Evening Plenary Sessions--2009

Saturday: Presidential Address, Kathleen M. O’Connor, Columbia School of Theology

"Let All the People Praise You: Biblical Studies and a Heremenutics of Hunger”

Sunday: Panel Discussion:

“‘The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church’: Responses to the Bishops’ Synod”

Moderator: Emil A. Wcela, Auxiliary Bishop of Rockville Centre (ret.)

Panelists:

Daniel J. Harrington, S.J., Boston College School of Theology and Ministry

Mary L. Coloe, P.B.V.M., Australian Catholic University

James C. Okoye, C.S.Sp., Catholic Theological Union

Jean-Pierre Ruiz, St. John’s University, New York

Monday: Margaret M. Mitchell, University of Chicago Divinity School,

“The Corinthian Correspondence and the Birth of Christian Hermeneutics”

Simultaneous Sessions on Sunday:

Corinne L. Carvalho, University of St. Thomas,

"Seeing, Supping, and Singing: Temple Texts as Aesthetic Experience"

John P. Meier, University of Notre Dame,

“Surprises from Law and Love (Vol. 4 of A Marginal Jew)”

Simultaneous Sessions on Monday:

Stephen D. Ryan, O.P., Dominican House of Studies

“The Texts of the Old Testament and the Place of the Septuagint in the Church”

Gregory Tatum, O.P., Ecole Biblique

“‘To the Jew First’ (Rom 1:16): Paul’s Defense of Jewish Privilege”

Simultaneous Sessions on Tuesday:

Anne-Marie Kitz, Kenrick School of Theology

“Eating Curses”

Peter Spitaler, Villanova University,

(title to be announced)