Academic Programme
Daily Programme |
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Monday, July 24th
14.00-19.00 | Latin America Caribbean/Eastern European Pre-Conferences (Schenkenstraße) |
19.00 | Dinner for the participants of the pre-conferences |
19.00 | Dinner for the members of the Committee |
Tuesday, July 25th
09.00-19.30 | Registration |
09.00-13.00 | Latin America Caribbean/Eastern European Pre-Conference (seminar room i 2/3 Schenkenstraße) |
09.00-16.00 | Committee Meeting (KTF convention hall) |
12.00-13.00 | Lunch for the Committee Meeting |
17.00-18.00 | Business Meeting I (AudiMax) |
17.00-18.00 | Accompanying Persons Program Meeting (HS 1 main building) |
18.15-21.15 | Opening Reception and Dinner (arcade courtyard) |
20.15-21.15 | New Members Meeting (Small Ceremonial Hall) |
Wednesday, July 26th
8.00-8.30 | Morning Prayer (English) – Schottenkirche/Scots Church |
9.00-10.15 | Presidential Address (AudiMax) |
10.15-10.30 | Conference Photo |
10.30-11.15 | Coffee Break |
11.30-13.00 | Seminars Session I (seminar rooms main building and Schenkenstraße) |
13.15-14.15 | Lunch (Rathauskeller) |
14.30-15.45 | Main Paper I (AudiMax) |
15.45-16.30 | Coffee Break |
16.30-17.45 | Main Paper II (AudiMax) |
18.00-18.45 | Simultaneous Short Papers – Session I (main building) |
18.00-18.45 | Editorial Board Meeting (KTF convention hall) |
19.00-22.00 | Great Dinner (Rathauskeller) |
Thursday, July 27th
8.00-8.30 | Morning Prayer (German) – Schottenkirche/Scots Church |
9.00-10.15 | Main Paper III (AudiMax) |
10.15-11.00 | Coffee Break |
11.15-12.45 | Seminars Session II (Seminarrooms main building and Schenkenstraße) |
13.00-14.00 | Lunch (Rathauskeller) |
13.00-14.00 | Female Delegates Lunch Meeting (Rathauskeller – separate room) |
14.15-15.30 | Main Paper IV (AudiMax) |
15.30-16.15 | Coffee Break |
16.15-17.00 | Simultaneous Short Papers – Session II (main building) |
16.15-17.00 | International Initiatives Meeting |
17.15-18.15 | Concert (AudiMax) |
18.30-22.00 | Dinner Heuriger Schübel-Auer (transfer together by tram) |
Saturday, July 29th
Friday, July 28th
8.00-8.30 | Morning Prayer (French) – Schottenkirche/Scots Church |
9.00-10.15 | Main Paper V (AudiMax) |
10.15-11.00 | Coffee Break |
11.15-12.45 | Seminars Session III (Seminarrooms main building and Schenkenstraße) |
13.00-14.00 | Lunch (Rathauskeller) |
13.00-15.30 | Committee Meeting II (KTF convention hall) |
14.15-15.00 | Simultaneous Short Papers – Session III (main building) |
15.00-15.45 | Coffee Break |
15.45-17.00 | Main Paper VI (AudiMax) |
17.00-18.00 | Business Meeting II (AudiMax) |
18.15-19.15 | Dinner (Rathauskeller) |
Main Papers & Presidential Address |
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Presidential Address
Joseph Verheyden (Belgium), Musings on How to Write a History of New Testament Interpretation
Main Paper 1
Shelly Matthews (USA), Reading the Resurrection of the Holy Ones (Mt 27:51b-54) within Judaism, through a Feminist Lens
Main Paper 2
Paul-Hubert Poirier (Canada), D’Édesse à Antioche en passant par Jérusalem et Alexandrie. Où situer l’Évangile selon Thomas? Quelques considérations critiques
Main Paper 3
Korinna Zamfir (Romania), Suing for Peace at Any Cost? Reading the Parable of The Two Kings (Luke 14:31-32) at Times of War
Main Paper 4
Francis Watson (UK), Eusebius and the Biographical Logic of the New Testament Canon
Main Paper 5
Sandra Huebenthal (Germany), Gedächtnis trifft Einleitung: Ein neuer Blick auf alte Fragen
Main Paper 6
Tat siong Benny Liew (USA), Criticism, Crisis, and Krisis: Reading Questions for New Testament Critics Today
Seminars |
