FBS Draft Conference Program Note: Zoom links to sessions will be provided to registered guests closer to the conference THURSDAY 30th September

4 – 5.30pm Welcome and opening Keynote Address

“Fifty Years with Paul: Some Questions Resolved, Some Yet to be Answered” Address Brendan Byrne SJ Chair: Dorothy Lee

Brendan Byrne, SJ, FAHA, after doctoral studies in Oxford (DPhil, 1977) in the area of Pauline theology, taught New Testament for over three decades at United Faculty of Theology, Parkville. A former member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission (Rome: 1990-96), he has published a major commentary on the Letter to the Romans (Sacra Pagina 6; Collegeville: 1996) and more popular works on Paul and all four Gospels. He edited the theological journal Pacifica from 2000-2011. His latest title, Paul and the Economy of Salvation: Reading from the Perspective of the Last Judgment will be released by Baker Academic (US) in mid-August 2021. He is currently preparing A Vocabulary of Paul for Paulist Press. He has been visiting Professor in Rome, Vietnam, and Kenya, and is now Professor Emeritus of the ()

Dinner Break 7- 8.30 / Section: Pauline Epistles Section: John’s Gospel Section: Second Temple Judaism 9pm Presiding: Sean Winter Presiding: Dorothy Lee Presiding: Kylie Crabbe

Errol Xavier Lobo, Notre Dame Michael Bird, Ridley College Megan Turton, UD “Conformed to the Image of Christ: Pauline “How Philonic is John’s Logos?” “What Did the People Hear at Sinai? Image-language, intertextuality, and the Gentile Ambiguity as Redactional Technique” Problem” Fergus J. King, Trinity College “Friends, Foes or Rivals?: John among the Stephen Cook and Timothy Rafferty, Katecia Taylor, UD Philosophers” “Women and Sex in Romans 1:26” “Tell him he’s Dreamin’: The ‘wisdom’ of Mary Coloe, Yarra Theological Union Solomon and the contest for priestly Discussion (20-30mins) “John within Judaism” legitimacy”

Discussion (20-30mins) Discussion (20-30mins)

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FRIDAY 1st October

9.30am Special Panel: Indigenous perspectives Presiding: TBC

11am Morning tea break

11.30am Section: Second Temple Section: John’s Gospel Section: Prophets Presiding: Kylie Crabbe Presiding: Mary Coloe Presiding: Janina Hiebel

Lydia Gore-Jones, St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Christopher A. Porter, Trinity College Mark Alan O’Brien, CTC Theological College, SCD “Should I Stay or Should I Go? — Reading “An Analysis of Jeremiah 20:14-18 and its “The Place of Torah in the Wisdom of Solomon” Nicodemus and Peter as Liminal Characters Content” in the Fourth Gospel” Gareth Wearne, ACU Douglas Fyfe, Independent “4QReworked Pentateuch and the Hellenistic Dorothy A. Lee, Trinity College “The Coherence of Hosea” Mythographers” “Af]filiation: The Spirituality of in the Fourth Gospel” Discussion (15mins) Discussion (15mins) Discussion (15mins)

12.45pm Lunch 1.30pm Section: Second Temple Section: Pauline Epistles Section: Synoptics Presiding: Lydia Gore-Jones Presiding: Sean Winter Presiding: Robyn Whitaker

Alexander McCarron, Oxford Adam White, Alphacrusis Geoffrey Jenkins, AIA “Rethinking the Reconstruction and “The Grief of Exile: A Fresh Proposal for “Let Which Reader Understand What?: Restoration of the Aramaic Enochic Theophany Paul’s “Near Death Experience” in 2 Cor 1:8” Reflections on the Earliest Reception of in 4QEna (1 Enoch 1:1-9)” According to Mark” Jeff Aernie, Charles Sturt Ian Young, University of Sydney “What Should We Say About Abraham?: William Loader, Murdoch “Masoretic Text Daniel as an Edition” Another Look at the Translation and Impact “Lost in Translation: The Gospel in Transition of Romans 4:1” in Christian Beginnings”

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Discussion (30mins) Discussion (30mins) Alan Cadwallader, Charles Sturt “The Young Man and the Sea: Reconceiving Ancient Water Resources”

Discussion (30mins)

3.30 pm Afternoon tea break 4.00pm Section: Second Temple Section: Orality and Performance Section: Trauma Presiding: Gareth Wearne Presiding: Jeannette Mathews Presiding: Liz Boase

Bernard Tola, University of Sydney Emma Austin, Alphacrusis Angela Sawyer & Arthur Wouters, Stirling “Type scenes in the Book of Esther” “What Do You See?: Walking and Talking “Pedagogy and Trauma Hermeneutics” with Jeremiah” Jonathan Thambyrajah, BBI -The Australian Andrew Judd, Ridley College Institute of Theological Education Jill Firth, Ridley College “‘She had it coming’: text, tradition and “Judaising in Esther and in the Second Temple ““Send for the Wise Women”: Women's trauma in Judges 19” Period” Wise Direct Speech in Jeremiah’s Prophetic Poetry” Discussion (30 mins) Discussion (30 mins) Discussion (30 mins)

