Open Access Journal: SBL Seminar Papers

In years past, a print edition of the SBL Seminar Papers was made available in advance of the Annual Meeting each year in order to stimulate discussion of these works in progress during the meeting itself. Beginning in 2004, however, the print edition was discontinued, with a selection of papers presented at the meeting being made available online. In addition, a number of papers from previous years have been archived on the SBL Web site. Because these papers represent works in progress, they should not be quoted or otherwise cited without permission from the author. 


2010 Papers

• S22-149 What is Bible? 

2009 Papers

• 21-113 Cognitive Linguistics in Biblical Interpretation
  
  A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Go’el in Deutero-Isaiah
  Shelley Ashdown
  Sapiential Synesthesia: The Confluence of Light and Word in Ben Sira’s Wisdom Instruction
  Greg Schmidt Goering
  
• 22-129 Matthew
  Theme: Where From, Where To? In Matthean Studies Matthew Studies Today: A Willingness of Suspect and a Willingness to Listen
  Andries van Aarde, University of Pretoria
  Some Possible Directions to Explore in Matthew's Milieu
  Craig S. Keener, Palmer Theological Seminary of Eastern University 
  Wise and Sagacious Vistas: The Past and Future of a Sapiential Reading of Matthew
  Ben Witherington, III, Asbury Theological Seminary
  From the Center to the Margins: German Speaking Scholarship on Matthew's Gospel as a Case Study for Matthean Scholarship as a Whole
  Roland Deines, University of Nottingham
  
• 22-340 Quran and Biblical Literature
  Theme: Muslim-Christian Debate and Dialog in Post-Industrial Society Early African American Muslim Perceptions of Jesus
  Simon A. Wood, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  Early African American Muslims and the Figure of Jesus: Drew Ali's and Elijah Muhammad's Formulations of an unIslamic Muslim Jesus
  Herbert Berg, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
  Scripture Wars: Contemporary Polemical Discourses of Bible Versus Qur’An on the Internet
  Franz Volker Greifenhagen, Luther College, University of Regina
  Muslim-Christian Polemics on the Internet  
  Michael Pregill, Elon University
  
• 23-111 Bible and Cultural Studies
  Theme: The Bible and Circuits of Affect From Disgust to Humor: Rahab’s Queer Affect
  Erin Runions, Pomona College
  Romance and Danger at Nag Hammadi: Cultivating Desire for Heretical Objects
  Maia Kotrosits, Union Theological Seminary
  Hatred and the Critical Study of the Bible: Charles Dupuis
  Thomas Fabisiak, Emory University
  
• 23-213 Cognitive Linguistics in Biblical Interpretation
  Encountering Suffering: Image Schemas and Generic Spaces in the Good Samaritan Text
  Kerry Danner-McDonald
  Mother Earth as a Conceptual Metaphor in 4 Ezra
  Karina Martin Hogan
  The Role of Suffering in Moral Accounting
  Eve Sweetser

2008 Papers

• Matthew section SBL 24-85: Reading The Gospel of Matthew within a Global Context Andries van Aarde, University of Pretoria“Foxes’ holes and birds’ nests” (Mt 8:20): A postcolonial reading for South Africans from the
  perspective of Matthew’s anti-society language
   Laura Anderson, Graduate Theological UnionHealthy Economies or Cautionary Tales? The Sub-Structural Economies of Four Matthean Healing Stories
  Lidija Novakovic, Baylor University“Yet Even the Dogs Eat the Crumbs that Fall from Their Masters’ Table”: Matthew’s Gospel and Economic Globalization
  Dorothy Jean Weaver, Eastern Mennonite Seminary“They Did to Him Whatever They Pleased”: The Exercise of Political Power within Matthew’s Narrative
  John Y. H. Yieh,Virginia Theological SeminaryJesus as ‘Teacher-Savior’ or ‘Savior-Teacher’: Reading the Gospel of Matthew in Chinese Contexts
  

2007 Papers

• Papers for S18-114 Deuteronomistic History: Redaction of the Book of Kings
  Philippe Hugo, University of FribourgText History as a Research Tool on Literary Development in the Books of Kings: The Case of 1 Kings 17-19 in the Masoretic Text and Septuagint
  Francesca Stavrakopoulou, University of ExeterIdeological Dynamics in Kings: Identity and Religious Practice
  Dagmar Pruin, Humboldt UniversityMapping the Simultaneity of Randomness: Announcement and Fulfilment in the Narratives about the Omride Dynasty
  Michael Pietsch, University of HamburgProphetess of Doom: Hermeneutical Reflections on the Huldah Oracle (2 Kings 22)

2006 Papers

• S18-7 Formation of the Book of Isaiah Group
  Peter D. Miscall, Aquinas Institute of TheologyFunction of Imagery in Isaiah

• S19-86 Use of Cognitive Linguistics in Biblical Interpretation Consultation
  Joel B. Green, Asbury Theological SeminaryLuke on Conversion/Repentance: A Cognitive Linguistic Assessment
  Mary Therese Des Camp, Graduate Theological UnionBlessed are the Baby Killers: Cognitive Linguistics and the Text of Psalm 137
  Eve Sweetser, University of California, BerkeleyCognition, Culture and Reading Ancient Texts
  
• S20-87 Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity Section
  Gerbern S. Oegema, McGill UniversityThe Reception of the Book of Daniel and Danielic Literature in the Early Church
  Kirsti Barrett Copeland, Stanford UniversityThe Wise, the Simple, and the Apocalypse of Paul
  Birger A. Pearson, University of California, Santa BarbaraJewish Wisdom and Apocalyptic in Gnostic Apocalypses
  Catherine Playoust, Harvard University"Written in the book that I prophesied publicly": The Discernment of Apocalyptic Wisdom According to the "Ascension of Isaiah"
  
