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The Institute for Biblical Research, Incorporated (IBR) is an organization of evangelical Christian
scholars with specialties in Old and New Testament and in ancillary disciplines. Its vision is to
foster excellence in the pursuit of Biblical Studies within a faith environment. The achievement
of this goal is sought primarily by organizing annual conferences, conducting seminars and
workshops, and by sponsoring academic publications in the various fields of biblical research.
IBR's conferences, seminars and workshops are open to the public and its publications are
available for purchase.
INSTITUTE FOR BIBLICAL RESEARCH
November 21-22, 2008
Maps
Institute for Biblical Research: Board of
Directors Meeting
11/21/2008
1:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Room: Gardner
A – SH [Sheraton Boston:
39 Dalton Street · Boston, Massachusetts 02199;
Phone: (617) 236-2000] AM21-105
Institute for Biblical
Research: Annual Meeting
11/21/2008
7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Room: Meeting Room 304 – CC [Hynes Convention Center:
900 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02115 (617) 954-2000]
7:00 Devotions: Clay Ham, Lincoln Christian
College and Seminary
7:15 Annual Lecture: Joel Green, Fuller Theological
Seminary 'What then shall we do?':
Luke-Acts as a Conversionist Narrative
8:15 Formal Response: Everett Ferguson, Abilene Christian
University
8:30 Response from the floor
8:45 Reception hosted by Baker Academic
For additional information about this session, contact Lynn
Cohick (Secretary, IBR)
at 630-752-5265 or
lynn.h.cohick@wheaton.edu.
AM22-3
Institute for Biblical
Research: Annual Meeting
11/22/2008
8:30 AM to 1:15 PM
Room: Meeting Room 311 - CC
8:30 Devotions: Douglas Green, Westminster Theological Seminary
8:40 Business Meeting
9:05 Old Testament Paper, Sandra Richter, Asbury
Theological Seminary, Environmental
Law in Deuteronomy
9:50 New Testament Paper, Douglas Moo, Wheaton College,
Creation and New Creation
10:35 Break
10:55 Responses:
Gordon McConville, University of
Gloucestershire
Craig Keener, Palmer Seminary
Richard Wright,
Gordon
College
11:30 General Discussion
12:15 Adjournment
For additional information about this session, contact Lynn
Cohick (Secretary, IBR)
at 630-752-5265 or
lynn.h.cohick@wheaton.edu.
AM23-9
Institute for Biblical
Research: Worship Service
11/23/2008
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
Room: Meeting Room 304 - CC
Fellows, associates, friends of IBR, and all interested
participants at the various
annual meetings are invited.
The service, led by Darian Lockett, Assistant Professor of
Biblical Studies and Theology,
Biola University, will include prayer, congregational
singing, selected readings, and a
meditation by Darrell Bock.
For additional information about
this session, contact Lynn Cohick (Secretary, IBR)
at
630-752-5265 or
lynn.h.cohick@wheaton.edu.
Meeting Abstracts:
Joel B. Green: “What then shall we do?” Luke-Acts
as a Conversionist Narrative
By almost any accounting, “conversion” is an important
theme in the narrative of Luke-Acts,
and in recent years it has begun to attract the
scholarly attention it merits. Given twentieth-
century definitions of the “self” and concomitant
understandings of “conversion,” perhaps
it is not surprising that recent study has offered
little by way of critical reflection on how
Luke defines the concept. Working self-consciously from
the perspective of cognitive
science and exploring the evidence from the perspective
of cognitive linguistics, this essay
offers an implicit challenge to the questions typically asked
and addressed in recent
scholarship, demonstrates the inseparability of the
rhetoric and process of conversion
from the human experience of embodiment, and
underscores the status of Luke-Acts
as a “conversionist narrative.”
Douglas Moo: "Creation and New Creation"
The ecological crisis of our times has
stimulated considerable interest in the teaching of the
Bible about the created world. As evangelical
biblical scholars, we have a particular obligation
to respond to this crisis by discovering and
teaching truly biblical perspectives on the created
world. In this paper, I pursue such an agenda by
arguing that Paul's language of "new creation"
cannot be reduced to an anthropological or
ecclesiological focus. The OT and second-Temple
Jewish background for the phrase, the contexts in which
Paul uses it, and its place within Paul's
wider theology make clear that the renewal of
creation has an important place within Paul's
proclamation of the "new creation." Moreover, the
phrase bears significant ethical implications,
some of which have bearing on our current
ecological crisis.
