Updated: Christian Apocrypha at the 2010 SBL

Here is an updated list (probably still not complete) of CA-related sessions and papers at this year's Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature:

SATURDAY NOV. 20

Debra J. Bucher (Vassar College): "A Marriage of Convenience: Apocalyptic Texts and Cohabitation in the (Pseudo) Epistle of Titus" (session: Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity, 9:00-11:30am)

Syriac Literature and Interpretations of Sacred Texts/Christian Apocrypha, 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Theme: Apocrypha in the Syriac Tradition
F. Stanley Jones (California State University-Long Beach), Presiding

Nicholas J. Zola (Baylor University): “Tatian’s 'Second-to-Last' Supper: The Diatessaron and the Crucifixion Chronology”

Zsuzsanna Gulacsi (Northern Arizona University): “The Diatessaron in Early Manichaean Art and Text”

Jonathan K. Henry (University of Pennsylvania): “Bound and Free: Patterns of Conversion and Conduct in the Theology of the Syriac Text of the Acts of Thomas”

Aaron Overby (Saint Louis University): “One Scripture, One God: Addai’s Proclamation of Christ at Edessa”

Christian Apocrypha, 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Theme: Christian Apocrypha and Art
François Bovon (Harvard University), Presiding

David R. Cartlidge (Maryville College): “About Oxen and Asses: Variations on a Common Theme in Early Christian Art”

Michael Peppard (Fordham University): “Apocryphal Women in the Dura Europos Baptistery”

Ally Kateusz (University of Missouri): “The Apocryphal Mary in the Cubiculum of the Velata in the Priscilla Catacomb”

Rosie Ratcliffe (King's College London): “Interpreting Violent and Voyeuristic Representations of Women within the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles”

Function of Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal Writings in Early Judaism and Early Christianity, 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Theme: Perhaps Outside the Canon, But Not Off the Shelves: Contributions of Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha to the Formation of Early Judiasm and Christianity

David A. deSilva (Ashland Theological Seminary), Presiding

Francis Borchardt (University of Helsinki): “Why was 2 Maccabees Read in the Ancient World?”

D. Jeffrey Bingham (Dallas Theological Seminary): “Irenaeus and the Other Books: Non-Canonical Christian Texts in His Polemic”

Edmon Gallagher (Heritage Christian University): “The “Apocrypha” in Jerome’s Canonical Theory”

Rebecca Rine (University of Virginia): “Canon Lists Are Not Just Lists”

Loren L. Johns (Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary): “When Pseudepigrapha Become Canonical: Rethinking Canon and Textual Criticism”

SUNDAY, NOV. 21

SBL Corpus Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti Section, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Theme: Rethinking Christian Origins in the Second Century

Margaret Mitchell (University of Chicago), Presiding

Timothy D. Barnes (University of Edinburgh): "How Much Did Later Christians Know about the Apostles and Evangelists?"

Judith Lieu (University of Cambridge): "Heresy and Scripture"

Richard Pervo (St. Paul, MN), "Trajectories of Acts in the Second Century"

Lorne R. Zelyck (University of Cambridge): "The Reception of the Fourth Gospel in Gospel of the Savior" (session: SBL Johannine Literature Section, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM)

Cornelia B. Horn (Saint Louis University): "Biblical and Apocryphal Intertexts in Greek and Syriac Shared btw. Early Arabic Poetry and the Qur'an" (session: SBL Syriac Literature and Interpretations of Sacred Texts Consultation/Qur'an and Biblical Literature Section, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM)

MONDAY NOV. 22

SBL Jewish Christianity/Christian Judaism Section, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Antti Marjanen (University of Helsinki), Presiding

Dave Nielsen (Duke University): "Singular Readings and the Community Behind the 'Unknown Gospel'"

Petri Luomanen (University of Helsinki): "Jesus’ Appearance to James the Just"

Marius Heemstra (University of Groningen): "Jewish Christians in the light of Nerva’s Reform of the Fiscus Judaicus"

Christian Apocrypha, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Theme: Apocrypha Collections and Questions of Genre
Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Ottawa), Presiding

Alexander Toepel (Sankt Georgen Graduate School, Frankfurt am Main): “The Protevangelium of James as Aretalogy”

Tony Burke (York University): “More New Testament Apocrypha”

Callie Callon (University of Toronto): "Secondary Characters Furthering Characterization: the Depiction of Slaves in the Acts of Peter" (session: SBL Ancient Fiction and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative Section, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM)

Ilaria L.E. Ramelli (Catholic University of Milan): "The Earliest Representations of the Apostle Addai" (session: SBL Syriac Literature and Interpretations of Sacred Texts Consultation, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM)

TUESDAY, NOV. 23

Richard Pervo (St. Paul, MN): "Relationships between the Canonical Acts and the Apocryphal Acts (session: SBL New Unit Planning Session: Dating Acts to the Second Century, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM)