Conference Papers

Biblical Studies. Manchester is well represented this year by staff, students, and HRFs at the British New Testament Society Conference, Exeter, 31 Aug–2 Sept. A whole session is dedicated to the research of Loveday Alexander, and she will give a paper ‘Reading Acts: How has my mind changed (and not changed), over the course of the past four decades?’. Tim Gough will present ‘The Cornelius effect: Re-evaluating Acts 10:2, 22 as prototypical “God-fearer" language’. Anna Budhi-Thornton will present ‘Multiple Masculinities and the Messiah: The Subversive and Complex Manliness of the Johannine Jesus’. Peter Oakes will present ‘A Martyrological Collection of Prison Letters to Philippi? Evaluating Angela Standhartinger, Der Philipperbrief (HNT 11/I; Mohr Siebeck 2021)’. Andrew Boakye will present ‘“All Things in Messiah”: The Ephesian Mystery and the Israel of the End Times’. Sarah Parkhouse & Siobhán Jolley will co-present ‘“What is hidden from you, I will proclaim to you.” Storytelling and the Gospel(s) of Mary (Magdalene?)’. Philip Alexander is on a review panel of Yael Fisch's Written for Us: Paul’s Interpretation of Scripture and the History of Midrash (Brill, 2022). More information.