Society of Biblical Literature Conference, San Diego, 2014

omotes an ‘apocalyptic theology’. However, there is little agreement on what this means. Scholars from different perspectives have, as a result, continued to talk past each other. This special session provides an opportunity for leading Pauline scholars from different perspectives to engage in discussion about the meaning of Paul as an apocalyptic thinker. Indeed, one of the strengths and aims of this event is that different and opposing views are set next to each other. The session will hopefully bring greater clarity to the ‘apocalyptic’ reading of Paul by providing much needed definition to central terms and interpretive approaches and by highlighting both their strengths and weaknesses.

Session 1
Jason Maston, Highland Theological College, Presiding
Jason Maston, Highland Theological College, Welcome (5 min)
M. C. de Boer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – VU University Amsterdam
Apocalyptic as Eschatological Activity (25 min)
N.T. Wright, University of St. Andrews
Apocalyptic as Sudden Fulfilment of Divine Promise (25 min)
Loren Stuckenbruck, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Apocalypticism in Second Temple Judaism (25 min)
Philip Ziegler, University of Aberdeen
Apocalypticism in Modern Theology (25 min)
Discussion (15 min)
Break (15 min)
Session 2
Ben Blackwell, Houston Baptist University, Presiding
Michael Gorman, Saint Mary’s Seminary and University
The Apocalyptic New Covenant and the Shape of Life in the Spirit (25 min)
Edith Humphrey, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Apocalypse as Theoria in Paul: A New Perspective on Apocalyptic as Mother of Theology (25 min)
Douglas Campbell, Duke University
Paul’s Apocalyptic Epistemology (25 min)
Beverly Gaventa, Baylor University
Romans 9–11: An Apocalyptic Reading (25 min)
John Barclay, University of Durham
Apocalyptic Investments: First Corinthians 7 and Pauline Ethics (25 min)
Discussion (20 min)
Word of Thanks, Book Promotion, and Adjournment: John Goodrich, Moody Bible Institute

Institute for Biblical Research
11/21/2014
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Room: 202 B (Level 2 (Indigo)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Emerging Scholarship on the New Testament
This session showcases emerging New Testament scholars sponsored by Fellows of the Institute of Biblical Research. All are welcome to attend the session. Summaries of the papers will be read at the session leaving opportunity for discussion. Full papers will be available at the Institute of Biblical Research website: http://www.ibr-bbr.org/ (click on Emerging Scholarship on the New Testament Group) no later than October 1, 2014. For information on this session please contact Ruth Anne Reese (ruthanne.reese@asburyseminary.edu).

Ruth Anne Reese, Asbury Theological Seminary, Presiding
Drew Strait, University of Pretoria
Of Gods and Kings: Early Judaism, Ruler Cults, and Paul’s Polemic against Semasmata in Acts 17:23 (10 min)
Discussion (20 min)
Terri Moore, Dallas Theological Seminary
The Mysteries and 1 Cor 15:29: Comparative Methodology and Contextual Exegesis (10 min)
Discussion (20 min)
Luke Tsai, Dallas Theological Seminary
It’s Affordable: The Cost of Civil Litigation in First-Century Roman Corinth (10 min)
Discussion (20 min)
Phillip Strickland, McMaster Divinity College
“Le style, c’est l’homme”: The Use of Literary Stylistics in the Defense of Lukan Authorship of Hebrews—A Critical Assessment (10 min)
Discussion (20 min)

Inventing Christianity
11/22/2014
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Sapphire Ballroom P (Level 4 (Sapphire)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Competing Christianities in North Africa

Laurence Welborn, Fordham University, Presiding
Outi Lehtipuu, University of Helsinki
Who Has the Right to Be Called a Christian? The Politics of Inventing Christian Identity in Tertullian’s On the Prescription of Heretics (30 min)
Patout Burns, Vanderbilt University
Self-Identity through Competition: The Development of African Ecclesiology (30 min)
Geoffrey D. Dunn, Australian Catholic University
Disputed Christian Identities in North Africa: A View of the Current Landscape (30 min)
Discussion (30 min)
Business Meeting (30 min)

Paul and Politics
11/22/2014
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room 31 B (Upper level) – San Diego Convention Center (CC)

Katherine Shaner, Wake Forest University, Presiding
Ben Dunning, Fordham University
Paul, Bodily Difference, and the Politics of the Universal: Reading Romans 7 with and against Contemporary Philosophers (25 min)
Shelly Matthews, Brite Divinity School (TCU)
‘Who Really Cares That Paul Was Not a Gender Egalitarian after All?’: Thinking through the Question with the Unveiled Corinthian Women Prophets (25 min)
Eric A. Thomas, Drew University
Practicing Porneia: Inappropriating 1 Cor 6:9-20 for Erotic Justice (25 min)
Anna Miller, Xavier University
“All the City Was Shaken”: Women’s Speech and Ancient Political Discourse in the Acts of Paul and Thecla and 1 Corinthians (25 min)
Crystal L. Hall , Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
Paul’s Collection and the Body Politics of Empire (25 min)
Discussion (25 min)

Pauline Epistles
11/22/2014
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: 410 B (Level 4 (Sapphire)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Paul’s Judaism

