Annual Meeting 2007

New Sessions
S17-49 Survivor SBL: Everything You Wanted to Know About Being a Woman -and- a Biblical Scholar, but Were Afraid to Ask
Saturday 1:00 - 2:30pm
Hosted by the SBL's Status of Women in the Profession Committee
Nancy Bowen, Earlham School of Religion, Presiding
Panelists:
Carol Dempsey, University of Portland
Ross Kraemer, Brown University
Jane Webster, Barton College

S17-86 Earning a Ph.D. in Canada
Saturday 4:00 - 5:00pm
Hosted by the Student Advisory Group
Note: Terrence Donaldson, Wycliff e College, Presiding

S18-49 Congregation Based Biblical Scholarship
Sunday 1:00 - 3:30 pm
Gregory Mobley, Andover Newton Theological School
Bridging the Great Divide Between Academy and Congregations (30 min)
Discussion (15 min)
Charles Cosgrove, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary
In Other Words: Incarnational Translation as a Hermeneutic (30 min)
Discussion (15 min)
Business Meeting: Planning for a new Congregation Based Biblical Scholarship Program Unit.

S19-48 In Honor of James Barr GH-Manchester A
Join us as we reflect on the work and significance of James Barr. Panelists will include Samuel Balentine, William Abraham, Joseph Blenkinsopp, Douglas Knight, Archie Lee, and Mervyn Richardson.

S19-49 What's the Most Important Non-Biblical Text for Understanding Jesus?
Sponsored by HarperOne
Monday 1:00 - 2:30pm
Panelists
John Dominic Crossan, DePaul University
Jonathan Reed, University of La Verne
Amy-Jill Levine, The Divinity School, Vanderbilt University
Marvin Meyer, Chapman University
Pamela Eisenbaum, Iliff Theological Seminary

Rescheduled sessions
S17-32 Writing / Reading Jeremiah Group
The 9:00 am session (S17-32) has been moved to 4:00 pm-6:30 pm. The new number is S17-84

S17-84 Writing / Reading Jeremiah Group
The 9:00 am session (S17-32) has been moved to this time slot, while the 1:00 pm session has been moved to 4:00 pm-6:30 pm. The new number is S17-133

S17-106 Biblical Criticism and Literary Criticism
Note: This session has been moved to Sunday at 9:00 am. The new number is S18-40.

S17-133 Writing / Reading Jeremiah Group
Note: Carolyn J. Sharp, Yale Divinity School, will replace Hyun Chul Kim as presider.
The 1:00 pm session (S17-84) has moved here while Session S17-133 has been rescheduled to 9:00 am-11:30 am Sunday. The new number is S18-39.

S18-39 Writing / Reading Jeremiah Group
Note: The Saturday 4:00 pm session was rescheduled to this time.

S18-40 Biblical Criticism and Literary Criticism
Note: The Saturday sessions (S17-106) was moved to this time.

S19-50 Pauline Epistles CC-20A
Note: Pauline Epistles Section (S19-28) has been moved to this time period.

Sessions with changes
S17-6 Bakhtin and the Biblical Imagination
The correct title of Jim McConnell's paper is "Toward a Polyphonic Understanding of Miracle Reports in the Gospels: A Bakhtinian Reading."

S17-19 LGBT/Queer Hermeneutics
Scott Larson, Yale University, will co-present with Diana M. Swancutt.

S17-20 Mapping Memory: Tradition, Texts, and Identity
The presentation of Margaret E. Lee has been moved to S17-68.

S17-24 Q GH-Edward B
Stephen Hultgren's paper title has changed. The title is now "The Apostolic Church's Ordering of Sayings in the Double Tradition."

S17-67 LGBT/Queer Note: David Stewart, California State University - Long Beach, has been added to the panel.

S17-68 Mapping Memory: Tradition, Texts, and Identity
Note: Laura Feldt has withdrawn. Margaret E. Lee, Tulsa Community College,
will present in the place of Laura Feldt. Her paper title is, "Methods for Mapping Memory Through Sound."

S17-111 Hebrew Scriptures and Cognate Literature
Note: Shawn Zelig Aster's paper has been moved to S18-17.

S17-117 Matthew
Note: Dorothy Jean Weaver, Eastern Mennonite Seminary, will preside in place of Joel Willetts.

S17-121 Pauline Epistles
Note: Emma Wasserman has withdrawn. Love L. Sechrest, Fuller Theological Seminary, will present the paper, "A light to the Gentiles and a Gatherer of Israel: Tradition and Symbiosis in Galatians."

S18-17 Hebrew Scriptures and Cognate Literature
Note: Aliza Schachter has withdrawn. Shawn Zelig Aster, University of the Negev, will present his paper in this session. The paper title is "Jerusalem Replaces Babylon: The Neo-Babylonian Background to Isaiah 60."

S18-29 Quran and Biblical Literature
Note: Simon Wood, University of Nebraska, has been added to this session. His paper title is "Egypt 1898-1914: Christian Tafsir, Muslim Biblical Criticism."

S18-31 SBL Forum: Women and/in the Bible and/in Popular Culture
Note: Donna Bowman, Central Arkansas University, has been added to the session. Her paper title is "The Bible Shaped Mirror: Biblical Women and Contemporary Culture in Recent Film." Leonard Greenspoon, Creighton University, has been added to the session. His paper title is "Saucy, Sagacious, and Sound: Biblical Women in the Comic Strip."

