British New Testament Conference 2007

hingram

The 26th annual meeting of the British New Testament Conference will be hosted by the University of Exeter from 6-8 September 2007. Main speakers are as follows:

Professor Morna Hooker: ‘Paul the Pastor: The Relevance of the Gospel’

Professor John Riches: ‘Reception History as Literary History’

Professor Larry Hurtado: ‘Early Christian Manuscripts as Artefacts: An Illustrated Presentation’

Details are available at http://www.ntgateway.com/bnts/index.html

On a personal note - I will be giving a paper entitled ‘Chirping, Muttering and Groaning: Magical Words of Healing in the Gospel of Mark’ to the Social World of the New Testament seminar (excuse the blatant plug) and I will post reports of the conference during/after the conference for those of you not attending.

DaBuster · Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Posts: 5 Location: Maryland, USA

Any chance we’ll be seeing your paper posted here? There was a positive reference to it on Davila’s PaleoJudaica blog (http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2007_09_09_archive.html#2984777860425721843)

hingram · Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 3:51 pm Post subject:

Thanks DaBuster. I was hoping to upload a copy of my paper as soon as possible, but publication commitments are making this difficult. We are working on a way around this - so watch this space!

Other blog reviews of this year's BNTC can be found here:
Sean the Baptist: http://seanthebaptist.typepad.com/sean_the_baptist/2007/09/british-new-tes.html
James Crossley: http://earliestchristianhistory.blogspot.com/2007/09/bntc-exter.html
Ben Blackwell: http://dunelm.wordpress.com/2007/09/09/review-british-nt-conference-2007/
Nijay Gupta: http://nijaygupta.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/british-new-testament-society-conference-exeter/
and Jim Davila: http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2007_09_09_archive.html#2984777860425721843

DaBuster · Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Posts: 5 Location: Maryland, USA

rgoode · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:31 pm Post subject:

We totally agree with you about price and access to scholarly research. It is a real problem and one that serves to further isolate Biblical studies (and academia in general) from the wider world. One of the principle driving forces behind this site is to find ways to disseminate this material.

As Helen says, the difficulties are not insurmountable. In order not to violate any copyright etc. we need to know what the form the published article will take (which will be dependent upon which journal publishes it). Once this is known we will be able to post a different form so as to avoid any infringements. Please keep watching for further developments.

hingram · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:45 pm Post subject:

Yes, the cost/availability of this kind of resource is always a problem. The difficulty in my particular case is that I am a young, newly-qualified and unpublished researcher and therefore I am keen to seize the opportunity to publish a conference paper. But I am also aware that this causes complications regarding the free distribution of this kind of material.

I believe, although I may be completely wrong, that there was once talk about making the main BNTC papers available on the conference website...? I'll look into this.

DaBuster · Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Posts: 5 Location: Maryland, USA

I completely understand the need to publish and that it certainly supersedes any need to satisfy the curiosity of the occasional cranky web-enabled dilettante. Yes, it’s true that many of my searches reach dead ends on the abstracts at conference web sites or at the dreaded JSTOR. However, I can hardly complain about the lack of access to the output of academia, since were it not for web sites like yours, as well as the efforts of bloggers like Jim Davila, Mark Goodacre, Loren Rossen, and many others, I wouldn’t even be aware of what I was missing. So once again, many thanks.

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