• S20-138 Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity Section
  Annette Yoshiko Reed, McMaster UniversityBeyond Revealed Wisdom and Apocalyptic Epistemology: The Redeployment of Enochic Traditions about Knowledge in Early Christianity
  Leslie Baynes, Missouri State UniversityEnoch, the Angels, and Heavenly Books
  David Kudan, Harvard UniversityReflexes of Apocalyptic Wisdom in Jewish Liturgical Texts
  Rebecca Lesses, Ithaca CollegeWomen, Magic, and the History of 1 Enoch
  
• S21-15 Matthew Section
  Dorothy Jean Weaver, Eastern Mennonite Seminary"Suffering Violence" and the Kingdom of Heaven (Mt. 11:12): A Matthean Manual for Life in a Time of War
  Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary Transforming Initiatives of Just Peacemaking Based on the Triadic Structure of the Sermon on the Mount
  Michael Winger, New York, New YorkConflict and Paradox in Matthew
  Lidija Novakovic, Bethel University, St. PaulTurning the Other Cheek to a Perpetrator: Denunciation or Upholding of Justice?
  Barbara Reid, Catholic Theological UnionMatthean Perspectives on Bloodshed, Obedience, and Bearing Arms
  
• S21-22 Romans through History and Cultures Group
  Sujin Pak, Garrett Evangelical Theological SeminaryRomans 5 and 13 as Lenses into the Similarities and Differences of Melanchthon, Calvin and Luther's Romans Commentaries

2005 Papers

• S21-76 Matthew Section
  Victoria Balabanski, Flinders University of South AustraliaMission in Matthew Against the Horizon of Matthew 24
  Eckhard J. Schnabel, Trinity Evangelical Divinity SchoolThe First Gospel and Matthew's Mission - Narrative, Theological and Historical Perspectives
  Andries Van Aarde, University of PretoriaJesus' Mission to All of Israel Emplotted in Matthew's Story
  Nienke Pruiksma, Theological University KampenMusa W. Dube's Postcolonial Feminist Reading of Mission Texts in Matthew and the Evolvement of the Concept of Mission in the HIV/AIDS Reading
  Daniel Patte, Vanderbilt UniversityReading Matthew 28:16-20 with Others: How It Deconstructs Our Western Concept of Mission
  
• S21-104 Bible in Ancient and Modern Media
  David Rhoads, Lutheran School of Theology at ChicagoPerformance Criticism: An Emerging Methodology in Biblical Studies
  
• S19-61 Early Christian Families
  David Wilhite, University of St. Andrews (Scotland)"He Alone of All My Kin": Kinship Theory, Roman Kinship, and Perpetua

2004 Papers

• S20-53 Biblical Scholarship and Disabilities Consultation
  Sarah J. Melcher, Xavier University"I Will Lead the Blind by a Road They Do Not Know:" Disability in Prophetic Eschatology
  
  
• S20-69 The Book of the Twelve Prophets Section
  Paul L. Redditt, Georgetown CollegeThe King in the Book of the Twelve
  
• S20-110 Egyptology and Ancient Israel Section
  John Gee, Brigham Young University"There Needs No Ghost, My Lord, Come from the Grave to Tell Us This"1: Dreams and Angels in Ancient Egypt
  
• S21-128 Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity Group
  George W. E. Nickelsburg, The University of IowaThe Study of Apocalypticism from H. H. Rowley to the Society of Biblical Literature
  
  
• S21-60 Formation of Luke-Acts Consultation
  Claire Clivaz, University of Lausanne"A Sweat like Drops of Blood" (Luke 22:44): at the Crossing of Intertextual Reading and Textual Criticism
  
• S22-28 Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity Group
  Sabrina Inowlocki, Oxford UniversityWisdom and Apocalypticism in Aseneth
  Timothy J. Johnson, Marquette UniversityJob as Proto-Apocalypse: A Fresh Proposal for Job’s Governing Genre
  R. Glenn Wooden, Acadia Divinity CollegeChanging Perceptions of Daniel: Reading Dan 4 and 5 in Context
  
• S22-111 Formation of the Book of Isaiah
  A. Joseph Everson, California Lutheran UniversityA Bitter Memory: Isaiah's Commission in Isaiah 6: 1-13
  Francis Landy, University of AlbertaDoes Isaiah 40:1-11 Answer to Isaiah 6? Spectrality and Autonomy in Deutero-Isaiah

2003 Papers

• Claudia V. Camp, Texas Christian University“All This is the Book of the Covenant of the Most High God”: Orality, Literacy and Textual Authority in the Work of Ben Sira
  
• Rollin Ramsaran, Emmanuel School of ReligionFrom Mind to Message: Oral Performance In 1 Corinthians 15
  
• Whitney Shiner, George Mason UniversitySounding The Eschatological Alarm: Chapter Thirteen In The Performance Of Mark

2002 Papers

• Lawrence M. Wills, Episcopal Divinity School“Instruction in Matthew”
  
• Aaron MilavecApprenticeship in the Way of Wisdom Within the Apocalyptic-Orientated Didache Communities 50 – 70 C.E.1
  
• Ellen B. Aitken, Harvard Divinity School“Wily, Wise, and Worldly: Instruction and the Formation of Character in the Epistle to the Hebrews”
  
• Benjamin G. Wright, Lehigh UniversityWisdom and Instruction in Ben Sira and 1 Enoch
  
• Yonder Moynihan GillihanAstral knowledge and the authority of the general in Greco-Roman military manuals: analogies to the role of the maskil in the DSS
  
• Matthew Goff, Georgia Southern University
  Wisdom, Apocalypticism, and the Pedagogical Ethos of 4QInstruction