American Academy of Religion Society of Biblical Literature American Schools of Oriental Research Southeastern Regional Meeting 2005 March 11-13, 2005 Adam’s Mark Hotel Winston-Salem, NC FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 11 12:00 noon-4:00 pm Workshop on Service Learning Conveners: Joe Favazza and Michael McCain, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion 2:00-8:00 pm Registration Book Exhibits 4:00-5:30 pm Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion AAR/SBL/ASOR/SE Joint Executive Committee FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 11 6:00-8:00 pm SBL/ASOR: Archaeology and the Ancient World I/New Testament I (joint session) Theme: Death and Burial in the Ancient World Jim Pace, Elon University, Presiding Christopher B. Hays, Emory University Chirps from the Dust: The Affliction of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4:30 in its ANE Context F. Scott Spencer, Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond “Let the Dean Bury Their Dead” and other Imperious Calls to Follow Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels Michelle Clark, Mississippi State University Ancestor Worship, Israelites, and the Late Bronze/Iron Ages AAR: Arts, Literature and Religion I Theme: Writing Religious Meaning Carolyn M. Medine, University of Georgia, Presiding Drewry Morris, Auburn University Cotton Mather's French Treatise Une Grande Voix du Ciel Elizabeth Tanner, University of Georgia A Teche(-nique) of Reading: Working Toward Writing as Revealing SBL: Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament I Theme: Recent Introductory Textbooks of the Hebrew Bible: the Authors’ Perspectives Bryan Bibb, Furman University, Presiding Barry L. Bandstra, Hope College Reading the Old Testament: an Introduction to the Hebrew Bible Marti J. Steussy, Christian Theological Seminary (editor) Chalice Introduction to the Old Testament Don C. Benjamin, Arizona State University The Old Testament Story: an Introduction AAR: History of Christianity I Richard Penaskovic, Auburn University, Presiding Bernadette McNary-Zak, Rhodes College I Can See Clearly Now: The Gift of Discernment in the Teachings of Abba Ammonas Jordan Smith, Florida State University The Martyr and Ascetic as the Bridegroom and Bride in Origen’s Thought Ulrike Wiethaus, Wake Forest University Psychograms of Space: Mapping Mystical Experience in the Works of Gertrud of Helfta (12561301/02) Business Meeting AAR: History of Religions I Theme: Embodied Religious Experience in South Asia Brian K. Pennington, Maryville College, Presiding Katherine C. Zubko, Emory University Embodying Bhakti Rasa in Bharata Natyam: An Indian-Christian Interpretation of Gayatri Mantra through Dance David Norton Need, Duke University Rendering the Body: Etherealization and Body Language in Vedic Literature Craig Danielson, University of Virginia Embodiment, Ritual, and Rebounding Violence in Śaiva Siddhānta AAR: Philosophy of Religion and Theology I Theme: Science, Religion, and Ethics I George W. Shields, Kentucky State University, Presiding David K. Goodin, McGill University The Nature of Faith: A Defense of Rationalist Knowledge in an Age of Scientific Knowledge Lucas F. Johnston, University of Florida The Quest of Purpose: The Use and Abuse of Evolutionary Theory in Theology Steven A. Benko, Independent Scholar Complexity and Ethics AAR: Religion, Ethics, and Society I and Women and Religion I (joint session) Theme: Body, Matter, and Place I Margaret P. Aymer, Interdenominational Theological Center, Presiding Amy Levad, Emory University The Lived Christian Body: Appropriating Iris Marion Young for Feminist Christian Ethics Gavin Van Horn, University of Florida Wild Women and Men: Embodiment, Religion, and Wilderness Grace Y. Kao, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Feminist (In)consistency in the Treatment of Bodies: Fetal, Female, and Non-Human Animal Emily Askew, Carroll College Africa as Body, Self and Landscape