Report on British NT Conference (part I)

I just returned from Aberdeen after a few days of conference-ing for the British New Testament Conference.  This is usually a highlight of my year and this year I was not disappointed.
Aberdeen itself is nice, and the university is very impressive.  Since I am leaving the UK in a few days for good, I am [...]

British NT Conference- some paper titles posted

The British NT Conference will meet this year in Aberdeen (3-5 Sept).  They have a nice new website (www.bnts.org.uk).  There are 10 seminar groups and the website archives paper titles and abstracts from previous years.
For 2009, several groups have posted paper titles/abstracts.  See here and here (the second page, ’short papers’, is like a wild-card [...]

British NT Conference paper accepted

The paper will be given in the Hermeneutics seminar (my second year giving a paper there).
Here is the title and abstract:
Mirroring-Reading Paraenesis and Moral Discourses in an Ancient Letter: Sexual Immorality in Romans and 1 Thessalonians as Test-cases
Over twenty years ago, Prof. John M.G. Barclay wrote a seminal article (JSNT 31: 73-93) on the important [...]

British NT Conference- Paper accepted!

I am pleased to announce the paper I will be presenting at the upcoming British NT conference (Aberdeen, Sept 3-5, 2009).  The paper will be in the ‘Simultaneous Short Papers’ section, which is sort of a grab-bag group which anyone can attend.  I did this two years ago and it was well attended and a [...]