My SBL/AAR 2007 Schedule by slaveofone
The hardest part is ditching one incredible event to attend another. But unless you’re a quantum particle or a dead cat, you can’t be in two places at the same time.
Friday November 16:
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
AM16-123 (Room: Ford AB - GH)
Mennonite Scholars and Friends Reception
Saturday November 17:
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
S17-29 (Room: Madeleine B - GH)
Theological Perspectives on the Book of Ezekiel
- Ezekiel’s Theology of Divination and the Authority of Prophetic Speech in Ezekiel 21:26
- A Reassessment of the Different Editions of Ezekiel 7 in the Septuagint and Masoretic Text: Relating Ezekiel’s Composition-History to its Inclusion in the Emerging Scriptural Canon
- The Transformation of Royal Ideology in Ezekiel
- The Imaginative Effects of Ezekiel’s Merkavah Vision: A Day in the Life of Hashmal
- Edwards’ Ezekiel: The Interpretation of Ezekiel in the Blank Bible and Notes on Scripture
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
S17-63 (Room: Manchester F - GH)
Hebrew Scriptures and Cognate Literature
- Scribal Culture and the Transmission of Cuneiform Texts in Mesopotamia
- Scribal Culture and the Tablet of the Heart
- Israelite and Judahite Scribal Culture in Epigraphical Perspective
- Comments on Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
S17-119 (Room: Del Mar A - GH)
Orality, Textuality, and the Formation of the Hebrew Bible
- The Textualisation of Israelite Religion in the Context of the Orality and Literacy
Debate
- The Voiced Text in the Hebrew Bible: From Epic Song to Biblical Narrative and Midrashic Exegesis
- Rethinking Inner-biblical Exegesis and Biblical Criticism in Light of Orality & Textuality
- Implications of the Oral-Scribal Approach to Tanach Studies
Sunday November 18:
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
S18-17 (Room: Manchester 1 - MM)
Hebrew Scriptures and Cognate Literature
- The Spoils of War
- The Hebrew Sheol and the Emarite Shuwalu
- He Subdued the Water Monster
: God’s Battle with the Sea according to Egyptian Sources
- Princess as Political Pawn
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
S18-78 (Room: Betsy C - GH)
Qumran
- Refining Sociological Models for Understanding Scribal Practices in the Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls
- Reading the Wiles of the Wicked Woman (4Q184 1) in Its Manuscript Context
- From the Wilderness to a Door of Hope
: Thematic (Re)conceptualization of the Wilderness in Liturgical Texts (4QBarkiNapshi and 4QWords of the Luminaries)
- Qumran Yahad and Rabbinc Havurah: A Comparison Reconsidered
- Ancient Halakhic Homilies in the Writings of the Qumran Sect and of the Tannaim
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
HELP! I CAN’T DECIDE!
either…
S18-107 (Room: Santa Rosa - HI)
Bible, Myth, and Myth Theory
- Myth and History in Ezekiel’s Oracle Concerning Tyre (Ezekiel 26-28)
- Ancient Interpretations of the Mythic Structures of Sacred History
- Classical Greek Demythologizing
- Beyond the Dichotomy between Myth and History
or…
S18-123 (Room: Del Mar B - GH)
Midrash
- Derashah as Performative Exegesis in Tosefta and Mishna
- The Origins of the Flood in Second Temple and Rabbinic Interpretation
- Dialogues between Sages and Outsiders to the Tradition
: Creation of Difference as a Literary Method of Religious Polemics in Rabbinic Literature
- The Demise of the School of Shammai
Monday November 19:
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
S19-32 (Room: Ford C - GH)
Qumran
- In the Second Degree
- 4QApocryphon of Jeremiah C and the Problem of Genre
- Resurrection and Biblical Tradition: The Relation between the Pseudo-Ezekiel Fragments and Ezekiel 37 Reconsidered
- The Centrality of the Temple in 4QMMT
- X and Duqah in Some Calendrical Scrolls: Are We any Closer to an Identification?
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
S19-76 (Room: Gregory B - GH)
Pentateuch
- A New King Arose over Egypt Who Did Not Know Joseph
: The Joseph Novella as Prologue to the Moses Biography
- Is the Joseph Story
a Misnomer for Genesis 37-50?
- Pentateuch and Exile
- YHWH’s Mercy and Wrath: The Contribution of Exodus 34:6-7 to the Canonical Shape of the Torah
- Integrating the Alien
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
S19-128 (Room: 25 A - CC)
Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
- Masoretic Insights into the Text of Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 32:43 and Textual Criticism: New Proposals for an Old Puzzle
- All that Glitters is Not Gold: The Masorah of Spanish Bible Manuscripts and Its Peculiarities
- Conjectural Emendations in Bible Translations: Past, Present, and Future
- II.B.17: A Manuscript Ascribed to the Scribe of the Aleppo Codex