SBL Seminar Papers

http://www.sbl-site.org/Meetings/AMseminarpapers.aspx

The Society of Biblical Literature has recently made available a number of seminar papers from 2002-2010. From the website:

Seminar Papers

In years past, a print edition of the SBL Seminar Papers was made available in advance of the Annual Meeting each year in order to stimulate discussion of these works in progress during the meeting itself. Beginning in 2004, however, the print edition was discontinued, with a selection of papers presented at the meeting being made available online. In addition, a number of papers from previous years have been archived on the SBL Web site. Because these papers represent works in progress, they should not be quoted or otherwise cited without permission from the author. If you wish to post your program unit's papers here, please contact Charles G. Haws at charles.haws@sbl-site.org.

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• Papers must be provided as PDF documents.
• Each document must be named with the author's last name and the first two or three words of the paper title.
• No spaces may appear in the document title.
• We will not post documents that do not meet these specifications.

2010 Papers

• S22-149 What is Bible?
  

2009 Papers

• 21-113 Cognitive Linguistics in Biblical Interpretation
  
  A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Go’el in Deutero-Isaiah
  Shelley Ashdown
  
  Sapiential Synesthesia: The Confluence of Light and Word in Ben Sira’s Wisdom Instruction
  Greg Schmidt Goering
  
  
• 22-129 Matthew
  Theme: Where From, Where To? In Matthean Studies Matthew Studies Today: A Willingness of Suspect and a Willingness to Listen
  Andries van Aarde, University of Pretoria
  
  Some Possible Directions to Explore in Matthew's Milieu
  Craig S. Keener, Palmer Theological Seminary of Eastern University
  
  Wise and Sagacious Vistas: The Past and Future of a Sapiential Reading of Matthew
  Ben Witherington, III, Asbury Theological Seminary
  
  From the Center to the Margins: German Speaking Scholarship on Matthew's Gospel as a Case Study for Matthean Scholarship as a Whole
  Roland Deines, University of Nottingham
  
• 22-340 Quran and Biblical Literature
  Theme: Muslim-Christian Debate and Dialog in Post-Industrial Society
  Early African American Muslim Perceptions of Jesus
  Simon A. Wood, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  Early African American Muslims and the Figure of Jesus: Drew Ali's and Elijah Muhammad's Formulations of an unIslamic Muslim Jesus
  Herbert Berg, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
  Scripture Wars: Contemporary Polemical Discourses of Bible Versus Qur’An on the Internet
  Franz Volker Greifenhagen, Luther College, University of Regina
  Muslim-Christian Polemics on the Internet  
  Michael Pregill, Elon University
  
• 23-111 Bible and Cultural Studies
  Theme: The Bible and Circuits of Affect
  From Disgust to Humor: Rahab’s Queer Affect
  Erin Runions, Pomona College
  Romance and Danger at Nag Hammadi: Cultivating Desire for Heretical Objects
  Maia Kotrosits, Union Theological Seminary
  Hatred and the Critical Study of the Bible: Charles Dupuis
  Thomas Fabisiak, Emory University
  
• 23-213 Cognitive Linguistics in Biblical Interpretation
  
  Encountering Suffering: Image Schemas and Generic Spaces in the Good Samaritan Text
  Kerry Danner-McDonald
  
  Mother Earth as a Conceptual Metaphor in 4 Ezra
  Karina Martin Hogan
  
  The Role of Suffering in Moral Accounting
  Eve Sweetser

2008 Papers

• Matthew section SBL 24-85: Reading The Gospel of Matthew within a Global Context
  Andries van Aarde, University of Pretoria
  “Foxes’ holes and birds’ nests” (Mt 8:20): A postcolonial reading for South Africans from the
  perspective of Matthew’s anti-society language
   Laura Anderson, Graduate Theological Union
  Healthy Economies or Cautionary Tales? The Sub-Structural Economies of Four Matthean Healing Stories
  Lidija Novakovic, Baylor University
  “Yet Even the Dogs Eat the Crumbs that Fall from Their Masters’ Table”: Matthew’s Gospel and Economic Globalization
  Dorothy Jean Weaver, Eastern Mennonite Seminary
  “They Did to Him Whatever They Pleased”: The Exercise of Political Power within Matthew’s Narrative
  John Y. H. Yieh,Virginia Theological Seminary
  Jesus as ‘Teacher-Savior’ or ‘Savior-Teacher’: Reading the Gospel of Matthew in Chinese Contexts
  