R. Barry Matlock, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Presiding
Matthew Novenson, University of Edinburgh
Did Paul Conceive of Such a Thing as Judaism? (25 min)
Matthew Thiessen, Saint Louis University
Christ, the Seed of Abraham (25 min)
William Sanger Campbell, The College of St. Scholastica
Paul’s Judaism and the Jesus Movement (25 min)
Tyler A. Stewart, Marquette University
Fallen Angels, Bastard Spirits, and the Birth of God’s Son: An Enochic Etiology of Evil in Gal 3:19–4:11 (25 min)
James Ware, University of Evansville
The Coherence of Paul’s Theology of the Law in Romans 2–3: A New Proposal (25 min)

Social Scientific Criticism of the New Testament; Meals in the Greco-Roman World; Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible
Joint Session With: Social Scientific Criticism of the New Testament, Meals in the Greco-Roman World
11/22/2014
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Room: Room 17 B (Mezzanine level) – San Diego Convention Center (CC)

Theme: Food in Antiquity

Zeba Crook, Carleton University, Presiding
Philip Tite, University of Washington
Roman Diet and Meat Consumption: Reassessing Elite Access to Meat in 1 Corinthians 8 (25 min)
Andrew McGowan, Yale Divinity School
Knowing the Color of One’s Bread: How Forms and Types of Bread Reflected and Created Ancient Social Structures(25 min)
Break (10 min)
Alicia Batten, Conrad Grebel University College
Fish for Thought in the Early Church (25 min)
Michel Desjardins, Wilfrid Laurier University, Respondent (25 min)
Discussion (10 min)

Bible and Popular Culture
11/22/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room 11 A (Upper level) – San Diego Convention Center (CC)

Theme: Graphic Novels, Punk Rock, and Decolonizing the Bible? Oh My!

Valarie Ziegler, DePauw University, Presiding
Paul Robertson, Colby-Sawyer College
Biblical Myth and “The Encyclopedia of Early Earth” (2013): Modernity and Re-Telling in the Graphic Novel (30 min)
Jacob D. Myers, Emory University
Apocalyptic Power; Dystopian Hope: John of Patmos and Paul the Apostle in Conversation with Young Adult Fiction(30 min)
Elizabeth Rae Coody, University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology
Punk Rock Paul: The Cross as a ‘Dumb’ Symbol in Comics and Paul’s Epistles (30 min)
Heidi Epstein, University of Saskatchewan
My Beloved is a Bass Line: “De-colonial,” Pop Musical Interventions in the Politics of Love as a Cultural Practice (30 min)
Business Meeting (30 min)

Biblical Literature and the Hermeneutics of Trauma
11/22/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Sapphire Ballroom A (Level 4 (Sapphire)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Hermeneutics of Trauma in Biblical Studies and Theology
This session includes two theologians and two pastoral theologians presenting on how interpreting biblical texts through the lens of trauma studies benefits theological and pastoral theological work. The session is co-sponsored by the AAR section “Bible, Theology and Post-modernity.”

Christopher Frechette, Boston College, Presiding
Peter Yuichi Clark, UCSF Medical Center & American Baptist Seminary of the West (GTU)
Toward a Pastoral Reading of 2 Corinthians as a Memoir of PTSD and Healing (30 min)
Philip Browning Helsel, Princeton Theological Seminary
Shared Bodily Pleasure as a Treatment for Trauma: Modern Body Therapies and Ecclesiastes’ Injunction to Enjoyment (30 min)
Shelly Rambo, Boston University
Resurrecting Wounds: John 20:24–29, Trauma Theory, and the Doctrine of Resurrection (30 min)
Robert Schreiter, Catholic Theological Union
Reading Biblical Texts through the Lens of Resilience (30 min)
Discussion (30 min)

Development of Early Christian Theology
11/22/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room 30 B (Upper level) – San Diego Convention Center (CC)

Theme: The Spirit in the Early Church: Accounts of the Spirit in the Early Church

Mark Weedman, Johnson University, Presiding
Ben C. Blackwell, Houston Baptist University
Irenaeus on the Deification of Believers and the Divinity of the Spirit (25 min)
Kellen Plaxco, Marquette University
The Place of the Spirit in Origen’s Taxological Grammar of Participation (25 min)
Jonathan Morgan, Toccoa Falls College
Circumcision of the Spirit: Type and Pneumatology in Cyril of Alexandria (25 min)
David Kneip, Abilene Christian University
The Spirit and the Bible in Alexandria: Cyril and Didymus (25 min)
Paul M. Pasquesi, Marquette University
Reclaiming the Divine Feminine: Re-Reception of the Holy Spirit in the Divine Economy (25 min)
Discussion (25 min)

Greco-Roman Religions
11/22/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: 502 B (Level 5 (Cobalt)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: The Cults of Demeter

James Hanges, Miami University, Presiding (5 min)
Teresa Morgan, University of Oxford
Chippings from the Laughterless Rock: Popular Perceptions of Demeter and Her Cult (25 min)
Jill E. Marshall, Emory University
Inscribing Power: Curse Tablets and Temple Building in the Corinthian Sanctuary of Demeter (25 min)
Nancy Evans, Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
Demeter as Focal Point; Eleusis as Mirror (25 min)
Discussion (40 min)
Business Meeting (30 min)

Latter-day Saints and the Bible
11/22/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room 24 B (Upper level) – San Diego Convention Center (CC)

