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1 Annual Meeting 2008 New England Region of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Schools of Oriental Research Friday, April 18, 2008 Andover Newton Theological Seminary Newton Centre, Massachusetts SBL Program Guide Cover_08.indd 1 4/2/08 11:23:40 AM

2 BOOK DISPLAY Wilson Chapel Lobby 8:15 5:00 This program has been provided courtesy of Hendrickson Publishers.

3 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NEW ENGLAND REGION OF THE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE AND AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH Andover Newton Theological School Friday, April 18, :15 9:00 REGISTRATION (Stoddard Foyer) COFFEE & DANISH (Stoddard Foyer) 9:00 10:15 MORNING SESSIONS A.1 Rituals and Sacrifice (Davis Hall 101) Presiding: Shawna Dolansky, Northeastern University Jason Gaines, Brandeis University Private Rites, Public Religion: The Evolution of Public and Private Ritualized Action in the Book of Genesis Kent Harold Richards, Executive Director, Society of Biblical Literature Oral Background of the Binding of Isaac Julie Faith Parker, Yale University Protein, Not Playmates: Child Cannibalism in 2 Kings 6:24 31 A.2 David Narratives Revisited (Davis Hall 102) Presiding: Amelia Devin Freedman, University of Massachusetts at Lowell Jonathan Kaplan, Harvard University The Limits of Monarchic Power: 1 Samuel 8 as A Mirror for Princes Paul Borgman, Gordon College David and Son Adonijah Revisited: Recognizing the Pattern of Failed Fathers Ryan Stokes, Yale University The Nature and Identity of Satan in 1 Chronicles 21:1

4 A.3 Prophetic Literature (Davis Hall 202) Presiding: Andrew G. Vaughn, ASOR and Gustavus Adolphus College Christopher Anderson, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Isaiah 28:1 4: The Credibility of Isaiah ben Amoz s Prophetic Ministry Molly DeMarco, Brandeis University Amos Cows of Bashan : The Beautiful and the Damned John C. Beckman, Harvard University Hosea as a Persian-Period Composition? A.4 The Synoptic Gospels (Davis Hall 203) Presiding: Eldon Jay Epp, Harvard Divinity School E. Bruce Brooks, University of Massachusetts at Amherst The Verily Sayings in Mark Karl McDaniel, McGill University Trials of Character and Miracles of Emotion: Deliberative Rhetoric in Matthew 4 and 8 Christopher R. Stroup, Yale Divinity School Luke 19:11 27 and the Structure of Authority in the Kingdom of God A.5 The Nature and Status of Jesus (Davis Hall 301) Presiding: James C. Walters, Boston University Michael Peppard, Yale University Divine Status and Divine Sonship in the Roman Worldview Richard Alan Colasanto, Providence College The New and Improved Son of Man: Ho huios tou anthropou in Mark 2:10 Steven A. Hunt, Gordon College And the Word Became Flesh Again! Abraham and Jesus in John 8:31 59 A.6 The Hebrew Bible in Later Jewish and Christian Interpretation (Davis 302) Presiding: Yonder M. Gillihan, Boston College Jesse Rainbow, Harvard University Sarah Saw a Hunter: The Venatic Motif in Gen. Rab. 53:11

5 Michael A. Singer, Brandeis University What to Do When YHWH Attacks: Three Targumic Treatments of Exodus 4:24 26 Matthew Burgess, Yale University Splish, Splash: The Symbolism of Water in the Book of Revelation 10:30 11:45 PLENARY SESSION (Stoddard Hall) 12:00 1:00 LUNCH SBL PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS John J. Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation, Yale Divinity School Early Judaism in Modern Scholarship Introductory Remarks: Daniel J. Harrington, SJ, Weston Jesuit School of Theology 1:00 2:00 PLENARY SESSION (Stoddard Hall) Peter Machinist, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, Harvard University The Contributions of Frank Moore Cross to Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies 2:15 3:30 AFTERNOON SESSIONS B.1 Archaeology (Davis Hall 101) Andrew G. Vaughn, ASOR and Gustavus Adolphus College Finkelstein s Theories on Jerusalem Are Not New They Are Alt (that is, Albrecht) Joseph A. Greene, Harvard Semitic Museum Araunah s Threshing Boards (2 Samuel 24:16 25) James C. Walters, Boston University The Serapeion at Ephesos: Interpreting a Ritual Space B.2 Deuteronomistic History (Davis Hall 102) Presiding: Eugen J. Pentiuc, Hellenic College Keith Bodner, Atlantic Baptist University The Literary Sophistication of the Deuteronomistic History

6 Richard J. Thompson, Harvard University The Neo-Assyrian Oath of Allegiance to ASHUR as the Basis for the Deuteronomistic Covenant with YHWH Gaétane-Diane Forget, Saint Paul University Navigating Deuteronomistic History as Cultural Memory B.3 Second Temple Period (Davis Hall 201) Presiding: John J. Collins, Yale Divinity School David A. Bernat, Wellesley College The Semantics of Supplication in the Writings of Josephus Gregg Gardner, Princeton University Memory, Archaeology, and Text: Ben Sira and the Re-Imagination of Ancient Israel Yonder M. Gillihan, Boston College Associations, Sects, and Civil Society: A New Look at the Dead Sea Scrolls Sect in Its Sociological Context B.4 Pauline Epistles (Davis Hall 202) Presiding: Steven A. Hunt, Gordon College Timothy Dwyer, Roberts Wesleyan College Because of Transgressions (Galatians 3:19): Reevaluating Jerome Serge Cazelais, Université Laval The Masculofeminine Christ: Galatians 4:4 in Marius Victorinus Jessica Misener, Yale Divinity School A Masculinizing Force: Paul s Conception of the Holy Spirit in Corinthians B.5 The Crucifixion in Art and Text (Davis Hall 301) Mary Joan Winn Leith and Allyson Sheckler, Stonehill College Généalogies: The Crucifix Against the Cross 3:30 5:00 CLOSING RECEPTION (Peck Room)

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