American Academy of Religion
Society of Biblical Literature
American Schools of Oriental Research
Southeastern Regional Meeting 2010
March 5-7, 2010
Atlanta Marriott Century Center
FRIDAY, March 5
2:00-8:00 pm
Registration Century Foyer
Book Exhibits Century West
1:00-3:00 pm Climbing the Academic Ladder: From Getting the Job to Applying for Tenure
Decatur 1
This is a professional development workshop which fulfills the objectives of the AAR Career
Guide for Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession. This workshop is open to ALL members of the region. Facilitator, Dr. Miguel De la Torre, Iliff School of Theology/Chairperson of the AAR Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities
3:00-6:00 pm Nurturing the Next Generation of Scholars: A Workshop for Students of Color
Considering the Ph.D. Dogwood
In partnership with the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion (
), The Fund for
Theological Education (
) is pleased to host a workshop for students from underrepresented racial and ethnic communities who are enrolled in masters and undergraduate programs and are considering the
Ph.D. in religion, theology or biblical studies Pre-registration is required to participate.
3:00-4:00 pm
Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion
Centennial A
AAR/SBL/ASOR Joint Executive Committee
Rebecca Todd Peters, Elon University, Presiding
4:00-5:00 pm
AAR/SBL/ASOR (SECSOR): Joint Business Meeting
Centennial A
All members of the societies are invited
Rebecca Todd Peters, Elon University, Presiding
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FRIDAY EVENING, March 5
6:00-8:00 pm SESSION I
SBL: Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament I
Brian Alderman, Lee University, Presiding
Centennial A
Brandon J. Simonson, Vanderbilt University
 Was Sarai a nadītum? Examining the Sexuality of Sarai in an Ancient Near Eastern Milieu
Kristen L. Cox, University of Georgia
 Moses and the Motif of Water: From the Nile to the Jordan River
William L. Lyons, Regent University
 The Forgotten Casualty: Children and War in the Hebrew Bible
Joseph F. Scrivner, Samford University
 Wisdom as Cultural Capital: Socioeconomic Interests in Proverbs 1-9
SBL: New Testament I
Theme: New Testament Themes
Mark Proctor, Lee University, Presiding
Centennial B
Alexander Stewart, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Eschatology and Soteriology in 1 Peter
Kevin Larsen, Mid-Atlantic Christian University

Neglected Considerations in Understanding the Structure of the Book of Revelation
Ricky Shinall, Vanderbilt University

One Saturday in Capernaum: Mark’s Gentile Appropriation of the Sabbath
John Daniels, Flagler College

Gossiping Jesus Into Being: The Oral Processing of a Social Personage in the Gospels
AAR/SBL: Bible and Modern Culture I
Theme: Diverse Explorations in Bible and Culture
Finbar Benjamin, Oakwood University, Presiding
Dogwood
Jerry Gladson, Columbia Theological Seminary
 The Deus Absconditus in Lamentations and in Postmodern Life
Jerusha Moses, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education
 Manu tête-à-tête with Martha and Mary: the advantages of applying Hinduism’s stages of life to Luke 10.
38-42
Oliver L. Trimiew, Covenant College
 The Bible and Martin Luther King, Jr.: Reading the Bible as Scripture through the Eyes of Dr.King
Jamie Lynette Brummitt, University of North Carolina-Wilmington
 The Revival of Devotional Catholicism Through the Spread of Devotional Literature and the Doctrines of
Purgatory in Antebelum America.
Respondent: Brian Mooney, Johnson & Wales University
AAR: Constructive Theologies I
Theme: What does Jerusalem have to do with Wall Street?
Emily Askew, Lexington Theological Seminary, Presiding
Centennial C
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Mark Ellingsen, Interdenominational Theological Center
 What Can Theology Do For the Economy? Reminding Americans of Their Sin, Nurturing Their Realism, and Recovering the Founders’ Formulas
Brett McCarty, Duke Divinity School
 Can Calvin Save Capitalism? How Calvin’s Understanding of the Function of Law Can Be Used to
Regulate Wall Street
Joshua R. Brown, Campbell University Divinity School
 Free to Despair: Capitalism, Christian Ethics, and the Virtue of Hope
Tim Eberhart, Vanderbilt University
 Holy Communion, Inclusive Commons: Eating and Drinking in the Gracious Way of Jesus
AAR: Religion in America I
Theme: Religion and Innovation
Peachtree
Isaac Weiner, Georgia State University, Presiding
Daniel C. Dillard, Florida State University

Anxiety and Assurance: American Transcendentalism in the Azores
Emily Clark, Florida State University

Sister Gertrude Morgan: Art, Preaching, Music, and Creative Agency
Kelly Williams, Vanderbilt University

Divine Discipline: The Making of the Oneida Community Membership
Adam Park, Florida State University