Eric Huntsman, Brigham Young University, Presiding
Avram R. Shannon, Ohio State University
Mormons and Midrash: Narrative Expansion as Interpretation in Mormonism and Early Judaism (20 min)
Tod R. Harris, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Taking a Different View of the Translation”: The Illumination of Alternative Meanings in the Bible Translations of Joseph Smith and Meister Eckhart (20 min)
Jared W. Ludlow, Brigham Young University
Joseph Smith as a Narrator in the Joseph Smith Translation (20 min)
Discussion (15 min)
Shon D. Hopkin, Brigham Young University
Deuteronomistic History and the Latter-day Saints (20 min)
Lynne Hilton Wilson, LDS Stanford Institute
The Female Rite of Wearing a Veil in 1 Cor 11:2–13 (20 min)
Robert M. Bowman Jr., Institute for Religious Research
The Temple Setting of the Sermon on the Mount in the Book of Mormon: A Hermeneutical Key? (20 min)
Discussion (15 min)

LGBT/Queer Hermeneutics
11/22/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: 400 B (Level 4 (Sapphire)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Pauline Letters: A Queer Turn

Lynn Huber, Elon University, Presiding (2 min)
Heather White, New College of Florida
Inventing the “Clobber Texts”: Biblical Interpretation and Modern Sexual Identity (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
David Tabb Stewart, California State University – Long Beach
Against Nature (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Kjeld Renato Lings, Other Sheep Europe
Toxic Translations: The Extensive Use of Sexual Anachronisms in 1 Corinthians 6 (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Joseph A. Marchal, Ball State University
“Queer(ing) Children of God: Sideways Angles on a Pauline Metaphor?” (25 min)
Discussion (13 min)
Business Meeting (20 min)

Rhetoric and the New Testament
11/22/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: 501 C (Level 5 (Cobalt)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Greg Carey, Lancaster Theological Seminary, Presiding
Greg Carey, Lancaster Theological Seminary, Introduction (5 min)
Timothy J. Christian, Asbury Theological Seminary
Paul and the Rhetoric of Insinuatio: How Paul Raises the Dead in First Corinthians (25 min)
Isaac Blois, University of St. Andrews
The Power of a Shared Boast: Paul’s Use of kauchema in Philippians as a Motivation for Ethical Conduct (25 min)
Oh-Young Kwon, Whitley College
A Rhetorical Analysis of Paul’s Use of Prolambano and Ekdechomai (1 Cor 11:21, 33) (25 min)
Troy Martin, Saint Xavier University
Legitimating Rhetorical Situations in the Epistles of Acts 15:23-29 and First Peter (25 min)
Todd Penner, Austin College, Respondent (25 min)
Discussion (20 min)

Second Corinthians: Pauline Theology in the Making
11/22/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: 400 A (Level 4 (Sapphire)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: 2 Corinthians 8–9

Steven Kraftchick, Emory University, Presiding
Calvin J. Roetzel, Macalester College
Explorations in the Pluri-significance of the Offering in 2 Corinthians 8 and Related Texts (25 min)
Thomas A. Vollmer, Cincinnati Christian University and Emmanuel Nathan, Australian Catholic University
Beyond Expectation (2 Cor 8:5): The Macedonians’ Generosity in light of Paul’s Rhetorical Strategy (25 min)
Paul B. Duff, George Washington University
Second Corinthians 9: The Earliest of the Letters Contained in Canonical 2 Corinthians? (25 min)
Reimund Bieringer, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
The dikaiosynê of God and the dikaiosynê of the Corinthians (2 Cor 9:9-10) (25 min)
Edith Humphrey, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Respondent (15 min)
Discussion (35 min)

Systematic Transformation and Interweaving of Scripture in 1 Corinthians
11/22/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Indigo Ballroom A (Level 2 (Indigo)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Systematic Use of Scripture in 1 Corinthians 1–4

Yongbom Lee, Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena), Presiding
Erik Waaler, NLA University College
Paul and the Prophets: Paul’s Use of Scripture in 1 Corinthians 1–4 (30 min)
Christopher Stanley, Saint Bonaventure University, Respondent (20 min)
Discussion (25 min)
Mark Strauss, Bethel Seminary (San Diego, CA), Respondent (20 min)
Discussion (55 min)

Early Christianity and the Ancient Economy
11/22/2014
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: 307 (Level 3 (Aqua)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Economic Aspects of Early Christianity

David Hollander, Iowa State University, Presiding
Thomas Schmeller, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
How to Make a Giver Cheerful: Motivating the Corinthian Believers for the Collection (30 min)
Michelle Christian, University of Toronto
Toward an Anthropology of Money in the Gospels (30 min)
Michael Flexsenhar III, The University of Texas at Austin
Tying the Knot: Marriage, Economy, and Survival in Early Christianity (30 min)
Cavan Concannon, Duke University
Islands in the Corrupting Sea: Mapping Second-Century Christianity (30 min)
Jeremiah Bailey, Baylor University
The Occasion of 1 Clement Reconsidered (30 min)

Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible
11/22/2014
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: 311 B (Level 3 (Aqua)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Gwynn Kessler, Swarthmore College, Presiding
Geoffrey D. McElroy, University of Texas at Austin
Warrior-Men and City-Women: The Implications of Military Imagery in the Song of Songs (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Jared Beverly, Chicago Theological Seminary
Loving Animals: A Queer Zoological Reading of Song of Songs (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Break (5 min)
Midori E. Hartman, Drew University
Animalizing Others in 1 Corinthians 5: Gender, Sexuality, and Racial-Ethnic Terms in Paul’s Logic of Exclusion (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Holly Morse, University of Oxford
A Monster in Paradise (20 min)
Discussion (15 min)
Business Meeting (10 min)

