McMaster Divinity College is proud to have a number of our faculty, students, and alumni represent us each year at the annual meetings of Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), American Academy of Religion (AAR), and Institute of Biblical Research (IBR). This year’s meetings are located in San Antonio, Texas. The meetings span one week, starting Tuesday, November 14, 2023 and ending on Tuesday, November 21, 2023. Find a detailed list of MDC participants 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
Darlene M. Seal
Wednesday, November 15, 5:45 PM – 6:25 PM
Neither Colonialism nor Pluralism: Lesslie Newbigin as Prophetic Guide for Faithful Mission
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
AAR/SBL/IBR Annual Meeting – November 18-21, 2023
Faculty Participants
Paul S. Evans, Associate Professor of Old Testament
IBR: 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
Monday, November 20, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Presiding, Theme: Nature Imagery and Conceptions of Nature
Christopher D. Land, Associate Professor of New Testament and Linguistics
Sunday, November 19, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Constraints on Modifier Selection in Greek Nominal Constructions
Student Participants
Julie Dykes
IBR: 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
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
Joel Barker
IBR: Friday, November 17, 4:35 PM – 5:05 PM
Renewed, Rebuked, Replaced: Change in the Vision of Leadership in the Haggai–Malachi Corpus
David Beldman
IBR: Sunday, November 19, 1:10 PM – 1:35 PM
Memory, Spiritual Formation, and Interpretation
Jennifer Brown Jones
Sunday, November 19, 9:28 AM – 9:53 AM
Religious Motivations behind the Return from Exile
Esther Cen
Friday, November 17, 4:30 PM – 4:50 PM
A Chinese Interpretation of Youth Leadership and the Household Metaphor in 1 Timothy
Janice De-Whyte
Monday, November 20, 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM
Presiding, Theme: Women and Critical Methodologies in the Study of the Pentateuch
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
Meghan D. Musy
Monday, November 20, 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Farming the Songs of the Ascents: Agrarian Imagery in Psalms 120–134
Monday, November 20, 2:30 PM – 2:55 PM
Hearing and Overhearing Curses: Exploring the Lyric Poetry of Psalm 129
Monday, November 20, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Presiding, Theme: Challenging Texts for Environmental Ethics
Megan Roberts
Sunday, November 19, 1:35 PM – 2:00 PM
Poetic Imagination as a Memory Vector for Emotional Healing: Zion’s Memory Formation in Isaiah 49–54
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
David I. Yoon
Sunday, November 18, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Critical Discourse Analysis and the Antioch Incident: A Power Shift through Language
Ryder A. Wishart
Tuesday, November 21, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Biographies or Folk Literature? Revisiting the Gospel-Genre Debate
Xiaxia Xue
Tuesday, November 21, 10:40 AM – 11:00 AM
Respondent: Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics
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