PROGRAM DRAFT Arts and Religion !! Subject to Revision !! Presider: Louise M. Pare, Center for Women's PACIFIC NORTHWEST Spirituality, Education and Empowerment AAR/SBL and ASOR ([email protected]) ANNUAL MEETING May 13-15, 2011 2:00-2:45 Jeffrey Staley, Seattle University, ([email protected]) GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ―What hath to do with SPOKANE, WASHINGTON USA Khayelitsha? An Intertextual Reading of Two Jesus Films‖ 2:45-3:30 Courtney Fitzsimmons, Whitman College ([email protected]) FRIDAY AFTERNOON, May 13 ―The Sea is like the Flesh: Correlations of Augustine‘s reading of Genesis and Iris 12:00-2:00 Registration Murdoch‘s The Sea, The Sea‖ 12:00-5:30 Book Exhibit 3:30 -4:00 BREAK 4:00-4:45 Jarrod Hyam, University of Calgary First Session (2:00-5:30 p.m.) ([email protected]) ―The Unique Function of Mystical Poetry‖ Asian and Comparative Studies 4:45-5:30 Benjamin Lindquist, University of TheYijing, Cosmos in Medieval , Massachusetts—Lowell, Einstein and Buddhists, and Confucian Christianity ([email protected]) ―The Evolving Images of Kenneth N. Taylor‘s Presider: Nicholas F. Gier, University of Idaho Illustrated Children‘s Bibles‖ ([email protected]) Hebrew Scriptures [Need Institutional Affiliation 2:00-2:40 Guy Burneko, Ph. D., independent scholar and email addresses] ([email protected]) ―Sustainability: Syllogism, Synchronicity, and Presider: Elizabeth Hayes, Wolfson College, Oxford the Yijing‖ (common room) ([email protected]) 2:40-3:20 Erik Hammerstrom, Pacific Lutheran University ([email protected]) 2:00-2:30 Steve Delamarter ―Einstein‘s Buddhist Fans in 1930s China ―Ethiopic Manuscripts for the Textual History 3:20-3:40 BREAK of the Ethiopic Old Testament (THEOT) 3:40-4:20 Oh-Young Kwon, Alphacrucis College Project‖ ([email protected]) 2:30-3:00 Anthony Meyer ―1 Cor. 10:23-11:1: The Corinthian Practice of ―The Hebew University Bible Project: In light Greco-Roman Domestic Cults and Paul‘s of Modern Hebrew Bible Editions‖ Response to it and its Evaluation from a 3:00-3:30 Jarod Jacobs Korean-Confucian Christian Context‖ ―Syntactical Shifts in the Biblical Dead Sea 4:20-5:00 Justin Mok, University of Toronto Scrolls, Do They Really Exist? The Case of the ([email protected]) Conjunction Waw‖ ―Worldviews of Social Change and the Cosmos 3:30-4:00 BREAK in Medieval China‖ 4:00-4:30 Michael Heiser 5:00-5:40 Caifang Zhu, Beijing Institute of Chinese ―Divine Plurality in the Dead Sea Scrolls‖ Classics and Psychology 4:30-5:00 Kyle Biersdorf ([email protected]) ―The Hermeneutics ―Naming the Divine: the translation of the name of Chan Buddhism: Reading Koans from the of God in LXX Numbers 22-24‖ Blue Cliff Record 5:00-5:30 Dan McClellan ―Monotheism--Still a Misused Word in Jewish Studies?‖

