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2018THE NEW ENGLAND and

EASTERN CANADA REGION

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SOCIETY of

BIBLICAL LITERATURE

Friday, April 20, 2018 Yale Divinity School

New Haven, Connecticut

The New England and Eastern Canada Region of the Society of Biblical Literature 2017–2018 Executive Committee

Terms Expiring 2018Giovanni B. Bazzana, Harvard Divinity SchoolJennifer Eyl, Tufts UniversityJennifer Wright Knust, Boston University; Regional President

Terms Expiring 2019Yonder M. Gillihan, Boston CollegeRobert C. Kashow, Brown University; Regional Student

CoordinatorJacqueline Vayntrub, Brandeis University

Terms Expiring 2020Andrew R. Davis, Boston College School of Theology and

MinistryAmelia Devin Freedman, Independent Scholar; Regional

CoordinatorJohn Tracy Thames, Jr., University of Connecticut

Student Committee (Flexible Terms)Acacia Chan, Yale Divinity SchoolSarah E. G. Fein, Brandeis UniversityEric Jarrard, Harvard Divinity School

BOOK DISPLAY Old Refectory

8:15–4:00

This program has been provided courtesy of Hendrickson Publishers.

2018 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN CANADA REGION OF THE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE

Yale Divinity School 409 Prospect Street

New Haven, Connecticut Friday, April 20, 2018

8:15–4:00 BOOK DISPLAY (Old Refectory)

8:15–9:00 REGISTRATION: COFFEE & PASTRIES (Old Refectory)

9:00–10:20 MORNING SESSIONS

A.1. Ancient Judaism I (S100, Bushnell Seminar)

Presiding: John Tracy Thames, Jr., University of ConnecticutMatthew Walsh, Acadia Divinity College

The Guardianship of God and Principal Angels in the Second Temple Period

E. Macarena García, Universidad Complutense de MadridIs Gen 6:1–4 the Source of the Book of Watchers?

David Clint Burnett, Boston CollegeAn Archaeological and Epigraphic Re-Evaluation of Gaius’s Attempt to Erect His Statue in the Jerusalem Temple

A.2. Ancient Judaism II (S104, Bushnell Seminar Room)

Presiding: Jacqueline Vayntrub, Brandeis UniversityCorinne E. Blackmer, Southern Connecticut University

Philo on Male Same-Sex RelationsShlomo Zuckier, Yale University

Expiation, Atonement, or Reconciliation: Rabbinic Meanings of Kapparah

Matthew Goldstone, Jewish Theological SeminaryThe Role of Limitation in Early Rabbinic Midrashim

A.3. Hebrew Bible I (N054)

Presiding: Jimmy Daccache, Yale UniversityDebra Scoggins Ballentine, Rutgers University

Theological Play with Foreign Kings in Biblical Explanations of Violence

Eric Jarrard, Harvard Divinity SchoolJosiah Kept a Passover: The Perils and Promise of Inter-Generational Memorialization in 2 Chronicles 35 and the Exodus

Ludwig Beethoven Jones Noya, Boston UniversityThe Levitico-Chronistic Designation of “The Ark” in Psalm 132 as a Liturgical Legitimation: Revisiting Gwynne Henton Davies’ The Ark in the Psalms

Simon Zeldin, McMaster UniversityRolling in the (Waters of the) Deep: Creation, Cleansing, and Reconstitution in the Hebrew Bible

A.4. New Testament I (S223, La Tourette)

Presiding: Giovanni B. Bazzana, Harvard Divinity SchoolSteven A. Hunt, Gordon College

No One Has Ever Seen God: The Revelatory Import of the Fourth Gospel’s Relecture of Mark

Beniamin Pascut, Bowdoin CollegeA Background Study to Mark 2:1–12

Elizabeth Schrader, Boston UniversityUnexplored Connections between John 20, the Epistle of the Apostles, and Manichaean Psalm 187

Acacia Chan, Yale Divinity SchoolA Potential Example of Auxesis in the Adjectives of Romans 5:6–10

10:30–11:30 SPECIAL SESSION I (N123, Niebuhr Hall)

Presiding: Harold W. Attridge, Yale Divinity School

The State of the Commentary Art and What Lies Ahead for the 21st Century

A Panel Discussion featuring members of the Hermenia Commentary Series Editorial Board:Joel S. Baden, Yale Divinity SchoolJohn J. Collins, Yale Divinity SchoolPeter Machinist, Harvard UniversityAdela Yarbro Collins, Yale Divinity SchoolDavid Vanderhooft, Boston College

