)
Beth Stovell (’12 PhD)
Presiding
Institute for Biblical Research: Research Group – The Book of the Twelve Prophets in Biblical Scholarship
In-Person: November 19, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM (CT)
Fruit for Food, Leaves for Healing: Archaeobotany, Conceptual Metaphor, and Ezekiel 47
In-Person: November 20, 9:01 AM – 9:25 AM (CT)
Presiding
Biblical Hebrew Poetry (S22-210)
In-Person: November 22, 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM (CT)
Panelist
Israelite Prophetic Literature (S21-126a)
In-Person: November 21, 9:55 AM – 10:05 AM (CT)
David I. Yoon (’19 PhD)
‘Who Is and Who Was and Who Is to Come’: Another Look at the Doxological Opening of John’s Apocalypse in Light of the Framework of Verbal Aspect
John’s Apocalypse and Cultural Contexts Ancient and Modern (S20-330)
In-Person: November 20, 4:49- PM – 5:08 PM (CT)
Goran Zivkovic (PhD Student)
Rites in and out of Place: The Role of Ritual in the Construction of Space in the Book of Haggai
Space, Place, and Lived Experience in Antiquity (S20-347)
In-Person: November 20, 4:01 PM – 4:30 PM
From Ruined (חרב) House to Ruined (חרב) Land (Hag 1:9–11): Ritual and Ecological Ethics in Haggai
Ecological Hermeneutics (S23-11)
In-Person: November 23, 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM (CT)