History of Christianity/North American Session A Religions Presider: Michael Zbaraschuk, Section Co-Chair, Pacific Lutheran University Panel Discussion: ―Original Sin and Everyday Protestants: ([email protected]) The Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, and Paul Tillich in an Age of Anxiety‖ 2:00-2:30 Robert Bolger, SPU Presider: Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen, Pacific Lutheran ―On the Parity of Causes: Philip Clayton on University ([email protected]) Divine Action and Mental Causation.‖ 2:30-3:00 Dennis Jowers, Faith Evangelical Seminary 2:00-5:00 Panel: ([email protected]) Andrew Finstuen, Boise State University ―A Theistic Argument based on Fichte‘s ([email protected]) Knowability Theorem. ― Jill Gill, Boise State University 3:00-3:30 Elizabeth Smith, Catholic University of ([email protected] America ([email protected]) Matthew Sutton, Washington State University ―Process Thought as a Systematic Synthesis: ([email protected]) The Contribution of Whiteheadian Metaphysics Michael S. Hamilton, Seattle Pacific University to the Creation of an Integrative Approach to ([email protected]) Science and Religion‖ 3:30-4:00 BREAK 4:00-4:30 Kendal Bond, MS, Creighton University New Testament and Hellenistic Religions ([email protected]) ―A Theological Interpretation of Presider: TBA Thermodynamic Entropy‖ 4:30-5:00 Garrett Kenney, Eastern Washington University 2:00-2:45 Matthew Rindge, Gonzaga University ([email protected]) ([email protected]) ―The Garden of God: An Evaluation‖ ―Reimagining the Akedah and Recasting God: 5:00-5:30 Daniel Peterson & Beatrice Wallins, Seattle Divine Abandonment in Mark‘s Theological University, ([email protected]), Narrative‖ ([email protected]) 2:45-3:30 Michael Heiser, Logos Bible Software ―Radical Death of God Theology and the ([email protected]) Hebrew Bible.‖ ―Jesus‘ Quotation of Psalm 82:6 in John 10:34: A Different View of John‘s Theological Strategy‖ Session B 3:30-4:00 BREAK Presider: Mari Kim, Section Co-Chair, University of 4:00-4:45 JohnDave Medina, George Fox University Washington, [email protected] ([email protected]) ―The Events of John and Mark: Chronology in 2:00-2:30 Valerie Anderson, Fuller Northwest the Bi-Optic Gospels‖ ([email protected]) 4:45-5:30 Nijay Gupta, Seattle Pacific University ―Love in Twilight and 1 Cor 13‖ ([email protected]) 2:30-3:00 Matthew Whitlock, Seattle University ―Door Locks Only Stop Mortals: The Isaianic ([email protected]) Key That Unlocks the Mystery of the Johannine ―Remythologizing Pauline Theology: Paul and Resurrection Appearances to His Disciples the Matrix‖ (John 20:19-29)‖ 3:00-3:30 Denny Clark, The College of Idaho ([email protected]) "‘Believing in God and the Last Day‘: The Relevance of the Qur'anic Linking of 'Creation' Theology and Philosophy of Religion and 'the Day of Judgment' for the Christian Understanding of 'Creation'‖ (NOTE: There are Two 3:30-4:00 BREAK Sessions for Theology and Philosophy 4:00-4:30 Zvi Andrews, University of Calgary of Religion) ([email protected]) ―Heschel and Chuang-Tzu: Deconstructing 8:00-5:30 Book Exhibit Categories and Innate Awareness of Transcendent‖ Second Session (8:30-10:30 a.m.) 4:30-5:00 John J. Thatamanil, Union Theological Seminary (NY) ([email protected]) ―What‘s Wrong With Us and How to Fix It: Using the Medical Model for Teaching Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Comparative Theology.‖ Presider: Roger W. Anderson, Independent Scholar Women and Religion ([email protected])

Presider: Valarie Ziegler, DePauw University 9:10-9:50 Andrew Goldman, Gonzaga University ([email protected]) ([email protected]) ―Octagonal Gemstones from Central Turkey: A 2:00-2:45 Maria Lindquist, Harvard University Possible New Pagan and Christian Workshop‖ ([email protected]) 9:50-10:30 Georgia Bonny Bazemore, Eastern ―A Well of Living Water or a Pit of Death: Washington University Female Sexuality and Water Metaphors in the ([email protected]) Hebrew Bible‖ ―When the Queen of Heaven became 2:45-3:30 Elizabeth Goldstein, Gonzaga University Aphrodite: Intercultural Exchange in Late ([email protected]) Bronze Age Cyprus‖ ―Women and Purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls: A 10:30-10:45 BREAK Feminist Analysis‖ 3:30-4:00 BREAK Asian and Comparative Studies 4:00-4:45 Torang Asadi, University of Kansas Gandhi, the Goddess, ([email protected]) and Deep Ecology ―The Imbrication of Boundaries: A Study of the Legality of Sexual Deviance from the Norms of Presider: Guy Burneko, Ph. D., Independent Scholar Religious Conservatism‖ ([email protected])

9:00-9:45 Nicholas F. Gier, University of Idaho FRIDAY EVENING, May 5 ([email protected]) 5:30-7:30 Dinner at area restaurants of your choice ―Gandhi, Civic Virtue, and Deep Ecology‖