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1. Constructions of the Histories of Early Christianity
Cilliers Breytenbach and Clare Rothschild – terminates in 2024
Session 1: Matt Calhoun (USA), Metalepsis in Narrative Charms and Miracle Stories’;
Respondent: Bärbel Bosenius (Germany)
Session 2: Ferdinand Prostmeier (Germany), Das Christentum in der Weltgeschichte des Theophilos von Antiochia;
Respondent: Clare Rothschild (USA)
Session 3: Cavin Concannon (USA), Networks and Early Christian Memory: Notes on Social Network Analysis and the Historiography of Early Christianity;
Respondent: Mark Grundeken (Germany)
2. Mapping “New Testament Studies”: History, Status and Prospects
Eve-Marie Becker, Michael Cover, and Francis Watson – terminates in 2024
Session 1: Oda Wischmeyer (Germany), Aufgaben und Herausforderungen des Fachs Neues Testament
Session 2: Régis Burnet (Belgium), La Bible grandit-elle avec ses lecteurs? Entre lecture infinie et Sache der Texte, quelle herméneutique choisir?/Does the Bible Grow with its Readers? Between Infinite Reading and Sache der Texte, which Hermeneutic to Choose?
Session 3: Michael B. Cover (USA), Surveying the “Immediately Outlying Buildings”: The Place of the Apostolic Fathers in New Testament Studies, with a Focus on the Letters of Ignatius
3. Inhalte und Probleme einer neutestamentlichen Theologie
Christof Landmesser and Mark Seifrid – terminates in 2023
Session 1: Christof Landmesser (Germany) and Mark Seifrid (USA): Aufgabe und Ziele Neutestamentlicher Theologie’/’The Task and Aims of New Testament Theology
Session 2: Markus Bockmuehl (UK), The New Testament on the Presence of the Exalted Jesus
Session 3: Reinhard Feldmeier (Germany), Historie und Mysterienspiel: Biblische Theologie am Beispiel des lukanischen Doppelwerks
4. The Johannine Writings
Jörg Frey, Christina Hoegen-Rohls, and Catrin Williams – terminates in 2026
Session 1: Anni Hentschel (Germany), Der Anonymus in Joh 13 und seine Bedeutung für die Nachfolgegemeinschaft;
Respondent: Zacharias Shoukry (Germany, guest)
Session 2: Kasper Bro Larsen (Denmark), The Meaning of Death: Tradition and Innovation in the Johannine Farewell Discourse;
Respondent: Nadine Ueberschaer (Germany, guest)
Session 3: David Pastorelli (France), Contribution à l'histoire du texte de Jn 13-17;
Respondent: Ulrich Schmid (Germany)
5. God in the New Testament
Steve Walton and Christiane Zimmerman – terminates in 2026
Session 1: Madison Pierce (USA, guest), God in Hebrews;
Respondent: Martin Karrer (Germany)
Session 2: Konrad Huber (Germany), Suchbewegungen im Feld von Hermeneutik und Methodologie im Zusammenhang mit der Frage nach Gott im Neuen Testament;
Respondent: Karl-Heinz Ostmeyer (Germany)
Session 3: Sydney Tooth (UK, guest), God in 1 and 2 Thessalonians;
Respondent: Todd D. Still (USA); meeting jointly with Reading Paul’s Letters in Context Seminar
6. Reading Galatians in New Perspectives: Methods and Approaches
Martin Meiser, Dieter Sänger, and Korinna Zamfir – terminates in 2024
Session 1: Dieter Sänger (Germany), Bleibt, was ihr seid! Zur anamnetischen Funktion der beiden Rahmenstücke (1,1-5; 6,11-18) des Galaterbriefs
Session 2: Peter Arzt-Grabner (Austria), Galatians as a Letter (Joint session with seminar 11)
Session 3: Thomas Schumacher (Switzerland, guest), Die Fremdmissionare. Probleme einer religionsgeschichtlich plausiblen Rekonstruktion
7. Hebrews
Christian Eberhart and Wolfgang Kraus – terminates in 2025
Meeting jointly this year with Seminar 13: New Testament Textual Criticism
8. Social History and the New Testament
Hermut Löhr, Markus Öhler, and Anders Runesson – terminates in 2023