XXXianity: A Safe, Non-Pornographic Place to Shop for All Your Christian Sex Toy and Romance Needs
AAR: Black Cultures and the Study of Religion I and Women and Religion I DeKalb
Theme: Intersections: Race, Gender, Religion, and Economics
Ronald B. Neal, Claflin University, Presiding
Albert Wuaku, Florida International University
 “Sakawa”: Using the Internet to Bewitch in Ghana
Monique Moultrie, Vanderbilt University
 Televangelism and Black Women’s Sexuality: A Womanist and Cultural Analysis of Religious Media
Wylin Dassie Wilson, St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Student Center at Auburn University
 The Relationship between Black Religious Experience and Economic Justice: Stephanie Mitchem’s
Spirituality of ‘Longing’ and Challenging the Commodification of Black Religion
Erica R. Kierulf, Union Theological Seminary – PSCE
 Doing the Unexpected: A Womanist Critique of Kara Walker’s Black Paper Silhouettes
Albert R. Walker III, Union Theological Seminary – PSCE
 Building Communal Logos as a Resource for Transformation
AAR: Ethics, Religion, and Society I
Theme: Comparative Religious Ethics
Decatur 2
Seung Hae Yoo-Hess, Candler School of Theology Emory University, Presiding
Craig Kubias, Spartanburg Community College

The Great Recession of 2009 and Comparative Religion: A Teachable Moment
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Jeffrey D. Vickery, Western Carolina University

Baptists and Muslims Together: Religious Liberty in Theory and Practice
Michael Stoltzfus, Valdosta State University

Jesus as Bodhisattva: Moral Theory and Practice
Bina Gupta, University of Missouri Columbia

The Bhagavad Gīta as Virtue Ethics
AAR: Religions of Asia I
Theme: Buddhist Material Religion in Asia
Decatur 1
Pam Winfield, Elon University, presiding
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, University of Alabama
 Stupa Renovation as a Trope of Authority in Asian Societies: Three Case Studies from the Kathmandu
Valley
Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia, University of Alabama
 Embodiments of Sacred and Historical Knowledge: The Hidden History of the Pemayangtse Lhatsun
Namkhai Jigme Statue in the Creation of Sikkimese Buddhism
Warner A. Belanger, III, Georgia College and State University
 Devotional Badges of Merit: Puja and the Cults of Stupas and Images in the Middle Period of Indian
Buddhism
Kerry Lucinda Brown, Virginia Commonwealth University
 Welcoming the Buddhas to Town: Reenacting the Dipankara Jataka at the Patan Samyak Festival
AAR: History of Christianity I
Theme: Early Christianity
Dunwoody 1
Michael Simmons, Auburn University, Presiding
Ryan T. Woods, Emory.
 Providence, Punishment, and Perfection: Clement and Basilides on the Suffering of Martyrs
Annie Tinsley, University of Birmingham, U.K.
 Response to Harold O. Maier’s ‘A Sly Civility – Colossians and Empire’
Jonathan Schwiebert, Lenoir-Rhyne University.
 The Meaninglessness of Baptism
Alan Knox, Southeastern Theological Seminary.

Theological
Sources of Ignatius of Antioch
John Stokes, Auburn University Montgomery
 The Cult of Mithras and the Early Christians: Conflict and Competition in the Second and Third Centuries
Dunwoody 2 AAR/SBL: Method and Theory I
Theme: Undergraduate Work In Method and Theory
Tom Ellis, Appalachian State University, Presiding
Jennifer Eklund, Appalachian State University
 Hungry for the Truth: Christian Dieting Practices in Modern America
Madison Langzton, University of Alabama
 What's in a Name?: The Implications of Identifying a "Martyr"
Alison McCue, Appalachian State University
 No One Knows the Day: The Five Doves Website - Apocalypticism on the Internet
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Aenon Moose, Appalachian State University
 The Vaisnava doctrine of Visnu’s avatara through the lens of Rene Girard’s theory
Mary Owen, Appalachian State University
 An Exploration of Feminist Analysis for Daoist Women
Respondent: Shawn Arthur, Appalachian State University
8:15-9:30 pm
AAR/SBL/ASOR: Plenary Session
Laura Stivers, Pfeiffer University and
Century East
Gail Streete, Rhodes College, Presiding
Announcements of Student Awards
Presidential Addresses:
AAR: Michelle Tooley, Berea College

Beyond the Peace Dividend in Guatemala: Re-membering Women's Bodies
SBL: Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Truth and Fiction: The Talpiyot Tomb in Context
9:30-11:00 pm
Conference Reception
Century Foyer
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 6
7:30-8:45 am
AAR/SBL: Women’s Caucus Religious Studies Breakfast
Margaret Aymer, Interdenominational Theological Seminary and
Robyn Neville, Emory University, Presiding
Business Meeting
Dunwoody 2
8:00 am-6:00 pm
Registration/Book Exhibits
9:00-10:45 am SESSION II
Century West
ASOR/SBL: Archaeology and the Ancient World I
Theme: ASOR Presidential Address
Greg Linton, Johnson Bible College, Presiding
Dogwood
James Riley Strange, Samford University