9:45-10:30 Colleen McLean, Gonzaga University ([email protected]) 8:00-9:00 p.m. ―Clooney‘s Challenge: An Experience in

Comparative Theology using the Apirami Anati PRESIDENTIAL PLENARY and the Nican Mopohua‖ 10:30-10:45 BREAK Norm Metzler Concordia University Hebrew Scriptures [Need Institutional Affiliation and email addresses] 9:00-10:00 p.m. – Reception: Presider: TBA SATURDAY MORNING, May 14 8:30-9:00 Stephan Carver ―The Confluence of Wisdom, Law, and 7:00 -8:15 Program Unit Chairs and Executive Prophecy: An Examination of Behavior Committee Breakfast Modification in Ancient Israel‖ Executive Dining Room 9:00-9:30 Ellen Sabo ―The Hebel of Loneliness in Qohelet‖ 9:30-10:00 Marcia Web 8:00-10:00 Registration ―The Book of Job: A Psychologist Takes a 10:30-11:00 BREAK Whirlwind Tour‖ 10:00-10:30 Heidi Szpek Religion and Society ―On the Influence of Job on Jewish Epitaphs‖ 10:30-10:45 BREAK Presider: Kevin J. O‘Brien, Pacific Lutheran

University ([email protected])

8:30-9:00 Terra Manca, University of Alberta History of Christianity/North American ([email protected]) Religions ―L. Ron Hubbard‘s Alternative to the History and Theology of Early Christianity (Patristics) Bomb Shelter: Scientology‘s Emergence as a Pseudo-Science During Presider: Charles J. Scalise, Fuller Theological Seminary the 1950s‖ ([email protected]) 9:00-9:30 Bruce Meyer, Independent Scholar

8:30-9:00 Robert J. Hauck, Gonzaga University ([email protected]) ([email protected]) ―Why Don‘t Christians Read Science ―Children of Necessity: Fate and Free Will in Fiction?‖ Second-Century Religious Polemic‖ 9:30-10:00Irene Quesnot, St. Mary‘s University 9:00-9:30 Matt Versdahl Seattle Pacific University ([email protected]) ([email protected]) ―Koine, Attic, and Paideia: The Greek of John ―Eco-Terrorism: Theological Response Chrysostom in ‗Against the Drunks,‘‖ to Systemic Sin‖ 9:30-10:00 Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen, Pacific Lutheran 10:00-10:30 Grace Cumming, Mary Baldwin University ([email protected]) College ([email protected]) ―Money in the Meadow: Conversion and Coin ―Survival: A Moral Imperative For in John Moschos‘ Pratam Spirituale,‖ 10:00-10:30 Scott Fennema, Trinity International University Climate Change‖ ([email protected]) 10:30-11:00 BREAK ―Filioque: A Historical Revisitation of Contemporary Catholic Dialogue in Jean- Theology & Philosophy of Religion Miguel Garrigues‘ ‗L’Espirit Qui Dit „Pere”’ in Light of Hilary of Poitiers‘ ‗De Trinitate’‖. The Promise and Danger of Emotion in Religion 10:30-10:45 BREAK

Presider: Michael Zbaraschuk, Section Co-Chair, New Testament and Hellenistic Religions Pacific Lutheran University, [email protected] Book Panel: Paul N. Anderson’s The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel (Fortress, 2011) 8:30-9:00 Jo-Ann Badley, Professor of New Testament, Mars Hill Graduate School Presider: TBA ([email protected]) “Being Consoled with Paul’s Language of 8:30-8:40 Introduction and Book Summary Lament: Strong Emotions in Corinth.” 8:40-9:00 Panelist: Jeff Staley, Seattle University 9:00-9:30 Veena Howard, University of Oregon ([email protected]) ([email protected]) ―Outlining the Johannine Riddles‖ “Paradoxical Interweaving: Grief, Compassion, 9:00-9:20 Panelist: Robert Kugler, Lewis and Clark and Tranquility in the Mahabharata” College ([email protected]) 9:30-10:00 Kathryn Rickert, Seattle University ―Addressing the Johannine Riddles‖ ([email protected]) 9:20-9:40 Panelist: Nijay Gupta, Seattle Pacific “Strong Emotions, Sin and Human-Divine University ([email protected]) Reconciliation in Exodus 32” ―Interpreting the Johannine Riddles‖ 10:00-10:30 James K. Wellman, University of Washington, 9:40-10:00 Response: Paul N. Anderson, George Fox ([email protected]) University ([email protected]) 10:00-10:30 Discussion “The Danger and Promise of Religious POSTER SESSION Ecstasy” ASOR, Women and Religion, Arts and Religion 10:30-10:45 BREAK 10:00-12:00 Ardy Bass, Gonzaga University Women and Religion ([email protected]) ―Compositional Strategies in the Coptic Gospel of Mary‖ What You Wear Is Who You Are: Hindu Brides, Christian Virgins, Susan G. Carter, Marylhurst University and The and Warrior Princesses California Institute of Integral Studies ([email protected]) Presider: Ardy Bass, Gonzaga University, ―Spirited Images: Rock Carvings as Spiritual [email protected] Expression in Ancient Scandinavia‖

