Sessions and Papers related to Johannine Literature
presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
San Antonio, Texas - November 20-23, 2004

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Sessions Sponsored by
the Johannine Literature Section:

Adele Reinhartz, Wilfrid Laurier University, Panelist (15 min)
Colleen M. Conway, Seton Hall University, Panelist (15 min)
Dorothy Lee, United Faculty of Theology, Milbourne, Panelist (15 min)
Jean-Pierre Ruiz, St. John's University, Panelist (15 min)

Break (10 min)
Francis J. Moloney, Catholic University of America, Respondent (15 min)

S23-9: Johannine Literature Section (Tuesday, Nov. 23, 9:00 - 11:30 AM; NEW ROOM: Salon J - Marriott Rivercenter)

Open Session: Submitted Papers

Presiding: Dorothy Lee, United Faculty of Theology, Milbourne

Catherine Playoust, Harvard Divinity School
“Lord, Why Can’t I Follow You Now?” The Ascension of Jesus and Believers’ Ascents in the Fourth Gospel (25 min)

Jaime Clark-Soles, Perkins School of Theology
Death and Afterlife in the Fourth Gospel (25 min)

Tat-Siong Benny Liew, Chicago Theological Seminary
Revealing Closet: Cross-examining John's Engendering and Transgendering Word (25 min)

Regina Plunkett-Dowling, Fordham University
"Why Do You Hide Your Face?" Jesus and Lamentation Tradition in John 11:1–44 (25 min)

Stan Harstine, Friends University
"Un-Doubting" Thomas: Recognition Scenes in the Ancient World (25 min)

Papers related to Johannine Literature in Other Program Units:

S20-12: New Testament Textual Criticism (Saturday, Nov. 20, 9:00 - 11:30 AM; Room #215 - San Antonio Convention Center)
Theme: Digital Editions of the Gospel of John (This session is devoted to three digital scholarly projects on John prepared at the Univeristy of Birmingham: the Byzantine Text Edition; the Principio Project; and the Verbum Project. Presenters include Jon Balserak, Philip Burton and Ulrich Schmid.)

Michael W. Holmes, Bethel University, Presiding
David Parker, Bruce Morrill, University of Birmingham, Roderic L. Mullen and Hugh Houghton

S20-14: Psychology and Biblical Studies (Saturday, Nov. 20, 9:00 - 11:30 AM; Room #208 - San Antonio Convention Center)

Paul N. Anderson, George Fox University - Antichristic Errors...and Errors of the Johannine Antichrists

S20-60: Jesus Traditions, Gospels and Negotiating the Roman Imperial World (Saturday, Nov. 20, 1:00 - 3:30 PM; Room #214A - San Antonio Convention Center)

Jonathan Pennington, University of St. Andrews - The Kingdom of Heaven against All Earthly Kingdoms
Gerhard van den Heever, University of South Africa - Reconceptualizing Christian Origins as Mirroring Roman Imperial Ideology

S20-62: New Testament Textual Criticism (Saturday, Nov. 20, 1:00 - 3:30 PM; Room #214B - San Antonio Convention Center)

Jennifer Knust, College of the Holy Cross - Early Christian Rewriting and the History of the Pericope Adulterae

S20-66: Recent Uses of Theory in Latino/a Hermeneutics and Teaching of the Bible (Saturday, Nov. 20, 1:00 - 3:30 PM; Salon C - Marriott Rivercenter)

Leticia Guardiola-Saenz, Drew University - Jesus the Border-crosser: A Postcolonial Representation from John’s Gospel

S21-16: John Jesus History Consultation (Sunday, Nov. 21, 9:00 - 11:30 AM; Room #214A - San Antonio Convention Center)
Theme: History, Tradition, Theology: The Challenge of the Johannine Literature (click here for full program)

S21-106: Bible in Ancient and Modern Media (Sunday, Nov. 21, 4:00 - 6:30 PM; Room #005 - San Antonio Convention Center)
This session will be devoted to two recent Jesus films, "The Gospel of John" (Visual Bible International), and "The Passion of the Christ" (Newmarket Films/Icon Distribution). After papers critiquing both films, there will be a panel discussion of the role of scholars in the production of commercial films based on the Bible, with particular attention to the problem of anti-Semitism in the Gospels.

Arthur J. Dewey, Xavier University, Presiding

Bernard Brandon Scott, Phillips Theological Seminary - Review of the Film, "The Gospel of John"
Jo-Ann A. Brant, Goshen College - Camera as Character in Philip Saville’s “The Gospel of John”
Seth Sanders, University of Chicago - The Word's Self-Portrait in Blood: The Language Ideology of Mel Gibson's Passion and the Languages of First-Century C.E. Palestine
William Sanger Campbell, Columbia Theological Seminary - The Gospel According to Mel: Reading Gibson Reading "The Passion of the Christ"

Panel on "John" and "The Passion"
Charles Hedrick, Southwest Missouri State University, Panelist
Carolyn Osiek, Texas Christian University, Panelist
Alan Segal, Barnard College, Columbia University, Panelist
Mary Boys, Union Theological Seminary, Panelist
Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University, Panelist
Paula Fredriksen, Boston University, Panelist

S21-125: Semiotics and Exegesis (Sunday, Nov. 21, 4:00 - 6:30 PM; Room #006B - San Antonio Convention Center)

Jesper Tang Nielsen, University of Copenhagen - The Secondness of the Fourth Gospel

S22-15: Late Antiquity in Interdisciplinary Perspective (Monday, Nov. 22, 9:00 - 11:30 AM; Room #006C - San Antonio Convention Center)

Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean, Roanoke College - Heroic Epiphany and Eros in the Johannine Farewell Discourse

S22-22: Philo of Alexandria (Monday, Nov. 22, 9:00 - 11:30 AM; Room #214A - San Antonio Convention Center)

Harold W. Attridge, Yale University - Philo and John: Two Riffs on One Logos?

Call for Papers (from December 2003)

Three sessions are planned:

One session will feature a panel review of Raymond E. Brown's and Francis J. Moloney's book, Introduction to the Gospel of John, for which participants have already been invited.

The second session, co-sponsored with the Bible in Ancient and Modern Media, will focus on the films, The Gospel of John (Visual Bible International, Inc.) and The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson).
Preference will be given to proposals for papers addressing the role of scholars in the production of films and/or the challenges of handling the anti-Judaism of the gospels in films.

Finally, the third session welcomes paper proposals on all aspects of Johannine literature.

First-time presenters to the section should send their completed paper to the co-chairs:
Adele Reinhartz, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5, (O) 519/884-1970 ext. 3324, (F) 519/884-1020, (E) areinhar@wlu.ca
Francisco Lozada, Jr., University of the Incarnate Word, Box 328, 4301 Broadway, San Antonio, TX 78209, (O) 210/283-5051, (F) 210/829-3880, (E) lozada@universe.uiwtx.edu