The Fall 2021 Meeting will take place at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago on October 23, 2021, at 2:45 p.m.

Speakers:

Theodore Hiebert – McCormick Theological Seminary

Theodore Hiebert writes about biblical views of identity and difference and about biblical perspectives on the environment.  The Beginning of Difference, focusing on the book of Genesis, challenges exclusivist cultural interpretations and reveals a text that embraces and celebrates ethnic identities and differences.  The Yahwist’s Landscape challenges claims that the Bible privileges humans and separates them from nature and shows how biblical religion is grounded in the natural world.  Hiebert was an editor and translator for the Common English Bible, and wrote the notes to Genesis for the CEB Study Bible and the New Interpreter’s Study Bible.  He is currently at work on a study of the book of Genesis as migration literature.  Hiebert is Francis A. McGaw Professor of Old Testament and Dean of the Faculty Emeritus at McCormick Theological Seminary and lives in Homewood, IL.

Eunyung Lim – Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

Eunyung Lim is Assistant Professor of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Lim’s research pays close attention to the marginalized voices in the New Testament, such as children, women, and other minorities, and focuses on how their portrayals function in early Christian literature. Her forthcoming book, Entering God’s Kingdom (Not) Like a Little Child, illuminates the diverse ways early Christ followers associated childlikeness with God’s kingdom by situating the Gospel of Matthew, 1 Corinthians, and the Gospel of Thomas within ancient discourses and practices related to children. She holds both a Master of Divinity and a Doctor of Theology from Harvard University.

Christine Shea – Ball State University

Christine Shea is Professor of Classics and a former Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Classics of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. A native of the Chicago suburbs, she earned her doctorate in Classical Philology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. She has published on Homer, Vergil, and the ancient romances as models for Christian narratives; film; the canonical Acts; the figure of Paul, et al. She is a longtime member of the Westar Institute/Jesus Seminar and of the Ancient Fiction and Jewish and Christian Narrative Section of the SBL. She serves as Secretary of the Westar Board of Directors and has co-edited two volumes of papers for the Ancient Fiction group.