McMaster Divinity College is proud to have a large number of its faculty, students, and alumni presenting papers and participating at this year’s annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), Institute of Biblical Research (IBR), and Society of Biblical Literature (SBL).
Below are the participants representing MDC:
| Name | Faculty/ Student/ Alum | Topic | Date | Time | Session | ETS/ IBR/ SBL |
| Cynthia Long Westfall | Faculty | Moderator | 13-Nov | 9:00am to 12:10pm | Evangelicals and Gender in Biblical Perspective | ETS |
| Esther Cen | Student | Hearing the Medieval Byzantine Greek Lectionary MSS | 13-Nov | 9:50am to 10:30am | Church History Medieval Era | ETS |
| Mary Conway | Faculty | Gender in Genesis 1-3 in Conversations with 1 Timothy 2 | 13-Nov | 9:00am to 9:40am | Evangelicals and Gender in Biblical Perspective | ETS |
| Cynthia Long Westfall | Faculty | Moderator | 13-Nov | 9:00am to 9:40am | Evangelicals and Gender in Biblical Perspective | ETS |
| Matthew Rowley | Student | Early Evangelical Pneumatology in the Sermons of George Whitefield | 13-Nov | 9:50am to 10:30am | Holy Spirit – Church History | ETS |
| Stanley Porter | Faculty | The Language of John’s Gospel and Revelation: What do the Similarities Tell Us? | 13-Nov | 9:00am to 12:10pm | Johannine Literature | ETS |
| Ji Hoe Kim | Student | Hallidayan Approach to Orality and Textuality and Its Implications for Synoptic Gospel Studies | 13-Nov | 11:30am to 12:10pm | Synoptic Gospels | ETS |
| Cynthia Long Westfall | Faculty | Moderator | 13-Nov | 2:00pm to 5:10pm | Evangelicals and Gender: Sexual Abuse, Gender and Power | ETS |
| Michael Knowles | Faculty | Homiletics, Speech Act Theory, and the Spirit of God | 13-Nov | 3:40pm to 4:20pm | Holy Spirit – Practical Theology Homiletics | ETS |
| Jennifer Brown Jones | Student | Coded Critique, Validating Vestments: Joshua’s Garments in Zechariah 3 | 13-Nov | 2:50pm to 3:30pm | Old Testament Minor Prophets and Daniel | ETS |
| Stanley Porter | Faculty | Romans 5:1: What a Difference an O can Make | 13-Nov | 3:40pm to 4:20 pm | New Testament Greek Language and Exegesis | ETS |
| Simon Knighten | Student | Moderator | 14-Nov | 8:30am to 11:40am | Practical Theology Pastoral Leadership | ETS |
| Vinh Nguyen | Student | Paul and the Kingdom Program: CDA as Interlocutor for Biblical Studies and Stesematic Theology | 14-Nov | 8:30am to 9:10am | New Testament Pauline Literature | ETS |
| Christopher Land. & Francis Pang | Faculty | Open Tools for Open Annotation: Open Text.org Resources for Analyzing and Teaching Greek | 14-Nov | 8:30am to 11:40am | New Testament Greek | ETS |
| Chris Stevens | Student | The Orthodox Corruption of Prepositions: Grammar, Theology, or Evangelical Ideology? | 14-Nov | 9:20am to 10:00am | New Testament Greek Language and Exegesis | ETS |
| David Yoon | Alumni | Speech Functions and Speech Acts: An Examinations of of the Tenor of Galatians 1:6-12 | 14-Nov | 10:10am to 10:50am | New Testament Greek Language and Exegesis | ETS |
| Darlene Seal | Student | Negotiating Christian Identity: A Social Identity Analysis of Paul’s Strategy in 1 Cor 10:1-22 | 14-Nov | 10:10am to 11:40am | New Testament Pauline Literature | ETS |
| Jennifer Brown Jones | Student | Moderator | 14-Nov | 3:00pm to 6:10pm | Septuagint Studies | ETS |
| Stanley Porter | Faculty | Moderator | 14-Nov | 3:00pm to 6:00 pm | New Testament Canon, Textual Criticism & Apocryphal Literature | ETS |
| Bryan Dyer | Alumni | Faith in the Face of Death: Hebrews 11 and Its Rhetorical Strategy | 14-Nov | 3:50pm to 4:30pm | Letter to the Hebrews | ETS |
| Mark Boda | Faculty | Bridging the Gap: Zephaniah’s Rhetorical Role for the Haggai-Malachi Corpus | 15-Nov | 1:00pm to 1:40pm | Old Testament Prophetic and Apocalyptic Books; Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi Omni – South County |
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| Steven Studebaker | Faculty | A Barthian and Pentecostal Turn to the Holy Spirit in the Doctrine of the Trinity | 15-Nov | 1:35pm to 2:05pm | Karl Barth, the Holy Spirit and Pentecostal Systematic Theology | ETS |
| Andrew Gabriel | Alumni | The Spirit and the Divine Attributes: Pentecostals and Barth on (Im)mutability & (Im)passibility | 15-Nov | 2:05pm to 2:35pm | Karl Barth, the Holy Spirit, and Pentecostal Systematic Theology | ETS |
| Beth Stovell | Alumni | Not by Might, Nor by Power, But by My Spirit: Conceptualizing God’s Spirit and Presence in Zechariah | 15-Nov | 2:40pm to 3:20pm | Old Testament Prophetic and Apocalyptic Books | ETS |
| Stanley Porter | Faculty | Beware of Philippians 3:2: Reconsidering a Supposed Imperative | 15-Nov | 3:30pm to 4:10pm | Pauline Studies | ETS |
| Colin Toffelmire | Alumni | Presiding | 16-Nov | 3:30pm to 5:30pm | Book of the Twelve Prophets in Biblical Scholarship | IBR |