Sandra Richter:
Environmental Law in Deuteronomy:
One lens on a Biblical Theology
of Creation Care.
The testimony of the Old and New
Testaments as a whole is that God is interested in the
well-being
of the earth and its creatures. The creation
narrative initiates this message with the command
to
humanity to tend and protect the garden; the New
Testament confirms it with its report of
the redemption
of the cosmos, and the description of the New Jerusalem.
Throughout there
is a recurring message regarding
humanity's responsibility as the steward of God's
creation.
This essay investigates that message as it is
communicated in the politeia of ancient Israel,
the book
of Deuteronomy. Here the laws of
land-tenure, agriculture, produce, warfare, wild
creatures, and livestock are
investigated with an eye toward the larger biblical theological
message of the
Bible. Israel's
practice is compared to the norms of its ancient society, and
modern parallels
are proposed.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Proposed Bylaw Revision Oct. 2, 2008
Recent Board Minutes from March 19, 2008 (prepared by Lynn Cohick)
See Jeannine Brown's recent, 2007, beautifully designed Newsletter
Enjoy the new BBR online (1991-2004 full text and abstracts for 2005-08).
Browse D. Brent Sandy's
extensive supplement of additional materials to his recently
published
Baker Academic IBR bibliography on Prophecy and
Apocalyptic
under IBR Studies
Note the New "IBR Library Review" under IBR Studies
Opening Announcement:
Providence Theological Seminary (www.prov.ca)
invites applications for a full-time dean.
Providence, a school of about 200 students, is fully accredited by ATS and is an
evangelical,
interdenominational institution whose purpose is to serve the Church in the
accomplishment
of its mission, by preparing and supporting leaders, developing resources, and
facilitating
theological reflection. The successful candidate will have an appropriate
doctoral degree
and demonstrate experience in theological education and administration, pastoral
skill,
and commitment to the Church. The successful candidate will lead the faculty and
staff in
the fulfillment of its local and global mission, work at the institutional level
on visioning and
goal-setting, and teach up to two courses per year in an area commensurate with
their
expertise and Seminary needs. All candidates will be considered, however
Canadians
and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. Applications are
welcomed
until the position is filled. A resume may be sent to:
Dr. Lissa M. Wray Beal, Chair of Search Committee,
Providence Theological Seminary, Otterburne,
Manitoba, Canada R0A 1G0
Tyndale House Invitation: The study
groups for the Tyndale Fellowship are meeting over
7-11 July 2008 at Tyndale
House in
Cambridge,
UK. The New Testament study group is
meeting
from 7-9 July and the topic for this year is:
Perspectives on Peter: Peter and
the
Petrine Writings in History, Tradition, and Theology. This study group is
open to all aspects
of "Peter" within the New Testament (and early
Christianity). Potential topics include the
portrayal of Peter in the Gospels,
Acts, Pauline corpus; historical issues concerned with
Peter (in Acts, behind
Mark, Antioch Incident etc.); any aspect of 1 and 2 Peter; issues
relating to
the reception of Mark as Peter's memoirs, the canonical reception of 1 & 2
Peter, etc. Those interested in proposing a paper for the New Testament group
should
contact Michael Bird (michael.bird@uhi.ac.uk) with a one paragraph
proposal.
Request for Assistance: 'Following on from his recent book on
British Brethren history, Gathering to
His
Name, Dr Tim Grass, Associate Tutor in Church History at Spurgeon's
College, London, has been
asked to write a biography of the Scottish biblical
scholar F.F. Bruce (1910-90). He would be delighted
to hear
from anyone with relevant
recollections, letters, copies of obscure articles, photographs, or manuscript
material, and to learn about the impact which Bruce and his writings made on the
lives of so many in various
parts of the world.
He would also like to know if
you are willing to be interviewed regarding your recollections
of
Bruce, probably by e-mail unless you happen to be visiting the UK! Please
contact him at:
grass.family@tesco.net.'
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