Summary of Annual SBL Meeting Programs
in Psychology and Biblical Studies, 1991-2007
Psychology
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2008 Abuse and Healing in Biblical Texts European Perspectives |
2007 From Anger to Atonement, Inadequacy to Grace: Emotional Transference and Transformation in the Bible Psychology and the Bible in Practice: Clinic & Classroom Psychology and the Bible in Practice: Congregation & Community |
2006 Psychology, the Bible, In the Valley of the Shadow: Despair, Depression, and Trauma in the Bible |
2005 Anger & Aggression Bible & Violence |
2004 Psychological Views of Biblical Law, Jesus and Divine Retribution |
2003 Methods and Explorations in Psychological Criticism |
2002 Review of Two Books |
2001 Review of Kille, |
2000 Review of Two Books |
1999 Review of Rollins' Soul and Psyche |
1998 Drewermann |
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Psychology
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1997 |
1996 |
1995 |
1994 Gnostic Litreature and Jung Texts and Stories |
Psychology
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1991 |
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1999 (Boston)
Session 1: Psychological Aspects of Biblical Apocalypticism Ilona N. Rashkow, presiding
- Dereck M. Daschke, The University of Chicago,
"`Because of My Grief I have Spoken:' The Psychology of Loss in 4 Ezra" - Andre Lacocque, Chicago Theological Seminary,
"Millennium and Apocalyptic: The Old Sheds Light on the New" . - Charles T. Davis, III, Appalachian State University,
"Revelation Chapter Seventeen: An Enduring Foundation for Millennial Expectations" . - J. Harold Ellens, University of Michigan,
"Psychological Aspects of Biblical Apocalypticism" - Respondent for all papers: Michael Willett Newheart, Howard University School of Divinity .
Session 2. Review of Wayne G. Rollins, Soul and Psyche: The Bible
in Psychological Perspective,
Paul N. Anderson, Yale Divinity School, Presiding
- Wayne G. Rollins, Assumption College, Introduction and Conclusion
- Review and Discussion: .
- Marcus J. Borg, Oregon State University
- Schuyler Brown, St. Michael's College, Toronto
- Walter Wink, Auburn Theological Seminary
- Donald Capps, Princeton Theological Seminary
- D. Andrew Kille, Santa Clara University/ Holy Names College
- Ilona N. Rashkow, State University of New York at Stony Brook
- J. Harold Ellens, University of Michigan
1998 (Orlando)
Session 1: Psychological Models for Textual Interpretation. Kamila Blessing, presiding
- Paul N. Anderson on his book, The Christology of the Fourth Gospel (Trinity Press International, 1997)
Respondent: James W. Fowler - Petri Merenlahti, "The Dynamics of the Gospel Narratives: Can Psychoanalytic
Criticism Contribute to a Dynamic Approach to the Gospels?"
Respondent: D. Andrew Kille - Schuyler Brown on his book, Text and Psyche: Experiencing Scripture
Today (Continuum, 1998)
Respondent: Walter Wink
Session 2: Depth Psychology and Exegesis: The Work of Eugen Drewermann, Wayne G. Rollins, presiding
- Matthias Beier, Beyond Historical Criticism: Eugen Drewermann's Psychological
Hermeneutics .
Respondent: David L. Miller - Bernhard Lang, Romantic and Eliadean Elements in the Thought of Eugen
Drewermann .
Respondent: R. Todd Wise - Annette G. Esser, Bibliodrama, Drewermann and Psychological Hermeneutics
Respondent: Margaret G. Alter . - Wayne G. Rollins, Business Meeting and Planning Session
1997 (San Francisco)
Session 1: Two Book Reviews on Works in Psychology and Biblical Studies Wayne G. Rollins, presiding
- Stevan L. Davies, Misericordia College: Jesus the Healer:
Possession, Trance, and the Origins of Christianity (New York: Continuum,
1995)
Respondents: John J. Pilch, Georgetown University; Walter Wink, Auburn Theological Senunary - John W. Miller, Conrad Grebel College and University of Waterloo: Jesus at Thirty: A Psychological and Historical Portrait (Minneapolis:
Fortress, 1997) .
Respondents: Marcus Borg, Oregon State University; D. Andrew Kille, Graduate Theological Union
Session 2: Soul and Psyche in Biblical and Psychological Perspective Charles T. Davis, III, presiding
- Andrew LaCocque, Chicago Theological Seminary "The Soul in
Hebrew Scriptures: A Contemporary Psychological Perspective"
Respondent: Lynn Bechtel, Moravian Theological Seminary - Michael Willett Newheart, Howard University School of Divinity "The Soul in the New Testament: A Contemporary Psychological Perspective"
Respondent: Schuyler Brown, St. Michael's College, Toronto - Jeffrey H. Boyd, Waterbury Hospital, Waterbury, CT "Reclaiming
the Soul: A Biblical Psychological-Critical Enterprise"
Respondent: J. Harold Ellens, University of Michigan
1996 (New Orleans)
Session 1: Psychology and Biblical Studies: Retrospect and Prospect Wayne G. Rollins, presiding
- J. Harold Ellens, "The Bible and Psychology, An Interdisciplinary Pilgrimage" .