8:30-9:10 Aimee Hamilton, Indiana University- Aireen Joven, The California Institute of Bloomington ([email protected]) Integral Studies ([email protected]) ―The Body of the Goddess as a Template for ―The Snake Goddess of Ancient Crete: The Hindu Bridal Perfection‖ Sacred Feminine Mastering the Coiled Snake 9:10-9:50 Midori Hartman, Vancouver School of of Kundalini‖ Theology ([email protected]) ―Bracelets and a Silver Mirror: Objects of Feminine, Elite Identity in The Acts of Paul and 10:45 – 11:45 a.m.. Thecla‖ ASOR PLENARY 9:50-10:30 Valarie H. Ziegler, DePauw University ([email protected]) „Not So Pretty in Pink: Princess Warriors for Martha Joukowsky Christ‖ Brown University 10:30-10:45 BREAK ―Pioneering Women in Archaeology‖

Special Topics: Islam 11:45 – 12:45 9:00 – 10:30 Annual Pedagogy Round-table: AAR PLENARY Introducing Islam Wendy Farley Moderator: To be Determined Chair of Theological Studies, Emory University Participants: Josie Hendrickson, Whitman College ―Gathering Those Driven Away: Thoughts ([email protected]) Rick Colby, University of Oregon from the Margins of Christianity‖ ([email protected]) Paul Powers, Lewis & Clark ([email protected]) Matthew Ingalls, University of Puget Sound ([email protected]) Denny Clark, College of Idaho SATURDAY AFTERNOON, May 14 ([email protected] ) Erik Hammerstrom, Pacific Lutheran University 12:45-1:15 Business Lunch ([email protected]) 1:15-2:00 Pacific Northwest AAR/SBL and ASOR M. Amine Tais, University of Washington Business Meeting ([email protected]) Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Reed College, Third Session (2:00-5:30 p.m.) ([email protected]) 10:30-10:45 BREAK Archaeology and the Ancient Near East Presider: Nicholas F. Gier, University of Idaho ([email protected]) Presider: Roger W. Anderson, Independent Scholar ([email protected]) 2:00-2:45 Daniel Kent, Whitman College ([email protected]) 2:00-2:40 Marcus Milwright and Evanthia Baboula, ―Killing with Compassion: Intentional Killing University of Victoria ([email protected]) in Sri Lanka‘s Civil War‖ ―Mapping and the Reconstruction of the Urban 2:45-3:30 Veena Howard, University of Oregon Space of Ottoman Nafpaktos, Greece‖ ([email protected]) 2:40-3:20 Gloria , Independent Scholar ―Lessons of Justice and Compassion from the ([email protected]) Hawk and Dog: Analyzing the Ecological ―Feasting at a Ceremonial Center in ancient Consciousness in the Hindu Sacred Literature‖ Jordan‖ 3:30-4:00 BREAK 3:20-3:50 BREAK 4:00-4:45 Jarrod Hyam, University of Calgary 3:50-4:30 Martha Joukowsky, Brown University ([email protected]) ([email protected]) ―The Syncretic Development of Buddhist ―Excavations at the Great Temple at Petra‖ Tantra‖ 4:30-5:10 Roger W. Anderson, Independent Scholar 4:45-5:30 Christopher Emory-Moore, University of ([email protected]) Calgary ([email protected]) ―Clear ―The Early Bronze Age Glacis at Tell el-Hesi‖ and Uncreated: The Experience of Inner Light in Gelug Tantrism and Byzantine Hesychasm‖

