One of the things that I miss about the biblical studies scene in the UK is the annual meeting of the British New Testament Conference (which has, by all accounts, just held a very successful meeting at King's College London and at which a panel of scholars reached definitive agreement about what the discipline of New Testament studies actually is and is for ... or am I being optimistic?). Here in Australia there are few opportunities for biblical scholars to gather from across the country. Therefore it is good to know that the inaugural conference of the Fellowship for Biblical Studies is due to be held here in Melbourne on the 24–25 September 2012. The programme for the conference is as follows:
9.30 Mark A. O’Brien “Creativity
and Limitation in the Making of Biblical Texts”
10.10 Judy Redman “Finding a lost sheep”
10.50 Morning Coffee
(in the café area)
11.10 Ian Young “‘Neither Can Live While the Other Survives’: Linguistic
Dating of Hebrew Biblical Texts vs Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible”
11.50 Adam White “Value Formation and Value judgement: Graeco-Roman paideia
as a backdrop to Paul’s judgement language in 1 Cor 4.1-5”
12.30 Dermot Nestor “Is ‘Israel’ in the Merneptah Stele?”
1.10 Lunch (in the
café area)
2.00 Sean Winter “Dung as Idolatry: The Meaning of skubala in Philippians 3:8”
2.40 Martin Shields “Was
Elihu Right?”
3.20 Afternoon
Tea (in the café area)
3.40 Alexandra
Robinson "Jude's Citation of 1 Enoch and its Significance"
4.20 Jon Kenneth Newton “Story lines in the Book of Revelation”
5.00pm Lucy Davey, “The Importance of the Chiastic Structure in the Book of
Ezekiel”
5.40pm Wine and Nibbles (in the café area)
Tuesday 25th September
9.30 Howard Wallace “Arthur Boyd and his Bible”
10.10 Stephen Llewellyn “Metaphors and Eunuchs: The Argument for a Different Reading
of Matt 11:12”
10.50 Morning Coffee (in the café area
11.10 Anne Elvey "Rethinking Neighbour Love: Toward an Ecological
Materialist Conversation between Political Theology and Ecological Ethics"
11.50 Rachelle Gilmour “Juxtaposed
Episodes of Biblical Narrative in Dialogue”
12.30 David
Sim “The Gospel of Matthew and Galilee”
1.10 Lunch (in the café area)
2.00 Robyn Vern “Recent Study of Archaic Biblical Hebrew: shedding
new light on understanding Biblical Hebrew”
2.40 Steffen Joeris “More than family
dispute: Mk 13:12-13a and Isa 66:5”
3.20 Afternoon Tea (in the café area)
3.40 Anne Gardner “Gratuitous Repetition or Meaningful References in Dan 7:1b-2a?
Implications for an Ur-text”
4.20 Todd Stanton “Toward a Comparative Method in Biblical Studies”
5.00pm Wine and Nibbles (in the café area
A mixed bag of papers to be sure, but it is good to see colleagues from Sydney attending in some numbers. As you may have spotted, I am giving a paper. I'll post the abstract for that tomorrow.
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