in African Women’s Theology 8:15-9:30 pm AAR/SBL/ASOR: Plenary Session Tina Pippin, Agnes Scott College, and Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford, McAfee School of Theology, Presiding Announcements of Student Awards 2 Presidential Addresses AAR: Corrie Norman, Converse College Foodie Faith: Spiritual Hunger in Gourmet America SBL: Joel B. Green, Asbury Theological Seminary Boorish Dolts at the City Center: Pentecost, Babel, and the Shaping of Christian Community (Acts 2:1-13) 9:30-11:00 pm Conference Reception SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 12 7:30-8:45 am AAR/SBL: Women’s Caucus Religious Studies Breakfast Monica A. Coleman, Bennett College, and Vicki Phillips, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Presiding Business Meeting Department Chairs’ Breakfast Herbert Burhenn, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Presiding 8:00 am–6:00 pm Registration/Book Exhibits 9:00-10:45 am AAR: Academic Study of Religion and Pedagogy Jennifer Manlowe, University of West Georgia, Presiding Peter Judge Winthrop, University of South Carolina Teaching a Writing Intensive Course in Religious Studies Jennifer Eaton, Vanderbilt University Sunday School Students in Southern College Classrooms: Developing Critical Thinking, Comparative Methods, and Compassion in a World Religions Course Thomas B. Ellis, University of South Carolina Of “and” and “of”: The Politics of Grammar and the Study of Religion Russell Kirkland, University of Georgia Teaching Taoism in the 21st-Century World Religions Course AAR: African American Religion I Theme: Myths, Legacy, Race, and Religion Sandy D. Martin, University of Georgia, Presiding Sylvester A. Johnson, Florida A&M University The Myth of Ham and the Problem of History in 19th-Century African American Christianity Ronald B. Neal, Claflin University Religion, Education, and Public Leadership: Benjamin Mays and the Legacy of the Brown Era Respondent: Sandy D. Martin, University of Georgia SBL/ASOR: Archaeology and the Ancient World II Theme: Texts, Scribes, and Epigraphy in Ancient Israel Milton C. Moreland, Rhodes College, Presiding Christopher A. Rollston and Heather Dana Davis Parker, Emmanuel School of Religion Southern Levantine Scribal Traditions: The Ammonite Epigraphs Ryan Byrne, Rhodes College The Business End of the Scribe in Iron Age Israel 3 Mark A. Chancey, Southern Methodist University Written Languages, Oral Languages, and the “Epigraphic Habit” in Ancient Galilee Jason Kalman, McGill University Writing Between the Lines: Rabbinic Citations and Recollection of the Hebrew Bible AAR: Arts, Literature, and Religion II Theme: Embodying Peace Amy Flynn, University of Georgia, Presiding John Randolph LeBlanc, University of Texas at Tyler, and Carolyn M. Medine, University of Georgia Telling Stories and Making Peace: Martin Luther King’s Stride Toward Freedom and Desmond Tutu and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Jordan Rothacker, University of Georgia The Virgin of Guadalupe: Guerilla Cultural Warfare and the Maintenance of Peace Lia Mallini, University of Georgia Creating a New Body of Truth in Israel Katherine Daley, University of Georgia Who Would Jesus Bomb?: Christian Narrative, Identity, Violence, and Walker Wink’s Work on Jesus’ Third Way SBL: Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament II Theme: Recent Introductory Textbooks of the Hebrew Bible: the Reviewers’ Perspectives Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford, McAfee School of Theology, Presiding Tim Crawford, Bluefield College Reading the Old Testament: an Introduction to the Hebrew Bible Brian Alderman, Emory University Chalice Introduction to the Old Testament Joseph Scrivner, Samford University The Old Testament Story: an Introduction AAR: History of Christianity II Bernadette McNary-Zak, Rhodes College, Presiding John Charles Duffy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Mark Noll’s God: The Theology and Politics of