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VANDERBI LT U N I VE RS I T Y Department of Religious Studies

READING COMMUNITIES, READING SCRIPTURE, READING RESPONSIBLY

A SYMPOSIUM T O CELEBRATE T H E RETIREMENT O F PROFESSOR DANIEL PATTE

SATURDAY 06 APRIL 2013

8:40-WE L CO ME

Tony K . Stewart, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities & Chair, Department of ReligiousStudies, Vanderbilt University

David Odell-Scott, Professor & Chair, Department of Philosophy; Coordinator, Religion Studies

Program, Kent State University

MORNING MODERATOR

J Monya Stubbs, Assistant Professor of New Testament, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

8:45-10:15-SESSION I

Tat-siong Benny Liew, Vice President for Academic Affairsand Dean; Professor of New Testament,

Pacific School of Religion"Reading Frameworks: Cady Stanton's Woman's Bible as a Case Study"

Sejong Chun, Assistant Professor, Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary, Seoul, Korea

"Context and Paul's J erusalem Collection"

10: 15-10:3Q-BREAK

10:30-12:00-SESSION I I

Timothy Cargal, Associate for Preparation for Ministry, Officeof the General Assembly of the

Presbyterian Church (U.S A .)

'"A Worker ... Rightly Explaining the Word of Truth': Assessing Exegetical Competency

in Candidates for Ordination in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)"

Frank Kaufmann, President, Filial Projects; Founder and Director, Values in Knowledge Foundation

"The Communities of Religion Scholars"

12:00-12:45 - LUNCH IN TLLLET LOUNGE

AFTERNOON MODERATOR

Nicole Duran, New Testament Series Editor, Texts@Contexts Series, Fortress Press

12:45-2:15-SESSI ON I I I

Larry Welborn, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, Fordham University

"Reading the Last Scripture: The Neighbor, The Kairos, The Awakening (Romans 13:8-14)"

David Odell-Scott, Professor & Chair, Department of Philosophy; Coordinator, Religion StudiesProgram, Kent State University

"Re-Mastering Paul's Letters to the Corinthians"

2:15-2:30-BREAK

2:30-4:00-SESSI ON I V

Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, Professor & Chair, Department of Religion; Jewish Studies Program

Coordinator, Wheaton College

'"Words of Torah about the Table over the Table:' J ewish Biblical Interpretation at Communal

Meals"

FUNDING PROVIDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THE VANDERBILT DIVINITY SCHOOL

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VANDERB1LT UNIVERSITY V Department of Religious Studies

Yung Suk K im, Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, Samuel DeWitt Proctor

School of Theology, Virginia Union University

"A Transformative Reading of Scripture: Explorations of Holistic Human Transformation"

4:00-4:15- BREAK

4:15-5 :45-SESS I ON V

Arthur Francis Carter, Jr., Graduate Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University

"Black Christs: Signifyin' on John 18:33-40 with Two Lynching-Era Mulattos Creoles Black

Americans"

Gary Phillips, Dean of the College and Professor of Religion, Wabash College

"More than the Jews . . . Hi s Blood be Upon All the Children: Biblical V iolence, Genocide, and

Responsible Reading"

5:45-6:00 - CLOSING REMARKS

Daniel Patte, Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity,Vanderbilt University

7:00-???? - RECEPTION A N D DINNER ( F O R A L L ATTENDING)

Hosted by Tony K . Stewart and Samira Sheikh at their home:

117 30th Avenue North

Unit 704

Nashville, TN 37203

ph. 615.712.8071 (home)

ph. 615.878.3231 (mobile)

FUNDING PROVIDED B Y THE DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THE VANDERBILT DIVINITY SCHOOL

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VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Daniel M. Patte, Ph.D.Professor of Religious Studies

Daniel M . Patte, professor of Religious Studies and Professor of New Testament and Early

Christianity, is an internationally acclaimed scholar focusing on New Testament hermeneutic

traditions and the ethics of interpretation. He has been an active member of the Vanderbilt

University Department of Religious Studies since 1971, serving as Department Chair for nearly

two decades and subsequently as Director of Undergraduate Studies. In his capacity as Professor

in the Graduate Department of Religion he has mentored nearly one PhD candidate for every

year of his tenure at Vanderbilt University. He has received numerous honors during his years of

service to the department, the university, and the field of Religious Studies.

In the first three decades at Vanderbilt University, Daniel Patte was central to the creation of

the new field of semiotics applied to the study of the New Testament, an experiment that had its

roots in the Structural Study Group, a faculty and graduate student seminar he convened on the

Vanderbilt campus that met weekly from 1978 to 1985, with contributing members from

Religious Studies, French, German, English, Linguistics, Anthropology, and the Graduate

Department of Religion. Shortly thereafter he helped found and served as General Editor (1992-

1998) for SEMEIA: An Experimental J ournal for Biblical Criticism.

He is one of the most prolific scholars in the field of Religious Studies. In the last decade he

began to explore multicultural interpretations of the New Testament, while he also served (1998-2011) with Cristina Grenholm as General Editor for 'Romans through History and Cultures'

(T&T Clark), a series that has now produced ten volumes. He has published thirteen monographs

in English and French, served as General Editor for two volumes of the Cambridge Dictionary of

Christianity, edited thirteen books of essays or special issues of journals, composed five short

studies, translated two monographs, and contributed 196 articles and chapters in peer-reviewed

publications.

Professionally active in the American Academy of Religion, the Society for Biblical

Literature, and Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, Professor Patte has also garnered research

grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Lilly Endowment, the Fulbright

Program, and the Vanderbilt University Research Council.