Arts and Religion Hebrew Scriptures [Need Institutional Affiliation Presider: Susan G. Carter, Marylhurst University and The and email addresses] California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) ([email protected]) Presider: TBA

2:00-2:40 Vivian D. Hahn ([email protected]) 2:00-2:30 Loryn Chomyn ―Daughter of Heaven: The Significance of ―The Utopian Vision of Psalm 133‖ Tattoos, Mirrors, and Headdresses in the 2:30--3:00 Michael Schultz ancient Pazyryk culture of the Eurasian ―The Traditio of Psalm 50: A Mushite Cult Steppes‖ Prophet and a Deuteronomic Hand‖ 2:40-3:20 Rashidah Tutashinda, The California Institute 3:00--3:25 Peter Sabo of Integral Studies ([email protected]) ―Reading Lamentations as a Text of ―Art, Spirit and Female power of the Mothers Melancholia‖ within the Gelede of Yoruba‖ 3:20-3:50 BREAK 3:20-3:50 BREAK 4:00-4:40 Prof. Ehud Ben Zvi 3:50-4:30 Louise M. Pare, Center for Women's ―Remembering Isaiah in the Late Persian/early Spirituality, Education and Empowerment, Hellenistic Period‖ ([email protected]) 4:40-5:10 Amy Chase ―Transformational Movement: From Normal ―The Intertextuality of Micah 7 and Isaiah Neurotics to Becoming Healing‖ Concerning the Fate of the Other Nations‖ 4:30-5:10 Mary Beth Moser, The California Institute of 5:10-5:30 Business Meeting and/or Discussion of future Integral Studies ([email protected]) directions ―Moonbeams of Mystery, Cycles of History: Lunar Presence in the Folk Spirituality of the History of Christianity/North American Italian Alps‖ Religions 5:10-5:30 Business Meeting and/or Discussion of future directions America, Past and Present Asian and Comparative Studies Presider: Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen, Pacific Lutheran University ([email protected]) Sri Lankan Buddhism, Tantricism, and the Hindu Goddess 2:00-2:30 Jon Kershner, University of Birmingham (UK) ([email protected]) ―‗His word was in my heart‘: John Woolman's ―Bahaism: religious laws and social endeavors Prophetic Self-Identification‖ to proselytize‖ 2:30-3:00 Christopher Schlect, Washington State 2:30-3:00 Joel E. Tishken, Washington State University University ([email protected]) ([email protected]) ―Depression Measures and Realigning Interwar ―Passing the Mantle in a Nazareth Baptist Protestantism‖ Church: Quests for Prophetic Authenticity in 3:00-3:30 Timothy Burdick, University of Birmingham, South Africa‖ U.K. ([email protected]) 3:00-3:30 Robin Willey, University of Alberta ―From Fundamentalist to Free Thinkers: The ([email protected]) transition of an evangelical Bible school into a ―The Evangelical Sexual Marketplace: An liberal arts College‖ Ethnographic Analysis of the Exchange and 3:30-4:00 BREAK Conversion of Erotic Capital in an Evangelical 4:00-4:30 Timothy Dunfield, University of Alberta Church‖ ([email protected]) 3:30-4:00 BREAK ―Chosen Ones: The Inclusion and Exclusion of 4:00-4:30 Andrew Esqueda, Fuller Theological Seminary Men in Polygamy within the FLDS‖ ([email protected]) 4:30-5:00 Rachael Morris, University of Washington ―Politics and the Metaphysics of Ethics: ([email protected]) Problem and Promise, a Critical Engagement ―The Patriarchal Vision of Mars Hill Church: A with Jeffrey Stout, Eric Gregory, and Karl Case Study of Gender Roles in a Conservative Barth‖ Protestant Church‖ 4:30-5:00 Bruce Hiebert, University Canada West 5:00-5:30 Business Meeting and/or Discussion of future ([email protected]) directions ―Ritual Transcendence and Ethics‖ 5:00-5:15 Business Meeting and/or Discussion of future New Testament and Hellenistic Religions directions Section Presider: TBA Theology and Philosophy of Religion

