Scripture and Theology Colloquium_May2023: Full Schedule

8:45am EDT

Registration

Friday May 5, 2023 8:45am - 9:30am EDT

Registration

9:30am EDT

Welcome

Speakers

Mark Elliott

Professorial Professor, Wycliffe College

Mark W Elliott was schooled in Glasgow. For university he went to read Law at Oxford, then he studied Divinity at Aberdeen and gained his PhD in Patristics at Cambridge University. He then taught at the universities of Nottingham, Liverpool Hope and St Andrews (from 2003-18) and is... Read More →

Friday May 5, 2023 9:30am - 9:40am EDT
Great Hall

Plenary

9:45am EDT

Apocalypse of the Eternal Messiah in Paul

This is the community's confessional response to the preaching of John the Evangelist (like 1 John 1:1-4), packaged around the early intro to John (1:6-8, 15, 19ff.) by John the Elder, after the death of the Beloved Disciple. Some connections with other Christological hymns as Jewish resistance literature against Empire, drawing also on Heraclitus, Philo, Genesis 1 and other Jewish themes.

Speakers

Ann Jervis

Professor Emeritus, New Testament, Wycliffe College, U of T

Ann Jervis received her doctorate in 1990, at which point she joined the faculty at Wycliffe College, first as a lecturer, then as Assistant and Associate Professor. In 2001 she was made a Full Professor of New Testament. Ann is cross-appointed to the Department for the Study of Religion... Read More →

Friday May 5, 2023 9:45am - 10:40am EDT
Great Hall

Plenary

10:40am EDT

Refreshment Break

Friday May 5, 2023 10:40am - 11:00am EDT
Sheraton Hall

Breaks and Meals

11:00am EDT

Sequencing Paul's Apocalyptic DNA

Speakers

Jamie Davies

Tutor of New Testament and Director of Research at Trinity College, Bristol, UK, Trinity College, UK

Jamie Davies (PhD, St Andrews) is Tutor of New Testament and Director of Research at Trinity College, Bristol (UK). His research largely concerns apocalyptic thought in the New Testament and other Second Temple Jewish and Christian literature, with a particular focus on the letters... Read More →

Friday May 5, 2023 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Great Hall

Plenary

12:00pm EDT

Jesus Christ, the Heart of Paul's Apocalyptic Gospel

Speakers

Susan Eastman

Associate Research Professor Emerita of New Testament, Duke Divinity School

Susan Eastman is Associate Research Professor Emerita of New Testament at Duke Divinity School. Ordained in the Episcopal Church, she served parishes in New York City, Alaska, Oregon, and Pennsylvania prior to coming to Duke. Her research explores the formation and transformation... Read More →

Friday May 5, 2023 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Great Hall

Plenary

1:00pm EDT

Lunch

Friday May 5, 2023 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Sheraton Hall

Breaks and Meals

2:00pm EDT

The Mystery of Lawlessness and the Day of the Lord: Lessons from 1 &2 Thessalonians

Speakers

Douglas Farrow

Professor of Theology and Ethics at McGill University, McGill University

Douglas Farrow is Professor of Theology and Ethics at McGill University in Montreal and sometime holder of the Kennedy Smith Chair in Catholic Studies. He received his PhD from King’s College London and taught there before returning to Canada in 1998. He works in historical and... Read More →

Friday May 5, 2023 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Great Hall

Plenary

3:00pm EDT

Hastening the Awakening: Paul's Messianic Political Theology

Speakers

Travis Kroeker

Professor in the Department of Religious Studies

Travis Kroeker (PhD, University of Chicago) is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and member of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition at McMaster University (Hamilton ON), where he teaches and publishes in the areas of political theology, ethics, literature... Read More →

Friday May 5, 2023 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Great Hall

Plenary