Economics and the Archaeological Field School: Some Thoughts on the Production and
Consumption of Education in the 21st Century
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SBL: Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament II
Robert Wallace, Shorter College, Presiding
Douglas Watson, Emory University

The Rhetoric of Lament in the Book of Joel
Callie Plunket-Brewton, University of North Alabama
 Aesthetics and Architecture: The Rebuilding of Zion in Isaiah 49-55
Peachtree
Todd Hibbard, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

From Name to Book: Another Look at the Composition of the Book of Isaiah
Jerry Gladson, Columbia Theological Seminary
 The Deus Absconditus in Lamentations and in Postmodern Life
AAR/SBL: Bible and Modern Culture II
Theme: Reading and Interpreting: Words, Events, and People
Lynn Mooney, Art Institute of Charlotte, NC, Presiding
Dunwoody 2
Eric J. Douglass, Randolph-Macon College,
 Reading and Interpreting the Gospels: Ancient Event, Involved Event, New Event
T. Kevin Taylor, Independent Scholar
 Thomas Hardy, the Bible and Modernity
Frederick L. Downing, Valdosta State University
 On the Bible and Modern Culture: Elie Wiesel and the Rise of a Post-Modernist Hermeneutic
N. Samuel Murrell, UNC Wilmington
 Race, love, and Gender in the Song of Songs: Reading Scripture,
Reading Culture, Reading People
Business Meeting
SBL: New Testament II
Theme: The Gospels
Centennial B
Kavin Rowe, Duke University Divinity School, Presiding
James W. Barker, Vanderbilt University
 John’s Use and Disuse of Matthew
David Moffitt, Duke University
 Jonah, Jews, Jesus, and Gentiles: Matthew’s Appropriation of the Sign of Jonah Saying in Light of the Gentile Mission
Tim Wardle, Wake Forest University

Mark, the Jerusalem Temple and Jewish Sectarianism
Jason Robert Combs, UNC Chapel Hill

Locating Luke 6:5d: Toward a Social Context for the Sabbath Worker
Business Meeting
AAR: History of Judaism I
Theme: Jewish Culture Through the Ages
Michael Bender, Florida International University, Presiding
Diane Segroves, Vanderbilt University
Decatur 1
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 Performing Etty: Reading Religious Identity in the Writing of Etty Hillesum
Michael Bender, Florida International University
 Chrysostom & the Jews: The Role of Anti-Semitism in the Spread of 4 th Century Christianity
Shem Miller, Florida State University
 Poetic Reconstruction in (4Q184) Wiles of the Wicked Woman
Gilya Schmidt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
 Central European Hazzanut in the pre-Holocaust period: An Example
Business Meeting
AAR: Religion, Culture, and the Arts I and Religion in America II (joint session)
Theme: Constructing and Enacting Religious Intolerance in America Centennial D
Adam Ware, Florida State University, and Lynn S. Neal, Wake Forest University, Presiding
Tammy Heise, Florida State University

Ghost Dance Religion and National Identity
Jill Peterfeso, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Convents, Cults, and Pop Culture: Anti-Catholicism as American Entertainment
Heather White, New College of Florida
 “Save Our Children” and the Rise of Anti-Gay Religious Politics, 1976-1978
Kelly J. Baker
 “As ye sew, so shall ye reap: fashion the cult way”: Polygamist Fashion, the
American Media, and “Fashionable” Religious Intolerance
AAR: Black Cultures and the Study of Religion II
Theme: Writing, Publishing, and Scholars of Color
Dunwoody 1
Adam Bond, The Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University,
Presiding. This is a professional development forum that facilitates the objectives of the AAR
Career Guide for Racial and Ethnic Minorities .
Panelists: Miguel A. De la Torre, Chairperson, Iliff School of Theology/AAR Committee on the
Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession
Michael Joseph Brown, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Marc A. Jolley, Mercer University Press
Business Meeting
AAR: Women and Religion II Decatur 2
Theme: The Pleasures of Looking: Representations of Female Sexuality, Desire, and Damnation
Emily A. Holmes, Christian Brothers University, Presiding
Kent L. Brintnall, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Restaging the Fetishistic Scene: Reading the Female Body with Georges Bataille and
Amy Hollywood
Lauren Gray, Florida State University

