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Saturday, 21 February 2009                                                                    Saturday, 21 February 2009

Chadhain Theatre (Room 2041B)                                                         Swift Theatre (Room 2041A)


09:15 – 09:30 Opening Introduction and Announcements

Session Chair: Jason M Silverman                                                                                             
Session Chair:  Murray Watson
 

09:30 – 10:00   Cynthia Shafer-Elliott                                                                                       Miriam Haar

                         "Gender and Syro-Palestinian Archaeology: A Post Feminist Perspective"              “Interpreting Together and Receiving New Testament Concepts of

                                                                                                                                                 Apostolicity”

 

10:00 – 10:30   Pierre Bonnici                                                                                                  Marcin Pietrzyk
                        
"Text, artefact and the brief dark period of ancient Judah: 586 - 538 BC"             “Madaba and Mount Nebo in the Context of Biblical Vision of the

                                                                                                                                                 Promised Land”
 

10:30 – 11:00   Lidia D. Matassa                                                                                               Katherine Sturm
                         “Is Locus 1042 at Masada a Synagogue?”                                                           “Reserved For Fire: The End Times Documentary and its vision for the

                                                                                                                                                 future”

11:00 – 11:30   Coffee Break                                                                                                
Coffee Break
 

Session Chair:  Lidia D. Matassa                                                                                                Session Chair: Murray Watson
 

11:30 – 12:00   Mary Katherine Hom                                                                                         Trisha Tschopp
                        “Sea Level and the Sealanders: a Study in Interdisciplinary Methodology”              “Reconsidering Jacob: a Gendered Approach to Genesis” 

12:00 – 12:30  CA Strine                                                                                                   
       Francis Cousins
                        "Is there a Bull Standing behind the Lion?                                                            
“Reading Luke 16:14-31 Through the Lens of Midrash”

                        The Ugaritic Background for the Divine Oath in the Book of Amos”

12.30 – 13:00   Audrey Barnett                                                                                              
 Aleksander Michalak
                         “The History of the Development of the War Oracle”                                          "Angels in the Apocalypses"

13:00 – 14.20    Lunch Break                                                                                                
Lunch Break

 

Session Chair:  Audrey Barnett                                                                                                 Session Chair: Amy Daughton
 

14:20 – 14:50   Clare Elizabeth Carroll                                                                                     Wilson de Angelo Cunha
                        “Recent Encounters with Jeremiah: Acknowledging Bifurcated Criticism”              “The Reception of MT Isaiah 24:14-16 in LXX Isaiah 24:14-16”

14:50 – 15:20   Mohammad Pak                                                                                             
  Murray Watson
                        “Comparative Research in Prophecy and Moral Law in the                                     “
Standing Alone: The Treatment of Greek Hapax Legomena in Modern

                         Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean”                                                          English and French New Testaments”

15:20 – 15:50   Jason McCann                                                                                           
      Donald Moffat
                        “’Temple Upon the Waters’: the Genesis Flood Narrative”                                   Ezra's Tent Peg"


15:50 – 16:00   Short Break
 

Session Chair:  Amy Daughton                                                                                                           
 

16:00 – 16:30  Kile Jones
                       “Moulton’s Zoroastrianism”

16:30 – 17:00  Jason M Silverman
                        “Mythic Geography in 1 Enoch 77 and Royal Iranian Ideology”

17:15-17:45    Closing Address
                       
Professor ADH Mayes

17:45-18:00     Announcements
 


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