Texts and Traditions in the Second Century 
11/22/2014
4:00 PM to 6:45 PM
Room: Sapphire Ballroom H (Level 4 (Sapphire)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Christ as Savior in the Second Century

Michael Bird, Ridley Melbourne, Presiding (2 min)
David Downs, Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena)
The Pauline Concept of Union with Christ in Ignatius of Antioch (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Joseph Dodson, Ouachita Baptist University
Universalism and Particularism in the Book of Wisdom, the Gospel of Matthew, and the Epistle of Barnabas (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Janelle Peters, Emory University
The Christology of the Phoenix in 1 Clement (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Meghan Henning, University of Dayton
Christ as Savior in the Otherworld: The Harrowing of Hell in the 2nd Century (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Candida R. Moss, University of Notre Dame
Christ as Cosmic Victor and Emetic: Salvation in the Letter of the Churches of Lyon and Vienne (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Discussion (13 min)

African Biblical Hermeneutics; Disputed Paulines
Joint Session With: African Biblical Hermeneutics, Disputed Paulines
11/23/2014
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: 311 B (Level 3 (Aqua)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Ephesians from African Perspectives

Funlola Olojede, University of South Africa, Presiding
Daniel K. Darko, Gordon College
What Does It Mean to Be ‘Saved’? An African Reading of Ephesians 2 (30 min)
Jeff Brannon, Belhaven University
Another Look at the Principalities and Powers in Paul (30 min)
Elna Mouton, Stellenbosch University
Ancient Household Codes as Model for Present-day Communities of Character (in Africa)? (30 min)
Shelley Ashdown, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics
The Armor of God (Eph 6:10-18) in the World View of Ndorobo (30 min)
Discussion (30 min)

Performance Criticism of Biblical and Other Ancient Texts
11/23/2014
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Sapphire Ballroom L (Level 4 (Sapphire)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Orality and Performance of Ancient Texts

Lee Johnson, East Carolina University, Presiding
Kathy R. Maxwell, Palm Beach Atlantic University
At the Intersection of Written Text and Oral Performance: There and Back Again (30 min)
Shem Miller, Florida State University
The Pedagogical Performance of Sapiential Literature in the Ya’ad Movement (30 min)
James Hanson, Saint Olaf College
Becoming Paul: Oral Performance and the “Center” of Paul’s Thought (30 min)
Sherri Brown, Niagara University
What’s in an Ending? John 21 and the Performative Force and an Epilogue (30 min)
Reinhard G. Lehmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Form Follows Function: A Calligraphic Approach to Oral Performance in Northwest Semitic Epigraphs (30 min)

Ritual in the Biblical World
11/23/2014
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: 202 B (Level 2 (Indigo)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Soham Al-Suadi, Universität Bern – Université de Berne, Presiding
Rodney A. Werline, Barton College
Ritual, Order, and the Construction of an Audience in 1 Enoch 1–36 (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Jason T. Lamoreaux, Texas A&M University
Ritual, Media, and Conflict in Pauline Communities (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Stephen McBay, University of Manchester
Ephesians, Braided Narrative, and Ritual Pattern (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Jade Weimer, University of Toronto
Una Voce Dicentes: The Ritual Significance of Singing with One Voice in Early Christian Assemblies (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Group Discussion
Jonathan Schwiebert, Lenoir-Rhyne University, Respondent (30 min)

Social Scientific Criticism of the New Testament
11/23/2014
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: 400 B (Level 4 (Sapphire)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Alicia Batten, Conrad Grebel University College, Presiding (5 min)
Callie Callon, University of Toronto
Humorous Invective as a Component of Persuasion in Early Christianity (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Ryan Olfert, University of Toronto
Trouble Getting In: Third John in light of Greco-Roman Associations (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Seungwoo Shim, Brite Divinity School (TCU)
Evidence of Market Economy and Economic Rationality in the Gospel of Luke: Initial Proposal (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Break (5 min)
Matt O’Reilly, University of Gloucestershire
Resurrection or Destruction? Social Identity and Time in Philippians 3 (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Scott Ryan, Baylor University
Insecurity, Wrath, and the God of Hope: Reading Paul’s Apocalyptic Gospel in the Roman World (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Discussion (15 min)

Systematic Transformation and Interweaving of Scripture in 1 Corinthians
11/23/2014
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: 310 B (Level 3 (Aqua)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Paul and the Law in 1 Corinthians

Erik Waaler, NLA University College, Presiding
Brian Rosner, Ridley Melbourne
Paul and the Law in 1 Corinthians (30 min)
Frank Thielman, Beeson Divinity School, Respondent (15 min)
Discussion (15 min)
A. Andrew Das, Elmhurst College, Respondent (15 min)
Discussion (15 min)
Linda Belleville, Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, Respondent (15 min)
Discussion (45 min)

Intertextuality in the New Testament
11/23/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: 204 A (Level 2 (Indigo)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Varieties of Intertextual Methods

Erik Waaler, NLA University College, Presiding
B. J. Oropeza, Azusa Pacific University
A Covenant Sealed in the Core of Clay Jar: Intertextual Reconfigurations of Jeremiah in 2 Corinthians 1–7 (30 min)
Discussion (15 min)
Liz Myers, Independent Scholar
Assessing the Direction of Intertextual Borrowing between New Testament Books: A New Methodology and Application to 1 Peter and Hebrews (30 min)
Discussion (15 min)
Break (5 min)
Joseph Ryan Kelly, Southern Seminary
A Discipline by Any Other Name? Intertextuality, Inner-Biblical Exegesis, Echoes, and Allusion (30 min)
Discussion (10 min)