11:30–1:00 LUNCH (Old Refectory)

12:00–1:00 GRADUATE STUDENT SESSION (S223, La Tourette)

Presiding: Jennifer Eyl, Tufts University

Gender in and in front of the Classroom

A Panel Discussion Featuring:Yii-Jan Lin, Yale Divinity SchoolJacqueline Vayntrub, Brandeis University

12:00–1:00 BUSINESS MEETING: We encourage all full members of the SBL to attend. (S212, Taylor Seminar Room)

Presiding: Jennifer Wright Knust, Boston University; Regional President

Amelia Devin Freedman, Independent Scholar; Regional Coordinator

1:10–2:30 AFTERNOON SESSIONS

B.1. Early Christianity (S212, Taylor Seminar Room)

Presiding: Yonder M. Gillihan, Boston CollegeJoseph E. Brito, Concordia University

The Construct of Gender and Identity in the Gospel of ThomasThomas Schmidt, Yale University

Commentators as Scribes: The Case of RevelationMatthew Siebert, Yale Divinity School

Apocalypse Now? An Exploration of the Eschatology of Didache 8:2 and 16:1–8

David Young, Boston UniversityCodex Claromontanus as a Case Study in the Latin Reception of the Epistle to the Hebrews

B.2. Hebrew Bible II (S100, Bushnell Seminar)

Presiding: Nicole Ruane, University of New HampshireAnna Rozonoer, Hellenic College

Ezekiel 31:16–18 or (the Trees of) Eden in Sheol?Nazeer Nathaniel Bacchus, Yale Divinity School

Conquest of the Body-Politic: Daughter Zion and the Gendered Representation of Liminality in Lamentations

Kerry M. Sonia, Bowdoin College“God of Vengeance, Shine Forth”: Solar Imagery and Yahweh’s Care for the Marginalized in the Hebrew Bible

B.3. New Testament II (S101, Mini Seminar Room)

Presiding: Adela Yarbro Collins, Yale Divinity SchoolGilha Lee, Emory University

“The Rock Was Christ”: 1 Cor 10:4b–c as Pauline Challenge of the Corinthians’ Understanding of Wisdom

Denys McDonald, University of Exeter and St. Thomas University“Ex-Pagan Pagans?” Do Paul’s Gentiles-in-Christ Remain Gentiles?

Josiah S. Bisbee, Brown UniversityΙουδαιοι Abroad: “Jewish” or “Judean” Migrants?

Michael Libunao-Macalintal, Yale Divinity SchoolUtang Ng Loob: Liberation from “Indebtedness” Found in Matthew 11:28–30

B.4. New Testament III (S117, Woods Seminar Room)

Presiding: Paul Robertson, University of New HampshireKevin McGinnis, Stonehill College

“All One in Christ Jesus”: Physical and Moral Equality in Galatians 3:28

Nathaniel DesRosiers, Stonehill CollegeAnother Jesus, a Different Spirit, and a Different Gospel: Paul’s Exclusive Christ

Haley Gabrielle, Yale Divinity School“Neither Take Wives in Marriage nor Are Given Others’ Daughters”: Reinterpreting Luke 20:34–36 in Light of Cum Manu and Sine Manu Marriage

2:40–3:10 SPECIAL SESSION II (N123, Niebuhr Hall)

An Introduction to “Cosmos and Creation in the Twelfth Century: An Interpretation of Genesis 1”

An Address by:Margot E. Fassler, University of Notre DameChristian Jara, University of Notre Dame

3:30–5:00 SPECIAL SESSION III: Showings at 3:30 and 4:15 (Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium, 355 Prospect Street)

Cosmos and Creation in the Twelfth Century: An Interpretation of Genesis 1

A Multimedia Presentation by:Margot E. Fassler, University of Notre DameChristian Jara, University of Notre Dame

3:30–5:00 CLOSING RECEPTION (Day Missions Room)

N054 Downstairs

from the Old

Refectory

Main Entrance

N123Niebuhr

Hall

S117Woods Seminar Room

S104Bushnell Seminar Room

S100Bushnell Seminar

S101Mini Seminar Room

S223LaTourette

Day Missions Reading Room

S212Taylor Seminar Room

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