Annual Meeting
April 10-11, 2003
Marriott and Ambassador Conference Center: Erie, PA
ARCHAEOLOGY 1:
Convener: Suzanne Richard, Gannon University
- Leigh-Ann Bedal, Penn State Erie, “The Petra Garden & Pool Complex Excavations”
- George Wesley Buchanan, Wesley Theological Seminary, “Scrolls, Scripture, and Monasteries”
- J. S. Illingworth and M. L. Greek, Mercyhurst College, “Perishables and Perishable Construction Technology from Early Bronze Age Sites of the Southeastern Dead Sea Plain”
- John Maier, State University of New York at Brockport, “Cloistered Men and Sacred Marriages”
HEBREW BIBLE 1: SECOND TEMPLE & EARLY JEWISH TRADITIONS:
Convener: Linda Day, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
- Jinkyu Kim, Westminster Theological Seminary, “Strategic Positioning of Royal Psalms in Books IV-V”
- Wayne Baxter, McMaster University, “1Q Sb: Old Divisions Made New”
- Jeffrey Cooley, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, “The Ideal Calendar in Mesopotamian, Biblical and Early Jewish Traditions”
- Tawny L. Holm, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, “Giving Birth to Monsters: The Ancient Near Eastern Background of Early Jewish Gynecology”
NEW TESTAMENT 1: GOSPELS:
Convener: Sheila McGinn, John Carroll University
- Lisa Wells, John Carroll University, "An Interpretation of Matthew 5:38-42”
- Aaron M. Gale, West Virginia University, “The Location of the Matthean Community”
- Jackie D. Leigh, Waynesfield United Methodist Church, Waynesfield, OH, “Honor, Shame, Resurrection”
ARCHAEOLOGY 2:
Convener: Suzanne Richard, Gannon University
- Angela Y. Kim, University of Notre Dame, “Signs of Redactional Strategies in the Thanksgiving Hymns from Qumran”
- Suzanne Richard, Gannon University, “The Final Report on the Unique Early Bronze IV Gateway at Khirbet Iskander”
- John Ross, Hamilton, Ontario, “The Case for the Identification of the Biblical Joseph in Hittite Historical Texts”
NEW TESTAMENT 2: PAUL
Convener: Sheila McGinn, John Carroll University
- David C. Aune, Ashland University, “Fearing Rightly: Toward an Evaluation of Fear in Paul's Letters”
- Michael R. Cosby, Messiah College, “I’m An Apostle, Dang It!”
- James Constantine Hanges, Miami University, “Do We Really Need to Take the Damascus Road? Ancient Epiphanies and Imagining Paul's Conversion Experience”
- Lee A. Johnson, Methodist Theological School in Ohio, “The Manifestation of Tongues at Corinth: F rom ‘Pneumatic Democracy’ to Charismatic Oligarchy”
HEBREW BIBLE 2: HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION
Convener: John Bergsma, University of Notre Dame
- Keith Bodner, Tyndale College, Toronto, “The Royal Conscience According to 4QSama: A Comparative Interpretation”
- Sejin Park, University of Notre Dame, “Filling in the Gaps: Ancient Interpretations of Genesis 9:18-29”
- Donald Jacob Uitvlugt, University of Notre Dame, “In Huius Vitae Eremo: The Tabernacle in Isidore of Seville's Commentary In Exodum”
- Sarah Melcher, Xavier University, “‘In the Midst of a Burning Fiery Furnace’: Interpretations of Biblical Prophecy in African American Anti-Slavery Pamphlets”
Linda Day, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, “Vashti Interpreted”
Elizabeth Bloch-Smith, St. Joseph's University
“Do Massebot Stand for Yahweh? The Rise and Fall of a Yahwistic Cult Symbol”
9:00 RECEPTION / SOCIAL HOUR
HEBREW BIBLE 3: DRAMATIC ASPECTS
Convener:
- E. T. A. Davidson, State University of New York at Oneonta, “The Comedy of Horrors”
- Terry Giles, Gannon University and William Doan, University of Miami, "Prophets, Performance and Power: Sons of the Prophets and Prophetic Call Narratives in the Hebrew Bible"
- Jamie M. A. Williams, St. Bonaventure University, “Deceiving Deception: An Experimental Documentary”
HEBREW BIBLE 4:
Convener: Cindy Chapman, Oberlin College
- John Crawford, Johns Hopkins University, "Judah’s Best Friend: The Name and Meaning of Caleb”
- Trisha Williams, John Carroll University, “Genesis 19:4-11: Stepping Back to See More Clearly”
- Margaret E. Cohen, The Pennsylvania State University, “Soldier or Shepherd: Discerning Sources in I Samuel 17”
- Alex Varughese, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, “Jeremiah’s Oracles Concerning the Royal Family”
- John S. Bergsma, University of Notre Dame, “Ezekiel’s Temple as ‘Built Jubilee’”
HEBREW BIBLE 5: CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETIVE METHODS
Convener: Linda Day, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
- Joe Kozar, S.M., University of Dayton, “When ‘Circumfession’ Isn’t Enough: Understanding Murder of the Newly Circumcised Shechemites Subsequent to Shechem’s Rape of Dinah (Gen. 34)”
- Tom Craig, International Communicology Institute, St. Catharines, Ontario, “Executing Order at the Borderland of Promise: A Semanalytic Exploration of Body Politics in the Wild”
- Maureen Connolly, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, "The Golden Calf and the Dance of Death: Articulating an Embodied Reading of the Golden Calf Stories of Exodus 32 and Deuteronomy 9”
- Michael Johnson, Buffalo State College, “Judges As Creative Problem Solvers”
NEW TESTAMENT 3: RELATED LITERATURE & MEDIA
Convener: Sheila McGinn, John Carroll University
- Jeffrey L. Morrow, University of Dayton, “The ‘Sign of the Cross’ in the Acts of Paul and Thecla”
- Ann Coble, Westminster College, “Hermeneutics in the Cotton Patch, or the Patchwork Hermeneutic of Clarence Jordan”
- Benjamin Fiore, S.J., Canisius College, “Intimations and Death in the Nativity of Jesus: Scripture and Art”
- Séan P. Kealy, C.S.Sp., Duquesne University, “My Journey with Mark’s Gospel”