AABS October Online Meeting The Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars invites you to join a virtual meeting on our continuing theme, “Teaching the Bible in Context.” Dr. Phil Ruge-Jones Bringing the Word Home: The Guatemalan Aural Bible Translation Project October 22, 2022 1:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time, GMT -5 In-Person Meeting at SBL (M20-201) In addition […]
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AABS Annual Fall Meeting 2022–Note the dates!
This Fall, the AABS has two events: a virtual meeting on 22 Oct 2022 (via Zoom) and a Eucharist on 20 Nov 2022. The AABS will be holding a virtual meeting (via Zoom) at 1:00 PM CST on October 22, prior to the SBL annual meeting. The October virtual meeting’s topic will reflect our continuing […]
Theodicy and Spirituality in the Fourth Gospel: A Girardian Perspective
The Rev. Daniel DeForest London, PhD Every Fourth Sunday of Easter, Episcopalians and Anglicans read a portion of the Good Shepherd discourse in John 10. In Theodicy and Spirituality in the Fourth Gospel, I argue that this discourse functions as part of Jesus’s response to the question of suffering as asked by the disciples in […]
AABS June Meeting 2022
The Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars invites you to join a virtual meeting on the topic “Teaching in Context: Towards a Cultural, Native, and Subaltern Reading” on Saturday, June 18, 2022, at 3:00 PM GMT. Our guest speaker will be the Revd Professor David Joy, Principal of the Kerala United Theological Seminary, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. Break-out […]
Guffey, The Book of Revelation and the Visual Culture of Asia Minor
The Book of Revelation and the Visual Culture of Asia Minor: A Concurrence of ImagesThe Rev. Andrew R. Guffey, Ph.D. The book of Revelation is one of the most visually rich books of the Bible, and yet it is difficult to come to grips with its intense visuality. What are the “bizarre” images of the […]
The Gospel of Mark is back June 6!
by Elizabeth Struthers MalbonProfessor Emerita of Religion and Culture, Virginia TechAABSChrist Episcopal Church, Blacksburg, Virginia This is liturgical Year B, the year of Mark’s Gospel in the three-year cycle of lectionary readings. But, in churches who follow the Revised Common Lectionary, we have not yet read much of Mark’s Gospel since the church year began […]
Upcoming AABS meetings
The AABS is holding two meetings in 2021, in June and in November. June Meeting:The Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars invites you to join a virtual meeting on the topic “Teaching in Context” on Saturday, June 12, 2021, at 11:00 AM-12:15PM, EDT (Eastern Daylight Time = GMT-4). Our guest speaker will be Dr. Stephen Lim […]
Annual Meeting 2020
Members: the Annual Meeting of the AABS is coming up November 14 on ZOOM. You must register in order to receive the ZOOM link. I look forward to seeing you there. Meeting virtually this year offers us a chance for more international participation then is ordinarily possible. Registration via the registration tab above. Schedule on […]
Legacy or Lineage?
Rev. Dr. Jane Lancaster Patterson, Seminary of the Southwest and AABS President Recently, the cartoonist and philosopher of creativity, Austin Kleon, recounted an exchange with a person who asked him what he hoped his legacy would be. Kleon answered that he didn’t think in terms of legacy, but rather in terms of lineage, the whole […]
Annual Meeting 2020 News
The AABS will hold its first virtual meeting over Zoom in 2020 on 14 November. See https://aabs.org/home/ for details of the event (the tab Annual Meeting above).