MDC has a significant presence at many of the societal meetings in Atlanta, Georgia this year. The Evangelical Theological Society’s 67th Annual Meeting run Tuesday, November 17 through Thursday, November 19, 2015. A list of faculty, students, and alumni presenting at ETS is listed below:
Faculty
Cynthia Long Westfall
Presenting “Power, Obligation and Mission: Biblical Guidance for Marriage from the Household Codes”
November 17, 10:10am
Faculty
Kelvin Mutter
Presenting “God and Family: A Theological Framework for Ministering to Families”
November 17, 2:00pm
Faculty
Lee Beach
Presenting “Emerging Christianity and its Influence on Evangelical Theology”
November 17, 2:50pm
Faculty
Steven Studebaker
Presenting “Emerging Christianity and its Influence on Evangelical Theology”
November 17, 2:50pm
Faculty
Stanley Porter
Presenting “Milestones in Johannine Studies: Great Scholars 2 – B.F. Westcott”
November 17, 4:30pm
Faculty
Steven Studebaker
Presenting “The Spirit of the Kingdoms: An Evangelical Political Theology”
November 18, 11:00am
Faculty
Stanley Porter
Moderator for “NT Canon, Textual Criticism, & Apocryphal Literature Physical and Textual Features of Early Christian Manuscripts”
November 18, 3:00pm
Faculty
Stanley Porter
Moderator for “New Testament Greek Language and Exegesis Greek Competence: Considerations for Scholars, Teachers, and Pastors”
November 18, 8:30am
Faculty
Stanley Porter
Presenting “Big Enough is Big Enough: A Response to Craig Keener’s Commentary(ies)”
November 19, 1:00pm
Faculty
Mark Boda
Presenting “Just Sour Grapes? Family Dynamics in Old Testament Hamartiology”
November 19, 1:50pm
Faculty
Cynthia Long Westfall
Presenting “Space and the Atonement in Hebrews”
November 19, 3:30pm
Alumni
Hughson Ong
Presenting “The History, Development, and Future of Papyrology and its Significance for New Testament Studies”
November 18, 3:00pm
Alumni
James Dvorak
Panelist for “New Testament Greek Language and Exegesis Greek Competence: Considerations for Scholars, Teachers, and Pastors”
November 18, 8:30am
Alumni
Joel Barker
Presenting “Paradise Regained: The Rhetorical Function of Joel’s Metaphor of Fruitfulness”
November 19, 1:00pm
Alumni
John Lee
Presenting ““Nor the Son”: Reading Mark 13:32 in Light of the Second Gospel as a Whole”
November 19, 1:00pm
Alumni
Francis Pang
Presenting ““Even the Son Does Not Know”: Mark 13:32 as Hermeneutical Key to the Markan Olivet Discourse”
November 19, 1:50pm
Student
Jacon S. Sheen
Presenting “Separation between Form and Function? A Suggestion for Criteria of Deponent Verbs with Implications for the Greek Voice System”
November 17, 10:10am
Student
Alexander Stewart
Presenting “Heaven Has No Sorrow That Earth Cannot Feel: The Ethics of Empathy and Ecological Suffering in the Old Testament”
November 17, 2:00pm
Student
Benjamin Montoya
Moderator for “Systematic Theology (General III)”
November 17, 2:00pm
Student
Steve Griffin
Panelist for “All in the Family of God: A Panel Discussion on Women and Men, Singles and Marrieds, Teaching and Serving Together”
November 17, 3:40pm
Student
Benjamin Montoya
Presenting “A. T. Robertson: the Giant, the Grammar, the Great Contribution, and the Great Mistake”
November 17, 8:30am
Student
Megan Roberts
Presenting “The Rule of Faith, Deep Exegesis, and the Old Testament: Exploring Integration”
November 17, 8:30am
Student
David Fuller
Presenting “Complaint and Redirection: A Register Analysis of Habakkuk 1:2–11”
November 17, 9:20am
Student
Woojin Chung
Presenting “Gender-Related Language in Bible Translation”
November 18, 3:00pm
Student
Chris Stevens