Evangelical Historiography Richard Penaskovic, Auburn University Martin Luther as Spiritual Director Mikhail M. Kulakov, Dialogue Foundation The Infinite Diversity of Persons: Individual Personality in the Ascetical Theology of St. Feofan the Recluse (1815-1894) SBL: New Testament II Theme: Theological and Philosophical Studies Emily Cheney, Athens, Georgia, Presiding C. Kavin Rowe, Duke University Acts 2:36 and the Gospel of Luke: Christological Continuity? Ruben Dupertais, Centre College The Rhetorical Function of Philosophical Imagery in Acts James W. Barker, Vanderbilt University Repetition and Revelation 12: Toward a Non-Teleological Reading of Revelation AAR: Philosophy of Religion and Theology II Theme: Faith, Paradox, and Subjectivity George W. Shields, Kentucky State University, Presiding 4 Christy Flanagan, Florida State University The Dynamics of Alterity and Subjectivity in The City of God Nathan Jennings, University of Virginia The Paradox of the Eschaton in the Life of the Saint: De Lubac’s Eschatology of Anagogy Derek Malone-France, Duke University Faith, Tolerance, and Anxiety 11:00 am-12:00 noon Plenary Session Tina Pippin, Agnes Scott College, Presiding Irene Monroe, Harvard University A Discourse of Suspicion: Que(e)rying the Exodus Rhetoric of the Endangered Black Man in Black Liberationist Theologies SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 12 1:15-1:50 pm AAR/SBL/ASOR/SE (SECSOR): Joint Business Meeting AAR/SE, SBL/SE, and ASOR/SE Business Meetings (immediately following) All members of the societies are invited. 2:00-3:45 pm AAR:African American Religion II and Arts, Literature, and Religion III (joint session) Theme: The Body in Biblical Parable and Womanist Christology Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia, Presiding Margaret Aymer, Interdenominational Theological Center Examining the Body: Frederick Douglass and the Parable of the Good Samaritan C. L. Nash, University of Edinburgh Reconstructing the Cult of True Womanhood: A Christological Womanist Response Kathleen O’Connor, University of South Florida African-American Islam and Rap: Five Percent Teachings on Supreme Mathematics Respondent: Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia AAR/SBL: American Biblical Hermeneutics and Religion, Ethics, and Society II (joint session) Theme: Environmental Ethics Laura Stivers, Pfeiffer University, Presiding Panelists: Paul J. Medeiros, University of North Carolina at Wilmington Teaching Environmental Ethics Samuel Murrell, University of North Carolina at Wilmington Roots Ethics: A Challenge of Responsibility from Communities of Jah Rebecca Todd Peters, Elon University Teaching Environmental Ethics as Transformative Praxis Tina Pippin, Agnes Scott College Nuclear Apocalypse SBL/ASOR: Archaeology and the Ancient World III Theme: Presidential Address Byron R. McCane, Wofford College, Presiding Jim Pace, Elon University, President, ASOR/SE What We Can Learn from Pottery Respondents: Joe D. Seger and James W. Hardin, Mississippi State University 5 SBL: Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament III Theme: The Deuteronomistic History Don Polaski, College of William and Mary, Presiding Jenna Abel, Vanderbilt University Samson: An Israelite Hero? Matthew Schlimm, Duke University Verifying Divine Regret: 1 Samuel 19:18-24 as Negation of 1 Samuel 10:10-12 J. Dwayne Howell, Campbellsville University Images of a King’s Relationship with His Soldiers: a Character Study in the David Narratives Andrea Ogier, Wake Forest Divinity School Relieving Delilah: Three Women and the Betrayal of Cultural Distinction in Judges 14-16 AAR: History of Judaism I Theme: Second Temple Judaism and Beyond Gabriele Fassbeck, University of Alabama, Presiding Kenneth L. Hanson, University of Central Florida Reproof Before Witnesses: Qumranic Evidence of Ancient Halakha Gabriele Fassbeck, University of Alabama Jubilees’ Patriarchs and Some Religious Guidance for Early Jewish Families David Dault, Vanderbilt