VANDERBI LT U N I VE RS I T Y

Department of Religious Studies

READING COMMUNITIES, READING SCRIPTURE, READING RESPONSIBLY A S Y M P O S I U M TO C E L E B R A T E THE R E T I R E M E N T OF P R O F E S S O R D A N I E L P A T T E SATURDAY 0 6 APRIL 2 0 1 3 8:40-WELCOME

Tony K. Stewart, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities & Chair, Department of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University David Odell-Scott, Professor & Chair, Department of Philosophy; Coordinator, Religion Studies Program, Kent State University
MORNING MODERATOR

J Monya Stubbs, Assistant Professor of New Testament, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
8:45-10:15-SESSION I

Tat-siong Benny Liew, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean; Professor of New Testament, Pacific School of Religion "Reading Frameworks: Cady Stanton's Woman's Bible as a Case Study" Sejong Chun, Assistant Professor, Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary, Seoul, Korea "Context and Paul's Jerusalem Collection"
10: 1 5 - 1 0 : 3 Q - B R E A K 1 0 : 3 0 - 1 2 : 0 0 - S E S S I O N II

Timothy Cargal, Associate for Preparation for Ministry, Office of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S A.) '"A Worker ... Rightly Explaining the Word of Truth': Assessing Exegetical Competency in Candidates for Ordination in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)" Frank Kaufmann, President, Filial Projects; Founder and Director, Values in Knowledge Foundation "The Communities of Religion Scholars"
1 2 : 0 0 - 1 2 : 4 5 - LUNCH IN TLLLET LOUNGE AFTERNOON MODERATOR

Nicole Duran, New Testament Series Editor, Texts@Contexts Series, Fortress Press
1 2 : 4 5 - 2 : 1 5 - S E S S I O N III

Larry Welborn, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, Fordham University "Reading the Last Scripture: The Neighbor, The Kairos, The Awakening (Romans 13:8-14)" David Odell-Scott, Professor & Chair, Department of Philosophy; Coordinator, Religion Studies Program, Kent State University "Re-Mastering Paul's Letters to the Corinthians"
2:15-2:30-BREAK 2:30-4:00-SESSION IV

Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, Professor & Chair, Department of Religion; Jewish Studies Program Coordinator, Wheaton College '"Words of Torah about the Table over the Table:' Jewish Biblical Interpretation at Communal Meals"

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Yung Suk Kim, Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University "A Transformative Reading of Scripture: Explorations of Holistic Human Transformation"
4 : 0 0 - 4 : 1 5 - BREAK

4:15-5:45-SESSION V

Arthur Francis Carter, Jr., Graduate Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University "Black Christs: Signifyin' on John 18:33-40 with Two Lynching-Era Mulattos Creoles Black Americans" Gary Phillips, Dean of the College and Professor of Religion, Wabash College "More than the Jews . . . His Blood be Upon All the Children: Biblical Violence, Genocide, and Responsible Reading"
5 : 4 5 - 6 : 0 0 - CLOSING REMARKS

Daniel Patte, Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, Vanderbilt University

7 : 0 0 - ? ? ? ? - RECEPTION AND DINNER (FOR ALL A T T E N D I N G )

Hosted by Tony K. Stewart and Samira Sheikh at their home: 117 30th Avenue North Unit 704 Nashville, TN 37203 ph. 615.712.8071 (home) ph. 615.878.3231 (mobile)

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Daniel M. Patte, Ph.D.

Professor of Religious Studies
Daniel M. Patte, professor of Religious Studies and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, is an internationally acclaimed scholar focusing on New Testament hermeneutic traditions and the ethics of interpretation. He has been an active member of the Vanderbilt University Department of Religious Studies since 1971, serving as Department Chair for nearly two decades and subsequently as Director of Undergraduate Studies. In his capacity as Professor in the Graduate Department of Religion he has mentored nearly one PhD candidate for every year of his tenure at Vanderbilt University. He has received numerous honors during his years of service to the department, the university, and the field of Religious Studies. In the first three decades at Vanderbilt University, Daniel Patte was central to the creation of the new field of semiotics applied to the study of the New Testament, an experiment that had its roots in the Structural Study Group, a faculty and graduate student seminar he convened on the Vanderbilt campus that met weekly from 1978 to 1985, with contributing members from Religious Studies, French, German, English, Linguistics, Anthropology, and the Graduate Department of Religion. Shortly thereafter he helped found and served as General Editor (19921998) for SEMEIA: An Experimental Journal for Biblical Criticism. He is one of the most prolific scholars in the field of Religious Studies. In the last decade he began to explore multicultural interpretations of the New Testament, while he also served (19982011) with Cristina Grenholm as General Editor for 'Romans through History and Cultures' (T&T Clark), a series that has now produced ten volumes. He has published thirteen monographs in English and French, served as General Editor for two volumes of the Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, edited thirteen books of essays or special issues of journals, composed five short studies, translated two monographs, and contributed 196 articles and chapters in peer-reviewed publications. Professionally active in the American Academy of Religion, the Society for Biblical Literature, and Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, Professor Patte has also garnered research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Lilly Endowment, the Fulbright Program, and the Vanderbilt University Research Council.