Conferences in July

July is the time for two great conferences for scholars in Biblical studies: the International Meeting of SBL, and the SNTS General Meeting. I will only be able to attend the latter, while my co-blogger Kåre will go to the SBL meeting
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I July 2-6, the SBL 2006 International Meeting will be held in Edinburgh. As usual this conference will provide aa lot of lectures and seminars, covering both testaments. The program is available online here. As far as I can see, there will only be one paper dealing directly with Philo, namely the first paper in this seminar:
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
7/03/2006 2:00 PM to 5:15 PM
Room: Seminar 10 - William Robertson

Theme: More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha

Pierluigi Piovanelli, University of Ottawa, Presiding
Archie T. Wright, Regent University
Philo and the Book of Watchers (30 min)
Markus H. McDowell, Westmont College
Jael in Pseudo-Philo’s Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum: A Comparative and Intertextual Approach (30 min)
J.R.C. Cousland, University of British Columbia
When, Where, and Why: Space and Time in the “Books of Adam and Eve” (30 min)
Break (45 min)
James R. Davila, University of St. Andrews-Scotland
More Jewish Pseudepigrapha (30 min)
Kristian Heal, Brigham Young University
Ps. Basil's History of Joseph: A Key to the Early Syriac Tradition (30 min)

Kåre Fuglseth wil participate in the following session:

Methods in New Testament Studies
7/03/2006
8:45 AM to 12:30 PM
Room: G.01 - William Robertson

Paul Danove, Villanova University, Presiding
Dennis R. MacDonald, Claremont School of Theology
My Turn: A Critique of Critics of Mimesis Criticism (30 min)
Steven Richard Scott, University of Ottawa
Chiasm, Structure, and Rhetoric in Mark (30 min)
Daniel E. Goodman, Gardner-Webb University
Hear Then the Satire: The Militant Irony of the Parables of Jesus (30 min)
Break (45 min)
Kåre Fuglseth, Teacher's College of Bodoe
The Bible Read in the Polar Night: Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Methods in New Testaments Studies (30 min)
David Reis, College of Santa Fe
Constructing Identity and Imaginative Geographies: The Soul in the Formation of Early Christian Self-Definition (30 min)
Andrew D. Scrimgeour, Drew University
In Search of the Real Jesus Seminar (30 min)

I do hope Kåre will be able to report from the SBl International Meeting.

The SNTS General Meeting will be held in Aberdeen, July 25-29. This will be my first participation as a member, and I am looking forward to that.

The Program of this conference can be found ont the web reference given above. This conference is focusing on the New Testament. It looks like there will be no paper dealing primarily with Philo. Nevertheless, it may turn out to be an interesting event!