University Martin Luther and Saadya Gaon: Two Interpretive Moments SBL: New Testament III Theme: Hearing (All) Voices in New Testament Interpretation: Who’s Speaking and Who’s Listening? B. Diane Wudel, Wake Forest University Divinity School, Presiding Panelists: Michael J. Brown, Candler School of Theology, Emory University Mary F. Foskett, Wake Forest University Daniel M. Patte, Vanderbilt University Emerson Powery, Lee University AAR: Philosophy of Religion and Theology III Theme: Science, Religion, and Ethics II George W. Shields, Kentucky State University, Presiding Kevin O'Brien, Emory University Nature, Morality, and the Environment: E. O. Wilson and James Gustafson on Science and Religion in Ethics Matthew W. Charlton, Vanderbilt University and Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Technology and the End of Grace Jeffrey Pugh, Elon University The Space Between: Ancient Wisdom for a Scientific World AAR: Religion in America I Theme: The Other Religious America Lawrence Snyder, Western Kentucky University, Presiding Panelists: Kerry Mitchell, College of Charleston Managing Spirituality: Public Religion in National Parks Cyrus Luhr, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 6 Representations of Vedanta Hinduism at Greenacre and the Development of New Thought, 18941913 Kenny Smith, Georgia State University Key Social and Economic Factors in the Successful Integration of a Wiccan Coven in a Potentially Hostile Community Respondent: Julie Byrne, Duke University 4:00-5:30 pm AAR: Arts, Literature, and Religion III Theme: Christianity and Popular Culture David C. McDuffie, University of Georgia, Presiding W. David Hall, Centre College Who’s Left Behind?: Christian Apocalypticism in Contemporary Culture Debates D. Gregory Sapp, Mercer University Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ: A New Gospel in Film Conrad Ostwalt, Appalachian State University The Passion of the Christ: The Mortification of the Body and the Sacred Feminine AAR: History of Religions II Theme: Religion, Body, and the State John M. Thompson, Christopher Newport University, Presiding Brett Wilson, Duke University Engaging the Qur’an in Turkey: Ethics of Interpretation among Alevis Jeffrey L. Richey, Berea College I, Robot: The Body as Machine in the Liezi Zeff Bjerken, College of Charleston Re-Placing Bodies into a Utopian Space: Mandalas, Monarchs, and the Mission Civilisatrice in Buddhist Tibet SBL: New Testament IV Theme: Studies in the Gospel of Luke F. Scott Spencer, Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, Presiding Brittany E. Wilson, Duke University Women in Ministry: Martha and Mary in Luke 10:38-42 Rohun Park, Vanderbilt University Revisiting the Parable of the Prodigal Son for Decolonization: Luke’s Re- configuration of oikos in 15:11-32 Maria Mayo Robbins, Vanderbilt University “Father forgive them,” for I Cannot: Reading Luke 23:34 as a Palliative for Victims of Violence AAR: Philosophy of Religion and Theology IV Theme: Process Philosophy of Religion and Theology George W. Shields, Kentucky State University, Presiding Lewis S. Ford, Old Dominion University On Locating God with Respect to Spacetime Mark S. Medley, Campbellsville University Knowing the Triune God: The Practice of Participating in God’s Life George W. Shields, Kentucky State University On the Current Status of Process Philosophy and Theology AAR: Religion, Ethics, and Society III Theme: Sexual Ethics Darla Schumm, Hollins University, Presiding 7 Howell Williams, Florida State University “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin”: The Ex-Gay Debate and Religious Hatred Anthony Michael Petro, Emory University Law School Reconciling Agency: Christians, Queers, and the Dilemma of Hate Speech Elizabeth A. Barre, Florida State University How Adam Knew Eve: Pleasures of the Body and Pleasures of Knowledge in the Sexual Ethics of Thomas Aquinas (AV request: overhead projector and screen) Edwin Bagley, Wingate University Ambiguity