MAJOR SPEAKERS 2006

 

SATURDAY, August 5

 Presidential  Address: John C. Endres, S.J., Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley

“The Spiritual Vision of Chronicles: Whole-hearted, Joy-filled Worship of God”

 

SUNDAY, August 6th

Simultaneous Session

Ralph Klein, Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago

Seeing the Pentateuch:  Reading the Text Through the Eyes of Artists

 

            Mary Margaret Pazdan, O.P., Aquinas Institute of Theology

Hermeneutics and Homiletics: Partners in the Dance.

 

General Session

Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, University of California at Los Angeles

“The Discovery of Urkesh:  At the Wellsprings of Hurrian Civilization and Its Echo in the Bible”

 

MONDAY, August 7th

Simultaneous Sessions

Chris Franke, College of St. Catherine

“`To what shall I compare (or not compare) thee?’: Disturbing images of God in Isaiah 40-66”

 

Bruce Malina, Creighton University

“Social Science Interpretation of the New Testament: Acquisitions and Prospects”

 

General Session

Sandra Schneiders, I.H. M., Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley

“Raising the New Temple of His Body: John 20:19-23 and Johannine Ecclesiology”

 

TUESDAY, August 8th

Simultaneous Session

Fr. Justin Taylor,S.M., Ecole Biblique et Archeologique  Francaise
“The Bible in its Traditions, a New Project from the Ecole Biblique” 
 

Paul Danove, Villanova University

“The Characterization of the Son of Man and Jesus' Disciples in Mark:  A Corrective Christology for a Corrective Anthropology”