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Princeton, NJ 08540-6824
United States
Call for Papers
2025 Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting
The Mid-Atlantic Region includes NY, NJ, PA, DE MD, DC, VA, WV
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Princeton Theological Seminary Erdman Center
20 Library PlacePrinceton, NJ 08540-6824
United States
Call for Papers
Decisions will be announced on February 17, 2025.
Keynote
![]() Dale Allison, Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary |
“Jesus and the Scriptures:
Abstract: Some important scholars have been inclined to dissociate Jesus from most of the scriptural quotations and clear allusions that are attributed to him. They assign them rather to the post-Easter community. This presentation outlines the reasons for their position, critically analyzes and rejects those reasons, and mounts a case to the contrary. It then contends that one plausible way of approaching the topic of Jesus and the Scriptures is to hunt for patterns that run across the sources. One outcome of doing this is that Jesus appears to have had a strongly Mosaic self-conception |
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Agenda
March 15 | |
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM | Breakfast no charge |
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Welcome Jonathan Lee Walton, President of Princeton Theological Seminary |
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM | Session 1: Panel What authoritative traditions of the ancient texts/world were prominent in first-century Christianity? How has the conception of authoritative traditions changed in our current cultural setting? What is the relationship between these ancient sources and emerging sources of foundational authority for Christianity? |
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Coffee Break no charge |
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Session 2: Papers |
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch no charge |
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Session 3: Papers |
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM | Coffee Break no charge |
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | Session 4: Papers |
4:45 PM - 7:00 PM | Dinner on your own |
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM | Keynote: Dale Allison, PTS Professor of New Testament "Jesus and the Scriptures: Skepticism versus Patterns" |
8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | Reception Cash bar |
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