MDC is proud to announce our faculty, students, and alumni presenting at the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), and American Academy of Religion (AAR) this year. Because of COVID-19, these meetings will be taking place virtually.
ETS 72nd Annual Meeting: Christianity and Islam
November 16 – 20, 2020
Pastoral Epistles | November 16, 1:30 – 2:25 PM
Stanley Porter, President and Dean
Arguments For and Against Pauline Authorship of the Pastoral Epistles
Old Testament: Psalms and Wisdom Literature | November 16, 8:30 – 9:25 PM
Daniel Kim (PhD student)
How Parental Teaching in Prov. 1–9 Uses the OT Canon In Light of Culler’s Presupposition Theory
New Testament: General Studies | November 17, 2:30 – 3:25 PM
Zachary Dawson (PhD student)
The Theological Consequences of Q in Light of Recent Synoptic Gospel Research
Church History: Mission to Muslims | November 18, 6:30 – 7:25 PM
Gordon Heath, Professor of Christian History
‘The accursed partnership of Turk and Teuton’: American Churches and the Armenian Genocide
Johannine Literature | November 19, 5:30 – 6:25 PM
Tat Yu Lam (PhD ’20)
A Study of Johannine Σημεῖα in Light of the Tabernacle Σημεῖα Using John 4:46–54 as an Example
New Testament Greek Language and Exegesis | November 19, 2:30 – 3:25 PM
Ji Hoe Kim (PhD student)
Beyond the Paragraph: Using Cohesive Harmony for Grouping Paragraphs in James 1 as a Test Case
Old Testament Prophetic and Apocalyptic Books | November 19, 6:30 – 7:25 PM
Julie Dykes (PhD student)
Inverting Good and Evil: Thematic Chiasm in the Woes of Isaiah 5
Septuagint Studies | November 20, 8:30 – 9:25 AM
Jennifer Brown Jones (PhD ’20)
Paper title TBA
Models of God | November 20, 2:30 – 3:25 PM
Andrew Gabriel (PhD )
A Pentecostal Perspective on the Filioque Controversy
Evangelicals and Gender | November 20, 8:30 – 9:25 PM
Cynthia Long Westfall, Associate Professor of New Testament
Male and Female, One in Christ: Galatians 3:26–29
SBL & AAR 2020 Virtual Annual Meetings
November 29 – December 10, 2020
P30-306 International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies | Monday, November 30, 5:00pm-6:30pm
Claude E. Cox, Adjunct Professor
The Translator’s Commitment to Preserving Elements of the Linguistic Makeup of the Source Text in Old Greek Job
S1-303 SBL Biblical Hebrew Poetry Section | Tuesday, December 1, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Meghan D. Musy (PhD)
Hearing the Ascent: Exploring Voicing and Movement in the Psalms of the Ascents
S2-212 SBL Ritual in the Biblical World Section | Wednesday, December 2, 1:00pm-3:00pm
Goran Zivkovic (PhD student)
Exiles in the Homeland: Ritual Purification and (Re)construction of the Social Identity of Israel in Zechariah
P2-307 IBR Research Group – Biblical Violence | Wednesday, December 2, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Joel Barker (PhD)
“I Will Strike Them Down”: The Function of Threats of Divine Violence in Numbers: The Function of Threats of Divine Violence in Numbers
S7-102SBL Book of the Twelve Prophets Section | Thursday, December 3, 10:00am-12:00pm
Goran Zivkovic (PhD student)
Blending the Seemingly Unblendable: Purity in the Book of Malachi
S7-105 SBL Intertextuality and the Hebrew Bible/Intertextuality in the New Testament | Monday, December 7, 10:00am-12:00pm
Respondent: Cynthia Long Westfall, Associate Professor of New Testament
Theme: Human Violence in the Hebrew Bible, Early Jewish Writings, and the New Testament
P7-207 IBR Theme: Emerging Scholarship in Biblical Studies | Monday, December 7, 1:00pm-3:00pm
Kevin Foth (PhD Student)
Toward a Poetics of the Righteous and the Wicked in the Psalms
S8-103 SBL Biblical Hebrew Poetry Section | Tuesday, December 8, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
Presiding: Beth M. Stovell (PhD)
Theme: Blessing and Cursing in Ancient Hebrew Poetry and Beyond
S8-209 SBL Nature Imagery and Conceptions of Nature in the Bible Consultation | Tuesday, December 8, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Presiding: Mark J. Boda, Professor of Old Testament
Theme: Tree Images (in the Wild and in Agriculture): Themes and Functions
S8-301/A8-315 SBL Reading, Theory, and the Bible Section | Tuesday, December 8, 4:00pm-6:00pm
David J. Fuller (PhD)
Coding and Speech, Writing and Desire: Reading 2 Enoch with Deleuze and Guattari
S8-401 SBL Intertextuality in the New Testament Section | Tuesday, December 8, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Xiaxia Xue (PhD)
Paul’s Concept of the Messiah in the Letter to the Romans: An Intertextual Analysis
P9-306 IBR Research Group – Isaiah and Intertextuality | Wednesday, December 9, 5:00 PM–7:00 PM
Beth M. Stovell (PhD)
Of King and Coal: Hearing and Hardening: Ezekiel’s Intertextual Use of Isaiah in Conceptualizing Divine Presence and Prophetic Call
Mark Boda, Professor of Old Testament
Isaiah in Zechariah: Assyria and Babylon in the Redemptive Plan for Zion
S10-103 SBL Literature and History of the Persian Period Section | Thursday, December 10, 1:00am-12:00pm
David J. Fuller (PhD)
Finding a (Persian) Home for Habakkuk: Context and Criteria for Situating Prophecy
P10-304 IBR Research Group – Linguistics and the Biblical Text | Thursday, December 10, 5:00pm-7:00pm
David J. Fuller (PhD)
Cohesion as a Criterion for the Pragmatics of Biblical Hebrew Word Order: A New Proposal
A8-315/S8-301 Sacred Texts, Theory, and Theological Construction Unit and SBL Reading, Theory and the Bible Unit | Tuesday, December 8, 4:00pm-6:00pm
David J. Fuller (PhD)
Coding and Speech, Writing and Desire: Reading 2 Enoch with Deleuze and Guattari
A10-111 Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit | Thursday, December 10 11:00am-1:00pm
Lily An Kim (DPT Student)
Missing and Murdered Esther, Metis ‘Queen’ of the Munsee: Spiritual Mutism and Colonial Origins in North America
Are you missing from our list? Contact westmel@mcmaster.ca with details of your presentation.