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$\"\"$ I\u2019m back home safe and sound from the conference in Chicago. I expect that blogging not related to the conference<\/a> will resume pretty much immediately, and I may try to go back and blog about some of the highlights which I have not managed to yet, if there is interest. John Dominic Crossan\u2019s keynote address was great, on Eastern iconography depicting the resurrection. Simply meeting people for the first time face to face \u2013 such as Steve Wiggins<\/a>, and Christopher Skinner, who introduced himself at what is without a doubt the best AAR\/SBL party two years running, namely that hosted by Wipf and Stock. Or meeting and having a chance to chat with people I already knew \u2013 Larry Hurtado, Nathan MacDonald, Steve Walton, Ken Schenck<\/a>,\u00a0 Robin Parry<\/a>, and many others \u2013 including especially those also interested in and\/or involved in the project on the Mandaean Book of John, including Charles Haberl, April DeConick, Jorunn Buckley, Jennifer Hart, Yuhan Vevaina, and others. Sorry that even so there are some<\/a> people<\/a> I didn\u2019t talk to \u2013 including Jim Linville<\/a>, who posted one of the most important updates about the conference<\/a>! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

There are lots<\/a> of<\/a> links<\/a> I want to offer to other<\/a> blogs<\/a>, about events that I missed. Some I\u2019ve already spotted include Jim Davila\u2019s<\/a> paper<\/a> and a video of Joel Watts\u2019 presentation<\/a>. But there are surely more out there. Since I have 621 unread posts on blogs I subscribe to, it may take a few minutes to get properly caught up\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"