-Evangelical Theological Society Eastern Region

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Current Broadcast: Daniel Sloan Shechem A Marker of Israel’s Spirituality

Speaker: Daniel Sloan

Date: 4/21/2023

Type: Lecture

Part 1 of a 15 part series.

Topic: antiquity

The annual meeting eastern regional meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society on April 21-22, 2023. The conference was held at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC. The theme was, "The Bible in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context," with Scott Stripling as the plenary speaker.

Recent Broadcasts

Title	Speaker	Type	Date
Daniel Sloan Shechem A Marker of Israel’s Spirituality	Daniel Sloan	Lecture	4/21/2023
- Plenary Session II: Interpretive Worldview and the Date of the Exodus	Michael A. Grisanti	Lecture	4/23/2022
Towards a Granular Reading of Yaakov's Letter: Some Initial Proposals	Victor Jacobs		4/23/2022
Paul's Masterful Construction of Poetry in Rom. 3:10–19 as Proof for Early Christian Comprehension	Timothy Decker		4/23/2022
The Law as God's Second Choice: A Close Reading of Exodus 19	Thomas A. Keiser		4/23/2022
Wirkungsgeschichte in the Economy of Grace: Towards a Virtuous Reception of Scripture in the Letter of James	Rodrigo Sanchez		4/23/2022
The Panorama of Biblical History: An Approach to Teaching Biblical Chronology through a Sequence of Period Student Presentations	Robert W. Smith		4/23/2022
For a Real, Not a Sham Christianity: Francis Grimke, the Gospel, and Justice	Robert F Schwarzwalder		4/23/2022
Reconstructing the Corinthian Correspondence: Paul's Ephesus Ministry and Response to a Community in Disarray	Paul Palma	Lecture	4/23/2022
A Social-Scientific Reading of Zechariah's Status Reversal in Luke 1:5–25	Michael Blythe		4/23/2022
Paul's Use of the Interpretive Method in Developing a Christian Sexual Ethic	Lance Bacon		4/23/2022
The Anthropology of the Imagination in Thomas Aquinas	Kyle Smith	Lecture	4/23/2022
The Copernican Revolution, New England Puritans, and Early Harvard	Jim Melnick		4/23/2022
Primeval Chronology Revisited: A Closer Look at Genesis 5 and 11	Henry B Smith		4/23/2022
The Mystery in Biblical Interpretation: Why Do Godly Scholars Understand the Bible Differently?	Greg Kame		4/23/2022
Salt and Light: Reading Matthew 5:13–16 within the Context of the Matthean Community (student paper)	Frans Pienaar		4/23/2022
Calvin's Interpretive Approach in light of Paul's Chronological Midrash (Romans 9)	David R. Wallace		4/23/2022
The Syriac and Greek Texts of Luke 1:78 and the Interpretation of Certain Old Testament Messianic Prophecies: Evidence from the Peshitta Old Testament and the LXX	Daniel L. McConaughy		4/23/2022
Blood Covenants in the Hebrew Bible	Daniel Gilbert		4/23/2022
Isaiah's Incomparability: Appeal for Yahweh's Superiority	Dan Sloan		4/23/2022
King of Land and Time: Temporal and Spatial Deixis in Matthew 2	Corne Bekker and Carrie Wood		4/23/2022
I Tertius . . . Answering Bart Ehrman's Forged...Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are	Gregg Strawbridge	Lecture	3/2/2013
The Morass of Sam Harris's Moral Landscape	Gregg Strawbridge	Lecture	3/2/2012
Defending Constantine (3): The Legacy of AntiConstantinianism	Peter J. Leithart	Lecture	3/2/2012
Defending Constantine (2): Kings Shall Come from You	Peter J. Leithart	Lecture	3/2/2012
Defending Constantine (1): An Overview	Peter J. Leithart	Lecture	3/2/2012
The Case for Life After Death	Dinesh D'Souza	Lecture	3/4/2011
Defending Christianity in Our Secular Culture	Dinesh D'Souza	Lecture	3/3/2011
