1:30        Suk-Young Kang, University of Texas-Arlington and

                Thomas D. Watts, University of Texas-Arlington

Social Welfare in North Korea: Ethical and Ideological Conflicts and Dilemmas

  

2:00        Suk-Young Kang, University of Texas-Arlington and

                Thomas D. Watts: University of Texas-Arlington

                Religious Liberty in North Korea: Past and Present

2:30        Shelley Ashdown, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics

African Traditional Religion in the Torobo Context of Conflict and Resolution

 

3:00        Catherine Chmidling, University of Missouri

                Differential Relations with Religions in a Publicly Funded Orphanage

 

AAR: Arts, Literature, and Religion

Theme: Visualizing Theology

Presiding: Katherine Downey, The Hockaday School

 

1:30        Wendell Willis, Abilene Christian University

Jonah Interpreted, and Re-Interpreted: The Image of Jonah in Early Christian Art

 

2:00        Don Jolly, St. Edward’s University

                Exegetical Treatments of Genesis in Comics: Crumb & Sim

 

 2:30        Allen H. Redmon, Texas A&M University

Carl Dreyer’s “La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc”: Effecting Religious Struggle in the Audience

 

3:00        John S. Vassar, Louisiana State University – Shreveport

Behold the Ram of God: A Girardian Reading of Darren Aronofsky’s Film “The Wrestler”

 

AAR: Ethics, Society, and Cultural Analysis

Theme: Embodiment and Ethics

Moderator: Melanie L. Harris, Texas Christian University

 

1:30        Darrius D. Hills, Rice University

                The Agential Body: Womanist Thought and Embodied Resistance

 

2:15        Gregory Kaplan, Rice University

                The Other Body: Edith Wyschogrod and Postmodern Jewish Ethics

 

2:45        Rachel Schneider Vlachos, Rice University

The Body and Postcolonial Ethics of Transformation: Levinas, Butler, and Coetzee

 

AAR: History of Christianity

Roundtable: Research Methodologies and Trends in Publishing

Presiding: Elizabeth Flowers, Texas Christian University

 

Panelists:

                Esther Chung-Kim, Claremont School of Theology

                Carey Newman, Baylor University Press

                S. Brent Plate, Hamilton College

                Sarah Robbins, Texas Christian University

 

3:15        Business Meeting

 

AAR: Philosophy of Religion and Theology

Theme: Intersections of Philosophy and Religion

Presiding: Rebecca Huskey, University of Oklahoma

 

1:30        Sarah E. Fredericks, University of North Texas

Ideals and Reality in Religious Ethics:  A Comparison of Philosophical and Religious Studies Approaches to Religious Ethics

 

1:50        Sarah Conrad, University of North Texas

                Losing My Religion … in Intro to Philosophy

 

2:10        Discussion 

 

2:20        John Sanders, Hendrix College

A God Without the Courage to Exist: A Critique of Caputo’s Arguments Against Traditional Religious Belief

 

2:40        Jay Smith, Howard Payne University

The Church is a Movement: A Missiological Ecclesiology for the Postmodern Turn

 

3:00        Tyler Remington Harkness, University of Nottingham

The Phenomenological Contours of Justice: The Juxtaposition of Grace and Law in Emmanuel Levinas and Michel Henry

 

3:20        Discussion

 

Saturday Afternoon, March 5 (3:30-4:00)

 

Coffee Break, Book Exhibit Hall

Sponsored by

Hendrickson Publishers

and

The American Academy of Religion, SW Region

Complimentary coffee and tea

 

Saturday Afternoon, March 5 (4:00-5:30)

 

AAR: Plenary Address

Presiding:  Darren Middleton, Texas Christian University

President, AAR-SW

 

4:00        Kwok Pui-lan, Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA

President, AAR

    

"The Quest for the Postcolonial Jesus"

 

 

 

 

 SBL: Hebrew Bible

Theme:  Jeremiah and Zechariah

Presiding: Jan Quesada, Texas Christian University

 4:00        Rannfrid Thelle, Independent Scholar

Babylon and Judah under Judgment: The Identity of Opposites in the Book of Jeremiah

4:30        Ching-An Yeh, Brite Divinity School

Monotheism in the Targum of Jeremiah: Targum Translation of the Hebrew Term ĕlōhîm achērîm                      

5:00        R. Michael Fox, Brite Divinity School

                A Collision of Covenant Theologies in Jeremiah 2

SBL: New Testament I

Theme: The Gospel of John

Presiding: Warren Carter, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University   

4:00        Robert C. Kashow, Dallas Theological Seminary

Echoes of Ecclesiastes in the Gospel of John: Overlooked Source Critical Evidence

4:30        Jon Reeves, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University

Slavery, Power, and Sexuality in John 8:31-36: Intersections of Culture and Domination

5:00        Eric J. Gilchrest

The End Is Here (Sort of): Eschatology in John’s Gospel and the Dead Sea Scrolls

SBL: New Testament II

Theme: New Testament Words and Worlds

Presiding: Renate Viveen Hood, University of Mary-Hardin Baylor

4:00        Valerie Houghton, York College of Pennsylvania

                Diapherō in the New Testament: Better, or Just Different?

