AABS is happy to announce our Annual Virtual Meeting June 10, 2023 at 2:30-3:45 p.m. EDT. This annual virtual gathering is an opportunity to connect with biblical scholars from around the world for conversation and fellowship. This year our program invites two scholars to discuss their most recent publications.Our presenters are the Rev. Dr. George […]
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“Real Presence, Real Absence?”
Sermon given by Rev. Neil Elliott for Good Friday in 2018 to St. John’s Episcopal Church, St. Paul, Minnesota. Reproduced here by permission of Rev. Elliott. We Christians can be so vain, we probably think the prophets are about us. That’s what it sounds like, at least, in First Peter: Whatever Israel’s prophets said, they […]
AABS Fall Meetings 2022
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 […]
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 […]