5.30pm Break for the evening

NB: If restrictions allow it we hope to still offer a conference dinner in a private room at the Parkville Hotel (Naughtons) for conference attendees based in Melbourne. This will be confirmed closer to the time and ticketed separately for those who can attend. (Cost $59 for 3 courses, not inc. drinks)

3 SATURDAY 2nd October at Pilgrim Theological College, 29 College Crescent, Parkville

9.30am “Reading Intersectionally: Framing the Widow in Genesis 38”

Keynote Address: Monica Melanchthon Chair: Rachelle Gilmour

Monica was ordained by the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church, India, in 2009. A graduate of the United Theological College, Bangalore, and the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, she has been teaching Hebrew Bible studies at the Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity, since June 2012 after having served on the faculty of the Gurukul Lutheran Theological College, Chennai, for 17 years.

Monica positions herself as a feminist advocate and a liberation theologian, committed to producing reflections and texts that resist and counter cultures and languages of dominance that exclude the voices of the oppressed. Her publications focus primarily on interpretations of OT texts from the perspective of the Indian context and the marginalized. Her approach to the Biblical text is critical, contextual, interdisciplinary and liberative. She draws on insights derived from the lived experiences and social biographies of the marginalized, particularly women and dalits to interpret the biblical text.

She is an active member of the Society of Biblical Literature and sits on its Council. She is also the President of the Society of Asian Biblical Studies, on the editorial boards of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and the Advisory Council of Word & World: Theology for Christian Ministry.

10.30 Morning tea break 11am Section: Pauline Epistles Section: Orality and Performance Section: Book of Revelation Presiding: Sean Winter Presiding: Jeannette Mathews Review panel and discussion of Francis J. Moloney, The Apocalypse of John: A Sue Kmetko, ACU Melinda Cousins, Baptist Church/Tabor Commentary (2020) Exegetical implications of middle voice verbs “Performing Imprecation” Presiding: U-Wen Low Grant Buchanan, Alphacrusis Lyn Kidson, Alphacrusis Panelists: Mary Coloe “Christ, Crucifixion and the Spirit in Galatians” ““I write these things to you” (1 Tim 3:14) and Jon Newton so called hymn of 1 Timothy 3:16” Robyn Whitaker Discussion (30mins) Discussion (30mins) Respondent: Francis Moloney, SDB

12.30pm Lunch break 4 1.30pm Section: Reading the Bible in Section: Pentateuch Section: Synoptics Presiding: Michelle Eastwood Presiding: Megan Turton Presiding: Chris Monaghan

Anne Elvey, Honorary UD Timothy Rafferty, University of Sydney Emily Fero-Kovassy, Monash “Magnificat, Invasion, Reception and the Call “Where did the wild things go? Exploring the “Matthew 7:21-23 and the Pauline Gospel: to Listen” gaps in human dominion in Genesis 1:26-28 Accusations of “Lawlessness” and the as a means by which to heal human/nature Confusion of Interpretation”

dualism” Blake Wassell, ACU, ACOM Sally Douglas, Pilgrim “Dispossessing First Nations, Trauma, and the Anthony Rees, Charles Sturt “’Like newborn infants’: A reconsideration of Spiritual Gospel” “A Place to Die? The Wilderness as a Habitat the synoptic call to become like a child for Growth” through the lens of 1 Peter 2.2-3.” Discussion (15mins) Discussion (15mins) Discussion (15mins)

2.45pm Afternoon tea break 3.15pm – Section: Reading the Bible in Australia Section: Pentateuch Section: Book of Revelation 5pm Presiding: Barbara Deutschmann Presiding: Megan Turton Presiding: Robyn Whitaker

Siu Fung Wu, UD Adam Jessep, Independent Scholar Jon Newton, Alphacrusis “Reading Romans in our white-dominated “Joseph as Genesis’ Model for the Resolution “Blurred Boundaries and Hybrid Creatures in landscape: An Asian-Australian’s attempt” of Léopold Szondi’s ‘Cain Complex’: A Revelation” psychological approach to the stories of Deborah Storie, UD sibling rivalry in Genesis” Katie Haldane, Alphacrusis “A little (biblical) knowledge is a dangerous “Christ as ascended god-emperor: visualising thing: Hearing and mishearing Jesus’ words in Kris Sonek, UD apotheosis in Rev 19:11-16” contemporary Australia” “Genesis, John Chrysostom, and the Jews” Douglas Fyfe Discussion (20 mins) Brian Kolia, Whitley College, UD “Korah not the Calf: Korah's rebellion in the “The Donkey as Tamasoaalii: A Fagogo Book of Revelation” Reading of Balaam and the Donkey in Numbers 22:22-35” Discussion (20 mins)

Discussion (20 mins)

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