MAR-SBL Registration Now On-Line

On-line registration is now up and running for our upcoming MAR-SBL conference, March 27-28. To go to our registration page, click here. While there, you can also get the information needed to reserve your room at the conference hotel.

Planning the 2008 Mid-Atlantic Regional Society of Biblical Literature Conference

The MAR-SBL board has been working hard on this year's conference. I hope to post a call for papers sometime in the next week or so. Meanwhile, let me at least post the basic details:

This year's conference will be held March 27-28, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, New Jersey. You can view a photo gallery of the hotel by clicking here. To visit the MAR-SBL site, click here.

Participant Index for MAR-SBL Conference

I have just posted the full participant index for our MAR-SBL conference, March 1-2, on-line at our regional WebSpace. Now you do not have to scan the whole program to find where you appear, or where your friend appears! To download the participant index directly (a PDF document), click here.

Complete MAR-SBL Program Now On-Line

I have just posted the full program schedule for our MAR-SBL conference, March 1-2, on-line at our regional WebSpace. To download the schedule directly (a PDF document), click here.
We have also extended the deadline for discount registration to Feb 23rd, and made it available on line (to SBL as well as AAR members). To access on-line registration, click here. Please feel free to post questions using the "comments" function. Thanks!

Recent Updates to MAR-SBL Program

Quite a few missing titles and abstracts have come in over the past few weeks to fill out our program for the Regional SBL Conference in Baltimore this upcoming March 1-2. I've now got the most recent drafts of the program and abstracts posted on our MAR-SBL Web Site. For the most current draft of sessions, click here. For the most current draft of abstracts, click here. (Both of these documents are PDF files.)

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