Publicizing the Privatized Woman: Reproductive Practices in the Duggar's 18 Kids and Counting
Cynthia Hogan Dopko, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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
Legacy of Damnation: Satirizing Fears of the Feminine in Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to
Hell (2009)
AAR: Religions of Asia II DeKalb
Theme: Contemplative Science: A Panel Discussion on Current Research, Methodological
Concerns and the Development of Cross Disciplinary Discourse
Sherry Morton, Georgia State University, presiding
Panelists: David M. Bell, Georgia State University
Brooke Dodson-Lavelle, Emory University
Wendy Hasenkamp, Emory University
Brendan Ozawa-de Silva, Emory University
AAR/SBL: Method and Theory II
Theme: Religion, Theory, and Economics
Randall Reed, Appalachian State University, Presiding
Centennial C
Laura Ammon, University of North Florida
 Re-thinking the Enlightenment: Comparisons of Religious Sacrifice in the Context of Early Modern
Coloniality.
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
 Religion, Islam, and Religious Studies: How South Asian Muslim Kings can help Broaden “Religion” and
Fix Eurocentric Definitions
Kevin Gamble, Appalchian State University
 (Don't?) Say the 'Magic' Word: Theoretical and Methodological Implications in Defining 'Magic.
Yulianti Yulianti, Florida International University
 Buddhism and Business in Indonesia: The Role of Buddhist Virtues in Sustainable Business
Centennial A AAR: History of Christianity II
Theme: Late Antiquity-Medieval
Mark Nickens, Averett University, Presiding
Michael B. Simmons, Auburn University Montgomery.
 The Soteriological Argument of Eusebius of Caesarea’s Theophany, Book V: Representative Passages from the Syriac Text and the Greek Fragments
Gregory Teal, Auburn University Montgomery.
 Christian Criticisms of the Saturn Cult of Roman North Africa
Marvin Lindsay, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia.
 Rebuking the Rednecks: Christianization in the Early Medieval Countryside
Jennifer Collins, Florida State University.
 Remembered Martyrdom: Stephen’s Relics and the Collective Memory of Suffering and Persecution at
Minorca
AAR: Philosophy of Religion I
Theme: Inter-Religious Philosophical Dialogue in the Medieval Period
Magnolia (15 th Fl)
Dr. Mark A. Wells, Montreat College, Presiding
Kirk Essary, Florida State University
 Aristotelian or Christian? The Development of Intellectus Agens in Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and
Pompanazzi
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Jennifer Gray, University of South Carolina
 Intention’ in Medieval Muslim and Christian Philosophers
Glenn Siniscalchi, Duquesne University
 The Probability of Certain Types of Revelation
AAR/SBL: Undergraduate Research I
Theme: Reexamining Texts
Anne Blue Wills, Davidson College, Presiding
Century East
Drew Lewis, University of Georgia
 "And the world was changed": The Nephilim and Watchers in Wider Mythological Context
Amy Gay, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
 An Exploration of the Meaning of Exorcism in Mark
Julianna Jones, Agnes Scott College
 Judas Iscariot and the Half-Blood Prince: A Rethinking of Judas Iscariot
Allison Kooser, Davidson College
 Biblical Influence and American Ignorance: The Case for Bible Literacy Education at Davidson
College
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Plenary Session
Gail Streete, Rhodes College, Presiding
Carol Meyers, Duke University
Century East
Food Isn't Just for Eating: Women's Work and Family Feasts in Israelite Households
SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 6
Century East AAR/SE, SBL/SE, and ASOR/SE Business Meetings
12:45-1:15 pm
AAR/SE Business Meeting
All members of the society are invited
1:15-1:45 pm
SBL/SE Business Meeting
All members of the society are invited
1:45-2:15 pm
ASOR/SE Business Meeting
All members of the society are invited
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2:30-4:15 pm SESSION III
ASOR/SBL: Archaeology and the Ancient World II
Theme: Jesus and the Galilean Economy
Decatur 1
Ralph K. Hawkins, Kentucky Christian University, Presiding
Mordechai Aviam, The Institute for Galilean Archaeology – Kinneret College, in Collaboration with the Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, University of Miami

Socio-Economic Conditions in Galilee at the Time of Jesus
Dogwood SBL: New Testament III
Theme: Theological Issues in the Interpretation of the New Testament
Richard Vinson, Salem College, Presiding
Jason Staples, UNC Chapel Hill
 Lord, Lord: Jesus’ Use of the Divine Name in the Synoptics
Douglas A. Hume, Pfeiffer University

The Economics of Friendship: An Interpretation of the Narrative Summaries in Acts
2:41-47 and 4:32-35
Michael Zolondek, Florida International University

And They Threw Him Out of the Vineyard: An Analysis of the Parable of the Wicked
Tenants
Alan Knox, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

A Theology of Mutuality
AAR: Constructive Theologies II
Theme: Re-Imaging Liturgical Theology
Mark Medley, Baptist Seminary of Kentucky, Presiding
Dekalb
Kristine Suna-Koro, Emory University
 From Dualistic Gridlock to Sacramental Synergy: Liturgy and Ethics Mundanely Reengaged
Andrew S. Tatum, Campbell University Divinity School
 Toward a Liturgical Theology of Human Disability
Business Meeting
AAR: Religion in America III
Theme: Gary Laderman’s Sacred Matters
Kelly Baker, Presiding
Michael Karlin, Emory University

The Sacred Heart of Atheism
Christa Lasher, Georgia State University

Multiple Insiderships
Dennis LoRusso, Emory University

Excavating the Sacred Self
Kenny Smith, Georgia State University

The Sacred at Oakhurst Community Garden
Respondent, Gary Laderman, Emory University
Dunwoody 2
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Business Meeting
AAR: Women and Religion III
Theme:
A Woman’s Place? Gender, Location, and Feminisms
Decatur 2
Min-Ah Cho, Emory University, Presiding
Leigh Pittenger, Emory University
 “A Moor of My Own”: Landscape, Writing, and Silence in Sara Maitland’s A Book of
Silence
Robyn Neville, Emory University