Pauline Epistles; Paul and Judaism/Paul Within Judaism; Disputed Paulines; Pauline Soteriology; Second Corinthians: Pauline Theology in the Making; Systematic Transformation and Interweaving of Script
Joint Session With: Pauline Epistles, Paul and Judaism/Paul Within Judaism, Disputed Paulines, Pauline Soteriology, Second Corinthians: Pauline Theology in the Making, Systematic Transformation and Interweaving of Scripture in 1 Corinthians
11/23/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Sapphire Ballroom M (Level 4 (Sapphire)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Chan Sok Park, Harvard University, Presiding
Michael Patrick Barber, John Paul the Great Catholic University and John Kincaid, John Paul the Great Catholic University
Cultic Theosis in Paul and Second Temple Judaism: A Fresh Reading of the Corinthian Correspondence (18 min)
David A. Burnett, Criswell College
“So Shall Your Seed Be”: Paul’s Use of Gen 15:5 in Rom 4:18 in light of Early Jewish Deification Traditions (18 min)
Pamela Eisenbaum, Iliff School of Theology, Respondent (8 min)
Ward Blanton, University of Kent at Canterbury, Respondent (8 min)
N. T. Wright, University of St. Andrews, Respondent (8 min)
Break (5 min)
Matthew E. Gordley, Regent University School of Divinity
Psalms of Solomon and Pauline Studies (18 min)
Hans Svebakken, Loyola University of Chicago
Romans 7:7-25 and a Pauline Allegory of the Soul (18 min)
Pamela Eisenbaum, Iliff School of Theology, Respondent (8 min)
Ward Blanton, University of Kent at Canterbury, Respondent (8 min)
N. T. Wright, University of St. Andrews, Respondent (8 min)
Discussion (25 min)

Religious Experience in Antiquity
11/23/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: 303 (Level 3 (Aqua)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Scott Mackie, Independent Scholar, Presiding
Lauren K. McCormick, Syracuse University
Modern Theory, Ancient Statuaries: What Figurine Aesthetics Can Tell Us about Religious Community-Making at Sumer (30 min)
Daniel K. Falk, University of Oregon
Liturgical Progression and the Experience of Transformation in Prayers from Qumran (30 min)
Deborah Forger, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
The Jewish High Priest: Mediator of the Divine (30 min)
Sally Douglas, Melbourne College of Divinity
Why Was Jesus Understood and Proclaimed in the Language and Imagery of Woman Wisdom? An Exploration of the Role of Experience in the Ignition of Wisdom Christology and Wisdom Soteriology in the Early (30 min)
Ross Ponder, University of Texas at Austin
Visions of the End: On Death and Animated Dreams in Tertullian and Perpetua (30 min)

Bible and Practical Theology
11/23/2014
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Sapphire Ballroom M (Level 4 (Sapphire)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Intersections of Biblical Interpretation and Practical Theology II

Denise Dombkowski Hopkins, Wesley Theological Seminary, Presiding
Michael Koppel, Wesley Theological Seminary, Presiding
Deborah A. Appler, Moravian College & Theological Seminary and Sharon A. Brown, Moravian College & Theological Seminary
Strangers in a Strange Land: Creating a Heart-Centered Praxis (35 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Aubrey E. Buster, Emory University
Memory and Agent Formation in the Psalms (25 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Jin Hwang, Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena)
Storytelling and Spiritual Formation according to Apostle Paul (25 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Lance B. Pape, Brite Divinity School (TCU)
Paul and the Lord’s Supper in Corinth: A Paradigm for Practical Theological Method (25 min)
Discussion (10 min)

Pauline Epistles
11/23/2014
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room 33 C (Upper level) – San Diego Convention Center (CC)

Theme: Revisiting Albert Schweitzer’s Mysticism of the Apostle Paul

Emma Wasserman, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Presiding
Adela Collins, Yale University
The Mysticism of Paul (25 min)
Paula Fredriksen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
It’s the End of the World as We Know It: Apocalyptic Eschatology, The Gentile Mission, and the Mysticism of Schweitzer’s Paul (25 min)
Kathy Ehrensperger, Prifysgol Cymru, Y Drindod Dewi Sant – University of Wales, Trinity Saint David
‘To Those Who Are Sanctified in Christ’ (1 Cor 1:2): A Contribution to the ‘in Christ’ Debate (25 min)
Terence Donaldson, Wycliffe College, Respondent (20 min)
Magnus Zetterholm, Lunds Universitet, Respondent (20 min)
Discussion (30 min)

Second Corinthians: Pauline Theology in the Making
11/23/2014
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: 400 B (Level 4 (Sapphire)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Thomas Schmeller, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Presiding
Julien C. H. Smith, Valparaiso University
The Transforming Image of the Ideal King: Paul’s Apostolic Defense (2 Cor 2:14–4:6) in light of Greco-Roman Political Ideology (30 min)
Christopher D. Land, McMaster Divinity College
The Benefits Outweigh the Costs: Human Obedience and Divine Blessing in 2 Cor 6:1–7:2 (30 min)
Steven Kraftchick, Emory University, Respondent (15 min)
Discussion (15 min)
Business Meeting (30 min)

African Biblical Hermeneutics
11/24/2014
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Room: 206 (Level 2 (Indigo)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Sexuality, Masculinities, HIV and AIDS, and the Bible in Africa