2:00-2:40 Gary Yamasaki, Columbia Bible College Presider: Mari Kim, Section Co-Chair, University of ([email protected]) Washington, [email protected] ―‗Mind Games‘: A Perspective-Critical Look at the Control of Information by a Biblical 2:00 -5:00 Book Panel: Erotic Faith: Reflections on Narrator‖ Farleyan con’t [Is This the Correct Title – There are two 2:40-3:20 Matt Whitehead, Trinity Western University panels scheduled to discuss Wendy’s text?] ([email protected]) ―The Triumphal Entry of a Peasant Messiah: Ellen Armour, Vanderbilt University Socioeconomic Clashes in Mark‘s Gospel‖ ([email protected]) 3:20-3:50 BREAK Carl Levenson, Idaho State University ([email protected]) 3:50-4:30 Kyung Baek, Trinity Western University ([email protected]) John J. Thatamanil, Union Theological Seminary (NY) ―Matthew‘s Schema of Jewish Salvation ([email protected]) History in Jesus‘ Genealogy (Matt 1:1-17)‖ Douglas McGaughey, Willamette University 4:30-5:10 Clayton Bench, University of Alberta ([email protected]) ([email protected]) Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke Divinity School, ―The Thematic Unity of John 6‖ ([email protected]) (waiting on confirmation but 5:10-5:30 Business Meeting and/or Discussion of future would rather include her then drop than miss out on having directions her info in case she says yes.)

Religion and Society Respondent: Wendy Farley, Emory University ([email protected]) Presider: Kevin J. O‘Brien, Pacific Lutheran University ([email protected]) 5:30-5:45 Business Meeting and/or Discussion of future directions 2:00-2:30 Mahdi Emami, Islamic Azad University ([email protected]) Women and Religion ―Being Church As, In, and Against White Privilege‖

(NOTE: There are Two 5:10-5:30 Respondent: Mary J. Streufert, Evangelical Sessions for Women and Religion) Lutheran Church in America Director, Justice for Women, Session A ([email protected]) Keeping Women in Their Place: Christian Women in Roman Society Special Topics: Islam

Presider: Anne Moore, University of Calgary Panel: ―Image and Identity in Contemporary Islam‖ ([email protected]) Presider: To be Determined 2:00-2:40 Roselle Gonsalves, University of Calgary ([email protected]) 2:00-2:20 Maya Hamanishi, University of Oregon, ―Place Studies and the Study of Women‖ [email protected] 2:40-3:20 Sharon Mogen, University of Calgary ―Moulids in Egypt‖ ([email protected]) ―Women, Funerary Ritual, and Christian 2:20-2:40 Summer Satushek, Western Washington Identity in Late Antiquity‖ University, [email protected] 3:20-3:50 BREAK ―Endeavors Towards Unity in a Frontier 3:50-4:30 Danielle Baillargeon, University of Calgary Muslim Community‖ ([email protected]) 2:40-3:00 M. Amine Tais, University of Washington, ―Perpetua as the Bride of Christ‖ [email protected] 4:30-5:10 Crystal Dean, University of Calgary ―Muhammad and Muslim Identity: Historical ([email protected]) Images and Modern Challenges‖ ―‘Egerie narrat‘: Situating Egeria within the 3:00-3:20 Discussion Itinerarium‖ 3:20-3:50 BREAK 5:10-5:30 Anne Moore, University of Calgary ([email protected]) Panel: ―Islamic Law from Medieval Text to Modern ―Anna, How Domesticity Gives Birth to Purity‖ Court‖

Session B Presider: To be Determined Feminist, Womanist, Mujerista and Queer Theology Goes Confessional: 3:50-4:10 Maherin Ahmed, Whitman College, Transformative Trajectories in the [email protected] Tradition of Martin Luther ―Legal Challenges Faced by Bangladeshi Women in Family Law Court‖ Presider: Mary J. Streufert, Evangelical Lutheran Church 4:10-4:30 Connie Cannon, University of Washington, in America ([email protected]) [email protected] ―Islamic Issue Litigation and the Legal 2:00-2:40 Mary E. Lowe, Augsburg College Professional: Examining the Role of the ([email protected]) Attorney in the Islamization of Modern Legal ―Sin from a Queer, Lutheran Perspective‖ Systems‖ 2:40-3:20 Alicia Vargas, Pacific Lutheran Theological 4:30-4:50 Josie Hendrickson, Whitman College, Seminary ([email protected]) [email protected] ―Through Mujerista Eyes: Stories of Incarnate ―The Islamic Obligation to Emigrate in Late- Redemption‖ Fifteenth Century North Africa‖ 3:20-3:50 BREAK 4:50-5:10 Paul Powers, Lewis & Clark College, 3:50-4:30 Marit Trelstad, Pacific Lutheran University [email protected] ([email protected]) ―Islamic Law in the Works of Jahiz, ―Putting the Cross in Context: Atonement Hamadhani, and Hariri‖ through Covenant‖ 5:10-5:30 Discussion 4:30-5:10 Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Seattle University (moe- [email protected])

