The 2018 SBL Annual Meeting will have four sessions from the Christian Apocrypha Section. Dates, times, and locations will be announced later.
Session 1 (in conjunction with the Religious Competition in Late Antiquity)
Religious Competition in the Christian Apocrypha
Arthur Urbano, Providence College (Rhode Island), Presiding
Jacob A. Lollar, Florida State University: “What Has Ephesus to do with Edessa?: The Syriac History of John, the Cult of the Dea Syria, and Religious Competition in Fourth-Century Syria”
Jung Choi, North Carolina Wesleyan College: “Two Bodily Practices in the Acts of Peter”
Shaily Shashikant Patel, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: “Magic and Polysemy: The Case of the Pseudo-Clementines”
Christopher A. Frilingos, Michigan State University: “Blood Into Stone: Violence, Sanctuary, and ‘Jewish Christianity’ in the Protevangelium Jacobi”
Lily Vuong, Central Washington University, Respondent
Session 2
New and Neglected Christian Apocryphal Texts
Tobias Nicklas, Universität Regensburg, Presiding
Chance Bonar, Harvard University: “An Introduction to 3 Apocryphal Apocalypse of John”
Florentina Badalanova Geller, Freie Universität Berlin: “Apocryphal Gospels and the Folk Bible”
Tony Burke, York University: “Opera Evangelica: The Discovery of a Lost Collection of Christian Apocrypha”
Bradley Rice, McGill University: “The Suspension of Time in the Book of the Nativity of the Savior”
James E. Walters, Rochester College: “The (Syriac) Exhortation of Peter: A New Addition to the Petrine Apocryphal Tradition” (20 min)
Session 3
Sex and Violence in the Christian Apocrypha
Janet Spittler, University of Virginia, Presiding
Catherine Playoust, University of Divinity:
“‘And still he won’t leave me alone’ (Acts Thom. 43.11): A Toxic Masculine Demon in the Acts of Thomas”
Jonathan Henry, Princeton University: “Victimization, Authority, and the Holy Mansplainer”
Michael Whitenton, Baylor University: “A Medical Perspective on Paul’s Baldness in Acts of Thecla”
Andrew R. Guffey, McCormick Theological Seminary:
“Toxic Femininity? Enkrateia and Gender in Christian Apocryphal Literature”
Jennifer Hunter, Northern Arizona University: “Perfection and the Ritual Reunification of Male and Female in the Gospel of Philip”
Session 4
Comparing Gospels
Brent Landau, University of Texas at Austin, Presiding
Tobias Nicklas, Universität Regensburg: “Water into Beer! Transformations of Biblical Miracles in late antique and early medieval Traditions ”
Janet Spittler, University of Virginia: “The Minor Acts of Thomas and John 20:24-29”
Francis Watson, University of Durham: “‘Inasmuch as Many have Attempted…’: The Apocryphon of James and the Problem of Gospel Plurality”
J.R.C. (Rob) Cousland, University of British Columbia: “Rereading the Christology of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas: The Rewriting of Luke 2:41-52 in Paidika 17 ”
Julia Snyder, Universität Regensburg, Respondent