2007 Papers

• Papers for S18-114 Deuteronomistic History: Redaction of the Book of Kings
  
  Philippe Hugo, University of Fribourg
  Text History as a Research Tool on Literary Development in the Books of Kings: The Case of 1 Kings 17-19 in the Masoretic Text and Septuagint
  
  Francesca Stavrakopoulou, University of Exeter
  Ideological Dynamics in Kings: Identity and Religious Practice
  
  Dagmar Pruin, Humboldt University
  Mapping the Simultaneity of Randomness: Announcement and Fulfilment in the Narratives about the Omride Dynasty
  
  Michael Pietsch, University of Hamburg
  Prophetess of Doom: Hermeneutical Reflections on the Huldah Oracle (2 Kings 22)

2006 Papers

• S18-7 Formation of the Book of Isaiah Group
  
  Peter D. Miscall, Aquinas Institute of Theology
  Function of Imagery in Isaiah
  

• S19-86 Use of Cognitive Linguistics in Biblical Interpretation Consultation
  
  Joel B. Green, Asbury Theological Seminary
  Luke on Conversion/Repentance: A Cognitive Linguistic Assessment
  
  Mary Therese Des Camp, Graduate Theological Union
  Blessed are the Baby Killers: Cognitive Linguistics and the Text of Psalm 137
  
  Eve Sweetser, University of California, Berkeley
  Cognition, Culture and Reading Ancient Texts
  
  
• S20-87 Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity Section
  
  Gerbern S. Oegema, McGill University
  The Reception of the Book of Daniel and Danielic Literature in the Early Church
  
  Kirsti Barrett Copeland, Stanford University
  The Wise, the Simple, and the Apocalypse of Paul
  
  Birger A. Pearson, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Jewish Wisdom and Apocalyptic in Gnostic Apocalypses
  
  Catherine Playoust, Harvard University
  "Written in the book that I prophesied publicly": The Discernment of Apocalyptic Wisdom According to the "Ascension of Isaiah"
  
  
• S20-138 Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity Section
  
  Annette Yoshiko Reed, McMaster University
  Beyond Revealed Wisdom and Apocalyptic Epistemology: The Redeployment of Enochic Traditions about Knowledge in Early Christianity
  
  Leslie Baynes, Missouri State University
  Enoch, the Angels, and Heavenly Books
  
  David Kudan, Harvard University
  Reflexes of Apocalyptic Wisdom in Jewish Liturgical Texts
  
  Rebecca Lesses, Ithaca College
  Women, Magic, and the History of 1 Enoch
  
  
• S21-15 Matthew Section
  
  Dorothy Jean Weaver, Eastern Mennonite Seminary
  "Suffering Violence" and the Kingdom of Heaven (Mt. 11:12): A Matthean Manual for Life in a Time of War
  
  Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary
  Transforming Initiatives of Just Peacemaking Based on the Triadic Structure of the Sermon on the Mount
  
  Michael Winger, New York, New York
  Conflict and Paradox in Matthew
  
  Lidija Novakovic, Bethel University, St. Paul
  Turning the Other Cheek to a Perpetrator: Denunciation or Upholding of Justice?
  