Perceived Space and the Dynamics of Hiding: Opening up the Trope of Bodily
Enclosure in Anglo-Saxon Hagiography
Christine Boulos, University of South Florida

(De)Constructing the Hindu Female Ascetic: Examining Perceptions of the Body and
Behavior in Constituting Gender
Business Meeting
AAR: Black Cultures and the Study of Religion III Centennial A
Theme: Troubling Black Religion: Changing Times and the Study of Black Religion
Ronald B. Neal, Claflin University, Presiding
Panelists: Stephanie Y. Mitchem, University of South Carolina
Randall C. Bailey, Interdenominational Theological Center
Margaret Aymer, Interdenominational Theological Center
William D. Hart, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Roger Sneed, Furman University
LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant, Wake Forest University
Rosetta E. Ross, Spelman College
Victor Anderson, Vanderbilt University
AAR/SBL: Method and Theory III
Panelists: Tom Ellis, Appalachian State University
Carol Newsom, Emory University
Theme: Book Review Panel of The End of Biblical Studies, Hector Avalos
Randall Reed, Appalachian State University, Presiding
Peachtree
James Tabor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Milton Moreland, Rhodes College
Julie Ingersoll, University North Florida
Respondent: Hector Avalos
Business Meeting
AAR: Religion and Ecology I Centennial C
Theme: Learning From: Conversations with Buddhism, Native America, Africa
Richard M. Carp, Appalachian State University, Presiding
Jane Compson, University of Central Florida
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 Interbeing in the classroom: how ecological insights in the Buddhist tradition can help us rise to the challenge
of responding to the ecological crisis in the academic classroom
Mary Nyangweso Wangila, East Carolina University

Indigenous Spirituality and Eco-justice: Illustrations from African and Native
American’s view
Brock Bingaman, Weslyan College

Red and Green Theology: Native American and Moltmannian Theology in
Conversation
Business Meeting
AAR: Islam I Dunwoody 1
Theme: Islam in the West
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Presiding
Gabrielle Marranci, National University of Singapore
 The Shahadah of Freedom: from Doctrinal to Imagistic modes of Islam
Eleanor Finnegan, University of Florida
 Farming and Faith: Muslim Agricultural Communities in the United States
David Damrel, University of South Carolina Upstate
 Conversion, Reversion, and Borderlands: Islam among U.S. Latinas & Latinos
AAR: History of Christianity III
Theme: Reformation-Modern Christianity
Century East
Michael Simmons, Auburn University, Presiding
Ellie Bagley, Rhodes College.
 Critics of the King James Bible in the Seventeenth Century
Charles Raith II, Ave Maria University.
 Calvin, Natural Law, and its Classical Exponents: A Note on Institutes 2.2.22-23
Dan Cantey, Emory.
 The Nature of Emotion in Calvin’s Institutes: An Inquiry in Response to the Protestant Ethic
Business Meeting
AAR: Religion, Culture, and the Arts II
Theme: Producing Identities
Centennial B
Cara Burnidge, Florida State University, Presiding
J.F. Sullivan, Georgia State University
 Someone Else’s Gods: Religion and the Modern Conception of ‘Art’
Monica Reed, Florida State University

Create Kindly Feeling Between Caucasians and Negroes: Music Festivals and Group
Identity Formation in Chicago
Angelique Montgomery-Goodnought, St. Thomas Universeity

Hip Hop and Theological Reflection
Seth Walker, Valencia Community College

Authentically Trappist: An Enduring Tradition or Religious Nostalgia
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4:30-6:00 pm SESSION IV
ASOR/SBL: Archaeology and the Ancient World III Decatur 1
Theme: Jesus and the Galilean Economy
Ralph K. Hawkins, Kentucky Christian University, Presiding
Panelists: Tom McCollough, Centre College
David Fiensy, Kentucky Christian University
Doug Oakman, Pacific Lutheran University
Mordechai Aviam, The Institute for Galilean Archaeology – Kinneret College, in
Collaboration with the Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, University of
Miami
Business Meeting
SBL: Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament IV Dogwood
Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford, McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University, Presiding
Steve Cook, Independent Scholar

The Biblical Hermeneutics of Margaret Walker: The Case of “Girl Held Without Bail” and Jephthah’s Daughter
B.J. Parker, McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University

The Sublime, Terrible and Ezekiel 16
Jackie Wyse, Emory University

A Book of Daniel(s): Characterization in Bakhtinian Perspective
Joshua Vis, Duke University