Session 1: Markus Öhler (Austria), “The end is now”: Burial in Ancient Associations and
Early Christianity;
Respondent: Harry O. Maier (Canada)
Session 2: Hermut Löhr (Germany), Death and Prayer in Early Christianity;
Respondent: Marianne Bjelland Kartzow (Norway)
Session 3: Anders Runesson (Norway), Resurrecting the Historical Jesus: The Importance of a Body to Locate a Soul;
Respondent: Sarah E. Rollens (USA)
9. The Historical Jesus: Methodology and Historiography
David du Toit and Helen Bond – terminates in 2028
Session 1: David du Toit (Germany), Historical Axioms, Religious Imagination and Memory: Rethinking Method in Determining the Date of Jesus’ Crucifixion
Session 2: James Crossley (Norway), The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus?;
Respondents: Sarah Rollens (USA) and Helen K. Bond (UK)
Session 3: James McGrath (USA), “The Son of Man Who Is to Come”: The Shared Expectations of John and Jesus
10. Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles: Reassessment and Roads Forward
Simon Butticaz, Jens Schröter, and Janet Spittler – terminates in 2024
Session 1: Outi Lehtipuu (Finland), “You, Too, Must Wake up and Open Your Soul!” The Physical and the Spiritual Resurrection in the Acts of John and Other Apocryphal Acts
Session 2: Rémi Gounelle (France, guest), A propos de quelques questions scientifiques soulevées par l'étude actuelle des Actes apocryphes des Apôtres
Session 3: Annette Merz (Germany), The Acts of Paul and Thecla in Intertextual Perspective: Methodological Considerations and Case Studies
11. Papyrology, Epigraphy, and the New Testament
Peter Arzt-Grabner and James Harrison – terminates in 2024
Session 1: Christina M. Kreinecker (Belgium) and John S. Kloppenborg (Canada): Introducing the New Series “Papyri and the New Testament”
Session 2: Peter Arzt-Grabner (Austria): Galatians as a Letter; (meeting jointly with Reading Galatians in New Perspectives Seminar)
Session 3: Alan Cadwallader (Charles Sturt University, Canberra): Romanization at Colossae
12. Reading Paul’s Letters in Context: Theological and Social-Scientific Approaches
William Campbell and Judith Gundry – terminates in 2025
Session 1: Matthew Novenson (UK), God, Cosmos, and Creation in the Letters of Paul
Session 2: Gudrun Holtz (Germany), The Early Jewish Abraham Tradition as Main Source of Paul’s Theocentric Universalism in Romans;
Session 3: Sydney Tooth (UK, guest), God in 1 and 2 Thessalonians;
Respondent: Todd D. Still (USA); (meeting jointly with ‘God in the New Testament’ Seminar)
13. New Testament Textual Criticism
Claire Clivaz, Hugh Houghton, and Tommy Wasserman – terminates in 2024
Session 1: Claire Clivaz (Switizerland), Heb 2:9 with Mk 15:34 and Ps 22 LXX;
Respondent: Harold Attridge (USA)
Session 2: Martin Karrer (Germany) and Darius Müller (Germany, guest), Text, Interpunktion, Paratexte – Perspektiven für eine künftige Edition des Hebräerbriefs;
Respondent: Ekaterini Tsalampouni (Greece, guest)
Session 3: Gert Steyn (South Africa), The Assumed Vorlage of Scriptural Citations in Hebrews
Respondent: Annette Hüffmeier (Germany, guest)
14. Philo and Early Christianity
Per Jarle Bekken and Gregory E. Sterling – terminates in 2023
Session 1: Katell Berthelot (France, guest), Abraham, War, and Peace: The Roman Background of Philo’s Rewriting of Genesis 14 in De Abrahamo
Session 2: Maren Niehoff (Israel), “God is my ruler, but no mortal” (Sophocles, frag. 755): Philo of Alexandria, Paul, and Seneca on the Paradox of Freedom
Session 3: Gregory E. Sterling (USA), Natural Law and Civic Codes: Cicero and Philo on the Law of Nature
15. Acta Politica: The Book of Acts and the Political Culture of the Roman Empire
