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Psychology and Biblical Studies Section

Annual Meeting, November 17-20, 2007
San Diego, CA

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S18-128 The Aha! of a Ha!: Psychological Insights into Biblical Humor

Sunday, November 18, 2007, 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Columbia 3 - MM

Matthew Goff, Florida State University, Presiding

Howard R. Macy, George Fox University
Psychological Roots of the Bible’s Humor

Jesper Svartvik, Lund University
“Those Who Passed by Derided Him”: Scornful Laughter as a Moral Criterion

Adrien J. Bledstein, Independent Scholar
Laughter in the Book of Job?

Michael Willett Newheart, Howard University
Cleaning the Lepered Skins: A Pun-filled Perspective on Luke 17:11-19

Respondent

J. Harold Ellens, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

 

S19-29 From Anger to Atonement, Inadequacy to Grace:
Emotional Transference and Transformation in the Bible

Monday, November 19, 2007, 9:00 am to 11:30 am
Ford A - GH

Dereck Daschke, Truman State University, Presiding

Deena Grant, New York University/Hofstra University
Human Anger in Biblical Literature

Robin Gallaher Branch, Crichton College
The Power of Anger: Tiptoeing Around Xerxes

Angela Son, Drew University
Inadequate Innocence, Audacious Inadequacy

Dan Merkur, University of Toronto
The Transference onto God

Respondent

Benjamin Abelow

 

S19-77 Psychology and the Bible in Practice: Clinic & Classroom

Monday, November 19, 2007, 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Edward B - GH

Wayne Rollins, Hartford Seminary, Presiding

J. Harold Ellens, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Grace Theology in Psychotherapy

Ronald R. Clark, Jr., George Fox Evangelical Seminary
Many Psychologists Can Bring Victory. Really!

Susan Harris Howell, Campbellsville University
Students' Perceptions of Jesus' Personality

Barbara Mei Leung Lai, Tyndale Seminary
Fostering a "Whole-Brained" Scholastic Experience in Classroom Teaching

Business Meeting

 

S19-118 Psychology and the Bible in Practice: Congregation & Community

Monday, November 19, 2007, 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Emma A - GH

Jill McNish, Presiding

D. Andrew Kille, Interfaith Space
Four Springs That Ground an Experience of the Sacred

Kamden Strunk, Evangel University
Spirit Baptism and Empowerment:
Self- and Peer-Perceived Performance and Community Expectations

Beth Bidlack, University of Chicago
Differentiating Elijah: A Study of 1 Kings 19

Denise Dombkowski Hopkins, Wesley Theological Seminary
and Michael S. Koppel, Wesley Theological Seminary
Reading with Rahab: Liminality and Interpathy in Joshua 2

Respondent

Donna Lindsey, United Church of Christ

 

 

 

   

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