2017 HBU Theology Conference Schedule

The schedule for the upcoming 2017 Theology Conference at Houston Baptist University (March 2-4) has been posted. The theme is on the canon and formation of the Bible: "How the Bible Came into Being." My paper will be "The Ending of Mark as a Canonical Crisis" (see the abstract here) and, DV, will be presented on Friday (March 3) in the 11:00 am session. I enjoyed the conference last year at HBU and look forward to it this year.

Conference schedule:

Thursday (March 2)
7:30pm	Plenary Lecture 1 (Belin Chapel)
	James Charlesworth: “New Ways of Looking at Sacred Texts Regarded as ‘Apocryphal’ or ‘Pseudepigraphical’”
Friday (March 3)
9:30-10:30	Session 1a Randy Richards – “Honor/Shame, Plagiarism and Publishing the Gospels Anonymously” Douglas Estes – “Why a Fourth Gospel? A Counterfactual Look at the Need for a ‘Spiritual Gospel’” Session 1b Garet D Robinson – “Thank God for Heretics? Evaluating the Influence of Heterodoxical Movements on the Early Formation of the Christian Scriptural Canon” Adam Harwood – “Weighing the Books: A Model for Evaluating Competing Canonical Traditions”
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30	Session 2a Christopher Atkins – “On the Canonical Discussion of The Shepherd of Hermas in the Patristic Era” Jeremiah Bailey – “The Canon in Clement and Clement in the Canon: 1 Clement as Receiver of the New Testament and as Candidate for Inclusion” John D. Meade – “‘Canon’ Terminology of Epiphanius of Salamis” Session 2b Jeffrey T. Riddle – “The Ending of Mark as a Canonical Crisis” Thomas G. Doughty, Jr. – “The New Testament Canon as Tradition and Implications for Theological Method” Nathan Hays – “Genesis 1–3 as Orientation to the Canon”
12:30	Lunch
2:30-3:30	Session 3a Mark Bendall – “The Ethiopian Canon” Rex D. Butler – “Sacred Writings in Perpetua’s Diary” Session 3b Randy Hatchett – TBA Jordan Barrett – “A Theological Account of Canonization”
3:30-4:00	Coffee Break
4:00-5:00	Session 4a Josh Pinkston – “Creating Resonance: The Biblical Canon as Intertext with Jonah as a Case Study”Jonathan Patterson – “The yom yhwh of Zephaniah and the Innertextual Relationship with the Book of the Twelve” Session 4b Charles A. Sommer – ““To Make the Hands Unclean”: The Rabbinic Understanding of CanonTimothy E.G. Bartel – “The Sweetened List: The Strange Case of St. Gregory Nazianzen’s Poem on the Biblical Canon”
5:00	Dinner
7:30	Plenary Lecture 2 (Belin Chapel)
	Lee McDonald “Why and When Was Scripture Written? Looking at the Old Testament Writings”
Saturday (March 4)
6:30 PM	Plenary Lectures 3 & 4 (held at Lanier Theological Library*)
	James Charlesworth “The Theological Value of the ‘Rejected Texts’ and Dead Sea Scrolls for Understanding Jesus”
	Lee McDonald “Why and When Was Scripture Written? Looking at the New Testament Writings”

JTR