Innovation:                                                  Emerging Scholars Conference

 Program  EVENT DETAILS

Thursday, October 10, 2024

9:00-9:30 am ET    Welcome

9:30-11:30 am ET  Session 1

  • Anna Lee (Graduate Theological Union) “Suffering and Cognitive Dissonance
    (rogez) in Job”
  • Erica Restaino (Fordham University) “Lamentations & Communal Trauma:
    Model for US”
  • Sarah Turner-Smith (University of Nottingham) “Nakedness and Cities in HB: Female Subjects Deserve the Violent Destruction”

Respondents – Jennie Grillo (University of Notre Dame), Tyler Harris (University of Chicago)

    1:00-3:00 pm ET     Session 2
    • Matthew Green (Princeton Theological Seminary) “Study of ʾašrê to Understand How Poets Shape Aesthics in Proverbs 3:13-18, Psalm 137, and Psalm 1
    • Katharine Fitzgerald (Independent) “Literary trauma theory & Judith and Susanna. What Is a Cosmopolitan Text?”
    • Carlos A. Garcia Alayon (University of Notre Dame) “Celestial Rituals in the Second Temple Period: A Proposed Taxonomy”

    Respondents – Ron Herms (Fresno Pacific University), Gwangsoo Lee (University of St Andrews)

     3:30-5:00 pm ET    Panel Discussion

    • Jorg Frey (Mohr. Siebeck, Early Christianity Series)
    • Michael Thompson (Wipf & Stock)
    • Brandy Scritchfield (Baker Academic)
    • Richard Bautch (CBQ Monograph Series & CBQ Imprints)

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    Friday, October 11, 2024

    9:30-11:30 am ET  Session 3

    • Samuel L. Turpin (Marquette University) “Only Gentiles Are White Cattle
      in 1 Enoch 90:38”
    • Yudai Chiba (Princeton Theological Seminary) “Numismatics Shape Political Identity”
    • Irene Quach Soquier (McMaster University) “Comparing Galatians 5:19-23 with Ben Sira and Wisdom of Solomon”

    Respondents – Ron Herms (Fresno Pacific University), Chesarae Fletcher (University of Birmingham)

    1:00-3:00 pm ET     Session 4

    • John Peters (Regent University) “Luke as a Historian”
    • Hoa Nguyen (Villanova) “Women (Anna) in Luke: Luke 2:22-38”
    • Agbile Terngu Oliver (Emory University) “Deconstructing Neighborliness: A Derridean Analysis of Luke 10:25-37”
    • Respondents – Chris T. Holmes (Director of Biblical and Theological Education, First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta), Calvin Smith (Christendom College Graduate School of Theology)

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