Dora Mbuwayesango, Hood Theological Seminary, Presiding
Madipoane Masenya (Ngwn’a Mphahlele), University of South Africa and Marthe Maleke Kondemo, University of South Africa
What of the Problematic Norm? Rereading the Book of Ruth within the Mongo Women’s Context (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Alice Yafeh-Deigh, Azusa Pacific University
Rethinking Paul’s Sexual Ethics within the Context of HIV/AIDS: A Postcolonial Afro-Feminist-Womanist Perspective(25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Kuloba W. Robert, Kyambogo University
“Homosexuality is Unafrican and Unbiblical”: Examining the Ideological Motivations to Homophobia in Sub-Saharan Africa—The Case Study of Uganda (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)

Children in the Biblical World
11/24/2014
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: 311 A (Level 3 (Aqua)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Childist Interpretation and Children in the New Testament and Its Apocrypha

Sharon Betsworth, Oklahoma City University, Presiding
Julie Faith Parker, Andover Newton Theological School
Click “Add to Dictionary”: Why We Need to Speak of Childist Interpretation (50 min)
Steven Thompson, Avondale College of Higher Education
Jesus and Early Life Stages according to Luke: Expressing Jewish Male Formation and Gendering Using Greco-Roman Human Development Terms (25 min)
Anna Rebecca Solevag, School of Mission & Theology 
Listening for the Voices of Two Disabled Girls in Early Christian Texts (25 min)
Carla Swafford Works, Wesley Theological Seminary
“Babes in Christ”: The Vulnerability of Infancy (25 min)
J.R.C. Cousland, University of British Columbia
Born to Be Wild? Jesus in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas (25 min)

Corpus Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti
11/24/2014
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room 30 E (Upper level) – San Diego Convention Center (CC)

Theme: History of Religions School Today-2
This is the second of two sessions of papers representing new applications of the history-or-religions approach to the study of early Christianity in the broader Hellenistic and early Roman context.

Clare Rothschild, Lewis University, Presiding
David G. Monaco, Pontifical College Josephinum
The Rhetoric of Narrative in Acts 8:26-40: Ramifications of the Baptism of the Ethiopian Eunuch for the Author of Luke-Acts (30 min)
Mark Reasoner, Marian University (Indianapolis)
Paul’s God of Peace in Canonical and Political Perspectives (30 min)
Andrew Langford, University of Chicago and Matthijs den Dulk, University of Chicago
Polycarp and Polemo: Christianity at the Center of the Second Sophistic (30 min)
Jeff Asher, Georgetown College
Missiles, Demagogues, and the Devil: The Rhetoric of Slander in Eph 6:16 (30 min)
Discussion (30 min)

Feminist Hermeneutics of the Bible
11/24/2014
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room 28 B (Upper level) – San Diego Convention Center (CC)

Theme: Current Topics in Feminist Hermeneutics

Richard Weis, Lexington Theological Seminary, Presiding
Colleen Conway, Seton Hall University
Riding Feminist Waves: Jael in the 20th and 21st Century (30 min)
Anne Létourneau, Université du Québec à Montréal
Wartime Rape in Judg 5:28-30: Discussing “Women” as a “Seriality” with Jael, Deborah, and Sisera’s Mother (30 min)
Ken Stone, Chicago Theological Seminary
Gender, Animal, Sacrifice: Domestication and the Daughter of Jephthah (30 min)
Ron Serino, Texas Christian University
A Sign in the Dark: Moses’s Cushite Wife and Boundary Setting in the Book of Numbers (30 min)
Jon Mark Reeves, Texas Christian University
Gender, Ethnicity, and Power: Rethinking the Rhetoric of Paul’s Enslavement to All (30 min)

Pauline Epistles
11/24/2014
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room 11 A (Upper level) – San Diego Convention Center (CC)

Theme: Paul and Embodiment

Caroline Johnson Hodge, College of the Holy Cross, Presiding
Laura Dingeldein, Brown University
No Male and Female…in Virtue? Paul on Women’s Moral Development (25 min)
Diana M. Swancutt, Boston University School of Theology
Veiled Woman in the Rhetoric of Paul (2 Corinthians 3–4): Gender Slander of Judean Superapostles in Corinth (25 min)
Stephen L. Young, Brown University
You Were Effeminate: Paul and the Masculinization of Gentiles in Christ (25 min)
James Unwin, Macquarie University
In Honor and Dishonor: Differing Receptions of Paul’s Spectacle Metaphors in 2 Corinthians 4 and 6 (25 min)
S. Scott Bartchy, University of California-Los Angeles
Paul’s Unacknowledged Opponents (25 min)

Book of Acts
11/24/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room 1 B (Upper level) – San Diego Convention Center (CC)

Theme: Empowering, Empir-ing or Engaging? Acts in the Discourses of Politics

Steve Walton, St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, Presiding (5 min)
Matthew L. Skinner, Luther Seminary
Who Speaks for (or Against) Rome? Acts in Relation to Empire (30 min)
Bruce W. Winter, Macquarie University
Paul and Roman Law: The Luck of the Draw (30 min)
Warren Carter, Brite Divinity School (TCU)
Ship Happens: Acts 27 as an Aquatic Display of Navigating the Stormy Roman Imperial World (30 min)
Break (5 min)
Mikeal Parsons, Baylor University, Respondent (10 min)
Barbara Rossing, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Respondent (10 min)
Discussion (30 min)

