It is often difficult for me to make the annual and international Society of Biblical Literature meetings and other academic conferences living in western Australia, so I look forward to when the conferences come here. First, I plan to attend the “Paul Within Paganism Symposium” hosted by Ridley College in Melbourne on July 22, 2024. The description for the conference and the call for papers can be found by clicking on the link. A few years ago they hosted a conference on “Paul within Judaism” and published the papers in Paul within Judaism: Perspectives on Paul and Jewish Identity (ed. Michael Bird, Ruben A. Bühner, Jörg Frey, and Brian Rosner; WUNT 507; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023), which was made available as an open-access volume here if you click on eBook PDF. This symposium is scheduled right before the Society of New Testament Studies conference at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne on July 23-27, 2024. I am grateful that one of my colleagues who is a member of the society has applied to invite me along as a guest. If you happen to be going to one of these two conferences, I hope to see you there!
Update: the registration fees and conference program for the “Paul Within Paganism” Symposium is now available here. Note that there is another volume coming out with the title Paul within Paganism: Restoring the Mediterranean Context to the Apostle that is edited by Alexander Chantziantoniou, Paula Fredriksen, and Stephen L. Young and I look forward to reading it, but there will be a different volume coming out of this upcoming conference. Finally, the academic program for the following SNTS conference has also been posted.
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