| Joel Barker | Alumni | The Place of Zion in the Political Landscape of the Twelve | 16-Nov | 3:30pm to 5:30pm | Book of the Twelve Prophets in Biblical Scholarship | IBR |
| Wally Cirafesi | Alumni | Jewishness as Geneology in the Fourth Gospel: Situating John’s loudaioi within Debates over Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism | 16-Nov | 3:30pm to 5:30pm | Early Christian Judaism | IBR |
| Alexander Breitkopf | Alumni | Presiding | 16-Nov | 3:30pm to 5:30pm | Ecological Ethics and Biblical Studies | IBR |
| Alexander Stewart | Student | Introducing | 16-Nov | 3:30pm to 5:30pm | Ecological Ethics and Biblical Studies | IBR |
| Stanley Porter | Faculty | Reflections from the Co-editor of “Pillars in the History of Biblical Interpretation,” Vols 1 and 2 | 16-Nov | 3:30pm to 5:30pm | History of Biblical Interpretation | IBR |
| James Dvorak | Alumni | The Linguistics of Social Identity (Re-)Formation | 16-Nov | 3:30pm to 5:30pm | Identity Formation in the New Testament | IBR |
| Marina Hofman Willard | Alumni | Understanding Violence and Divine Activity in Exodus in the Context of the Midwives’ Narrative in Exodus 1 | 16-Nov | 3:30pm to 5:30pm | The Pentateuch | IBR |
| Ambrose Thomson | Student | Voiceless Idols, Speaking People: 1 Corinthians 12-14 and the Accessibility of Divine Presence | 16-Nov | 3:30pm to 5:30pm | Emerging Scholarship on the New Testament | IBR |
| Alexander Stewart | Student | Pathos in the Cosmos of Amos: How Creation Rhetoric Shapes the Emotions of Ethical Character in the Old Testament | 17-Nov | 1:00pm to 3:30pm | Emotional Upheavals in Biblical Literature | SBL |
| Cynthia Long Westfall | Faculty | Texts and Social Contexts: Sets of Possibilities for Pauline Texts Concerning Gender | 17-Nov | 1:00pm to 3:30pm | Language and Exegesis in Context and Culture | SBL |
| Bryan Dyer | Alumni | Moving from a Text to Its Context: Mirror-Reading, Semantic Domains, and Context of Situation | 17-Nov | 1:00pm to 3:30pm | Language and Exegesis in Context and Culture | SBL |
| Xiaxia Xue | Alumni | Mood and Ideology in Galations 1-2 | 17-Nov | 1:00pm to 3:30pm | Language and Exegesis in Context and Culture | SBL |
| Mark Boda | Faculty | Moderator | 17-Nov | 4:00pm to 6:30pm | Lions, Leopards, Bears from the Forest and the Thickets of the Jordan: Nature Imagery and Images in Biblical Poetry | SBL |
| Meghan Musy | Alumni | “How Blessed Will Be the One Who Repays You”: Finding a Place for Imprecation in Preaching | 17-Nov | 4:00pm to 6:30pm | Preaching the Psalms of Lament | SBL |
| Esther Cen | Student | The Metaphor Of Leaven in 1 Corinthians 5 | 18-Nov | 9:00am to 11:30am | Intertextuality in the Pauline Letters | SBL |
| Jason Jung | Student | Rethinking the Method Lexical Analysis: From Understanding to Translating of λογίζομαι in Romans 4 | 18-Nov | 1:00pm to 3:30pm | Greek Lexicography | SBL |
| Wally Cirafesi | Alumni | Aposynagōgo, Jewishness, and the Battle for the Public Assembly: John’s Ethnography of the Synagogue in Light of Greco-Roman Public Institutions | 18-Nov | 4:00pm to 6:30pm | Current Readings of John 9: Martyn’s Interpretation and Beyond | SBL |
| Gregory Fewster | Alumni | Philological Fervour and the Myth of an Alexandrian Revision of the corpus Paulinum | 19-Nov | 9:00am to 11:30am | Myths of Origins and Canon-Making | SBL |
| Jennifer Jones | Student | Life with the Least of These: A Conversation with Michael Gorman and Jean Vanier | 19-Nov | 1:00pm to 3:30pm | Biblical Models for Inclusion and Healthy Relationships, Part 2 | SBL |
| Wally Cirafesi | Alumni | The Place of Priests in the Ancient Synagogue | 19-Nov | 1:00pm to 3:30pm | Making Priests: Intersections of Discourse and Practice in the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman Eastern Mediterranean | SBL |
| Paul Evans | Faculty | The Challenges of Assessing War: The Success and Failure of Sennacherib’s 701 BCE Campaign in Light of the War of 1812 | 19-Nov | 1:00pm to 3:30pm | Historiography and the Hebrew Bible Section | SBL |
| Bryan Fletcher | Student | Voice in the Greek of the New Testament | 19-Nov | 9:00am to 11:30am | Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics | SBL |
| John Lee | Student | Engaging with the Homogeneous Unit Principle Based on a Linguistic Investigation of Ephesians 2:11-22 | 19-Nov | 9:00am to 11:30am | Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics | SBL |
| Ryder Wishart | Student | Describing the Structure of Greek: What Inflectional Pardigms Tell Us About Syntax | 19-Nov | 9:00am to 11:30am | Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics | SBL |
| Zachary Dawson | Student | Does Luke’s Preface Resemble a Greek Decree? Comparing the Papyrological and Epigraphical Evidence of Greek Decrees with Ancient Preface Formulae | 20-Nov | 9:00am to 11:45am | Payrology and Early Christian Backgrounds | SBL |
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