4:30        Michael Flexsenhar III, St. Luke’s Episcopal School

Contrasting Cosmologies: Jewish Festivals and Identity in Imperial Cult Contexts

5:00        Edward McMahon, Texas Christian University

The Relationship of Early Christian Groups to the Graeco-Roman Associations: A Re-Examination

ASOR and SBL: Joint Session

Theme:  Going against the Grain:  Another Look at Agriculture in Ancient Israel

Presiding:  Michael Homan, Xavier University of Louisiana, and

                  James Thompson, Abilene Christian University       

 

4:00        Kelley Coblentz-Bautch, St. Edwards University

                Of Sheep and Sheeves: The Rhetoric of Agriculture

 

4:30        Jennie Ebeling, University of Evansville

Finding the Woman of Valor: An Archaeological Perspective on Women's Work in Ancient Israel

 

ASSR

Theme: Anti-Semitism, Role Reversal, and Business

 Presiding: Nathan Carlin, University to Texas Medical School

  

4:00        Todd Jay Leonard, Fukuoka University of Education-Japan

The Passionsspiele Oberammergau: Efforts to Reform Anti-Semitic Elements in the World's Most Famous Religious Melodrama

 

4:30        Karol Chandler-Ezell, Stephen F. Austin State University 

Not-So-Sacred Time and Role Reversal of Religious Ritual and Symbols in Renaissance Festival Reenactment

 

5:00        Business Meeting

 

Saturday Evening, March 5 (5:30-6:30)

 

Reception

Registrants will receive a ticket for the reception.

Complimentary food and beverage will be served.

 

Announcement of 2010 Awards

Presiding: Andrew O. Fort, Texas Christian University

President, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies

 

Saturday Evening, March 5 (6:30-8:30)

 

SBL: Plenary Address

Presiding: James Thompson, Abilene Christian University

President, SBL-SW

 

6:30  Richard Bauckham, University of St. Andrews

The “Individualism” of the Gospel of John

ASSR

Theme: The Effects of Short Term Missions on Mission Team Members

Presiding: Ben D. Craver: Wayland Baptist University-Albuquerque

 

 

Panelists: Dennis Horton, Baylor University

                Amy Rozzi, Baylor University

                Caire Aufhammer

                Daniel Camp

                Matt Berry

 

Respondent: J. B. Watson, Jr: Stephen F. Austin State University

AAR: History of Christianity

Theme: Motherhood, Family, and Domesticity in Christian History

Presiding: Jill DeTemple, Southern Methodist University

 

6:30        Courtney Lyons, Baylor University

“My Husband Wears the Cowboy Boots in Our Family”: Why Southern Baptists Let Beth Moore Preach

 

6:50        Spencer Allen, University of Pennsylvania

“The Many Wives of the Holy Men of God”: An Examination of Tony Alamo’s Brand of Biblical Exegesis

 

7:10        Carol Holcomb, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

                "This Damascus Blade": Gender and Southern Baptist Women in the Progressive Era

 

7:30        Bryan Maine, Baylor University

“Some Bastards . . . Surpass Legitimate Children in the Probity of their Character”: Erasmus on Illegitimacy and Moral Education

 

7:50        Discussion

 

Saturday Evening, March 5 (8:00-9:30)

 

Institute for Biblical Research, Southwest Region

Presiding: Rodney Reeves, Southwest Baptist University

 

8:00        Devotional, David B. Capes, Houston Baptist University

 

8:15        Doug Kennard, Houston Graduate School of Theology

An Analysis of Theological Similarities Between the Charter of a Jewish Association (1QS, 4Q255-264a, 5Q11) and The Gospel of John

 

8:45        Sharon Gresham, B. H. Carroll Theological Institute

Duplicity--A Non-gnostic Purview of Life for the First-century Church:  An Evaluation of the Epistles of James and 1 John

 

Sunday Morning, March 6 (7:30-8:30)

 

7:30-8:15               AAR Business Meeting

7:30-8:30               ASOR Business Meeting

7:30-8:30               SBL Business Meeting

 

Book Exhibits Open

Sunday, 8:30-12:30

 

Please visit our supporting exhibitors

 in the Ballroom.

