Update on Planning the SBL Regional Conference

As many of you know, I'm currently the Regional Coordinator for the Mid-Atlantic Region of the Society of Biblical Literature. Our conference is coming up March 1-2, and you are all invited to attend (click here for details).

I've been spending a lot of time this past week going over abstracts and mapping out a rough program. So far the main components of the program are shaping up as follows:

SBL Plenary: Mark Goodacre
SBL Presidential talk: A. Katherine Grieb

Independent Sessions:
DTR History / Former Prophets
Latter Prophets
Israelite and Jewish Wisdom
Apocalypticism
History of Scriptural Interpretation
Sexuality/Gender and the First Testament
The Gospels, John, and Acts
NT Epistolary Scriptures
Topics and Issues in Christology
Student Panel on the Historical Jesus