Recent Conferences

ISBL. London, July 2011, First Session

4-30 Contextual Interpretation of the Bible (Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and New Testament)

7/04/2011, 12:30 PM to 3:00 PM, Room: 2.46 - Franklin Wilkins

Theme: Hebrew Bible Papers

Jeremy Punt, University of Stellenbosch, Presiding

Alexander Izuchukwu Abasili, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Seeing Tamar through the Prism of an African Woman: A Contextual Reading of Genesis 38 (20 min)

Dohyung Kim, University of Sheffield
Tamar’s Double Roles in Genesis 38 within the Primary Narrative (Genesis – 2 Kings) (20 min)

Yael Shemesh, Bar-Ilan University
Aaron’s Family Tragedy (Leviticus 10): Mourning and Refraining from Mourning in the Bible (20 min)

Anthony Rees, Charles Sturt University
Numbers 25 and Beyond: Phinehas and other Detestable Practice(r)s (20 min)

Helen R. Jacobus, University of Manchester
Slave Wives and Transgressive Unions: Ancient Near East Laws, Biblical Laws and Literature(20 min)

Discussion (30 minutes)

During the session papers will be summarized, not read in full, then extensively discussed. Fuller drafts are available below via the links.

Abasili_draft

Shemesh_draft

Jacobus_draft

Rees_draft

ISBL London, July 2011, Second Session

6-31 Contextual Interpretation of the Bible (Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and New Testament)

7/06/2011, 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Room: 2.46 - Franklin Wilkins

Theme: Papers on the Hebrew Bible and theNew Testament

Archie Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Presiding

Brad Embry, Northwest University (Washington)
The Rape andDismemberment of the Levite’s Concubine in Judges 19: A Case for Reassessing the (Important) Role of Women in the Biblical Narrative (20 min)

Katherine Southwood, University of Oxford
“What shall we do for wives for those who are left?”: Reactionsto Judges 21 When Placed within An Analytical Framework Informed by Modern Social-anthropological Theories of Marriage (20 min)

Kar-Yong Lim, Seminari Theoloji Malaysia
Paul’s Use of Temple Imagery in the Corinthian Correspondence and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Contextual Reading from the Perspectives of A Chinese Malaysian (20 min)

Break (30 min)

Jeremy Punt, Universiteit van Stellenbosch - University of Stellenbosch
Foolish Rhetoric in 1 Corinthians 1:18-31: Paul’s Discourse of Power as Mimicry (20 min)

Mary Phil Korsak, Society of Authors-Translators Association
Glad News from Mark (20 min)

Galen L. Goldsmith, Independent Scholar
Who Healeth All Thy Diseases (20 min)

Discussion (30 min)

Papers will be summarized during the session, not read in full, then extensively discussed. Fuller drafts are availabale via the links below.

Korsak_draft

Goldsmith_draft

Punt_draft

Lim_draft

SBL 2010--ATLANTA, GA, USA

S21-208 Contextual Biblical Interpretation

11/21/2010 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM

Room: Fairlie - Hyatt Regency

Theme: Hebrew Bible: Preparing Volumes for the TEXTS@CONTEXTS Series, Fortress Press

Athalya Brenner, Tel Aviv University and University of Amsterdam, Presiding

Athalya Brenner, Tel Aviv University and University of Amsterdam
Territory and Identity: The Beginnings and Beyond (15 min)

Magdi S. Gendi, Evangelical Theological Seminary, Cairo, Egypt
Egyptian Perspective on Pharaoh as a Character in the Exodus Narrative: Exodus 1-15 (15 min)

Naomi Graetz, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Miriam and Me (15 min)

Joseph Ryan Kelly, Harding University Graduate School of Religion
What Would Moses Do?: On Applying the Test of a False Prophet to the Current Climate Crisis (15 min)

Sonia Kwok Wong, Vanderbilt University
The Notion of kpr in the Book of Leviticus and Chinese Popular Religion (15 min)

Kari Latvus, University of Helsinki
The debt in the Hebrew Bible: thesilent indebted persons (15 min)

Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, Shaw University Divinity School
Precious Memories: Rule of Law in Deuteronomy as Catalyst and Contradiction of Domestic Violence (15 min)

Discussion (45 min)
Roundtable discussion in preparation for eventual publication of above papers

Links to several papers are now available below,all of them fullerdrafts,and hopefully all will be available about a week before the Meeting.
http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/a.brenner/page3.html
At the session papers will be discussed (not read) after a short summary, in preparation for the eventual publication.

For a list of all Contextual Biblical Interpretation sessions this year, go to
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/religious_studies/SBL2009/ContextBibInterp.htm

Brenner_Draft

Graetz_Draft

Wong_Draft

Latvus_Draft

Kelly_Draft

Kirk_Duggan_Draft

ISBL in Tartu, Estonia, July 2010: Program and Papers

The session program is reproduced here. Links to the session program in Word format and to the papers are to be found below.

Theme: Families in Late Biblical Time, Revisited

This session will be based on invited panel-discussion papers. The papers' full text will be put on Athalya Brenner's homepage (http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/a.brenner/page3.html) before the IM. At the Meeting, papers will be summarized and discussed by panelists and audience. The general setup will be thatof a seminar or roundtable discussion group, following the panelists' introductory remarks.

Athalya Brenner,Tel Aviv University, Presiding

Athalya Brenner, Tel Aviv University

Alternative Families: From the Hebrew Bible to Early Judaisms (20-25 min)

Marianne Kartzow,University of Oslo

Striking Family Hierarchies: Luke 12:35-48, Gender, and Slavery (20-25 min)

Lilly Nortje-Meyer, University of Johannesburg

Whyquestioning theheteronormative Family as strategy in biblical discourse? (20-25 min)

Break (30 min)

Jeremy Punt, University of Stellenbosch

Family in the NewTestament. Sociallocation,households and "traditionalfamily values" (20-25 min)

Dirk van der Merwe, University of South Africa

Domestic architecture: Culture, fictive kinship and the Johannine community (20-25 min)

Discussion (30 min)

Length of session: approximately 180 minutes.

Session Program

Brenner's paper

Punt's paper

Van der Merwe's paper

Kartzow's paper

Nortje-Meyer's paper

PAPERS FOR THE CONTEXTUAL BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION/HEBREW BIBLE, NEW ORLEANS, NOVEMBER 2009: Preparing Pentateuch volumesfor the TEXTS@CONTEXTS Series, FortressPress

Athalya Brenner, Tel Aviv University, Presiding (5 min)

Kari Latvus, Helsinki University; Hagar in Finland?, Panelist (15-20 min)

Jione Havea, Charles Stuart University; Jacob encounters Job, on the streets of Manila, Panelist (15-20 min)

Joseph Kelly, Harding University Graduate School of Religion; Is YHWH Faithful to Israel: Joel and Jonah's Use and Non-Use of Exodus 34:6-7, Panelist (15-20 min)

Diana Lipton, Kings College London; Longing forEgypt: Dissecting 'TheHeart Enticed', Panelist (15-20 min)

Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, Shaw University Divinity School; How Liberating is the Exodus and for Whom? Deconstructing Exodusmotifs inScripture,Literature, and Life, Panelist (15-20 min)

Discussion: Papers will be discussed (not read) after a brief summary, in preparation for eventual publication.

NEW TESTAMENT AND ANOTHERCBI JOINTSESSION FOLLOW, WITH LINKS TO DRAFT PRESENTATION TEXTS ADDED AS THEY COME IN

Latvus, draft paper

Kelly, draft paper

Kirk-Duggan, draft paper

Lipton, draft paper

Havea, draft paper