Some Highlights From The SBL Program For 2010

Having looked briefly at the SBL program online, these groups and papers looked very interesting:

Homiletics and Biblical Studies
11/20/2010
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room TBD – Hotel TBD

Theme: Preaching From Mark
This session will be a panel presentation and discussion of preaching from the Gospel of Mark. Opportunity will be provided for open discussion.

Ruthanna Hooke, Virginia Theological Seminary, Presiding (5 min)
Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm, Bethany Theological Seminary, Panelist (20 min)
Emerson Powery, Messiah College, Panelist (20 min)
Luke Powery, Princeton Theological Seminary, Panelist
Katherine Grieb, Virginia Theological Seminary, Panelist (20 min)
David Bartlett, Columbia Theological Seminary, Panelist (20 min)
Break (5 min)
Discussion (30 min)
Break (5 min)
Discussion (25 min)

Matthew
11/20/2010
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room TBD – Hotel TBD

Theme: Matthew’s Gospel and Early Christianity: Studies in Memory of Professor Graham Stanton

Joel Willitts, North Park University, Presiding
Richard Burridge, King’s College – London
The Gospel of Jesus: Stanton, Biography and the Genre of Matthew (20 min)
Discussion (10 min)
J.R.C. Cousland, University of British Columbia
Graham Stanton and the Extra-Muros Hypothesis after 20 Years. Is it Viable? (20 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Wesley Olmstead, Briercrest College
A Gospel for a New Nation: Once More, the ethnos of Matthew 21.43 (20 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Peter M. Head, Tyndale House
Graham Stanton and the Four Gospel Codex: Reconsidering the Manuscript Evidence (20 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Anders Runesson, McMaster University
The Good, the Bad, and the Proselyte: Divine Judgment and ‘the Other’ in the Gospel of Matthew (20 min)
Discussion (10 min)

Pauline Epistles
11/20/2010
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room TBD – Hotel TBD

Terence Donaldson, Wycliffe College, Presiding
M. David Litwa, University of Virginia
Transformation through a Mirror: Moses in 2 Cor 3:18 (30 min)
Jonathan A. Linebaugh, Durham University
Announcing the Human: Rethinking the Relationship Between Romans 1.18-32 and Wisdom of Solomon 13-15 (30 min)
Christopher R. Bruno, Wheaton College
Eyewitness Testimony and the Jesus Tradition in Paul: The Sermon on the Mount as the Background to Philippians(30 min)
Tom McGlothlin, Duke University
Patristic Rhetorical Analyses of Romans 3:1-8/9 (30 min)
David Briones, Durham University
Does Obligation Corrupt the ‘Purity’ of the Gift?: Comparing Seneca’s De Beneficiis with Paul’s Letter to the Philippians (30 min)

Theological Hermeneutics of Christian Scripture
11/20/2010
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room TBD – Hotel TBD

Theme: History, Historicisms, and Theological Interpretation

Michael Gorman, Saint Mary’s Seminary and University, Presiding (5 min)
Raymond C. Van Leeuwen, Eastern University
The Quest for the Historical Leviathan: Truth and Method in Biblical Studies (30 min)
Joel B. Green, Fuller Theological Seminary
Rethinking “History” for Theological Interpretation (30 min)
Matthew Levering, University of Dayton
Augustine’s Theology of History (30 min)
Jeannine Brown, Bethel Theological Seminary (St. Paul, MN), Respondent (15 min)
Discussion (30 min)

Greek Bible
11/20/2010
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room TBD – Hotel TBD

Theme: The Greek Bible and Hermeneutics
This program will feature papers addressing the relation of hermeneutic theory to the exegesis of Greek biblical versions by contemporary scholars.