  Barbara Reid, Catholic Theological Union
  Matthean Perspectives on Bloodshed, Obedience, and Bearing Arms
  
  
• S21-22 Romans through History and Cultures Group
  
  Sujin Pak, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary
  Romans 5 and 13 as Lenses into the Similarities and Differences of Melanchthon, Calvin and Luther's Romans Commentaries
  

2005 Papers

• S21-76 Matthew Section
  Victoria Balabanski, Flinders University of South Australia
  Mission in Matthew Against the Horizon of Matthew 24
  
  Eckhard J. Schnabel, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
  The First Gospel and Matthew's Mission - Narrative, Theological and Historical Perspectives
  
  Andries Van Aarde, University of Pretoria
  Jesus' Mission to All of Israel Emplotted in Matthew's Story
  
  Nienke Pruiksma, Theological University Kampen
  Musa W. Dube's Postcolonial Feminist Reading of Mission Texts in Matthew and the Evolvement of the Concept of Mission in the HIV/AIDS Reading
  
  Daniel Patte, Vanderbilt University
  Reading Matthew 28:16-20 with Others: How It Deconstructs Our Western Concept of Mission
  
  
• S21-104 Bible in Ancient and Modern Media
  David Rhoads, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
  Performance Criticism: An Emerging Methodology in Biblical Studies
  
  
• S19-61 Early Christian Families
  David Wilhite, University of St. Andrews (Scotland)
  "He Alone of All My Kin": Kinship Theory, Roman Kinship, and Perpetua

2004 Papers

• S20-53 Biblical Scholarship and Disabilities Consultation
  Sarah J. Melcher, Xavier University
  "I Will Lead the Blind by a Road They Do Not Know:" Disability in Prophetic Eschatology
  
  
• S20-69 The Book of the Twelve Prophets Section
  Paul L. Redditt, Georgetown College
  The King in the Book of the Twelve
  
  
• S20-110 Egyptology and Ancient Israel Section
  John Gee, Brigham Young University
  "There Needs No Ghost, My Lord, Come from the Grave to Tell Us This"1: Dreams and Angels in Ancient Egypt
  
  
• S21-128 Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity Group
  George W. E. Nickelsburg, The University of Iowa
  The Study of Apocalypticism from H. H. Rowley to the Society of Biblical Literature
  
  
  
• S21-60 Formation of Luke-Acts Consultation
  Claire Clivaz, University of Lausanne
  "A Sweat like Drops of Blood" (Luke 22:44): at the Crossing of Intertextual Reading and Textual Criticism
  
  
• S22-28 Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity Group
  Sabrina Inowlocki, Oxford University
  Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Aseneth
  
  Timothy J. Johnson, Marquette University
  Job as Proto-Apocalypse: A Fresh Proposal for Job’s Governing Genre
  
  R. Glenn Wooden, Acadia Divinity College
  Changing Perceptions of Daniel: Reading Dan 4 and 5 in Context
  
  
• S22-111 Formation of the Book of Isaiah
  A. Joseph Everson, California Lutheran University
  A Bitter Memory: Isaiah's Commission in Isaiah 6: 1-13
  
  Francis Landy, University of Alberta
  Does Isaiah 40:1-11 Answer to Isaiah 6? Spectrality and Autonomy in Deutero-Isaiah

2003 Papers

• Claudia V. Camp, Texas Christian University
  “All This is the Book of the Covenant of the Most High God”: Orality, Literacy and Textual Authority in the Work of Ben Sira
  
  
• Rollin Ramsaran, Emmanuel School of Religion
  From Mind to Message: Oral Performance In 1 Corinthians 15
  
  
• Whitney Shiner, George Mason University
  Sounding The Eschatological Alarm: Chapter Thirteen In The Performance Of Mark

2002 Papers

• Lawrence M. Wills, Episcopal Divinity School
  “Instruction in Matthew”
  
  
• Aaron Milavec
  Apprenticeship in the Way of Wisdom Within the Apocalyptic-Orientated Didache Communities 50 – 70 C.E.1
  
  
• Ellen B. Aitken, Harvard Divinity School
  “Wily, Wise, and Worldly: Instruction and the Formation of Character in the Epistle to the Hebrews”
  
  
• Benjamin G. Wright, Lehigh University
  Wisdom and Instruction in Ben Sira and 1 Enoch
  
  
• Yonder Moynihan Gillihan
  Astral knowledge and the authority of the general in Greco-Roman military manuals: analogies to the role of the maskil in the DSS
  
  
• Matthew Goff, Georgia Southern University
  Wisdom, Apocalypticism, and the Pedagogical Ethos of 4QInstruction