The Sacrificial System of Leviticus in the Book of Hebrews
AAR: Philosophy of Religion II Dunwoody 1
Theme: Religious, Ethical and Moral Considerations for the Inclusion of Individuals with
Disablilities: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Dr. Mark A. Wells, Montreat College, Presiding
Panelists: Stephen G. Wright, Gregory Knollman, Tyler Hicks, and Kyle Mills,
University of South Florida
Business Meeting
AAR: History of Judaism II
Theme: Second Temple Judaism
Peachtree
Gilya Schmidt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Presiding
Edmund Gallagher, Heritage Christian University
 The Greek Bible among Ancient Jews
Bennie Reynolds, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 Lost is Assyria: Locating רושא on the Maps and the Lexicons of Jewish Writers from the
Hellenistic Period
David Stark, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
 הקדצ הרומ as a Hermeneutical Functionary in the Qumran Sectarian Manuscripts
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Kenneth Henson, University of Central Florida
 Prophetic “Light” Versus Qumranic “Darkness”: Isaiah’s Audacity of Hope
AAR: Ethics, Religion, and Society II
Theme: Ethics and Capitalism
Dunwoody 2
Sally Holt, Belmont University, Presiding
Bradley Burroughs, Emory University

Haunted by Providence: Investigating and Interrogating the Theo-Ethical
Foundations of Capitalism in the Work of Adam Smith
Dennis LoRusso, Emory University
 Always bet on Snack: Snickers Viral Marketing, Mythopoetics, and the Politics of Exclusion
Nelson Reveley, Union Theological Seminary and Christian School of Education
 Market Values?
Business Meeting
AAR/SBL: Bible and Modern Culture III
Theme: The Black and African Diaspora Reading the Hebrew Bible
Brian Mooney, Johnson & Wales University, Presiding
Centennial A
Panelists: Randall C. Bailey, Interdenominational Theological Center, Participant/Editor
Oakwood University, Critical reviewer
Theodore Burgh, UNC-Wilmington, Critical reviewer
N. Samuel Murrell, UNC-Wilmington, Participant/Editor
Respondent: Naomi P. Franklin, Virginia Union University
 Models of Shepherding in Ezekiel 34:1-19
AAR: Islam II and Teaching Religion I (joint session)
Theme: Teaching Islam: Challenges and Opportunities
David Damrel, University of South Carolina Upstate, Presiding
Centennial B
Alan Godlas, University of Georgia,

Islamic Resources for Teaching an Emotionally Intelligent Islam
Rachel Scott, Virginia Tech University,

Women and Gender in Islam: Reflections on Pedagogy
Maria Curtis

Unteaching Terrorism: Resources and Strategies for the Post 9/11 Classroom
Followed by an Open Discussion: Teaching Islam: Best Practices
Business Meeting
AAR: Religions of Asia III
Theme: Religion and Visual Culture in Asia
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, University of Alabama, Presiding
Decatur 2
Ashley Renae Gnat, Georgia State University
 “To Us, Chairman Mao was God”: Deification of Mao Through Struggle as Represented by Material
Culture
Jenn Ortegren, Emory University
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 How Do You Solve a Problem Like Mira? The Popularization of a Female Hindu Saint in
Contemporary India
Luke Whitmore, Emory University
 Collaging Shiva: Visual culture, Landscape, and Divine Presence in the Himalayan Pilgrimage Place of
Kedarnath
Business meeting
AAR: Religion, Culture, and the Arts III
Theme: Literary (Dis)Passions: Religion and Fantasy Literature
Kelly Williams, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Centennial C
Kat Daley-Bailey, Georgia State University

Moral Monsters: The Evolution of the Vampire from Dracula to Twilight
Adam Dov Gorelick, Florida International University
 Bombadil and the Bodhi Tree: The Case for a Buddhist Influence on Tolkien’s Literature
Andrew Jonathan Cohen, Florida International University

The Seven Deadly Sins in Contemporary Literature: A Case Study of the Harry Potter
Heptalogy
Annie Kay, Cumberland / St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral

For the Love of Sparkly Vampires: The Twilight series and Christian Understandings of
Love
Business Meeting
AAR: Women and Religion IV
Theme: An Exploration of Identity through Ethno-Narrative Methods
Dekalb
Jill Peterfeso, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Presiding
Melissa Travis, Georgia State University
 “Honey, Why am I Wearing My Pink Monkey Pants?” Narrative Identity: An
Autoethnographic Exploration of Surviving Death, Loss, and the Re-living Process
Melinda McGarrah Sharp, Vanderbilt University

A Postcolonial Theology of Resistance: Learning from Women who Resist and Claim their Place
Catherine Crandall, Emory University