- Walter Wink, "The Bible in Human Transformation: Retrospect and Prospect" .
- Dereck M. Daschke, "The Apocalyptic Unconscious: A Graduate Student's Revelations" .
- D. Andrew Kille, "A Degree in What? Psychological Biblical Criticism from a Graduate Student's Point of View"
Session 2: Biblical Figures and Texts in Psycho-Hermeneutical Perspective Kamila Blessing, presiding
- William Morrow, "Toxic Religion and the Daughters of Job" .
- Robert Neuwoehner, " A Reflection of the Great Mother in Ancient Israel: The Deborah-Jael Narrative from a Psycho-Symbolic Perspective" .
- Anna D. Piskorowski, "The Faceless Eve"
- Respondent: Margaret G. Alter .
- Wayne G. Rollins, Group Organizational and Planning Session
1995 (Philadelphia)
Psychological Models for Biblical Interpretation
Session 1: Wayne G. Rollins, presiding
- Martin J. Buss, "The Social Psychology of Prophecy"
- Ralph L. Underwood, "Primordial Texts: An Object Relations Approach to Biblical Hermeneutics"
- Bernhard Lang, "A New Voice in Psychological Exegesis: Eugen Drewermann"
Session 2: Michael Willett Newheart, presiding
- Margaret G. Alter, "Prophet as a Psychological Construct in Mark 5: 25-34: A Clinician's Perspective"
- Kamila Blessing, 'Murray Bowen's Systems Psychodynamics as Hermeneutic"
- Thomas F. Dailey, O.S.F.S., "The Wisdom of Job: Moral Maturity or Religious Reckoning?"
- Charles T. Davis, III, "PSYBIBS: Our Seminar in Cyberspace"
- Panelists: Arthur Freeman, D. Andrew Kille
1994 (Chicago)
Biblical Texts and Stories in Psychological-Hermeneutical Perspective
Session 1: Gnostic Literature and Jungian Exegesis. Wayne G. Rollins presiding
- Robert A. Segal, "The Allure of Gnosticism for Jung"
- Schuyler Brown, "'Begotten, Not Created:' The Gnostic Use of Language in Jungian Perspective"
- Murray Stein, "The Gnostic Critique: Past and Present" .
- Respondents: Peter Homans, David L. Miller, Dan Merkur, Elaine H. Pagels
Session 2: Biblical Texts and Stories in Psychological Hermeneutical Perspective. Schuyler Brown, presiding
- Lyn M. Bechtel, "A Psychological Approach to Genesis 2:4b-3:24"
- D. Andrew Kille, "What is This to You? Psychological Reflections on Amos 5:18-20"
- Dan Merkur, "And He Trusted Yahweh: Abram's Transformation in Genesis 12 13, 15"
- John J. Schmitt, "Yahweh and His Foundling: Psychological Reflections on Ezekiel 16"
- Panelists: Kamila Blessing, Michael Willett Newheart
1993 (Washington, D. C.)
Psychological Models for Textual Interpretation
Session 1: Marcus J. Borg presiding.
- Wayne G. Rollins, `Rationale and Agenda for a Psychological-Critical Approach to the Bible and its Interpretation" .
- James E. Dittes, "Psychologist as Hermeneutical Sounding Board" .
- David L. Miller, "Teaching Biblical Imagery with Psychological Likeness"
- Respondents: Gary A. Phillips, Donald Capps.
Session 2: Wayne G. Rollins presiding
- Paul N. Anderson, "Cognitive Origins of John's Unitive and Disunitive Christology"
- Kamila Blessing, "Luke's Unjust Steward Viewed from the Window of Milton Erickson"
- Sarah J. Dille, "'You shall call me "My Father"': Psychological Perspectives on the Fatherhood of God in the Hebrew Bible"
- Laura Rey Spicer, "Rationalizing the Domination of Women: The Splitting and Idealization of the Levite's Concubine in Judges 19-21"
- Panelists: J. Harold Ellens, Dan Merkur
1992 (San Francisco)
Future Directions for Psychology and Biblical Studies
Wayne G. Rollins presiding
- David L. Miller, "Abysmal Melodies and Dazzling Remembrance: Teaching a Hermeneutics of Depth Psychology and the Bible"
- Regina Schwartz, "Freud and Moses"
- Walter Wink, "Who is Like the Beast? (Rev. 12-113): Toward a Social Psychology of Domination"
- Respondents: James Goss, Ilona N. Rashkow, Paul W. Hollenbach
1991 (Kansas City)
Psychology and Biblical Studies in Historical and Contemporary Perspective
Marcus J. Borg presiding
- Wayne G. Rollins, "Psychology and Biblical Studies: An Historical Overview"
- David J. Halperin, "Psychoanalysis and the Bible: Ezekiel's Personality Reconsidered"
- Respondents and Panelists: Marcus J. Borg, Adela Y. Collins, Walter Wink, Wilhelm Wuellner