and Choice in Middlesex AAR: Religion in America II Theme: Strategic Uses of Religion in Southern Race Politics James P. Byrd, Jr., Vanderbilt Divinity School, Presiding Joe Coker, Princeton Theological Seminary From “Brothers in Black” to “Black Beasts”: Prohibition and the Decline of Racial Attitudes among Southern White Evangelicals, 1880-1915 Douglas Thompson, Mercer University The Most Segregated Hour Andrew Stern, Emory University Catholic-Protestant Relations in the Antebellum South Respondent: Nancy Hardesty, Clemson University Business Session AAR/SBL: Undergraduate Papers I Theme: Authoritative Voices Bernadette McNary-Zak, Rhodes College, Presiding Jeff Shade, Wingate University The Immediate Absolute: Kierkegaard and Children’s Bibles Erin Keys, Elon University The Practical Impressions of Feminist Theology on the Life and Thought of the Christian Church Daniel Tidwell, Lee University Art as Metaphor for Theology in the Voice of the Other John Penniman, Elon University The Politics of Reconciliation: A Reassessment of Political Theology 5:30-7:30 pm Reception hosted by Wake Forest University Sawtooth Center for the Visual Arts SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 13 7:00-8:15 am Section Chairs’ Breakfast George Shields, Kentucky State University, and Emerson Powery, Lee University, Presiding 8:00-11:00 am Registration/Book Exhibits 8:30-10:15 am SBL/ASOR: Archaeology and the Ancient World IV Theme: Archaeology and the Biblical World Joe D. Seger, Mississippi State University, Presiding Megan Bishop Moore, Emory University Objectivity and Questions of Evidence for Interpreting Archaeology and Writing History 8 Ben Reynolds, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill What Has Jericho to Do with Qumran? Steven H. Werlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The 2004 Excavations in the Roman Fort at Yotvata, Israel Ingrid E. Lilly, Emory University Habitus and the Theory of Practice: Moving Beyond Frederik Barth Towards Defining Ethnicity in the Iron I Highlands Paul F. Jacobs, Mississippi State University Archiving as Research Design SBL: Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament IV Theme: The Writings Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford, McAfee School of Theology, Presiding Matthew Goff, Georgia Southern University Can the Qumran Psalms Scroll Shed Light on the Issue of Biblical “Wisdom Psalms”? Joseph Scrivner, Samford University Composition and Theology in Proverbs 1-9 Cameron Howard, Emory University Border Crossing: Narrative Functions of Eunuchs in the Book of Esther Chris Paris, Vanderbilt University Searching for a Constant in Lamentations SBL: New Testament V Theme: Literary Studies in the Gospels Richard Vinson, Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, Presiding Heather McMurray, Vanderbilt University Plotting Herod: Imitating Saul Traditions in the Infancy Narrative of Matthew Gregg Morrison, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University Revisiting Mark 9:1: The Hinge of Mark’s Central Section Susan E. Hylen, Emory University The Character of “the Jews” in John AAR: Philosophy of Religion and Theology V Theme: Religious Movements and Religious Pluralism George W. Shields, Kentucky State University, Presiding Kip Eliola, Emmanuel School of Religion The Holy Spirit and African Indigenous Churches Kenny Smith, Georgia State University Stories and Signals in Alternative Religious Movements Quentin Pearson III, Wake Forest University Upayakausalya: Upaya and Its Function in Religious Pluralism AAR: Religion, Ethics, and Society IV Theme: Body, Matter, and Place II Rebecca Todd Peters, Elon Univeristy, Presiding Julie Meadows, Emory University Many Worse Things to Know: The Ethics of Knowledge in Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain Matthew Bersagel Braley and Katy E. Shrout, Emory University Protest as Religious Practice in the Global Justice Movement Laura Stivers, Pfeiffer University Placeless