Psychology and Biblical Studies Section
SBL Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia • Nov 20-23, 2010
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S20-128 The Making of Fornication: Book Review
A review of Kathy Gaca, The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003)
Saturday, November 20, 2010
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: International 5 - Marriott Marquis
Raymond Lawrence, College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy, Presiding
Panel:
- J. Harold Ellens, Independent Scholar in Psychology and Biblical Theology
- Donald Capps, Princeton Theological Seminary
- Bernadette Brooten, Brandeis University
- Anthony De Orio, Independent Scholar and Psychologist in Private Practice
- Kathy Gaca, Vanderbilt University, Respondent
S20-231 New models for Psychological Criticism
Exploration of new methods and theories for psychological biblical criticism.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: International 9 - Marriott Marquis
D. Andrew Kille, BibleWorkbench, Presiding
Kamila Blessing, Blessing Transitions Consulting and Mediation Services
Thaumaturgical Mediation: Conflict Resolution in the Family of GodRobert Williamson, Jr., Hendrix College
“The Wise Die along with the Fool”: Terror Management Theory and the Book of Qohelet
(pdf only)Marion Carson, International Christian College
Religion, Religiosity, and Paul's Letter to the GalatiansMichael Newheart, Howard University, Respondent
Business Meeting
S22-240 Cognitive Approaches to the Bible
Monday, November 22, 2010
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: A708 - Marriott Marquis
Heather McKay, Edge Hill University, Presiding
John Teehan, Hofstra University
Constructing Yahweh: A Case Study in the Cognitive-Critical Method of Biblical StudiesKarl McDaniel, McGill University
Suspicion Regarding Peter’s Salvation:
Suspense, Emotive Affect, and the Structure of Matthew’s GospelMetsämuuronen Jari, The Finnish National Board of Education
Why Jesus used Parables?
Jesus’ teachings from the Cognitive and Constructive psychology viewpoint (pdf only)D. Andrew Kille, BibleWorkbench
Imitating Christ: Jesus as a Model in Cognitive Learning TheoryWayne Rollins, Hartford Seminary, Respondent
S23-127 The Bible in Healing and Transformation
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Courtland - Hyatt Regency
Barbara Leung Lai, Presiding
Ilona N. Rashkow, New York University
Medicine and Judaism: Physical and Psychological ConceptsHeather McKay, Edge Hill University
Performing the Psalms: Placebo or Healing?Elizabeth Berne DeGear, Union Theological Seminary
The Bible as Transformational Object: The psychoanalytic theories of Christopher Bollas and their relevance for religious educators, pastors and scholarsTiffany Houck-Loomis, Union Theological Seminary
Good God?!? Lamentations As A Model For Mourning The Loss Of The Good GodJ. Harold Ellens, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Respondent
Papers of Interest in Other Program Groups
- Barbara M. Leung Lai, Tyndale Seminary: Engaging Bakhtin Tri-focally: The Meet/Melt-ing Point of Psychology, Literary Studies, and the Empirics of Reading (The Case of Isaiah 49)
Bakhtin and the Biblical Imagination; 11/20/2010, 9:00 AM to 11:15 AM
Room: International 9 - Marriott Marquis - Janet Rumfelt, University of Denver: The Ruptured Self: War, Psychic Trauma, and the Promise of Narrative Repair
Warfare in Ancient Israel 11/20/2010, 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: M104 - Marriott Marquis - Stuart Zola, Emory University:
Recent Developments in the Science of Memory
J. Harold Ellens, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor: Memory, Psychology and Biblical Studies
Bible in Ancient and Modern Media 11/22/2010, 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: A707 - Marriott Marquis - J. Harold Ellens, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor,On Sick Gods and Sick People; Wayne Rollins, Hartford Seminary, The Assessment Thus Far: Critique of Capps and Helsel; F. Morgan Roberts, Retired Pastor, God's Melancholia;
Anthony De Orio, Alpha Psychological Services, Psychologist in Private Practice: God as Bipolar or Paranoid Schizophrenic
Diagnosing God, 11/21/2010, 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Greenbriar - Hyatt Regency