Cognitive Linguistics in Biblical Interpretation
11/24/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room 7 A (Upper level) – San Diego Convention Center (CC)

Bonnie Howe, Dominican University of California, Presiding
Ellen van Wolde, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
The Surplus of a Combination of Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Grammar and Meaning (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Richard A. Rhodes, University of California-Berkeley
Interpreting the Vocabulary of Commands in Koine (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Timothy A. Brookins, Houston Baptist University
“Many Members, One Body”: The Stoic Body Metaphor and Conceptual Blending in Paul (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Discussion (40 min)
Business Meeting (20 min)

Contextual Biblical Interpretation
11/24/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Indigo Ballroom D (Level 2 (Indigo)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Paul’s Letters and Revelation
At the session, papers will be summarized and discussed in roundtable format. Papers will be available online ahead of time at http://www.youaregood.com/2014SBL_CBI.htm

James Grimshaw, Carroll University, Presiding
Paul’s Letters
Elsa Tamez, United Bible Societies
Reading Philippians from the Perspective of a Political Prisoner Waiting for a Sentence to Death (15 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Bernard Ukwuegbu, Seat of Wisdom Seminary
The Legitimating Function of the Sarah/Hagar Allegory in Gal 4:21-30: Insights from Social Identity Theory (15 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Jennifer Houston McNeel, Union Presbyterian Seminary
Paul and the Mommy Wars: Reading Paul’s Maternal Metaphors in Contemporary American Context (15 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Eric Bortey Anum, University of Cape Coast
Collaborative Hermeneutical Reading of 1 Tim 3:1-7 in the Ghanaian Context (15 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Revelation
Lynn Huber, Elon University
John’s Apocalypse and Queer Contextual Interpretation (15 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Gosnell Yorke, Northern Caribbean University
A Novel Take on John’s Apocalypse: A Proposed Movement from an Island-inspired Revelation to an Island-Inspired Reading (15 min)
Discussion (10 min)

Rhetoric and the New Testament
11/24/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: 400 B (Level 4 (Sapphire)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Rhetorics of Vision and Visual Rhetorics: Ekphrasis and Beyond I

Lillian Larsen, University of Redlands, Presiding
Lillian Larsen, University of Redlands, Introduction (5 min)
Rebecca Skaggs, Patten University
The Rhetoric of the Apocalypse of John: Through the Lens of Vision-Reports (25 min)
Michael Kochenash, Claremont School of Theology
Cornelius’ Obeisance to Peter (Acts 10:25-26) and the Judea Capta Coins (25 min)
Robert von Thaden, Jr., Mercyhurst University
The Power of Pictures: The Somatic Power of Temple Images (25 min)
Elizabeth Arnold, Gardner-Webb University
Euripides and Ephesians: Peripeteia and Deus Ex Machina in Eph 2:1-10 (25 min)
Scott D. Mackie, Independent Scholar
Seeing a Way in the Wilderness: Visually Oriented Rhetoric in Hebrews 3–4 (25 min)
Discussion (20 min)

Pauline Epistles
11/24/2014
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room 31 B (Upper level) – San Diego Convention Center (CC)

Theme: Paul and the Greco-Roman Context

Caroline Johnson Hodge, College of the Holy Cross, Presiding
Richard Last, Queen’s University
The periergazomenoi of Paul’s Thessalonian Christ-Group (2 Thess 3:6-15) (25 min)
Mitchell Alexander Esswein, Princeton Theological Seminary
The oikos of Christ and the Church at Corinth: Understanding oikonomos and oikonomia in Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians (25 min)
Tobias Hagerland, Lund University
Paul’s Large Letters in the Context of Hellenistic Primary Education (25 min)
Erin Roberts, University of South Carolina
Darkened, Senseless, Foolish Minds (25 min)
Geoffrey Smith, University of Texas at Austin
Contesting the Gift of Gnosis in 1 Corinthians (25 min)

Reading, Theory, and the Bible
11/24/2014
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: 400 B (Level 4 (Sapphire)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Robert Paul Seesengood, Albright College, Presiding
K. Jason Coker, Albertus Magnus College
The Corporation of God: Globalization Studies and God’s Basileia (30 min)
Yvonne Sherwood, University of Kent at Canterbury
The Mestizo Bible of Diego Durán (30 min)
Susanne Scholz, Southern Methodist University
Biblical Studies Is Feminist Biblical Studies, and Vice Versa (30 min)
Lindsey Guy, Drew University
Wasting Apocalyptic Time: Queer Temporality as Resistance in 1 Corinthians (30 min)
Ken Stone, Chicago Theological Seminary
‘The Matter of a Dead Animal’: Derrida, Klawans, and the Chimera of Biblical Sacrifice (30 min)

Speech and Talk: Discourses and Social Practices in the Ancient Mediterranean World
11/24/2014
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room 7 A (Upper level) – San Diego Convention Center (CC)

Michal Beth Dinkler, Yale Divinity School, Presiding
Tilde Bak Halvgaard, University of Copenhagen
Language Speculation in the Thunder: Perfect Mind (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Jeremy F. Hultin, Murdoch University
The Sound of His Voice: Jesus’ Voice as Theological Problem (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Daniele Pevarello, Trinity College Dublin
Polylogia in Matt 6:7 within the Framework of Graeco-Roman and Jewish Discussions on Verbosity (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Cian Power, Harvard University
“A Nation from Afar, a Nation Whose Language You Do Not Understand”: The Theme of the Alloglot Invader in Biblical Prophecy (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Sin-pan Daniel Ho, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong
Home-building in Christian Worship: A Discourse Analysis of 1 Cor 14:20-25 in light of the Domestic Cultic Practice in Roman Corinth (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)

