SBL Meeting in November

I'm back from a trip to Haiti. While I was gone, the SBL released the online program for its Fall meeting. I'll be participating in back-to-back sessions on Saturday.

S22-217 Greek Bible 11/22/2014 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM Room: Room 30 D (Upper level) - San Diego Convention Center (CC)Theme: Open Session Ed Gallagher, Heritage Christian University Augustine on the Greek and Hebrew Bible (30 min) Francesca Schironi , University of Michigan Origen and P.Grenf. 1.5 (30 min) Courtney Friesen, University of Oxford Getting Samuel Sober: A Plus in LXX 1 Sam 1:11 and Its Ethical Afterlife (30 min) Dirk Büchner, Trinity Western University Thoughts on the Influence of the Pentateuch on later Translational Praxis. (30 min)

S22-316 Function of Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal Writings in Early Judaism and Early Christianity 11/22/2014 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM Room: 400 A (Level 4 (Sapphire)) - Hilton Bayfront (HB)Theme: Function of Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal Writings in Africa Ed Gallagher, Heritage Christian University The Antilegomena in Rufinus of Aquileia (30 min) Hany N. Takla, St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society The Change in the reception of the Old Testament Apocrypha (Deutrocanonical) in the Coptic Church (30 min) Jack Collins, University of Virginia "Degraded from Their Heavenly Vigour": Fallen Angels, the Testament of Solomon, and the Demonology of the Early African Church (30 min) Pierre Johan Jordaan, North-West University (South Africa) The Reception of The Martyr texts in 2 Maccabees 6 and 7 in a Multicultural South African Environ ment (30 min) Business Meeting (30 min)