SATURDAY EVENING, May 3 ―The Apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans: An Epistolary and Rhetorical Analysis‖ 9:15-10:00 Benjamin Nickodemus, Concordia 6:30 p.m.—Banquet ([email protected]) 7:00 p.m.—Banquet Address ―The Temporal World as Neutral in the Apocalypse of Adam‖ Matthew V. Fox 10:00-10:30 BREAK University of Wisconsin 10:30-11:15 Jennifer J. Johnson Leese, Lutheran Theological Seminary (Sha Tin, ) ―What is God Getting At? ([email protected]) The Message of the Theophany to Job‖ ―A Greener Paul? Going beyond Romans 8‖ 11:15-12:00 Anthony Meyer, Trinity Western University Reception Following ([email protected]) ―Two Conversions of Mark 1:39-45‖

SUNDAY MORNING, May 15 Theology and Philosophy of Religion

7:00 – 8:00 Breakfast with Region’s Authors (To Be Arranged) (NOTE: There are Two Sessions for Theology and Philosophy 8:00-12:00 Book Exhibit of Religion)

Fourth Session (8:30-12:00) Session A Presider: Michael Zbaraschuk, Section Co-Chair, Hebrew Scriptures [Need Institutional Affiliation Pacific Lutheran University and email addresses] ([email protected])

Presider: TBA 9:00-9:30 Lance Green, Trinity Lutheran College ([email protected]) 8:30-9:00 Karolien Vermeulen “The Preaching of Justification and ―Vanitas Vanitatum - The Killing of Abel in Illocutionary Acts”. Genesis 4‖ 9:30-10:00 Lace Marie Williams-Tinajero, [Institutional Affiliation, Independent Scholar?] ([email protected]) 9:00-9:30 Clayton Bench “Speech Act Theory and Biblical ―The Introductory Formulae of the So-Called Interpretation” Farewell Speeches of the Deuteronomistic 10:00-10:30 BREAK History: With Special Attention to 1 Kings 2:1‖ 10:30-11:00 Scott Fennema, Trinity International University ([email protected]) 9:30-10:00 Ian Wilson “Historical Theology: A Historical Comparison ―The Wise King: Remembering Solomon‘s of Patristic and Modern Thought, as Sacrifices in 1 Kings 3:1-15‖ Exemplified in the Exegesis of Colossians 10:00-10:30 BREAK 1:15” 10:30-11:15 Beatrice Wallins 11:00-11:30 Mary Kaye Nealen, University of Great Falls, ―Unidentified Women: indepedent female ([email protected]) characters in the Hebrew Bible‖ “Green Shoots in Rocky Soil: Christian Mission 11:15-12:00 Sarah Koening in a Weakened Church and a Secularized State” ―Bathsheba Stuck in the (Medieval) Bath‖ Session B New Testament and Hellenistic Religions 9:00 – 11:30

Presider: TBA Presider: Mari Kim, Section Co-Chair, University of Washington ([email protected]) 8:30-9:15 Philip Tite, Independent Scholar ([email protected]) Panel: Erotic Faith: Reflections on Farleyan Eros Panelists: Kendra G. Hotz, Rhodes College ([email protected]) Verna Ehret, Mercyhurst College ([email protected]) Annie Bullock, Austin Theological Seminary ([email protected]) Marcia Mount Shoop, University Presbyterian Church in Chapel Hill ([email protected])

Respondent: Prof. Wendy Farley, Emory University, ([email protected])

Women and Religion

What Were They Thinking? Queen Esther, Ruth and Naomi, and the Mother in Me

Presider: Ardy Bass, Gonzaga University ([email protected])

8:30-9:15 Josh Spoelstra, Church of New Hope ([email protected]) ―Esther's Power of Persuasion‖

9:15-10:00 Andrew Davis, Seattle University ([email protected]) ―A Mixed Blessing in Ruth 4:11-12! 10:00-10:30 BREAK

10:30-11:15 Marion Dumont, The California Institute of Integral Studies, [email protected] Nature Speaks, Healing the Mother in Me

SAFE TRAVELS!