S18-50 Reflections on Brevard Childs
1:00 pm-3:00 pm
Christopher Seitz, Wycliff e College, University of Toronto, Presiding
Panelists:
Gary Anderson, University of Notre Dame
Erhard Gerstenberger, Philipps Universität-Marburg
Richard Hays, Duke University
Alan Cooper, Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Kavin Rowe, Duke University
Mark Elliott, University of St. Andrews-Scotland
Ephraim Radner, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto

S18-60 Digging up New Horizons: The Work of Eric M. Meyers
Note: Steven Fine, Yeshiva University, has been added to this session. His paper title is "Between Rabbinic Text and Archaeology: Meyers' Contribution to the Study of Greco-Roman Judaism."

S18-69 Israelite Religion in its West Asian Environment
Note: R. Scott Chalmers has withdrawn. Simeon Chavel, Princeton University, will preside.

S18-109 Biblical Lands and Peoples in Archaeology and Text
Note: Elna K. Solvang has withdrawn.

S18-110 Biblical Law Note: Henning Graf Reventlow, University of the Ruhr, has been added to this session. His paper title is "Canaanite Cultic Law and its Yahwistic Repainting in Leviticus 1-16, shown by a Close Reading of Leviticus 1."

S18-111 Biblical Lexicography
Note: Bernard Taylor, Loma Linda University, has been added to this session. His paper title is "Headwords Redivivus: Why They Matter. "
David A. Lambert's correct affiliation is Emory University.

S18-127 Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds
Note: Christina Kreinecker, Universitaet Salzburg, has been added to this session. Her paper title is "Papyrological Commentary on 2 Thessalonians: Outline and First Results."

S18-128 Philo of Alexandria
Note: Katell Berthelot, National Center for Scientific Research, has been added to the session. Her paper title is "Jewish Exegetical Freedom in Antiquity: The Example of the Fate of the Canaanites in Philo's Hypothetica and the Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael."

S19-18 History of Interpretation / Quran and Biblical Literature Section
Session restructured as follows:
Carol Bakhos, University of California-Los Angeles, Presiding
Alyssa Gray, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (New York Branch)
Who Are the Blind? What is a Stumbling-Block? Rabbinic Interpretations of Leviticus 19:14. (25 min)
Alan M. Cooper, Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Deuteronomy 32 as the Road Map of Jewish History (25 min)
Mariano Gomez-Aranda, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifi cas Abraham ibn Ezra and the Midrashic Interpretations on the Book of Esther: Two Perspectives in Contrast (25 min)
Joseph Witztum, Princeton University
Chaste Women in the Quran. An Examination of Q 4:24 (25 min)
Patricia Crone, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
"There is no compulsion in religion": Q. 2:256 and Late Antiquity (25 min)

S19-22 John, Jesus, and History
Note: Dorothy Ann Lee has withdrawn.

S19-28 Hebrew Bible, History, and Archaeology
Note: Simcha Brooks has withdrawn. Pauline Epistles Section has been moved to 1:00 pm. The new number is S19-50.

S19-39 Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
Note: Jonathan Ben Dov has withdrawn. Francisco J. del Barco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Maria-Teresa Ortega-Monasterio, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, will present in the place of Jonathan Ben Dov. The paper title is, "Textual Criticism of the Bible during the Spanish Renaissance."

S19-67 Graduate Biblical Studies: Ethos and Discipline
Note: Fernando Segovia, Vanderbilt University and Athalya Brenner, University of Amsterdam have been added as panelists.

S19-100 Future of the Past: Biblical and Cognate Studies for the Twenty-First Century
Theme: What Biblical Scholars Need to Know About Comparative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Note: Session rescheduled to 1:00 pm Monday (was S20-19 at 9:00 am Tuesday).
Session restructured:
Theme: What Biblical Scholars Need to Know About Comparative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Dennis MacDonald, Institute of Antiquity and Christianity, Presiding
Michele Renee Salzman, University of California-Riverside
An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Ancient Religion and the Cambridge History of Ancient Mediterranean Religions (10 min)
William Adler, North Carolina State University
Editing a Volume on the Religions of Antiquity: Approaches, Problems and Pitfalls (20 min)
Marvin A. Sweeney, Claremont School of Theology
Israelite and Judean Religions in Comparative Perspective (20 min)
David P. Wright, Brandeis University
Syro-Canaanite Religions: A Construct of Metaphors (20 min)
Robin Jensen, Vanderbilt University
Berbers, Romans, Vandals, and Greeks: Carthage as a Cultural Crossroad (20 min)
Dennis Trout, University of Missouri-Columbia
Sacred Topographies: Monuments, Memory, and Religious Identity in Late Ancient Rome (20 min)
David Frankfurter, University of New Hampshire, Respondent (10 min)

S19-112 Graduate Biblical Studies: Ethos and Discipline
Note: Christl Maier, Philipps Universität-Marburg, and Vincent Wimbush, Claremont School of Theology, have been added as panelist.

S19-116 Jewish Christianity
Note: Craig A. Evans, Acadia Divinity College, has been added as a respondent to Joseph Verheyden.

S19-137 Book Review: Adele Reinhartz, Jesus of Hollywood (Oxford, 2007)
Note: Carl Holladay, Emory University, and Ross Kraemer, Brown University, have been added as panelists.

S19-138 Book Review Session: Christopher R. Seitz, Prophecy and Hermeneutics: Toward a New Introduction to the Prophets (Baker Academic, 2007)
Note: Marvin Sweeney, Claremont School of Theology, has been added as a panelist.

S20-12 Midrash
Note: Willem Smelik, University College London, has been added to the session.
His paper title is "The Notion of the Holy Tongue in Early Rabbinic Literature."

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