Bible, Myth, and Myth Theory
11/25/2014
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: 410 A (Level 4 (Sapphire)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Robert Kawashima, University of Florida, Presiding
Francis Landy, University of Alberta
The Mythical and the Mystical: Rivers in Psalm 93 (30 min)
Noga Ayali-Darshan, Bar-Ilan University
The Mythologem of the Creation of Mount ?aphon Echoed in Job 26 and Psalm 89 (30 min)
Robert R. Cargill, University of Iowa
Swapping Sex for Drugs: Mandrake Mythology and Fertility Drugs in Gen 30:14-24 (30 min)
Andrew Tobolowsky, Brown University
The Sons of Jacob and the Sons of Herakles (30 min)
Jonathan Redding, Vanderbilt University
Decolonizing Daniel: A Post-Colonial Interpretational Examination (30 min)

Children in the Biblical World; Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible
Joint Session With: Children in the Biblical World, Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible
11/25/2014
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: D (Level 3 (Aqua)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Children, Gender, and Sexuality in the Biblical World

Laurel Taylor, Eden Theological Seminary, Presiding
Stephen M. Wilson, Duke University
What Makes a Man? The Construction of Biblical Masculinity in Contrast to Boyhood (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Caryn A. Reeder, Westmont College
Colonized Bodies: The Rape of Children in 4 Ezra, Josephus, and Tacitus (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Break (10 min)
Robert von Thaden, Jr., Mercyhurst University
Temple Children: Children, Sex, and the Rhetoric of Sacred Space (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
John Penniman, Fordham University
“What Flows from the Breast Is Milk, and Milk Is the Food of Babes”: Infancy and Maternity in Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on the Song of Songs (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Discussion (20 min)
Business Meeting (20 min)

Ethiopic Bible and Literature
11/25/2014
9:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Room: 400 B (Level 4 (Sapphire)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Ideology, Sociology, and Literary Formation in the Ethiopic Tradition
The Ethiopic tradition bears as many marks of originality as it does marks of external influence. Influences come from Christian traditions—like the Greek, Syriac, and Armenian—but also from Jews and Muslims in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopian theologians and community leaders developed their own sense of identity and expressed these in their form of the biblical text (unique in form and extent) and in various works of literature. This session invites a vibrant discussion on these themes.

Ralph Lee, Holy Trinity Theological College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Presiding
Steve Delamarter, George Fox University
The Singular, Dual, and Triple Textual Histories of Ethiopic Old Testament Texts (25 min)
Daneil Assefa, Capuchin Friary, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The Traditional Ethiopian Commentary on the Animal Apocalypse of Enoch (25 min)
James Prather, Abilene Christian University
Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining Methods for Ethiopic Textual Criticism (25 min)
Desta Heliso, Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology
Canticles and Christology (25 min)
Yonatan Binyam, Florida State University
The Ethiopian Alexander: Tracing the Roots of Ethiopic Traditions about Alexander the Great in the Zena Ayhud (25 min)
Bruk A. Asale, University of KwaZulu-Natal
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) Canon of Scripture: Neither Open nor Closed (25 min)
Meron Tekleberhan, Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology
The Reception and Adaptation of 1 Cor 7:1-16 in Selected Ethiopic Literature: A Study in Biblical Reception History(25 min)
Alemayehu Gabreil, Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary
Genesis 3:5 in the Ethiopic Tradition (25 min)

Paul and Judaism
11/25/2014
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Sapphire Ballroom L (Level 4 (Sapphire)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Re-Imagining Paul’s Assemblies Within Judaism

Magnus Zetterholm, Lund University, Presiding (5 min)
Michael Cover, Valparaiso University
Scripture Speaks: The Personification of Scripture as Interpretive Authority in Paul and the School of Rabbi Ishmael(25 min)
Karin Neutel, University of Groningen
A Cosmopolitan Community: Paul’s Eschatological Ideal in Its Jewish Context (25 min)
Break (5 min)
Genevive Dibley, University of California-Berkeley
Abraham’s Uncircumcised Children: the Enochic Precedent for Paul’s Program of Gentile Reclamation qua Gentiles(25 min)
Benjamin D. Gordon, Duke University
On the Sanctity of Mixtures and Branches: Two Halakhic Sayings in Romans 11 (25 min)
Discussion (25 min)
Business Meeting (15 min)

Polis and Ekklesia: Investigations of Urban Christianity
11/25/2014
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Sapphire Ballroom I (Level 4 (Sapphire)) – Hilton Bayfront (HB)

Theme: Philippi

James Harrison, Sydney College of Divinity, Presiding
Cedric Brelaz, Universite de Strasbourg
First-Century Philippi: The Social and Political Background of Paul’s Visit (25 min)
Richard Ascough, Queen’s University
Associations and the Social Dynamics in the Christ Group at Philippi (25 min)
Peter Oakes, University of Manchester
The Imperial Authorities in Paul’s Letter to Predominately Greek Hearers in a Roman Colony (25 min)
Samuel Vollenweider, Universität Zürich
Rivals, Opponents, and Enemies: Three Kinds of Theological Argumentation in Philippians (25 min)
L. White, University of Texas at Austin, Respondent (25 min)
Discussion (25 min)