Psychology and Biblical Studies

 

Program Sessions

Annual Meeting, November 21-24, 2009
New Orleans, LA

Jesus The Village Psychiatrist, A Critique and Appreciation

Saturday, November 21, 2009
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Edgewood AB

A review of Donald Capps' Jesus, the Village Psychiatrist (Westminster John Knox 2008)

J. Harold Ellens, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Presiding

Panel:

Donald Capps, Princeton Theological Seminary, Respondent

The Secret Gospel of Mark, Sex, Death, and Madness:
The Psychodynamics of Morton Smith's Proposal

Saturday, November 21, 2009
4:00 PM to 6:30
PM Bacchus Suite

Critical response to The Secret Gospel of Mark Unveiled; Imagined Ritual of Sex, Death, and Madness in a Biblical Forgery, by Peter G. Jeffery [See the reviews of The Secred Gospel of Mark Unveiled at the Review of Biblical Literature.]

J. Harold Ellens, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Presiding

Panel

Peter Jeffery, Princeton University, Respondent

Otherness and Motherness:
Psychological Forays into the Hebrew Scriptures

Monday, November 23, 2009
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
La Galerie 6

D. Andrew Kille, Presiding

Barbara Mei Leung Lai, Tyndale Seminary
Total Otherness, Self-Condemnation, and "Mission Impossible":
A Psycho-Dramatic Reading of Isaiah 6

Ginny Brewer-Boydston, Baylor University
Overbearing Mothers and Childhood Regression:
A Feminist Psychoanalytic Reading of Judges 4-5

Adrien J. Bledstein, Independent Scholar, Chicago
David's Mother

D. Andrew Kille, Bible Workbench, Respondent

Psychology and Biblical Studies Section Business Meeting

New Testament Texts and Methods: Jesus, Marriage, and Personality

Monday, November 23, 2009
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Napoleon D3

Wayne Rollins, Hartford Seminary, Presiding

Bas van Os, Free University of Amsterdam
The role Jesus played in Gods narrative

Leslie J. Francis, Warwick University
Psychological type and biblical hermeneutics: an empirical enquiry among Anglican lay preachers

Andrew Village, York St John University, UK
The Bible and Clergy: Psychological type and biblical interpretation among Anglican clergy in England

Wayne Rollins, Hartford Seminary, Respondent