 

Sunday Morning, March 6 (8:30-10:30)

SBL: Hebrew Bible

Theme:  Wisdom and the Afterlives of Texts

Presiding: Jo Ann Hackett, University of Texas

8:30        Karen Rangel, Brite Divinity School

                The Changing Face of Wisdom

9:00        Mark Sneed, Lubbock Christian University

                Locating Qohelet Socially: More Nuances

9:30        Nevada DeLapp, Texas Christian University

The Davidic William of Orange: Het Wilhelmus and Reformed Readings of David

10:00      Johnny Miles, Texas Christian University

                Refracting the Rhetoric of Colonization: The Enemy Within

SBL: New Testament

Theme: Panel Discussion of Galen’s Newly Discovered “On the Avoidance of Distress” 

Presiding: Jeffrey Peterson, Austin Graduate School of Theology

 

Organizers: Trevor W. Thompson, Abilene Christian University and

                   Clare K. Rothschild, Lewis University

 

Topics under Discussion: Text Transmission, Libraries at Rome, New Evidence for the Codex, Greco-Roman Views of Emotion, and the Consolation Genre in Antiquity

 

ASOR

Theme:  The Tandy Archaeological Museum:  Artifacts, Texts, and Methods

Presiding:  Stephen Wyrick, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

 

8:30        Heather Reichstadt, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Ur III Seal Impressions: A Comparative Study of the Tandy Museum Cuneiform Collection

 

9:00        Adam Dodd, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

An Unpublished Medieval Arabic/Hebrew Palimpset at the Tandy

 

9:30        Adam Harvell and David Kever, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

The West Semitic Research Project and Archaeological Photographic Methodology at the Tandy       

 

ASSR

Theme: Religious History, Blessings, and the End of the World

Presiding: J.B. Watson, Stephen F. Austin State University

 

8:30        Jerry Hopkins: East Texas Baptist University

Predicting Jesus Second Coming and the End of the World: A Study over Time with  Some Conclusions and Considerations

9:00        Dianne Dentice, Stephen F. Austin State University

Race and Religion in Rural Arkansas: A Case Study

 

9:30        Michael D. Royster: Prairie View A&M University

Makarious: Redefining Blessings in the Context of the Eminent Threat of Poverty

 

10:00      Anne Nichole Bullock, St. Edwards University

                Speaking Truth to Globalization: The Emerging Postcolonial Theologies

 

AAR: Theta Alpha Kappa

Theme: Student Papers from Theta Alpha Kappa Chapters in the Region

Presiding: Derek Dodson, Baylor University

 

8:30        Ann Clare Tally-Foos, St. Edward’s University

                Hosea: An Exemplar of 8th Century Prophecy

 

8:55        Gordon Palmer, Baylor University

                Hypatia of Alexandria

 

9:20        Caroline Hamilton, Texas Christian University

“Preaching, technically so called:” A Comparison of Women’s Religious Speech in  Antebellum American  Women’s Fiction and History

 

9:45        Brittany Rittger, St. Edward’s University

                Judaism and Gender Roles: Insights from the Rabbinic Literature

 

AAR: Arts, Literature and Religion

Theme: 20th-Century Religious Sensibilities

Presiding: Katherine Downey, The Hockaday School

 

8:30        Rebecca Huskey, University of Oklahoma

The Case of the Criminal Turned Detective: Justice and Forgiveness in G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown Mysteries

 

9:00        Katherine Downey, The Hockaday School

Work and Personal Meaning: “The Cameo Theatre Murder” by Ruth De Haven

 

9:30        Matt Moser, Baylor University

The Virtues of the Magical: Overcoming Evil in Middle Earth and at Hogwarts

 

10:00      Philip Mitchell, Dallas Baptist University

Building Upon Doubt: Anglican Responses to the Waning of Faith in Poets R.S. Thomas and John Betjeman, and in Artist John Piper

 

AAR: Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion

Theme: Four Perspectives on Modern India

Presiding: Mark Dennis,Texas Christian University

 

8:30        Andy Fort, Texas Christian University

                Reflections from India

 

9:00        Michael Norton, Villanova University/North Lake College & Collin College

                Negotiating Religious Pluralism and Modernity in India

 

9:30        Mackenzie Brown, Trinity University

                Hindu Attitudes Towards Evolution and Modern Science

 

10:00      Pankaj Jain, University of North Texas

                Bishnois, Rajputs, and Memory of an Ecological Sacrifice  

 

AAR: Ethics, Society and Cultural Analysis

Theme: Teaching and Pedagogy: Womanist Approaches

Moderator: Jack Hill, Texas Christian University

 

8:30        Karen Baker-Fletcher, Perkins School of Theology

                Womanist Theology in Global Perspective

 

9:00        Keri Day, Brite Divinity School

                Womanist Pedagogy and Practice: Engaging Womanism in Community

 