Robert J. V. Hiebert, Trinity Western University / GSTS
The Rationale for the Society of Biblical Literature Commentary on the Septuagint (30 min)
Dirk Büchner, Trinity Western University
Writing a Commentary on Septuagint Leviticus (30 min)
J. Ross Wagner, Princeton Theological Seminary
“Septuagint Hermeneutics” and Greek Isaiah (30 min)
W. Edward Glenny, Northwestern College -St. Paul
“Knowledge” in LXX Hosea (30 min)
Cameron Boyd-Taylor, University of Cambridge
Do translators always mean what they say? (30 min)

John, Jesus, and History
11/20/2010
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room TBD – Hotel TBD

Theme: Topical Session A: Glimpses of the Words of Jesus through the Johannine Lens

Jaime Clark-Soles, Perkins Theological Seminary, Presiding (5 min)
Peder Borgen, University of Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway. Emeritus
God’s Agent in the Fourth Gospel: Son, Prophet (like Moses?), Messiah, Son of Man, Logos? How Does the Judicial Agency Motif, as Developed in the Fourth Gospel, Cast Light upon the Mission of Jesus? (25 min)
Joerg Frey, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Eschatology and the Kingdom in the Fourth Gospel (25 min)
Jan Van der Watt, Radboud University of Nijmegen
What is Ethical according to the Johannine Jesus? (25 min)
Linda McKinnish Bridges, Wake Forest University
Agrarian Aphorisms in the Fourth Gospel (25 min)
Discussion (45 min)

Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Early Christianity
11/20/2010
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room TBD – Hotel TBD

Theme: Religious Experience in the Gospel of John

Alan Segal, Presiding
Robin Griffith-Jones, King’s College London / Temple Church
The new Temple’s new Liturgy: the Performance of John’s Gospel, its Setting and Effect (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Martijn Steegen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
The Eyewitness Testimony in John 19:35 as Mediation to Revelatory Experience of God (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Adele Reinhartz, University of Ottawa
Seeing the Word: The role of “this book” in the lived experience of the Johannine community (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Tom Thatcher, Cincinnati Christian University
Prophetic Speech and Sacred Time in Johannine and AntiChristian Religious Experience (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Esther Kobel, University of Basel
Experiencing the Meal: The Role of Johannine Meal Narratives in the Formation of Community Identity (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)

Historical Jesus
11/21/2010
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room TBD – Hotel TBD

Theme: Partnership or Polemic: Faith and History

Mark Powell, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Presiding
Darrell L. Bock, Dallas Theological Seminary
Faith and the Historical Jesus: Does A Confessional Position and Respect for the Jesus Tradition Preclude Serious Historical Engagement? (25 min)
Craig S. Keener, Palmer Theological Seminary of Eastern University
Methodological Assumptions in Historical Jesus Studies (25 min)
Robert Webb, McMaster University
The Rules of the Game: History and Historical Method in the Context of Faith (25 min)
Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University, Respondent (12 min)
Robert Miller, Juniata College, Respondent (12 min)
Break (6 min)
Discussion (45 min)

Pauline Soteriology
11/21/2010
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room TBD – Hotel TBD

Theme: The “Cosmos” in Paul’s Soteriology

Susan Eastman, Duke University, Presiding
Martin de Boer, Vrije Universiteit-Amsterdam
The Cross and The Cosmos in Galatians (40 min)
Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Princeton Theological Seminary
Neither Height nor Depth: Discerning the Cosmology of Romans (40 min)
Break (5 min)
Edward Adams, King’s College – London, Respondent (20 min)
Discussion (45 min)

Christian Theology and the Bible
11/21/2010
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room TBD – Hotel TBD

Theme: Book Review Panel of C. Kavin Rowe’s “World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age”

Stephen Fowl, Loyola College in Maryland, Presiding (10 min)
Beverly Gaventa, Princeton Theological Seminary, Panelist (25 min)
Robert Wall, Seattle Pacific University, Panelist (25 min)
Douglas Harink, Panelist (25 min)
Stephen Fowl, Loyola College in Maryland, Panelist (25 min)
Kavin Rowe, Duke University, Respondent (25 min)

Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity
11/23/2010
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room TBD – Hotel TBD

Theme: Is There Anything New Under the Sun? Assessing the Promise of Socio-Rhetorical Commentary For the Larger Enterprise of Biblical Interpretation

Roy A. Jeal, Booth College
Socio-rhetorical commentary on Colossians (30 min)
Charles Talbert, Baylor University, Respondent (15 min)
Fredrick Long, Asbury Theological Seminary
Socio-rhetorical commentary on Ephesians (30 min)
Klyne Snodgrass, Respondent (15 min)
Duane F. Watson, Malone University
Socio-rhetorical commentary on the Johannine Epistles (30 min)
Craig Keener, Respondent (15 min)
Discussion (15 min)