MAJOR SPEAKERS 2007

 

SATURDAY, August 4:  Presidential  Address:

Irene Nowell, O.S.B.,  Mount St. Scholastica, Atchison

            “Jesus’ Great-Grandmothers: Matthew’s List and More”

 

SUNDAY, August 5th

Simultaneous Sessions:

Chris Franke, College of St. Catherine

 “To what shall I compare (or not compare) thee?: Disturbing images of God in Second Isaiah”

 Daniel Harrington, S.J., Weston Jesuit School of Theology

 “Spiritual Sacrifices in Early Christianity”

 

General Session:
               John Kaltner, Rhodes College
               Comparative Study of the Bible and the Qur'an Since 9/11”

 

MONDAY, August 6th

Simultaneous Sessions

Craig Morrison, O.Carm.,

“David Sings a Song: The Function of 2 Samuel 22 in the David Narrative”

 

            Pheme Perkins, Boston College

“What Is a Gnostic Gospel?”

 

General Session:

Gary Anderson, University of Notre Dame

Almsgiving and Atonement:  Second Temple Judaism and the Doctrine of  Merits”

 

TUESDAY, August 7th

Simultaneous Session

Katherine Hayes, Seminary of the Immaculate Conception

“A Spirit of Deep Sleep’: Divinely Induced Delusion in the Book of Isaiah

 

Robert A. Kugler, Lewis & Clark College

“ Negotiating the Hegemony of Pluralism Then and Now: Taking Lessons from the Jews of Ptolemaic Egypt”