EGLBS 2004 Program

Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society

A Regional Association of the
American Schools of Oriental Research
Catholic Biblical Association
Society of Biblical Literature

Annual Meeting
April 1-2, 2004

Olgebay Resort Wheeling, WV

Thursday, April 1

11:00 – 1:00	Registration: in front of Banquet Room 2
1:00 – 2:45	Concurrent sessions I
	ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH 1 Meeting Room A Convener: Suzanne Richard, Gannon University James Constantine Hanges, Miami University How to Build a Mystery Sanctuary: Site Geography and the Cult of Palaimon at Isthmia Deirdre N. Fulton, The Pennsylvania State University Shiloh: A Reexamination Karen Bowden, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Museum Witness for the Excavation: M.G. Kyle at Tell Beit Mirsim HEBREW BIBLE 1: FORMER AND LATTER PROPHETS Banquet Room 2 Convener: Linda Day, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary E. T. A. Davidson, St. University of New York at Oneonta The Art of Judges Keith Bodner, Tyndale University College and Seminary ‘Mouse Trap’: A Text-Critical Problem with Rodents in the Ark Narrative Eric A. Seibert, Messiah College Solomon’s Execution Orders (1 Kgs 2:13-46): Political Propaganda or Scribal Subversion? Louis Stulman, University of Findlay Reading the Prophets Canonically: Jeremiah as Case Study NEW TESTAMENT 1: SYNOPTIC GOSPELS Banquet Room 1 Convener: Sheila McGinn, John Carroll University Wayne S. Baxter, McMaster University Healing and the "Son of David": Matthew’s Warrant David A. Fiensy, Kentucky Christian College Jesus and Ritual Purity Aaron Gale, West Virginia University The Economic Basis of the Matthean Community Joseph Kozar, S. M., University of Dayton Meeting the Perfect Stranger: The Literary Role and Social Location of the Encounter Between Jesus and the Strange Exorcist in Mark 9:38-41
2:45 – 3:00	BREAK
3:00 – 4:45	Concurrent sessions II
	HEBREW BIBLE 2: INTERSECTIONS WITH OTHER DISCIPLINES & LITERATURE Banquet Room 1 Convener: Paul Kim, Methodist Theological School in Ohio Sarah J. Melcher, Xavier University "I Surely Would Be a Prophet": Interpretations of Biblical Prophecy and Apocalyptic in African-American Slave Narratives Terry Giles, Gannon University William Doan, Miami University of Ohio Performance Analysis Applied to the Prophet Amos Thomas B. Dozeman, United Theological Seminary The Role of Biblical Geography in the Discipline of Geography and Religion Michael Johnson, Buffalo State University "The Price…Is Above Rubies": Wisdom and Facets of Creativity in Job NEW TESTAMENT 2: PAUL Banquet Room 2 Convener: Peter Gosnell, Muskingum College Arthur Dewey, Xavier University Insurgency in the Empire: Boudica and Paul John Matthew Kincaid, The Methodist Theological School in Ohio Living in Two Worlds: Tension and Ambiguity in 1 Cor. 11:2-16 Matt Jackson-McCabe, Niagara University There is No Male and Female (Gal 3:28): Sex and the Transformation of Bodies in Pauline Myth Jacob D. Myers, Princeton Theological Seminary Towards an Alternative Argumentum: A Re-assessment of Paul’s Use of Intertextuality in Romans 1:20-25 NEW TESTAMENT 3: THE APOCALYPSE OF JOHN Meeting Room A Convener: Glenna Jackson, Otterbein College David L. Barr, Wright State University Jezebel’s Skinny Legs: (De)Constructing the Four Queens of the Apocalypse Jason Weaver, United Theological Seminary John and the Adultery Mime Lynn M. Labs, United Theological Seminary Vengeance in the Apocalypse and Its Implications of Retaliation in the Modern World Rick L. Williamson, Mount Vernon Nazarene University Thrones in the Apocalypse: Symbols of Judgement and Justice
4:45 – 5:00	BREAK
5:00 – 5:45	PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS (Banquet Room 1)
	Sheila E. McGinn, John Carroll University Romans 8: Resources for a Feminist Theology of Creation
5:45 – 6:00	BREAK
6:00 – 6:45	Dinner -- Banquet Room 3
6:45 – 7:30	Business Meeting – Banquet Room 3
7:30 – 8:00	BREAK
8:00	PLENARY SESSION (Banquet Room 1)
	Kathleen Corley, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Women and the Jesus Movement
…then…	RECEPTION / SOCIAL HOUR

Friday April 2

8:45 – 10:15	Concurrent sessions III
	HEBREW BIBLE 3: STUDENT PAPERS Banquet Room 1 Convener: Sarah J. Melcher, Xavier University Matthew E. Gordley, University of Notre Dame Seeing Stars at Qumran: The Interpretation of Balaam and His Oracle in the Damascus Document and Other Qumran Texts Cohen, Margaret, The Pennsylvania State University The Chronicler’s Prophetic Plusses: A Response to Schniedewind Michael Weinstein, Xavier University How Universal Is Universal: The Noahide Laws NEW TESTAMENT 4: STUDENT PAPERS Banquet Room 2 Convener: Aaron Gale, West Virginia University Mary A. Lasher, Xavier University Creativity and the Parable of the Sower in the Gospel of Mark Aaron Saari, Xavier University The Gospel of Mark: Anti-Twelve Propaganda? Jamie Ann Long, Otterbein College Let the Children Come: The Experience of the Marginalized Kara Williams, Wittenberg University The Apocalyptic "Parable
10:15 – 10:30	BREAK
10:30 – Noon	Concurrent sessions IV
	ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2 Meeting Room A Convener: Suzanne Richard, Gannon University Brad Crowell, University of Michigan "Because They Pursued the Gods of Edom": Religion and Society in Iron Age Edom Ellen Dailey Bedell, The Ellis School The Uluburun On-line Project: A Late Bronze Age Archaeological Site as a Teaching Tool for Understanding Methodology and Trade Relations Suzanne Richard, Gannon University A Unique EB IV Bronze Weapon from Khirbet Iskander, Jordan: Evidence for Elites? HEBREW BIBLE 4: TORAH AND WRITINGS Banquet Room 2 Convener: Linda Day, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Wilma Ann Bailey, Christian Theological Seminary The Meaning of tirsâ in Exodus 20:13 (=Deuteronomy 5:17) Robert D. Miller II, Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary Gentiles in the Psalter: Universalism without Mission Lisa M. Wolfe, United Theological Seminary Seeing Gives Rise to Disbelieving: Qohelet’s "Absurd" (hebel) Search for Divine Justice NEW TESTAMENT 5 Banquet Room 1 Convener: Matt Jackson-McCabe, Niagara University Glenna Jackson, Otterbein College How Can a Tutsi Soldier Be a Good Samaritan to a Hutu in Burundi? Mark Kiley, St. John’s University Johannine Interaction with Hebrew Kevin Scalf, Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West Prayer and the Call of Paul
Noon	MEETING ADJOURNED