Society of Biblical Literature 2010 Sessions Posted

SBL has published the sessions for the upcoming conference in Atlanta. The link is here and I will be presenting in the following three sessions (Sorry, all the links take you back to the SBL site. I will clean that up later.):

Session Id TBD Aramaic Studies 11/21/2010 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM Room: Room TBD – Hotel TBDChristian Brady, Pennsylvania State University, Presiding Peter Y. Lee, Reformed Theological Seminary; Catholic University A Poetic Analysis of Qumran Text 4Q246 (30 min) David L. Everson, Xavier University Pseudo-Jonathan’s Nun Problem (30 min) Aaron Koller, Yeshiva University The distribution and function of the direct object marker (iy)yat in Middle Aramaic (30 min) Bezalel Porten, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Databasing the Idumean Ostraca (30 min) Ed Cook, Catholic University of America, The Sin and Salvation, Aramaic Style: Reflections on the Aramaic Vocabulary of Sin in the Light of Gary Anderson’s “Sin: a History” (30 min)

Session Id TBD E-Publish or Perish? 11/21/2010 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM Room: Room TBD – Hotel TBDTheme: Sponsored by SBL Publications Enthusiasm for electronic scholarship, like the technology that enables it, seems destined to grow exponentially into the foreseeable future. To help scholars and students navigate this dense and ever-shifting landscape, SBL Publications is sponsoring a special session on the challenges and opportunities presented by e-publishing. In this overview, panelists with hands-on electronic publishing experience discuss some of the open-access forms that e-publishing may take, including monograph series, online journals, blogs, and online resources, then answer questions from the audience. Possible future sessions may explore other issues related to e-scholarship, such as tenure/promotion review, rights and copyright, open access, and using e-scholarship in the classroom. Charles Jones, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, Presiding Charles Jones, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, Introduction (10 min) Christian Brady, Pennsylvania State University, Panelist (15 min) Ehud Ben Zvi, University of Alberta, Panelist (15 min) Caroline Vander Stichele, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Panelist (15 min) Ian Scott, Tyndale University College and Seminary (Ontario), Panelist (15 min) Charles Jones, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, Respondent (20 min) Discussion (30 min)

Session Id TBD Blogger and Online Publication 11/22/2010 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM Room: Room TBD – Hotel TBDTheme: The Past, Present, and Future of Blogging and Online Publication James Davila, University of St. Andrews-Scotland What Just Happened:  The rise of “biblioblogging” in the first decade of the twenty-first century (25 min) Christian Brady, Pennsylvania State University University Park Online Biblical Studies: Past, Present, Promise, and Peril (25 min) Michael Barber, John Paul the Great Catholic University Weblogs and the Academy: The Benefits and Challenges of Biblioblogging (25 min) James McGrath, Butler University The Blogging Revolution: New Technologies and their Impact on How we do Scholarship (25 min) Robert R. Cargill, University of California, Los Angeles Instruction, Research, and the Future of Online Educational Technologies (25 min)