THE SOCIETY

OF

BIBLICAL LITERATURE

cJhe (Hundredth Qeneral TfVLeeting

Monday, December 28, 1964 through Wednesday, December 30, 1964

at

Union Theological Seminary Broadway at 120th Street

New York 27

*Semi-annual 1880-96; annual since 1897 Tuesday, December 29 Response Joseph Sittler [Program 9:00 a.m. Assembly Hall, Riverside Church Response Avery Dulles, S.J. Woodstock Sunday, December 21 The Role of the Cult in Old Israel College Major presentation Arvid S. Kapelrud 10:30 a.m. 2:00 p.m. The Auburn Room Assembly Hall, Riverside Church University of Oslo Meeting of the Council of the Society Archeology and the Future of Biblical Studies Response Bruce Vawter, C.M. Nelson Glueck Kenrick Seminary Major presentation Hebrew Union College-Jewish Monday, December 28 Response Herbert G. May Institute of Religion Graduate School of Theology, Oberlin 9:00 a.m. Assembly Hall, Riverside Church Archeology and the David N. Freedman 10:30 a.m. Presidential Address Frederick V. Winnett Assembly Hall, Riverside Church Biblical Languages San Francisco Theological Seminary University of Toronto Gnosticism and Writings Archeology and James B. Pritchard "Re-examining the Foundations" Major presentation Gilles Quispel Culture History University of Pennsylvania University of Utrecht Noon The Men's 10:30 a.m. Assembly Hall, Riverside Church Faculty Club, Columbia Response R. McL. Wilson University, 400 West 117th Street University of St. Andrews Kerygma and History in the New Testament Luncheon of Friends and Alumni Major presentation James Robinson Response Flans Jonas of American Schools of Oriental Research Claremont Graduate School New School for Social Research 2:00 Response David Stanley, S.J. 2:00 p.m. Assembly Hall, Riverside Church p.m. Assembly Hall, Riverside Church JOINT MEETING Regis College, Ontario Prophecy and Apocalyptic Floyd V. Filson Society of Biblical Literature Major presentation James Muilenburg American McCormick Theological Seminary San Francisco Theological Seminary, Academy of Religion* San Anselmo, Calif. American Schools of Oriental Research 2:00 p.m. Assembly Hall, Riverside Church Chairman: A. Henry Detweiler, Cornell University Method in the Major presentation Stanley B. Frost Study of Early Hebrew History McGill University 3:30 p.m. Room 214, Union Seminary Major presentation Roland de Vaux, O.P. 3:30 Ecole Biblique, Jerusalem, Jordan p.m. Assembly Hall, Riverside Church NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSORS OF HEBREW Annual Business Meeting of the Society Response George E. Mendenhall 3:30 p.m. Room 207-205, Union Seminary University of Michigan President Frederick V. Winnett presiding AMERICAN SEMINAR 7:00 p.m. Men's Faculty Club, Columbia Response Moshe Greenberg Theme: University of Pennsylvania University, 400 West 117th St. New Testament Textual Researches since Westcott and Hort 3:30 p.m. Assembly Hall, Riverside Church CONVIVIUM CONGRESSUS CENTESIMI Moderator: Kenneth Clark Duke University Pauline Research Since Schweitzer XuXAoyou £koctocttou auiairoatov The Significance of the Kurt Aland riKD nnt!>D Major presentation Johannes Munck Papyri for Progress in Institut fur Textforschung, University of Aarhus, Denmark Banquet address: "Literature, Faith and the Bible" New Testament University of Milnster "Paul and Judaism" W. D. Davies President Douglas M. Knight Research Union Theological Seminary Duke University The Contribution of the Bruce M. Metzger "Paul and Hellenism" Helmut Koester "Ninety-nine Meetings of SBL in Record or Recollection" Early Versions to the Princeton Theological Seminary Harvard University Henry J. Cadbury Textual Criticism of Harvard University, emeritus the New Testament 8:00 p.m. Assembly Hall, Riverside Church Problems Old and New in Ernest Cadman Colwell The First Christian Century Wednesday, December 30 Textual Criticism of School of Theology, Claremont the New Testament ... as Christian History Hanz Conzelmann 9:00 a.m. Assembly Hall, Riverside Church University of Gottingen Method in the *The Annual ... Study of Biblical Theology as Jewish History Martin A. Cohen Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (formerly Hebrew Union College-Jewish Major presentation Krister Stendahl National Association of Biblical Instructors) begins this evening. See Institute of Religion, New York Harvard University separate program. The Society of Biblical Literature Presidents of The Society of Biblical Literature 1880-1964 Founded 1880 1880-87 Daniel Raynes Goodwin1 1926 Shirley Jackson Case11 1888 Frederic Gardiner2 1927 Irving F. Wood21 