Knut Backhaus, Carl Holladay and Daniel Marguerat – terminates in 2023
Session 1: Knut Backhaus (Germany), Elitising the Margins: The Ennoblement of “Christianity” in the Book of Acts
Respondent: Dennis R. MacDonald (USA)
Session 2: Torsten Jantsch (Germany): Jerusalem bei Lukas und bei zeitgenössischen römischen Autoren im Vergleich;
Respondent: Carolin Ziethe (Germany, guest)
Session 3: Simon Butticaz (Switzerland), Le rapport de l'Église à Israël : un enjeu politique pour Luc?;
Respondent: Bart J. Koet (Netherlands)
Short Papers |
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Wednesday, July 26th, 18:00-18:45
- David G. Horrell (UK), Decolonising New Testament Studies
- Clare K. Rothschild (USA), De Stella Magorum: The Night of the Comet and the Births of John and Jesus Revisite
- J. Enrique Aguilar (USA), The Kingdom of God in the Gospel of Mark
- Bernardo Estrada (Columbia), Luke and Ancient History: The Beginning of the Gospel
- Paul N. Anderson (USA), The Christ-Hymn of John 1: From Confessional Response to Transformative Prologue
- Juan Chapa (Spain), A New 'Dialogue Gospel' Fragment
- Eyal Regev (Israel), Paul’s Heavenly Jerusalem and Earthly Jerusalem Politics
- Justin Strong and Ruben Zimmermann (Germany), On Puffed-up Toads and Corinthians: Insights into a Pauline Metaphor from the Animal World (Babrius, Fab. 28, Phaedrus, Fab. 1.24)
- J. Albert Harrill (USA), To Play the Solider: Self-Apostrophe and Self-Command in Ephesians
Thursday, July 27th, 16:15-17:00
- Bradley H. McLean (Canada), Human Bodies and the Power of Nonsense in the Greek Magical Papyri
- Robert E. Moses (USA), Made of Money: Currency in Matthew’s Gospel and the Community’s Socio-Economic Status
- Charles A. Bobertz (USA), Who Is ‘I’? Christology on the Sea in Mark’s Gospel
- Albert Hogeterp (South Africa), Jesus as Poet and Prophet: Prophetic Poetry and Jesus' Sayings about War and Peace in Luke 12:49-53
- Athanasios Despotis (Germany), Fresh Perspectives on Jesus’s Speech to the Greeks in John 12:23-36
- James H. Charlesworth (USA), Where Did Jesus Meet Mary Magdalene? A power-point lecture showing where Jesus conceivably sat (now unearthed)
- Teresa Morgan (USA), The Complexity of Sin and Suffering in the Undisputed Letters of Paul and How Christ’s Death Addresses Both
- Florian Wilk (Germany), Ja und Nein? Ja und Amen! Zur Wahrnehmung des paulinischen Apostolats nach 2Kor 1,15-2,2
- Sigurd Grindheim (Norway), Faithfulness or Trust: The Meaning of pistis in Hebrews
Friday, July 28th, 14:15-15:00
- Peter Gräbe (USA), The Lasting Significance of the Hermeneutical Theory of Hans-Georg Gadamer for the Interpretation of the New Testament
- J.R.C. "Robert" Cousland (Canada), The Chimerical 'Jerusalem' in the Gospel of Matthew
- Llewellyn Howes (South Africa), The Historical Jesus and the Harvest Logion in Matthew 9:37-38 and Luke (Q) 10:2
- Bartosz Adamczewski (Poland), Sequentially Organized Allusions to Paul’s Letters in Acts
- Alexey B. Somov (Russia), An Allusion to John 19:33-36 in the Apocryphal Stories about the Resurrected Calf
- Ilaria L.E. Ramelli (USA), Jesus, Tiberius, Tertullian, Porphyry, and the Acts of Apollonius: Scholarly Controversies on a Senatusconsultum
- Ruben A. Bühner (Switzerland), With Whom Is Peter Eating in Antioch? How Widespread Prejudice Shapes Our Understanding of Peter's Commensality with ethnē in Gal 2:12
- Roger David Aus (Germany), Political and Theological Implications of Paul’s Fivefold Flogging in 2 Cor 11:24
- Cornelis Bennema (UK), The Concept of Moral Responsibility in the Johannine Writings: An Aristotelian Reading