trophyBest Student Paper Award
20 August 2009

Each year, one or more awards may be given for the Best Student Paper(s) presented at the Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society Annual Meeting. Student presenters who are interested in being considered for this award should:

  1. Notify the section chairs of this fact when submitting the paper proposal for the Regional Meeting.
  2. Submit either an e-text or three print copies of the complete paper to the EGLBS Secretary-Treasurer
  3. Submit a letter of nomination (electronically or by surface mail) from a sponsoring faculty member from the student's home institution. For undergraduate applicants, this letter of nomination may also serve as the letter of support for the initial paper proposal.
Previous Award Recipients:

2010

 Hebrew Bible TBA
New Testament TBA

2009

 Hebrew Bible Jeremy Fisher, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, "The Eli-hu Speeches: A Personal Contribution to the Discussion of Pain"
New Testament Daniel Frayer-Griggs, Durham University, "'Everyone Will be Baptized in Fire': Mark 9:49, Q 3:16, and the Baptism of the Coming One"

2008

 Hebrew Bible Brian Diebold, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, “Ezekiel 19 and the Disgrace of Egypt”
New Testament Andrew Pitts, McMaster Divinity College, “Luke, History, and Intertextuality: A Narrative-Historiographic Analysis of Luke’s Use of Sources”
Non-Canonical Literature Daniel Frayer-Griggs, Miami University of Ohio, “Genre Recognition and Literaturization in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas: A Key to Assessing Luke's Relationship to Ancient Biography”

2007

 Hebrew Bible Andrew Riley
New Testament Matthew Verliew
Pedagogy John Frame

2006

   Still searching.... Please send a note to the Secretary-Treasurer if you have any information about this!

2005

 Hebrew Bible Greg Schmidt Goering, Oberlin College, "The Sun, the Moon, and the Election of Israel: A Reconstruction of Ben Sira's Anthropology"
New Testament Donald H. Bromley, The Vineyard Church of Ann Arbor, "The Healing of the Hemorrhaging Woman: Miracle or Magic?"

2004

 Archaeology & the Bible Bradley Crowell, University of Michigan, "'Because They Pursued the Gods of Edom': Religion and Society in Iron Age Edom"
Hebrew Bible 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"
New Testament Mary A. Lasher, Xavier University, "Creativity and the Parable of the Sower in the Gospel of Mark"

2003

 Overall Best Lisa M. Wells, John Carroll University, "An Interpretation of Matthew 5:38-42"