Presenting “Titus in P32 and Sinaiticus: Textual Reliability and Scribal Design”
November 18, 3:50pm
Student
Cynthia Chau
Presenting “Models for Resisting the Evil of Oppressive Governments: By Symbolically Being for the Good and By Obeying God and Following Conscience”
November 18, 8:30am
Student
Joshua Gardner
Presenting “Ambiguity in Prophetic Texts and Christian Hymnology”
November 19, 1:00pm
Student
Woojin Chung
Presenting “The Use of the Old Testament and the Synoptic Problem”
November 19, 1:00pm
Student
David Yoon
Presenting “The Scribal Use of Ektheses as Discourse Markers in the Galatians Text of Sinaiticus: Some Observations”
November 19, 3:30pm
The Institute for Biblical Research (IBR) will host their annual meeting starting Friday, November 20 and ending with a worship service on Sunday, November 22, 2015. MDC’s participants are listed below:
Faculty
Mark Boda
Introduction – IBR Annual Lecture
November 20, 7:00pm
Faculty
Cynthia Long Westfall
Introduction – IBR Worship Service
November 22, 7:30am
Faculty
Wendy Porter
Worship Leader – IBR Worship Service
November 22, 7:30am
Alumni
Joel Barker
Presenting “Where Does My Hope Come From? The Rhetorical Significance of
Exod 34:6–7 in the Book of the Twelve”
November 20, 4:00pm
Student
Alexander Breitkopf
Presenting “(Re)Signifying Creation: Viewpoint in Job as a Basis for a Christian Environmental Ethics”
November 20, 4:00pm
The Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) annual meetings is the largest gathering of scholars interested in the study of religion in the world. MDC will be respresented by the following faculty, alumni, and students:
Faculty
Claude Cox
Presenting “Translator as Author: The Old Greek Translator of Job”
November 22, 4:00pm
Faculty
Stanley Porter
Presenting “Greek Prepositions, Processes, and Cases in an SFL Framework”
November 22, 4:00pm
Faculty
Mary Conway
Presenting “Caleb Reproved, Achsah Approved: The Function of the Caleb-Achsah Vignette in the Structure of Judges 1:1-2:5”
November 22, 9:00am
Faculty
Mark Boda
Moderator for “The Role of Poetry in the Book of the Twelve”
November 22, 9:00am
Faculty
Mark Boda
Presenting “The “Theology” of the Book of Haggai”
November 23, 4:00pm
Faculty
Mark Boda
Moderator for “Rethinking Ancient Prayer: Cross Cultural Perspectives”
November 23, 9:00am
Alumni
Bryan Dyer
Presenting “The Maccabean Martyr Tradition and The Epistle of James”
November 21, 4:00pm
Alumni
Andrew Pitts
Presenting “The Genre of the Third Gospel and Greco-Roman Historiography: A Reconsideration”
November 22, 9:00am
Alumni
Hughson Ong
Presenting “Ethnography of Communication: Linking Text and Context in 1 Pet 2:11—3:12”
November 24, 9:00am
Student
Meghan Musy
Presenting “A Pentecostal Hearing of Psalmic Voices”
November 21, 1:00pm
Student
David Fuller
Presenting “From Prophet to Waiter: Habakkuk’s Cameo Appearance in the Apocryphal Additions to Daniel”
November 21, 4:00pm
Student
Meghan Musy
Presenting “Hearing Voices: Exploring Psalmic Multivocality as Lyric Poetry”
November 21, 4:00pm
Student
Adam Brown
Presenting “The “Messiah” According to the Aramaic Meturgeman of the Isaiah Targum”
November 22, 9:00am
Student
Jonathan Numada
Presenting “Legends of the Septuagint: Alexandria as Date with Jewish Destiny”
November 23, 1:00pm
Student
Dan Morrison
Presenting “Presentations of Parlance and Performance as Seen by Thyatira”
November 23, 9:00am
Student
Woojin Chung
Presenting “The Vorlage of the Formula Quotations in Matthew’s Infancy Narrative”
November 24, 9:00am
Best wishes to all of our representatives participating in the conferences this year!