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The program book<\/a> for the Society of Biblical Literature 2012 Annual Meeting<\/a>\u00a0and the program book for the American Academy of Religion 2012 Annual Meeting<\/a>, which will take place together in Chicago in November, are both\u00a0now online<\/a>. I\u2019ll be reading one paper and serving on one panel at the SBL conference, and will be part of a group exploring the possibility of creating a new program unit at AAR. Here are the details of the sessions:<\/p>\n

S18-134<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism<\/strong><\/p>\n

11\/18\/2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:00 AM to 11:30 AM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Room:<\/strong>\u00a0S505a \u2013 McCormick Place<\/p>\n

Theme:\u00a0Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism: New Work<\/em><\/p>\n

Nicola Denzey Lewis, Brown University, Presiding<\/p>\n

Michael Kaler, York University<\/p>\n

Religious Experience and the Gospel of Truth<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(30 min)<\/p>\n

Eric Cr\u00e9gheur, Universit\u00e9 Laval<\/p>\n

The motif of the five trees in the \u201cGospel of Thomas\u201d and in ancient literature<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(30 min)<\/p>\n

Marvin Meyer, Chapman University<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Stranger from Codex Tchacos and the Gospel of Mary: More Fragments of the Tchacos Book of Allogenes\u201d<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(30 min)<\/p>\n

Kathleen Gibbons, University of Toronto<\/p>\n

Valentinus\u2019 Moral Psychology<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(30 min)<\/p>\n

James F. McGrath, Butler University<\/p>\n

Revisiting the Relationship between the Mandaean Book of John and the New Testament<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(30 min)<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the abstract for the above paper:<\/p>\n

During the first half of the twentieth century, there were circles in which one could practically take for granted that Mandaean sources stemmed from followers of John the Baptist, and thus provided the background for at least some sections of early Christianity (as Rudolf Bultmann famously maintained in relation to the Gospel of John, for instance). The tide turned against this view, and not without reason. But for the most part the specific claims made by critics of that stance did not do justice to the Mandaean sources any more than the scholars whose views they opposed. Since then, additional Mandaean texts have been published, and English translations of works previously unavailable in English are underway. Moreover, since then the Nag Hammadi texts have been published and allow for the question of the relationship between Mandaean and Christian sources, and between Mandaeism and Christianity, to be correlated with other Gnostic sources that were not available in the time of Reitzenstein and Bultmann on the one hand, and their critics such as Dodd on the other. On the one hand, the date of the Mandaean sources makes it inherently more likely that similarities and overlaps with New Testament texts are due to interaction with those texts and with Christianity on the part of the Mandaeans, rather than vice versa. On the other hand, many features of the Mandaean treatment of the figure of John the Baptist, his parents, and his wife and children, are not easily accounted for in these terms. This paper examines whether dependence in one direction or another, mutual dependence on earlier tradition, or some combination of all of these types of interaction best accounts for the similarities and differences between the Mandaean Book of John and the Gospels of Luke and John in the New Testament in particular.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s the panel session:<\/p>\n

S17-330<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Now Presenting: Preparing, Submitting & Delivering Conference Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n

11\/17\/2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

4:00 PM to 5:15 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Room:<\/strong>\u00a0N134 \u2013 McCormick Place<\/p>\n

Theme:\u00a0Hosted by the SBL Student Advisory Board<\/em><\/p>\n

Presenting at a conference entails much more than the brief delivery of an academic paper. In this session, our esteemed panelists will discuss how to successfully navigate the process of proposing and presenting your work. In particular, they will discuss the ins-and-outs of composing and submitting an abstract as well as the do\u2019s and don\u2019ts of stepping on stage to deliver the final product. If you plan to be a participant in the SBL and\/or other academic conferences, you will not want to miss the insights offered in this session sponsored by the SAB.<\/p>\n

T. Michael W. Halcomb, Asbury Theological Seminary, Presiding<\/p>\n

Clare K. Rothschild, Lewis University, Panelist (20 min)<\/p>\n

James McGrath, Butler University, Panelist (20 min)<\/p>\n

David R. Bauer, Asbury Theological Seminary, Panelist (20 min)<\/p>\n

Discussion (15 min)<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the one from AAR:<\/p>\n

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A18-233<\/strong><\/div>\n
Exploratory Sessions<\/div>\n
Theme:\u00a0Late Antiquity East<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Jorunn Buckley, Bowdoin College, Presiding<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sunday \u2013 1:00 PM-2:30 PM<\/div>\n
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Scholars who work in \u201cLate Antiquity East\u201d have long been somewhat homeless in the AAR \/SBL. There is no Zoroastrian slot anymore, nor a Manichaean one. We aim to gather interested fellow-scholars for a consultation at the AAR Annual meeting in Chicago, Nov 2012, to discuss how we can establish a new unit in the AAR for our interrelated fields of study. We are not Bible-oriented, but work in areas such as: eastern forms of early Christianity, Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism, late Babylonian religion, Jewish eastern traditions, and Mandaeism.<\/div>\n
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Panelists:<\/p>\n

James McGrath, Butler University<\/div>\n
Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College<\/div>\n
Yuhan Vevaina, Stanford University<\/div>\n
Charles H\u00e4berl, Rutgers University<\/div>\n
Zsuzsanna Gul\u00e1csi, Northern Arizona University<\/div>\n
John Reeves, University of North Carolina, Charlotte<\/div>\n
Alexander Treiger, Dalhousie University<\/div>\n
Jason BeDuhn, Northern Arizona University<\/div>\n
Jennifer Hart, Stanford University<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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