If you’ve never been to a conference of the Evangelical Theological Society and you wonder what you might hear there, I thought I’d give you a list of the presentations I attended. \u00a0 In most cases, the presenter reads his paper. \u00a0 Sometimes he hands out his paper or an outline.<\/p>\n
There were many sessions that I could not attend because of schedule conflicts (there are probably 25 sessions going on simultaneously). \u00a0 Sometimes I chose the subject over the presenter, and sometimes I chose to hear a presenter when another subject was of greater interest. \u00a0 Overall, my experience this year was very positive<\/em>.<\/p>\n Bryant Wood, “Tracking the Israelites in the Sinai Wilderness”<\/strong> \u2013 if he’s right, Mount Sinai was not much more than a speedbump. \u00a0 (I don’t think he’s right.)<\/p>\n Doug Petrovich, “A Search for Historical Evidence of Joseph’s Impact on Egypt”<\/strong> \u2013 this could be very interesting as he continues research.<\/p>\n Seth Rodriquez, “Site Identification: In Search of a Methodology?”<\/strong> \u2013 doesn’t this sound like a great topic?<\/p>\n Robert Thomas, “The Hermeneutics of Integrity”<\/strong> \u2013 I’m not sure what kind of genitive we have here, but he made some important points.<\/p>\n Gary E. Yates, “Isaiah’s Promise of the Restoration of Zion and Its Canonical Development”<\/strong> \u2013 possibly the most interesting paper (32 pages long!), given my current obsession.<\/p>\n Bryan Cribb, “A Series of Unfortunate Events: How Hezekiah’s Interrupted Death Story Hails the Exile”<\/strong> \u2013 I’m much more into these kind of studies than I used to be.<\/p>\n Richard Hess, “Personal and Social Ethics among the Canaanites”<\/strong> \u2013 he started off the lecture with “You can’t trust what the Bible says about the Canaanites.” \u00a0 Yep, that’s the Hess I know and (don’t) love.<\/p>\n Charlie Trimm, “David, the Warrior After God’s Own Heart? The Ethics of David’s International Wars according to the Narrator of 2 Samuel”<\/strong> – excellent presentation; one that makes me glad I went to ETS this year.<\/p>\n John Oswalt, “Summary of ‘The Bible among the Myths ‘”<\/strong> \u2013 good insights and nice to hear the voice behind the commentary (of Isaiah)<\/p>\n Bruce Waltke, “Being Money-Wise according to the Book of Proverbs”<\/strong> \u2013 I went to this more to hear the speaker than for the topic. \u00a0 Yet it made me want to spend the rest of my life studying Proverbs.<\/p>\n I didn’t go to a single plenary session. \u00a0 That may have contributed to my positive experience mentioned above. \u00a0 The above accounts for two of my four days in New Orleans. \u00a0 The other two days I was at the Bible and Archaeology Fest and I plan to comment on some of those good lectures on the BiblePlaces Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n I ate meals with a variety of people, including three former IBEX students, one seminary classmate, one DTS professor, one TMC Bible professor I had not met, and one fellow Texan who I “met” through my (other?) blog. \u00a0 I also met and talked briefly with the author of another two-volume Isaiah commentary that I am really enjoying. \u00a0 I mentioned previously that I would be rooming with our church’s pastor and youth pastor; that went very well (except for the snoring).<\/p>\n As for academic conferences, Justin Taylor yesterday on his blog provided a couple of quotations on the Value of Academic Conferences<\/a> that are both humorous and serious. \u00a0 I entirely agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’ve never been to a conference of the Evangelical Theological Society and you wonder what you might hear there, I thought I’d give you a list of the presentations I attended. \u00a0 In most cases, the presenter reads his paper. \u00a0 Sometimes he hands out his paper or an outline. There were many sessions\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,37,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isaiah","category-studies","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}