19 Monday Dec 2011
Posted in Academics, Biblical Studies
Derek Tovey has posted abstracts from the 2011 ANZABS conference at the ANZABS blog. The fourteenth annual meeting was held at Laidlaw College’s Christchurch premises, on 5-6 December 2011.
Next year’s meeting will be held jointly with The Systematic Theology Association in Aotearoa New Zealand (STAANZ), at Laidlaw College, Auckland, on 9-11 December 2012.
02 Wednesday Dec 2009
Posted in Biblical Studies, Conferences & Seminars
The annual conference for the Aotearoa-New Zealand Association of Biblical Studies is on again next week, on Monday 7 – Tuesday 8 December. It will be held at the University of Otago, Castle C Lecture Theatre. And it’s free – which makes it the best value biblical studies conference in the world.
Here’s the draft schedule:
Monday, 7 December
9:00 am welcome, name tags, numbers for conference dinner, etc.
9:30 am Gerard Ellis, “Paul and the Philippian Church on the Verge of the Sub-Apostolic Age”
10:30 am morning tea
11:00 am Sarah Hart, “The Tent of Meeting as a Word Picture”
12:00 pm John Hale, “John Milton’s Theology: Robbing Peter to Pay Paul?”
12:30 pm lunch
1:30 pm Yael Klangwisan, “Existential Philosophy and the Song of Songs”
2:00 pm John Barclay, “Paul and Alain Badiou”
3:00 pm Matt Easter, “If Not Pistis, then What?: An Investigation into ‘Unfaith[fulness]’ in the Book of Hebrews
3:30 pm afternoon tea
4:00 pm Tim Meadowcroft, “Bridging ‘the Ugly Ditch’: Reflections on Luke 1:1-4 and History”
5:00 pm conclusion
Evening: dinner (venue to be announced)
Tuesday, 8 December
9:00 am Mark Keown, TBA
9:30 am John Douglas, “Shadow, Substance, Coincidence, Significance: The infancy narratives of Samuel, John the Baptist, Jesus and ‘Mason Durie’s Tapa Wha model’”
10:30 am morning tea
11:00 am “Luke 19:8- Salvation or Vindication: The Ongoing Debate”
12: 00 pm Emily Colgan, “Contrasting Images of Land in Jeremiah 2:1-9”
12:30 pm lunch
1:30 pm AGM
2:00 pm James Harding, “Reading/Writing David and Jonathan with John Addington Symonds”
3:00 pm Tim Harris, “Ethos as theology: refocusing Pauline Theology”
3:[3]0 pm afternoon tea
4:00 pm Miriam Bier, “Towards a Hermeneutics of Participation: Lamentations as Resistant Conversation”
4:30 pm Paul Trebilco, “Self-Designation in Earliest Christianity”
5:00 pm conclusion
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