A Biblical Basis for Social and Political Involvement within a Traditional Dispensational Framework	Thomas Ice		1/31/2011
The Church Calendar and Spiritual Formation	Gregg Strawbridge	Lecture	3/26/2010
Postmodernism, the Emerging Church and Evangelicalism (Part 1)	Alan Roxburgh		3/23/2007
Domesticating the Gospel? A Response to Criticisms of Postmodern Evangelical Theology	John R. Franke		3/23/2007
Stephen Hague The Signs and Seals of the Two Covenants of Works in the History of Creation and Redemption: “Then they will know that I AM YHWH”
Stephen Fix Interpreting Philippians 3:3 in Light of Ambrose, Augustine, and Aquinas: Demonstrating the Divinity of the Holy Spirit	Stephen Fix
Jack Davis Is the One God of the Old Testament and Judaism Exactly the Same God as the Trinitarian God— Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—of the New Testament and Christian Creeds?	Jack Davis
Corné J. Bekker Cursus Honorum or Cursus Pudorum: The Mimetic Christological Leadership of Jesus Christ as a Challenge to the Timocratic Leadership of the Roman Emperors of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty (24 BC– AD 68) as Exemplified in the Carmen Christi (Ph	Corne Bekker
Carrie Wood Reading the Gospels Spatially: Situating the Recipients in the Context of Social and Political Unrest of the First Century	Carrie Wood
David Alan Black A Sturzian Solution to the Problem of “Original Text” in Three Ancient Near Eastern Texts: Eph. 1:1; Matt. 5:22; and John 3:13	David Alan Black
Daniel McConaughy An Odor at Pentecost and Old Syriac Texts of Acts 2:2	Daniel L. McConaughy
- Plenary Session II Scott Stripling Ritual Purity in the Late Second Temple Period	Scott Stripling
Robert W. Herron Jr. Simultaneity in Mark’s Story About Jesus’ Trial and Peter’s Denial: Mark 14:53–72	Robert W Herron
- Plenary Session I Scott Stripling A Seminal Inscription from Mt. Ebal: Cursed by the God YHW	Scott Stripling
Kevin Koslowsky The Whole Counsel of God: A Pauline Practice for Today’s Pulpit Room: Demo Lab	Kevin Koslowsky
Melissa Davis The Love Command as Worship	Melissa Davis
John Ronning Bait and Switch: Biblical Archaeology and the Historicity of the Bronze Age Biblical Narratives	John Ronning
Lucas Moncada III The Meaning of in Classical Antiquity and the Implications for LXX Isaiah 7:14	Lucas Moncada
Mac McIntyre Forward Pointing in the Gospel of Matthew: A Solution to Matthew’s Inexplicit Citation in Matt. 26	Mac McIntyre
Henry Smith Jr. On the Migration of Abram: An Overview of Genesis 11:26–12:5 Room: Scholar’s Initiative	Henry B Smith
Gloria Hague Consequences of Theological Positioning in the Lives and Friendships of J. Gresham Machen, All	Gloria Hague
Jordan Jones The Gift of Gab Shutting Up: The Hand-on-Mouth Gesture as an Expression of Deferential Silence in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East	Jordan Jones
Kevin Washington Confronting the Evangelical Gaze: Christian Theology as Story and Song	Kevin Washington
- Plenary Session I: Interpretive Worldview and the Chronology of the Patriarchs	Michael A. Grisanti	Lecture
Robert D. Anderson - Is “the prophet like Moses” (a narrative theme within the gospel of John) the hermeneutical key to understanding John 6:35-40?
God Wills It: A Reading of the Pactum Salutis Toward a Deliberative Model of the Divine WilltoCreate	Nathan Sundt
Exodus 32:10-14: The Day God Changed His Mind Or Did He? Reconciling Gods Immutability with His Mobility	Peter Ndaita
Why Moses? ReEvaluating the Reference to Moses in Heb. 3:16	Timothy Bertolet
