Academic Program

Main Papers and Presidential Address

Presidential Address

Angela Standhartinger (Germany), “‘Where do you want us to go…so you may eat?’ Performing the Lord’s Supper in Cemeteries and Cities”

Main Paper 1

Dorothy A. Lee (Australia), “Narrative Disjunction and the Johannine Prologue: A Literary Reading”

Main Paper 2

Gregory E. Sterling (USA), “Secondary Prefaces and the Composition of Luke-Acts”

Main Paper 3

Christina M. Kreinecker (Belgium), “Contra Graecum: Bilingual Observations from 1 Corinthians”

Main Paper 4

Alan Cadwallader (Australia), “The Value and Limits of the Material Turn in New Testament Studies: Reflections on a New Inscription from Hierapolis in the Lycus Valley”

Main Paper 5

Catrin Williams (UK), “Signs, Scripture, and Divine Manifestation in the Gospel of John”

Seminars

1. Constructions of the Histories of Early Christianity (Cilliers Breytenbach and Clare Rothschild)

Session 1: Cédric Brelaz (Switzerland, guest), “Early Christianity in Macedonia”; Respondents: Robyn Whitaker (Australia) and Matthew Crawford (Australia)

Session 2: James Harrison (Australia), Alanna Nobbs (Australia), and Lyn Kidson (Australia), “Edwin A. Judge and the Study of Early Christianity within the Roman Empire”

Session 3: Adam White (Australia), “Household Networks in the Corinthian Correspondence”; Respondent: Ben Edsall (Australia)

2. Neutestamentliche Theologie zwischen Religionsgeschichte und Gegenwartshermeneutik (Florian Wilk, J. Ross Wagner, and Susanne Luther) (New Testament Theology between History of Religions and Contemporary Hermeneutics)

Session 1: Stephen Hultgren (Australia), “The Church as a Community of Truth – Perspectives from Ephesians”; Respondent: Sejong Chun (South Korea, guest)

Session 2: Beate Kowalski (Germany), “Ekklesiologie in der Johannesoffenbarung”;  Respondent: Robyn Whitaker (Australia)

Session 3: Lyn Kidson (Australia), “The Historical Method of E.A. Judge and the Shape of an Early Christ Community from the Perspective of the Pastoral Epistles”; Respondent: Dogara Manomi, (Germany, guest)

3. The Johannine Writings (Jörg Frey, Christina Hoegen-Rohls, and Catrin Williams)

Session 1: Francis Moloney (Australia), “John 17: Location and Message”; Respondent: Chris Seglenieks (Australia, guest)

Session 2: Alicia Myers (USA), “Sanctified and Sanctifying: Jesus’s Prayer in John 17:17-19 and the Intersection of Purity and Divine Embodiment”; Respondent: Sung-Uk Lim (South Korea) 

Session 3: Carsten Claussen (Germany), “The Divinity of Jesus in John 17 on the Background of the Moses Typology”; Respondent: Sherri Brown (USA)

4. God in the New Testament (Steve Walton and Christiane Zimmerman)

Session 1: Brittany Wilson (USA), “God in Luke’s Gospel”; Respondent: Sarah Harris (New Zealand)

Seminar 2: Veronika Burz-Troppel (Belgium), “God in John’s Gospel”; Respondent: Prof Judith Lieu (UK)

Seminar 3: Paul Trebilco (New Zealand), “God in the Johannine Letters”; Respondent: Bill Loader (Australia)

5. The Historical Jesus: Methodology and Historiography (David du Toit, Helen Bond, and Sarah Rollens)

Session 1: Robert J. Myles (Australia), Soft Clothing Hard Jesus: Toughness & Class Conflict in Q 7:25

Session 2: Sean Winter (Australia, guest), “Sent by God: The Apostolic Self-Understanding of the Historical Jesus”

Session 3: Joan Taylor (UK), “Remembering Baby Jesus: The Infancy Narrative of Matthew and Family Memory”

6. Papyrology, Epigraphy, and the New Testament (Peter Arzt-Grabner and James Harrison)

Session 1: James Harrison (Australia), “The Augustan Triumphal Arch and Sebasteion at Pisidian Antioch: Imperial Propaganda, the Res Gestae, and the Epistle to the Galatians”

Session 2: Gillian Asquith (Australia), “Using Papyri to Analyze High-Register, Unexpected Words in Paul’s Letter Openings”

Session 3: Lincoln Blumell (USA), “The Elusive Address in 2 John 1: Reconsidering ἐκλεκτῇκυρίᾳ in Light of the Epistolary Papyri”

