The 2025 Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting and the 2025 European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Conference will take place as a joint meeting at Uppsala University 23-27 June. Nine scholars from VID’s research group CollECT will give papers at the conference. The “pre-SBL seminar” has become a tradition, giving VID colleagues and CollECT members an opportunity to hear the conference papers, and the presenters a chance to finetune their presentations.
Program
12:00 Welcome
12:10 Myriam Razanamaro: Doing Womanist Research as an African Woman in the Nordic Context (panel participation)
12:15 Tina Dykesteen Nilsen and Ida Eltervaag: Creator God: Genesis 1-3 and Sámi Contexts in Dialogue
12:45 Karin Hakalax: The Laius Complex in Job: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Sacrifice in the Book of Job
13:15 Helge Ask: Rebellious Angels in the Context of Empire
13:45 Ntozakhe Simon Cezula: Identity Formation in Genesis 17 and Acts 15: Insights from Social Identity and Covariation Theories
14:15 Break
14:30 Leonardo Marcondes Alves: The Bearer of the Letter: Return Migration and the Canonization of the Pauline Epistles
15:00 Brury Eko Saputra: Imitate Me (Μιμηταί Μου)! Reading 1 Cor 11:1 in Light of the Roman Auctoritas and the Chinese Guānxì (關係)-Miànzi (面子) Concepts
15:30 Anna Rebecca Solevåg: Bodies, Boundaries and Epidemic Discourse: Using Contagion to Think With during the Cyprianic Plague
In case of an unforseen cancellation, the back-up presenter is:
Beth Elness-Hanson: Ground of Being and Center of Hope: Reading Psalm 37 with the Maasai
The CollECT research group was fortunate to have members with second paper proposals accepted. Here we acknowledge their scholarship:
- Brury Eko Saputra: I Am to Whom I Relate: A Preliminary Guānxì (關係) Social Identity Reading of the Shema in 1 Cor 8–10
- Tina Dykesteen Nilsen: Hope and Courage: Reception in a Context of Environmental and Indigenous Concerns