Walter Foster God the Farmer: The Role of Agriculture in Yahwehs Covenant with Israel	Walter Foster
Todd Mangum Protestants and Old Testament Theology Improving on Our History	Todd Mangum
The Relationship Between the Justification and Sanctification in the Structure of Calvins Soteriology: Toward a More Nuanced Approach	Michael Christ
The Pistis Christou Debate and Pauline Theology	Kevin McFadden
The Pentecost and Redemptive History	Jeong Koo Jeon
The Moral Obligation to Reflect Gods Beauty	Christian Smith
The God Who Reveals: A Response to Schellenbergs Hiddenness Argument	Dan Wiley
The Exalted King of Power and the Communion of Saints in Herman Bavincks Reformed Dogmatics	Justin McLendon
Toby Hills-Credle - The Attributes of God in African-American Spirituals	Toby Hills-Credle
Secular Man and the Revelation of God: Advancing the Line of Reformation Epistemology in the 21st Century with Carl F. H. Henry	Isaac Seo
Reforming the Secular: Ecclesial Counterformations and Ordinary Affirmations with James K. A. Smith and Charles Taylor	Andrew Thrasher
Mark Hassler Evaluating Hermeneutical Principles Concerning the Godhead in the Old Testament	Mark A. Hassler
Mark Farnham How Far Will We Go to Save Lives? The Medical Ethics of Organ Transplantation	Mark Farnham
Kevin Koslowsky Exclusivity and Ecumenicity: A Theological Case Study Donald Gray Barnhouse	Kevin Koslowsky
Joshua Brownfield Dissenting Dissenters: Richard Baxter and Joseph Alleine on Conversion	Joshua Brownfield
John Ronning Seven Keys to the Interpretation of Genesis 3:15	John Ronning
Is the prophet like Moses a narrative theme within the gospel of John the hermeneutical key to understanding the neuter singular use of in John 6:3540?	Robert D. Anderson
Is It Time to Stop Talking about Evangelicalism and Start Talking about Evangelicalisms?	Mark Draper
God's Aseity: Is your god worthy of worship?	Gregg Strawbridge
God Is...: A Reformed Position and Response on the Simplicity of God	Austin Hess
Doug McCready Resistance and Rebellion in the Reformed Tradition: An Overview and Assessment	Doug McCready
Dazzling Discoveries in Cell Biology Demolish Darwinism	Merrill Cohen
Current Roman Catholic Perspectives on the Metaethics of Natural Law	Kyle Smith
Alan Kurschner The Theological WordConcept Fallacy: James Barrs Linguistic Critique Then and Now	Alan E. Kurschner
A Call to Piety: A New Interpretation of The Judgment of Martin Luther on Monastic Vows	Neal Martin
Does God Feel? God's Impassibility: Does God Have Passions?	James Dolezal
-Plenary 01 - God's Simplicity: God Without Parts	James Dolezal
The Son of God's Ignorance in Mt 24:36: Textual and Redaction Criticism	Daniel Wallace	Lecture
Preserving the Word: The Work of the CSNTM	Daniel Wallace	Lecture
Tischendorf and the Discovery of the Codex Sinaiticus	Daniel Wallace	Lecture
Social Justice and American Politics and the Church (2)	James Skillen	Lecture
Social Justice and American Politics (1)	James Skillen	Lecture
Biblical Worship Environments which Recapitulate Edenic Environments	Gregg Strawbridge	Lecture
Was Bonhoeffer an Evangelical?	Stephen J. Nichols
ETS 2012 Caring for Creation 03 (Environmental View)	Richard Bauckham	Lecture
ETS 2012 Caring for Creation 02 (Moderation View)	Russell Moore	Lecture
ETS 2012 Caring for Creation 04 (Activist VIew)	Douglas Moo	Lecture
ETS 2012 Caring for Creation 01 (Dominion View)	Calvin Beisner	Lecture
ETS 2012 - Caring for Creation 05 Panel Discussion on Global Warming	Douglas Moo	Lecture

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