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 Denver, Colorado. The meetings span two weeks, starting Tuesday, November 15, 2022 and ending on Tuesday, November 22, 2022. Find a detailed list of MDC participants below:


ETS 74th Annual Meeting – November 15-17, 2022

Faculty Participants

Stanley E. Porter, President & Dean
Tuesday, November 15, 9:00 AM – 12:10 PM
Moderator: New Testament Greek Language and Exegesis

Tuesday, November 15, 3:40 PM – 4:20 PM
What is the Basis of Dodd’s Realized Eschatology?

Wednesday, November 16, 8:30 AM – 9:10 AM
The Dating Game: The 2022 Edition for New Testament Manuscripts

Mark J. Boda, Professor of Old Testament
Wednesday, November 16, 10:10 AM – 10:50 AM
Continuity and Discontinuity as Legitimation in the Early Persian Imperial Context and Ezra 1-6

Wednesday, November 16, 5:30 PM – 6:10 PM
Justice in Zechariah

Thursday, November 17, 1:30 PM – 4:40 PM
Moderator: Old Testament Theology, Review of M. Daniel Carroll R.’s The Lord Roars

August H. Konkel, Professor of Old Testament
Wednesday, November 16, 11:00 AM – 11:40 AM
Justice for a geber: The Hiddenness of Wisdom in Job

Cynthia Long Westfall, Associate Professor of New Testament
Wednesday, November 16, 3:00 PM – 6:10 PM
Moderator: Evangelicals and Women: Songs of Women in the Bible

 

Student Participants

Matthew Bovard
Tuesday, November 15, 11:30 AM – 12:10 PM
Doxological and Didactic: A Comparison of Jeremiah 10:1–16 in the Hebrew and Greek Traditions

Jihyung Kim
Tuesday, November 15, 2:00 PM – 5:10 PM
Moderator: New Testament Hebrews

Tuesday, November 15, 2:00 PM – 5:10 PM
The Function of Abel and His Offering in Hebrews 12:24

Jae-Seung Lim
Tuesday, November 15, 2:00 PM – 5:10 PM
Places Where We Were Made Holy: Two Tabernacles in the Book of Hebrews

Sung Min Park
Tuesday, November 15, 10:40 AM – 11:20 AM
The Patterns of the Variances of Nomina Sacra: Sacred Language Ideology of the Early Church

 

Alumni Participants

Joel Barker
Thursday, November 17, 4:00 PM – 4:40 PM
Holiness in Matrimony: Theological Reflections on the Case of Suspected Infidelity (Num 5:11-31)

Jennifer Brown Jones
Tuesday, November 15, 10:40 AM – 11:20 AM
The Baby and the Bathwater: The Interlinear Paradigm, Polysystem Theory, and the Greek Psalter

David I. Yoon
Wednesday, November 16, 9:10 AM – 9:40 AM
Honor-Shame, Hierarchy, and the Antioch Incident: How Paul’s Conviction Subverts Cultural Norms


SBL & AAR Annual Meeting – November 19-22, 2022

Faculty Participants

Mark J. Boda, Professor of Old Testament
Saturday, November 19, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Respondent: Climate and Weather in the Bible

Monday, November 21, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Panelist: Review of Dalit Rom-Shiloni’s Voices from the Ruins

Monday, November 21, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Presiding: Nature Imagery in the Prophets

James D. Dvorak, Vice President Academic & Professor of New Testament
Saturday, November 19, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
‘Refresh My Heart in the Messiah’: The Language of Social Identity (Re-)Formation in Philemon

Sunday, November 20, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Presiding: SBL Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics Section

Paul S. Evans, Associate Professor of Old Testament
Saturday, November 19, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
A Dis-chronological Reading of the Hezekiah-Sennacherib Narrative in 2 Kgs 18:13–19:37 in Light of Known Assyrian Negotiations for Wanted Persons

Cynthia Long Westfall, Associate Professor of New Testament
IBR: Friday, November 18, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Am I Not an Apostle? Authorship and the Signs of an Apostle

Saturday, November 19, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Presiding: Book Review Panel of Stefan Alkier and David M. Moffitt, New Testament Basics: A Guide for Reading and Interpreting the Text (Fortress, 2022)

Claude Cox, Adjunct Professor
Saturday, November 19, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
A New, Critical Edition of Armenian Deuteronomy, Forty Years after Its “Diplomatic” Predecessor: Reflections and Results of a New Collation 

Student Participants

Julie Dykes
Saturday, November 19, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
When the Clay Talks Back: What the Potter/Clay Metaphor in Isaiah 40–66 Reveals about Humanity’s Relationship to God

Jihyung Kim
Saturday, November 19, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Memory as a Possible Means of Hebrews’ Quotation of the Old Testament: Hebrews 1 as a Test Case 

Yan Ma
Sunday, November 20, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
A Methodological Proposal for New Testament Discourse Analysis: Rhetorical Structure Theory and Its Application to John 8:31–59

Sunday, November 20, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Learning Style Approaches in Christian Education

Vinh T. Nguyen
Monday, November 21, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
The Integrity of Philippians: An Examination of Letter Collection Practices in Antiquity

Goran Zivkovic
Saturday, November 19, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Rites of Passage Reimagined: The Transformative Function of Imagined Rituals in the Haggai–Zechariah 1–8 Corpus

Sunday, November 20, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Rites of Space Passage: Ritual Production of Space in Zechariah 7–8

Alumni Participants

Traci Birge
(IBR) Friday, November 18, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Exegesis of Exodus 4:24–26 

Sunday, November 20, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Respondent in Session on Approaches and Their Case Studies

Esther G. Cen
Sunday, November 20, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Discourse, Identity, and Power: What 1 Cor 1:10–4:21 Does

Caroline Schleier Cutler
Saturday, November 19, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Biblical Scholars Working to Be Better Allies: Reading the Gospel of Mark in Solidarity with the Harry Potter Audience

Zachary K. Dawson
Sunday, November 20, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Modeling Transitivity for Characterization Analysis in New Testament Greek with Application to Acts 10:1–11:18

Megan Roberts
Saturday, November 19, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Memory Formation as Spiritual Formation: Broken Memory and Isaiah’s Vision of Comfort

Darlene Seal
Saturday, November 19, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Shaping Social Identity through Language: A Methodological Proposal and Application to 1 Cor 10:1–22 in Its Discourse Context

Saturday, November 19, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
“These Things Were Written for Us”: Scriptural Re-interpretation and Social Creativity in the Corinthian Letters

Beth Stovell
(IBR) Friday, November 18, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Change and the Book of the Twelve

Saturday, November 19, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Respondent: Emotions in the Psalter

Saturday, November 19, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Presiding: Reading Biblical Hebrew Poetry and the World in front of the Text

Xiaxia Xue
(IBR) Friday, November 18, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Reading the Bible with the East Asian Church

Saturday, November 19, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Presiding: SBL Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics Section (Theme TBA)


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