I was just browsing the SBL online program book and wanted to highlight some papers relating to Mark. All the presenters along with their abstracts are available from clicking on the link (and if you are presenting at SBL on Mark, let me know so I can post your paper too).
Methods in New Testament Studies
7/05/2011
1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Room:2.47 – Franklin Wilkins
Theme: Methodological Issues
Sandra Hübenthal, Universität Tübingen
Narrative Perspectives and the Mediation of Jesus Images in Mk 6:1-8:21 (45 min)
Synoptic Gospels
7/05/2011
1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Room:2.80 – Franklin Wilkins
Martin Ramey, Azusa Pacific University
Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea: The Quest for the Historical Joseph (30 min)
Synoptic Gospels
7/06/2011
8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Room:2.80 – Franklin Wilkins
Merrilyn Mansfield, University of Sydney, Presiding
Johanna Brankaer, WWU Münster
The Implicit Epistemology of Mark (30 min)
Steffen Joeris, La Trobe University
The Markan Use of “unclean spirit”: Another Messianic Strand (30 min)
Matthew S. Rindge, Gonzaga University
Reconfiguring the Akedah: Death and Divine Abandonment in Mark (30 min)
Biblical Criticism and Cultural Studies
7/06/2011
1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Room:1.13 – Franklin Wilkins
Theme: Cultural Studies: Critical Theories and Texts
Hans Leander, University of Gothenburg
The Codex is the Message: A Postcolonial Reading of Mark 1:1 (25 min)
Synoptic Gospels
7/06/2011
1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Room:2.80 – Franklin Wilkins
John P Harrison, Oklahoma Christian University
A Contextual Reading of a Jesus Saying on the Resurrected Body: “neither marry nor given into marriage” (Mark 12:25//Matthew 22:30//Luke 20:35) (30 min)
Alexander Kirk, University of Oxford
Yes, “A Human Figure Flying Downwards on a Cloud”: A Response to N. T. Wright and R. T. France on Mark 14:62 (30 min)
Contextual Interpretation of the Bible (Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and New Testament)
7/06/2011
1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Room:2.46 – Franklin Wilkins
Theme: Papers on the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
Archie Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Presiding
Mary Phil Korsak, Society of Authors-Translators Association
Glad News from Mark (20 min)
Bible and Empire
7/07/2011
8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Room:1.20 – Franklin Wilkins
Theme: The Bible and the British Empire Carly Crouch, University of Cambridge, Presiding
Hans Leander, University of Gothenburg
Nineteenth century readings of the tribute question (Mk 12:17): An Irish anti-colonial cat among British and German pigeons? (20 min)
Synoptic Gospels
7/07/2011
8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Room:2.81 – Franklin Wilkins
Johanna Brankaer, WWU Münster, Presiding
Mark Batluck, University of Edinburgh
Revelatory Experience in Mark: How These Events are Christologically Employed in the First Gospel (30 min)
Mitchell Esswein, University of Georgia
Hear, O Israel: The Lord Our God, The Lord is eis: The Implicit High Christology Present in Mark with Special Attention to the Work of Joel Marcus (30 min)
Break (30 min)
Anne Vig Skoven, University of Copenhagen
The Spirit in Mark (30 min)
Cecilia Wassen, Uppsala Universitet
Jesus and Purity Laws (30 min)
Working with Biblical Manuscripts (Textual Criticism)
7/07/2011
8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Room:1.68 – Franklin Wilkins
Theme: Working with Textual Variants
Ronald van der Bergh, University of Pretoria, Presiding
Peter Williams, Tyndale House (Cambridge)
The Case for ‘Filled with Compassion’ in Mark 1:41 (25 min)
Jeff Cate, California Baptist University
Having a Gut Feeling for Anger: Mark 1:41 and Visceral Emotions (25 min)
Tommy Wasserman, Örebro School of Theology
P45 and Codex W in Mark Revisited (25 min)
Break (30 min)
Synoptic Gospels
7/04/2011
8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Room:2.80 – Franklin Wilkins
Glenna Jackson, Otterbein University, Presiding
Yonatan Adler, Bar-Ilan University
Between Galilean Judaism and Judean Judaism: An Archaeological Perspective on Regional Differences in the Observance of Ritual Purity in First Century C.E. ’Erez Israel (30 min)
Milton Moreland, Rhodes College
Building on Ruins: Post-70 Jerusalem in the Synoptic Tradition (30 min)