Gender and the (Christian) Academy: Oral Histories of Women in Theological
Education
AAR/SBL: Undergraduate Research II
Theme: Religion and Identity
Century East
Anne Blue Wills, Davidson College, Presiding
Kyri Bye-Nagel, Davidson College
 Mecca vs. Medina
Sarah Finney, Rhodes College
 Motivating a Multitude: An Analysis of the Motivational Differences between European Christians and Albanian Muslims in Their Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust
Rachel Grossman, University of North Carolina, Asheville
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 The Architecture of Jewish Identity: Change and Continuity in the Postwar Construction of Temple
Beth Ha-Tephila, Asheville, North Carolina
Lucia Hulsether, Agnes Scott College
 "A Foretaste of the Kingdom of God": The Politics of Multiculturalism at a "Multicultural Church"
6:00-7:00 pm
Reception for Student Members of the Societies
Magnolia (15 th Fl)
SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 7
7:00-8:15 am
Section Chairs’ Breakfast
Bernadette McNary-Zak, Rhodes College, and
Dekalb
Theodore Burgh, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Presiding
8:00-11:00 am
Registration/Book Exhibits Century West
8:30-10:15 am SESSION V
ASOR/SBL: Archaeology and the Ancient World IV
Theme: Archaeological Investigations and Reports
Dogwood
Terry W. Eddinger, Carolina Evangelical Divinity School, Presiding
Dan Warner, The Virtual Bible Project

A Re-Assessment of Canaanite Cultic Structures Based Upon a Functional/Utilitarian
Approach
Sharon Lea Mattila, University of North Carolina at Pembroke

Was There an Economic Crisis under Antipas? Revisiting the Questions of Royal Estates and Taxation in Herodian Galilee
Jeff Hudon, Andrews University

Judahite Expansion into Philistia during the Early Eighth Century BCE: What is the
Historical and Archaeological Evidence?
John Wineland, Kentucky Christian University

A Report on the 2009 Season at Khirbet Mudaybi
AAR: History of Judaism III and Hebrew Scripture/Old Testament V (joint session)
Theme: The Handwriting on the Wall and Other Tales of Old
David Garber, McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University, Presiding
Centennial A
Cameron B. R. Howard, Emory University

A Basic Conceptual Metaphor in the Serek ha-Yahad
Michael Fuller, Lee University

Divine Intervention and Israel ’ s ( “ History ’ of) Passivity in Josephus and Other Early
Jewish Documents
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Marian Broida, Emory University
 Textualizing Divination: The Writing on the Wall
SBL: New Testament IV
Theme: Reception History of the New Testament
Decatur 1
Doug Hume, Pfeiffer University, Presiding
Diane Lipsett, Wake Forest University

Stones, Scandal, and Seeing God: John Donne in the Reception History of Matthew
Wayne Coppins, University of Georgia
 Paul’s Juxtaposition of Freedom and Positive Servitude in 1 Cor 9:19 and its Reception by Martin Luther and Gerhard Ebeling
Ben White, UNC Chapel Hill

How to Read a Book: Irenaeus and the Pastoral Epistles Reconsidered
Jeremy Barrier, Heritage Christian University

The Earliest Christian Novels: An Analysis of the Manuscript and Literary Evidence for
Christian Novel Writing in the Pre-Constantinian Era
AAR/SBL: Bible and Modern Culture IV Decatur 2
Theme: Caribbean Religions: The Historical, Cultural, and Sacred Traditions
Eric J. Douglass, Randolph-Macon College, Presiding
Panelists: Finbar Benjamin, Oakwood University, Critical reviewer
Keith Burton, Florida Hospital College of Life Science, Critical reviewer
Dianne Stewart Diakité: Emory University, Critical Reviewer
Noel Leo Erskine: Candler school of Theology, Emory University, Critical Reviewer
Respondent: N. Samuel Murrell: UNC Wilmington, Author
Brian Mooney, Johnson & Wales University (Respondent/Presenter)
Vodou Death: Science and Religion in the Spirit of William James
AAR: Religion in America IV
Theme: Religion IN America, Religion OF America
Lucas Johnston, Wake Forest University, Presiding
Centennial B
Thomas S. Bremer, Rhodes College

Evangelizing in the Parks: Warren Ost and A Christian Ministry in the National
Parks
Robert W. Whalen, Queens University of Charlotte

Searching for Thomas Merton: Spirituality, Counter-Culture, and Cold War
Brooke Sherrard, Florida State University

Nelson Glueck and the Zionization of American Biblical Archaeology
Chris Marsicano, Heidi Marti, Pat Sellers, and Anne Blue Wills, Davidson College

Civil Religion in Presidential Campaign Speech, 1960-2008
Peachtree AAR: Women and Religion V and Islam III (joint session)
Theme: Muslim Women: Leadership and Liberation
Eleanor Finnegan, University of Florida, Presiding
Maria Curtis, The University of Houston-Clear Lake
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
Diasporic Sisterhood: Muslim Women's Philanthropic Networks in Turkey, Central
Asia, and the United States"
Zahra Ayubi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Alima to Imamah: Development of Muslim Women's Religious Leadership in the
United States
Ivanna Arostegui, Florida International University

Women and a Liberating Islam in Sufism
AAR: Ethics, Religion, and Society I
Theme: Economic and Social Justice
Centennial C
Michael Stoltzfus, Valdosta State University, Presiding
Chaplain (Lieutenant Colonel) Timothy S. Mallard, U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School
 The Decision to Act: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Free Ethical Position on Tyrannicide and
Engagement in American Public Policy
Debra Carter Williams, Wesleyan College
 The Prophetic Voice in America: Speaking for Social Justice and Against Contemporary Apostasy
Narola Ao McFayden, Union-PSCE