1889 Frederic Gardiner 1928 Constituent Member (died in Loring Woart Batten22 office) 1929 James E. Frame3 1889 Francis Brown 3 1930 William Frederic Bade23 of the 1890 Charles A. Briggs3 1931 Burton Scott Easton22 1891-94 Talbot W. Chambers1 1932 American Council of Learned Societies J. M. Powis Smith11 1895 J. Henry Thayer5 1933 James Moffatt3 1896 Francis Brown3 1934 Frederick C. Grant24 1897 Edward T. Bartlett1 1935 Elihu Fred V. Winnett, President, University of Toronto Grant25 1898-99 George F. Moore6 1936 Henry J. Cadbury5 Kenneth Clark, Vice-President, Duke University 1900 John P. Peters7 1937 George Dahl8 1901 Edward Y. Hincks6 1938 Wm. Kendrick Grobel, Secretary, Henry Paine Hatch26 1902 Benjamin W. Bacon8 1939 William F. Albright12 Virgil M. Rogers, Treasurer, New Brunswick Theological Seminary 1903 Richard J. H. Gottheil9 1940 Chester C. McCown23 1904 Willis J. Beecher10 1941 Julian Morgenstern27 Morton S. Enslin, Editor, St. Lawrence University 1905 William Rainey Harper11 1942-43 Kirsopp Lake5 1906 Paul Haupt12 1944 Theophile James Meek28 1907 James Hardy 1945 Morton Scott Enslin29 Announcements Ropes5 1908 Frank Chamberlain 1946 Leroy Waterman30 Porter8 1947 Ernest Cadman Union Theological Colwell11 Seminary is located at Broadway and 120th St. 1909 Henry Preserved Smith13 1948 Please register (for the Society's information and whether John W. Flight25 you need any 1910 David G. Lyon5 1949 Floyd V. Filson31 assistance or information or at not) the Conference Headquarters, Room 1911 Ernest de Witt Burton11 1950 Robert H. Pfeiffer5 203. Any mail or message for you will be found there. 1912 Lewis B. Paton14 1951 Erwin R. Goodenough8 1913 1952 Sheldon Papers read at your sectional meeting of the Society may be sub¬ George A. Barton15 Blank27 1914 Nathaniel Schmidt16 mitted for publication in the Journal. The Editor will be glad to receive 1953 S. Vernon McCasland32 1915 Charles Cutler papers by hand or by mail, but receiving them does not commit him Torrey8 1954 Millar Burrows8 to publishing them. 1916 Morris Jastrow, Jr.17 1955 Amos N. Wilder5 1917 Warren J. Moulton18 1956 The Council J. Philip Hyatt33 regrets that no further tickets for the Tuesday banquet 1918 James A. Montgomery17 1957 Sherman E. are available. There is room Johnson34 only for the first 350 who made reservation 1919 Edgar J. Goodspeed11 1958 William A. Irwin11-36 before December 1. 1920 Albert T. Clay8 1959 Robert M. Grant11 1921 1960 R. B. Y. Scott35 Nominations for membership in the Society should be sent to the Kemper Fullerton19 1922 William R. Arnold6 1961 Samuel Sandmel27 Secretary (Divinity Quadrangle, Vanderbilt University, Nashville 5, Tenn.) 1923 Max L. Margolis20 1962 Herbert G. May19 The annual luncheon meeting of the Alumni and Friends of the 1924 Clayton R. Bowen13 1963 John Knox3 American Schools of Oriental Research is to be held at 12:15 on Wednes¬ 1925 Julius A. Bewer3 1964 Fred V. Winnett28 day, December 30, 1964, at the Men's Faculty Club of Columbia Univer¬ sity, 400 W. 117th St. Admission is to be iThe Divinity Sch. at Philadelphia (Episc.) laOberlin Seminary only by reservation made by "Berkeley Div. Sch., Middletown ""Dropsie College means of a remittance of $2.25 payable to F. S. North and received no 3Union Theol. Sem., N. Y. aSmith College later than 4Minister attached to Middle Church ""General Seminary Monday, December 21 by Father F. S. North, the Tuller (Collegiate Reformed), New York ""Pacific School of Religion School, Sag Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. BHarvard University "'Seabury Western Seminary eAndover Seminary ""Haverford College 7Rector, St. Michael's Church, New York ""Episc. The annual Seminary, Cambridge meeting of AAR, American Academy of Religion, be¬ 8Yale University ^Hebrew Union College "Columbia University ""University of Toronto gins with the Joint Meeting (supra p. 4) Wednesday afternoon, December 10Auburn Seminary "°Crozer Seminary 30 and continues "University of Chicago ""University of Michigan through the 31st. Copies of the AAR program may be ] "Johns Hopkins 31McCormick obtained University Seminary prior to the meeting from Harry M. Buck, Wilson College, "Meadville Seminary ""University of Virginia "Hartford Seminary ""Vanderbilt University Chambersburg, Pennsylvania; during the SBL meeting, in Room 203. "Bryn Mawr College ®*Church Divinity School of the Pacific 16Cornell University ""Princeton University This is your "University of Pennsylvania ""Southern Methodist University program for the meeting. Please bring it with you. 18Bangor Seminary