Bodies of Economic Globalization Ted A. Smith, Emory University Finney’s Eyes: Practices of Sincerity and the Authority of Celebrity 9 AAR: Religion in America III Theme: Public Religion: Shaping Past and Present America Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Panelists: Jennifer Graber, Duke University Discipline, Not Punish: American Christians and the Advent of the Prison Anne Blue Wills, Davidson College These Confused States: American Civil Religion and American Christianity in the 2004 Presidential Election Jason Bivins, North Carolina State University Fear and Identity in Conservative Evangelical Politics Respondent: David R. Bains, Samford University AAR: Women and Religion II Theme: (Pro) Creative Discourse Heather Nicholson, Florida State University, and Monica A. Coleman, Bennett College, Presiding Troy Wheelhouse, Interdenominational Theological Center Adam Knew Eve: A Text of Terror? Emily A. Holmes, Emory University Flesh Made Word: Tropes of Natality in Mystical Écriture Feminine Joshua Braley, Vanderbilt University A Comparative Study of Different Races and Faiths: The Scientific Study of Religion and Early Feminist Theology in The Woman’s Bible Amy Levad, Emory University The Lived Christian Body: Appropriating Iris Marion Young for Christian Feminist Ethics Respondent: Tina Pippin, Agnes Scott College Business Session 10:30 am-12:15 pm AAR: Arts, Literature, and Religion IV Theme: Shaping Faith Meizhu Du, University of Georgia, Presiding Melissa Johnston-Barrett, Emory University Suffering and Polyphony in Schleiermacher’s Christmas Eve: A Dialogue John Mazaheri, Auburn University Illusion and Faith in the Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton Mary Ellen O'Donnell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Children of Ceremony": Reverent and Sinful Bodies in American Catholic Memoirs Wesley Barker, Emory University To Abelard, the Philosopher, Heloise, Lover of Wisdom: Reading Erotic Difference AAR: History of Judaism II Theme: Jewish Thinkers and Doers Gilya G. Schmidt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Presiding Zion Zohar, Florida International University Peace as a Divine Flow ("Shefa") in Jewish Mysticism: The Case of the Book of the Zohar Jerome E. Copulsky, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Leo Strauss, Gershom Scholem, and the Theological-Political Predicament of Modern Judaism Gilya G. Schmidt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville The Localization of Rural Southern German Jews in the Nineteenth Century Business Meeting AAR: History of Religions III 10 Theme: Personal Transformation and Radical Embodiment Jeffrey L. Richey, Berea College, Presiding David Nikkel, University of North Carolina at Pembroke The Body in Tradition Elijah Siegler, College of Charleston Ambassadors of the Dao: Energy Tourism and the Experience of the Other John P. Thomson, Christopher Newport University Embodying the Dharma: A Close Look at What the Buddha Never Taught SBL: New Testament VI Theme: Pauline Studies Patrick Gray, Rhodes College, Presiding Jeffrey D. Jay, University of Chicago Thinking the Thought of Death With Paul: His Earnestness and Ours Suzanne Watts Henderson, Salem College Taking Liberties with the Text: The Colossians Household Code as Hermeneutical Paradigm Rodrigo Morales, Duke University God, Wisdom, and the Spirit in the Wisdom of Solomon and 1 Corinthians AAR/SBL: Undergraduate Papers II Theme: Embodied Religion Lisa R. Holliday, University of Kentucky, Presiding Elizabeth Dunnam, Rhodes College Christian Asceticism: The Christian Faith in Action Diane E. Curtis, Kennesaw State University Corpus Christi, Sanctus Christi: The Monophysite/Orthodox Battle for the Divinity of the Second Person Ann Marie Leonard, Elon University The Lives of Catholic Workers: Finding Refreshment in a Life Filled with Serving Others Emily Shore, Elon University Finding a Home: Lesbian Women Reconciling Their Sexual Identity with the Church 11