7. Reading Paul’s Letters in Context: Theological and Social-Scientific Approaches (William Campbell and Judith Gundry)

Session 1:  David Neville (Australia), “The God of Peace in Paul’s Letters: Tradition, Interpretation, and Theological Significance”

Session 2: Todd D. Still (USA), “εἰρήνη in Romans”

Session 3:  Kar Yong Lim (Malaysia), “When they say, ‘There is peace and security’ (1 Thessalonians 5:3): Revisiting the Roman Slogan Consensus”

8. New Testament Textual Criticism (Claire Clivaz, Hugh Houghton, and Tommy Wasserman)

Session 1: Anna Persig (Belgium), “Editing the Vetus Latina in the Digital Age: The Impact of Electronic Resources on the Preparation of the Edition of 1 Corinthians”; Respondent: Simone Rickerby (Australia, guest)

Session 2: Stephen C. Carlson (Australia), “Three Digital Approaches to Contamination in New Testament Textual Criticism”; Respondent: Paul Foster (UK)

Session 3: Robert Turnbull (Australia, guest), “Using Large Language Models for Analyzing Arabic Versions of the New Testament”; Respondent: Tommy Wasserman (Sweden)

9. Jewish Law in NT and Related Literature (Bernadette Brooten and Lutz Doering)

Session 1: Adele Reinhartz (Canada), “Law and Authority in Johannine Rhetoric”

Session 2: Anders Runesson (Norway), “Jewish Law and Jesus Followers in First-Century Synagogues: The Politics of Matthew”

Session 3: Lutz Doering (Germany), “Torah in the Synoptic Gospels: Patterns, Forms, and Functions of Its Reception”

Short Papers

Wednesday, July 24 (5:30-6:15 pm)

Jeremy Barrier (USA), “Physiology and the Material Pneuma in the Gospel of Judas”

Mary Coloe (Australia), “The Narrative Sequence of Foot Anointing/Washing in John 12 and 13”

Bernardo Estrada (Colombia), “Jesus’ Nazareth Discourse: Present and Future Liberation”

Simon Gathercole (UK), “Is There Imminent Expectation in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18: Reconsidering Pauline Syntax”

Gabriella Gelardia (Norway), “Περὶ Ἀπορρήτων – Silence and Secrecy in the Gospel of Mark: An Interpretation against the Backdrop of the First Jewish-Roman War”

Mothy Varkey (India), “Paul’s Self-Description as an ‘Aborted Apostle’ (ἐκτρώμα)”

Thursday, July 25 (4:30-5:15 pm)

Jeffrey Aernie (Australia), “Repositioning Onesimus and Philemon: Further Support for the ‘Returning Brother’ Theory”

Edwin Broadhead (USA), “Heraclitus and the Johannine Logos”

Katie Marcar (New Zealand), “Passover, Exodus, and the Victorious Death of Jesus in Hebrews”

David M. Moffitt (UK), “Jesus as Advocating Sacrifice in 1 John 2:1-2”

Teresa Morgan (USA), “The Complexity of Sin and Suffering in the Undisputed Letters of Paul and How Christ’s Death Addresses Both”

Robert Moses (USA), “Gentile Women and Jewish Mary in Matthew’s Genealogy: Implications for Matthew’s Gospel”

Nathanael Xue-sheng Wang (Taiwan), “Beyond Church and State: An Ideological Criticism of Jesus’ Teachings on Taxation in Mark 12:13-17”

Friday, July 26 (4:00-4:45 pm)

Brendan Byrne (Australia), “Rom 5:12d: Revisiting a Significant Crux in Pauline Studies that Has Not Gone Away”

Peter Head (UK), “Is It Likely that the Carrier of a Pauline Letter Was also the Lector?”

Jeyaseelan Kanagaraj (India), “The Resurrection of Jesus in the Canonical Gospels and Its Theological Dimensions”

Fergus King (Australia), “Sufferer or Cipher? Jesus, Roman Militarism, and the Gerasene Demoniac (Matthew 8:28-34[?]; Mark 5:1-20; Luke 8:26-39)”

Christof Landmesser (Germany), “De/Sacralization as a Condition for Tradition: An Example from the Letters of Paul (1 Corinthians 8:6)”

James F. McGrath (USA), “Reconstructing a Lost Infancy Narrative about John the Baptist”

Ali Robinson (Australia), “Exploring the Deaths of Ananias and Sapphira: A Study in Group-Embedded Identity and Broken Communal Trust”