9:30        Tonya Burton, Perkins School of Theology

Administration and Program Development for Theological Education:  Womanist Insights and Perspective

 

                Teaching Womanist Ethics: Meeting the Challenges Face to Face

 

AAR: History of Christianity

Theme: Issues in Modern Christianity

Presiding: Jacob Blosser, Texas Woman’s University

 

8:30        Bracy V. Hill II, Baylor University

Revealing a Hidden “Fanatick”: Exposing the Past of an Eighteenth-Century “Arch-Heretick”

 

9:00        C.J.T. Talar, University of St. Thomas

Prophetic Judgment on a Secular France: The Great War in the Writings of Canon Henri Delassus

 

9:30        David M. Gides, Mount Mercy University

No Other Choice: Evaluating the Options for Violence in the German Church Struggle

 

10:00      Nadia Lahutsky, Texas Christian University

Strangers in a Strange Land:  Disciples of Christ as Ecumenical Observers at Vatican II

 

AAR: Philosophy of Religion and Theology

Theme:  What is Tolerance?

 

Panelists: Gregory Kaplan, Rice University

                Andrew Kelley, Bradley University

                Alan Udoff, St. Francis College

                Martin D. Yaffe, University of North Texas

 

Respondent:  Joshua Parens, University of Dallas 

 

Sunday Morning, March 6 (10:30-11:00)

 

Coffee Break, Book Exhibit Hall

Sponsored by the

Baylor University Department of Religion

and

The Society of Biblical Literature, SW Region

Complimentary coffee and tea

 

Sunday Morning, March 6 (11:00-12:30)

SBL: Presidential Address

Presiding: Jan Quesada, Texas Christian University

 

11:00      James Thompson, Abilene Christian University

“No One is Righteous”: Paul’s View of the Passions within the Greco-Roman and Jewish Context

ASOR

Theme:  Classical and Late Antiquity

Presiding:  Chad Spigel, Trinity University

 

11:00      Andrew Harvey, St. Edward's University

Amulet KM26125 in Light of Serpentine Imagery in Early Judaism and Christianity

 

11:30      Caroline Kurtz, St. Edward’s University

Liturgy and Community in Late Antique Palestine: A Study of the Christian Structure at Megiddo

 

12:00      Elizabeth Narvaez, St. Edward’s University

Pilgrimage to the House of Peter: A Study of the Capernaum House-Church

 

ASSR   

Theme:   Religious Pluralism and the Human Body at Death

Presiding:  Jon K. Loessin, Wharton County Junior College

 

11:00      Michael Barnes Norton, Villanova University

                Negotiating Religious Pluralism and Modernity in India

 

11:30      Ben D. Craver, Wayland Baptist University-Albuquerque

O Body, What Art Thou?  A Theological Critique of James F. Ross' Metamorphosis of the Human Body at Death

 

12:00     J. David Holcomb, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Religion and the Roberts Court

 

AAR:  Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion

Theme: Healing, Dreams, and Direct Religious Experience

Presiding: Sage Elwell, Texas Christian University

 

11:00      G. William Barnard, Southern Methodist University

                Healing and Mediumship in the Santo Daime Tradition in Brazil

 

11:30      Hae Young Seong, Seoul National University

The Religious Experience of Jaewoo Choi (1824-1864): Creative Tension between Experience and Interpretative Scheme

 

12:00      Mark Dennis, Texas Christian University

Shinran’s Dream of Avalokiteshvara: Negotiating Local and Translocal Forms of Buddhist Authority in Medieval Japan

 

AAR: History of Christianity

Theme: Issues in Early Christianity

Presiding: Craig Clarkson, Baylor University

 

11:00      Lourdes Yajaira Rincón, Xavier University

Apostasy in the Patristic Age: An Analysis of Social Deviance in Early Christianity

 

11:30      Jangho Jo, Baylor University

                Augustine’s Missionary Attitude toward Rome

 

12:00      Scott Rushing, Baylor University

Champions of Nicene Orthodoxy: The Desert Fathers in the Ecclesiastical Histories of Sacrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret

 

AAR: Philosophy of Religion and Theology

Theme: Interpretation and Salvation

Presiding: Dan Stiver, Hardin-Simmons University

 

11:00      Scott Rushing, Baylor University

Benedictus Qui Venis: Revealing the Eschatological Beatrice in the Purgatorio

 

11:20      Justin D. Klassen, Austin College

                Strange Realism: Christian Poetics and the Intimacy of Creation

 

11:40      David Nydegger, Baylor University

Preaching Predestination: The Pastoral Dimension of Augustine’s Thought on Predestination

 

12:00      Mary Moorman Armstrong, Southern Methodist University

Merit Extrinsic and Vicarious: The Indulgence Intuition in Contemporary Protestant Soteriology