ASOR Preliminary Program Announced

SATURDAY MORNING - ASOR PLENARY SESSION(S)

11:00-12:00 Beth Alpert Nakhai, University of Arizona, (bnakhai@email.arizona.edu),
Ancient Near Eastern Mother-and-Child Figurines: Ceramic figurines, motherhood, and religion in Late Bronze Age Canaan and Iron Age Israel are discussed for the purpose of reconstructing the lives of women in antiquity.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON -ASOR SESSION ON ARCHAEOLOGY

Presider: Gloria London, Tall al-‘Umayri Teachers’ Institute, Seattle, (glondon@earthlink.net)

2:00-2:10 Jack Olive, Seattle University, (olivej@seattleu.edu)
In Tribute to Douglas Edwards
2:10-2:25 Bruce Meyer, (meyerbru@gmail.com), “Did the Philistines Prepare the Way for Israel to Enter the Promised Land?”
2:25-2:30 Questions and Answers
2:30-2:45 Bonny Bazemore, Eastern Washington University,
(gbazemore@mail.ewu.edu), “Keeper of the Keyes: Votive Female Figurines with Keys and Seals”
2:45-2:50 Questions and Answers
2:50-3:10 Panel Discussion: The use of archaeology and models in “Palestine in the Time of Jesus”
K. C. Hanson, Editor in Chief, Wipf and Stock Publishers, Eugene, OR (kchanson@wipfandstock.com)
Douglas E. Oakman, Professor of Religion, Pacific Lutheran University
(oakmande@plu.edu)

Preliminary Program Announced!!

For the complete Preliminary Program, see http://www.pnw-aarsbl.org/index.htm?title=Info&bar=infobut.htm&main=time.htm

Women and Religion – Friday Afternoon
Presider: Ardy Bass, Gonzaga University, (bassa@gonzaga.edu)
2:00-2:45 Nané Jordan, University of British Columbia, (nanay6of8@hotmail.com), Embodying Scholarly Community: A Tale/Tail of Women’s Spirituality in the Academy (or how I came to the PNW meeting...)
2:45-3:30 Marie Goughnour Wachlin, Concordia University, (nmwachlin@juno.com), Far Above Rubies: Women and Bible Quilts/Bible Women and Quilts
3:30-4:00 BREAK

Women and Religion- Saturday Morning
Presider: Ardy Bass, Gonzaga University, (bassa@gonzaga.edu)
8:30-9:15 Valarie H. Ziegler, DePauw University, (vziegler@depauw.edu), “Christian Domestic Discipline and Genesis 1-3: Spanking Our Way to Salvation”
9:15-10:00 Priscilla Pope-Levison, Seattle Pacific University, (popep@spu.edu), “African American Women Evangelists and Interracial Cooperation in the Progressive Era”
10:30-11:00 BREAK

Women and Religion- Saturday Afternoon
Presider: Kendra Irons, George Fox University, (kirons@georgefox.edu)
2:00-2:40 Elizabeth McCabe, Hebrew Union College, (b_a_mccabe@yahoo.com), “A Reexamination of Phoebe in Romans 16:1-2 as a Diakonos and Prostatis: Exposing the Inaccuracies of English Translations”
2:40-3:20 Kathi Breazeale, Troy Storfjell and Britta Helm, Pacific Lutheran University, (breazeka@plu.edu), “Selling Wind: Sámi as Witches and Witches as Sámi in Northern European Religious Imagination”
3:20-3:50 BREAK
3:50-4:30 Lesley Hazleton, Independent Scholar, (lh@jezebelbook.com), “The Woman at the Heart of the Shia-Sunni Split: The Ever-Controversial Aisha”
4:30-5:10 Business Meeting and Discussion of future directions