Economic Justice: Towards A Transformative Pedagogy
Dunwoody 2 AAR: History of Christianity IV
Theme: Reformation-Modern Christianity
Mark Nickens, Averett University, Presiding
Bernadette McNary-Zak, Rhodes College.
 Waiting in Silence: Carthusian Memories of the Desert Fathers
Tamara Elizabeth Lewis, Vanderbilt University.
 A Kind of People: The 1601 Elizabethan Royal Command ‘Licensing Casper van Senden to Deport
Negroes’ in Christian and Ontological Context
Elena Amato, Florida International University.
 Jesus, the Yogi
Mark Nickens, Averett University.
 Amorbearers in the African American Church: One Theory of Their Origin
10:30 am-12:15 pm SESSION VI
ASOR/SBL: Archaeology and the Ancient World V
Theme: Archaeological Method and Theory
Sharon Lea Mattila, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Presiding
Decatur 1
Ted Carruth, David Lipscomb University

A Sculpture Fragment from Iron II Moabite Khirbet Mudaybi': A Case Study of Inter-
Disciplinary Inquiry for Interpretive Purposes
Robert Darby, University of Missouri-Columbia and Erin Darby, Duke University

"Re"-Covering the Past: How Do We Protect and Study Jordan's Threatened Ancient
Sites? Approaches at “Ayn Gharandal”
Frederick L. Downing, Valdosta State University
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When the Center Cannot Hold: A Paradigm for Reading Near Eastern Archaeology
SBL: New Testament V
Theme: Paul
Diane Lipsett, Wake Forest University, Presiding
Centennial A
Mark Proctor, Lee University

If Christ Has Not Been Raised – The Inefficacy of a Qualified Gospel in 1 Cor 15:17
Thomas Whitley, Gardner-Webb University
 From Qumran to Philo: Precedence for Paul’s Use of “Israel”
Annie Tinsley, University of Birmingham (UK)
 “Colossians and Empire”: A Response to Harold O. Maier
Presian Burroughs, Duke University
 Why Await the Apocalypse of the Sons of God? Reflections on Creation’s Liberation in
Romans 8:18–22
AAR: Religion in America V Centennial B
Theme: Travel, Media, and Missions: How Foreign Missions Brought the World Home
Lynn S. Neal, Wake Forest University, Presiding
Michael Altman, Emory University

Methodists and India: Mapping, Contact, and Travel in the Christian Advocate,
1860-1890
Ben Brazil, Emory University

All the World a Sermon: 19 th
Century Ministers and Around-the-World Tours
David King, Emory University

Missions and the Middle Man: Bob Pierce and World Vision as Intermediaries in
Promoting Christian Missions, 1950-1974
Anne Blue Wills, Davidson College, Respondent
AAR: Religion and Ecology II
Theme: Religion, Conservation, and Conservatism in the New South
David C. McDuffie, UNC-Chapel Hill, Presiding
Peachtree
Lucas Johnston, Wake Forest University
 Praise God and Fight the Power: Evangelicals, Anarchists, and Environmental Activism in the Coal
Fields of Appalachia
Joseph Witt, University of Florida
 God Does Not Speak with Forked Tongue; Southern Evangelicals, Science and Sustainability
Networks
Todd LeVasseur, University of Florida
 ‘Though Shalt Farm Organically:’ Religion and Sustainable Agriculture in Georgia
Decatur 2 AAR: Religions of Asia IV
Theme: Transgressing Boundaries in the Study of Religions of Asia
Amy Allocco, Elon University, Presiding
John M. Thompson, Christopher Newport University
 Liminal or Liminoid: Transgression in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Biography
Sherry L. Morton, Georgia State University
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 The Ritual Mind: How Tantric Puja Uses the Body to Shape the Mind
Ryan Weimer, University of Mississippi
 A Christian Biographer of Muslims and Hindus
Steven Ramey, University of Alabama
 Connecting Traditions: Indian-American Networks of Practices across the Southeast
Centennial C AAR: Islam IV
Theme: Critical and Theoretical Issues in Islam
Rachel Scott, Virginia Tech University, Presiding
Owais Khan, Georgia State University,
 The Raj and its Religion: Islam in India
Mashal Saif, Duke University
 Alternative Imaginaries: The Political Theology of Marginalized ‘Ulama
Rose Aslan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 Narrating the Story of al-Hallaj: A Folk Story of a Sufi Martyr
AAR: Teaching Religion II and Ethics, Religion, and Society IV
Sharon Smith, Interdenominational Theological Center, Presiding
Theme: Teaching Religion as (Theo)Ethical Praxis
Dogwood
Stephen Wright, University of South Florida

Sacred Legitimation" and Social Justice: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching
World Religions
Carolyn Davis, Vanderbilt University

(Re)Generative Theological Education: Locating Pedagogy in Embodied Contextuality
Reginaldo Braga, Interdenominational Theological Center

A Pedagogy of Grace
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