
‘The word of God is living and active’ (Heb
THE IRISH BIBLICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND
AGM will take place
on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th
February 2012 at Purcell House, All Hallows College, Drumcondra,
Dublin 9.
Our guest lecturers this year are: Olivier-Thomas Venard OP, Studies
Secretary at École Biblique, Jerusalem and Prof Peter Oakes, the Greenwood
Senior Lecturer in the New Testament at Manchester University
PUBLIC LECTURE:
Fri 17 Feb, 8.00pm (registration from 7.30pm)
Olivier-Thomas Venard OP: "Reading the Scriptures and Receiving the
Eucharist"
Reception
Sat 18 Feb, 9.00am (for 9.30am start)
Prof Peter Oakes: "Using Pompeian Evidence to Think about Early House
Church Life"
Tea/Coffee
Olivier-Thomas Venard OP: "From the Last Supper to the Eucharist: Key Propositions"
Lunch
Prof Peter Oakes: "Galatians for First-Century House Churches"
Cost: €40 (lunch included), €25 (no lunch), €7 individual lectures.
No prior booking is necessary - please pay at the door.
The Conference is followed by the member's AGM
Previously Held Events
Dr.
James McKeown
Dr. Desi Alexander, The Implied Context of the Book of Ruth and its Implications for Interpretation, in association with QUB Institute of Theology, Belfast Bible College, Dunmurry, 13 October 2011.
Ms Anne Ryan, A Feminist Perspective on the Book of Ruth, in association with QUB Institute of Theology, Belfast Bible College, Dunmurry, 13 October 2011.
Dr Wendy Sproston-North, Points and Stars: John and the Synoptics, Church of Ireland Theological Institute, Dublin 14, 6 April 2011.
Prof Robert Hayward, Introduction to the Targumim, Annual Conference, All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin, 18 February 2011.
Dr Jessie Rogers, Filling in the Gaps: 'Faithful' readings of the Book of Job, Annual Conference, All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin, 19 February 2011.
Prof Robert Hayward, Different Aramaic Translations of Genesis, Annual Conference, All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin, 19 February 2011.
Dr Jonathan Kearney, The Torah of Israel in the Tongue of Ishmael: Saadia Gaon and his Arabic Translation of the Pentateuch, Annual Conference, All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin, 19 February 2011.
Prof Larry Hurtado, Who is ‘God’ in the New Testament? The Particulars of the New Testament Deity in a World of Gods, Annual Conference, All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin, 8 October 2010.
Dr Edward Adams, The New Testament House Church: A Reassessment, Annual Conference, All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin, 9 October 2010.
Dr. Edward Adams, Early Christian Meeting Places: Beyond Domestic Spaces, Annual Conference, All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin, 9 October 2010.
Prof Larry Hurtado, ‘God’ and Jesus: The Implications of Jesus for ‘God’, Annual Conference, All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin, 9 October 2010.
Rev Prof Séamus O'Connell, Strict Two-fold Repetitions in Mark as Keys to the Composition and Theology of the Second Gospel, Church of Ireland Theological Institute, Dublin, 9 February 2010.
Rev Declan Hurley, Reading the Drama of Job through its Questions, Queen's University Belfast, 4 November 2009.
Mr John Lenschow, The Beginning and the End: Echoes of Genesis in Revelation, Queen's University Belfast, 4 November 2009.
Dr David Shepherd, 'Do you love me?' A New Reading of John 21:15-17, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, 13 October 2009.
Rev
Prof Charles Conroy,
Recent Study of the Enigmatic Servant Texts in
Isaiah,
Annual Conference
Rev
Prof Charles Conroy,
Jonah and Nahum in the Book of the Twelve: Who has the Last Word?
Prof
John J. Collins,
Apologetics and Critical Scholarship: Biblical Scholarship at the
Crossroads,
Prof
John J. Collins, Beyond the Qumran
Community: Current Scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls,
Mr Seán Goan, Passover and the Passion in St. John's Gospel, Church of Ireland Theological College Dublin, 2 March 2009.
Fr Murray Watson, Translation for Transformation: André Chouraqui, his Life and his Gospel Translations, Belfast Bible College, 12 November 2008.
Mr Volker Glissmann, The Diaspora and the Final Redaction of Genesis: The Case of the Benevolent Foreign Rulers, Belfast Bible College, 12 November 2008.
Dr Zuleika Rodgers, Translation and Theocracy:
Flavius Josephus and Biblical Interpretation,
Prof Morna Hooker, Paul as
Pastor: The Relevance of the Gospel,
Annual Conference and AGM
Prof Michel Gourgues OP,
« Remember Jesus Christ » (2 Tm 2: 8,11-13): From a Baptismal
Instruction to an Encouragement Addressed to Missionaries,
Annual Conference and AGM
Prof
Morna Hooker,
On
Becoming the Righteousness of God:
Prof Michel Gourgues OP,
The Superimposition of Symbolic Time and Real Time
Prof Carmel McCarthy, The Word is Very Near to You, Some Reflections on BHQ Deuteronomy, Church of Ireland Theological College Dublin, 27 February 2008.
Fr Michael Mullins, Jesus' Passion and Death According to Matthew, Avila Carmelite Centre for Spirituality, Dublin, 16 February 2008.
Dr
Kieran O'Mahony, Paul, Mapping the New Perspective, Belfast Bible
College, 14 November 2007.
Ms
Karen Fulton, Co-Writers in Christ: Paul's Letters in the Light of
Josephus and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri,
Belfast
Bible College, 14 November 2007.
Dr
David Baker, Why Care for the Poor? Theological Foundations of Old
Testament Laws on Wealth and Poverty,
Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin,
17
October 2007.
Dr Fearghus Ó Fearghail, The 1602 Irish
Translation of the New Testament in its European Context
Dr Mark Finney
Patricia McDonald SHCJ
____________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________