The Spring 2021 Meeting will take place virtually on April 17, 2021, at 2:45 p.m.

Speakers:

Rhiannon Graybill – Rhodes College

Rhiannon Graybill is W.J. Millard Professor of Religion and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. Graybill is the author of Are We Not Men? Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets (Oxford, 2016). Her current projects include a feminist study of sexual violence in biblical narrative and a commentary on the book of Jonah (the latter co-authored with Steven L. McKenzie and John Kaltner). She is co-editor of Rape Culture and Religious Studies: Critical and Pedagogical Engagements (Lexington, 2019) and a forthcoming volume on Margaret Atwood and the Bible. Her research interests include gender and sexuality, feminist and queer criticism, and the Bible and literature. She holds a PhD in Near Eastern Studies, with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, from the University of California, Berkeley (2012).

Stacy Davis – St. Mary’s College

Stacy Davis is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies and Theology and affiliated Gender and Women’s Studies faculty at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN. She teaches courses in religious conversion, Jewish and Christian interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, Torah, and prophets. Her research areas are the history of biblical interpretation, African American biblical interpretation, and feminist biblical criticism. Most recently, her publications include essays in the Oxford Handbook of the Minor Prophets and the Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible and Ethics.

Troy W. Martin – St. Xavier University

Troy W. Martin is Professor of Biblical Studies at Saint Xavier University.  He earned his doctorate in Bible at The University of Chicago and has served as Treasurer, Vice President, and President of the Chicago Society of Biblical Research as well as general editor of the society’s journal Biblical Research.  In addition to his university teaching, he is a public speaker and the author of numerous books and articles on biblical topics.  He is especially interested in understanding and explaining biblical texts in their ancient social, medical, and cultural contexts.

J. Brian Tucker – Moody Theological Seminary

Brian Tucker is Professor of New Testament at Moody Theological Seminary in Plymouth, MI, and an external affiliate at The Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, London. His most recent books include Reading Romans after Supersessionism (2018) and Reading 1 Corinthians (2017).

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.