Notre Dame Theology faculty, postdocs, and graduate students will present various papers at the AAR and SBL Annual Meetings, held in Boston, MA on November 22-25, 2025.
Saturday, November 22
- Blake Leyerle – “Animals in the Ambulatory”
- Todd Whitmore – “The Woman Caught in Addiction: Freedom, Responsibility, and Substance Use in a Regime of Gendered Torture”
- Layne Hancock – “Jonathan Edwards and Slavery”
- Kim Belcher, Panelist – “Armand Leon van Ommen's Autism and Worship: A Conversation Exploring Liturgy, Autistic Experience, and Theology”
- Jonathan Sanchez – “Eschatological Ambiguity and the Matthean Community”
- Daniel Bannoura, Presiding – “Book Review Panel Discussion of Munther Isaac's Christ in the Rubble: Faith, the Bible, and the Genocide in Gaza”
- Flora Tang, Panelist – “Beyond Abstinence-Only: Purity Culture in Today's Political Moment”
- Blake Leyerle – “In the Shoes of Abgar: Egeria in Edessa”
- Emily Otto – “Changing Purposes, Changing Places: Rereading Jesus’s Temple Action in Light of Johannine Dependence”
Sunday, November 23
- Matthew Klem – “Texts and Ritual Meals among Epicureans and Early Christians”
- Flora Tang – “Queering Protectors of Chinatown: Imagining Spatial Futures beyond Displacement”
- Eugenia Torrance – “‘Begotten from the Father Before All Ages’: Finding a Place for the Nicene Theology of Time after Bulgakov and Behr”
- David Lincicum, Respondent – “The Reception of Philo of Alexandria (OUP 2025)”
- Garrett Haddock – “Assemblage and Service: Achronology in Exodus 40 and Leviticus 8–9 and Priestly Scribal Practice”
- Dan Machiela, Panelist – “Interpreting Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Early Hellenistic Jerusalem”
- Tzvi Novick, Panelist – “Expertise in Late Antiquity”
- Garrett Haddock – “Gerizim and Gramsci: The Role of SP Leviticus in Navigating the Priestly Claims of Samaria”
- James Schetelich – “Philo as Arbiter of Magic: The Case of Moses and the Egyptian Sophistai”
Monday, November 24
- John Kegley – “Believing That God Is or What God Is? Pro-Nicene Exegesis of Heb 11:6 and Definition of the Boundaries of Theological Epistemology”
- Allen Lai – “Narrative Analogy and Repetition as Compositional Strategy in 1 Samuel 17–18: David as Beloved Son and Shepherd”
- Noelle Johnson – “After the Death of the Two Sons of Aaron: Reassessing The Days of Millu’im and the Beginning of the Year in the Temple Scroll”
- Tzvi Novick, Panelist – “Good for the Catholics? Jewish Studies Scholars Reflect on Catholic Higher Education Sixty Years After Nostra Aetate”
- Lilly Davis – “What Did Zacchaeus Do? Luke 19:8 and Its Early Christian Reception”
- Noelle Johnson – “Doing ἐλεημοσύναι καὶ πίστεις: Greek Proverbs’s Reinterpretation of the Psalms’s ואמת ח”
- Emily Otto – “Beauty, Glory, and Its Demise: Reading Ezekiel 16 with Ezekiel 26–28”
- Maria Sermersheim – “The Purpose of Pauline Freedom: The Commandment of the Lord and the Law of Love”
- Jennie Grillo – “Gold, Light, Oil, Wood: A Materials Approach to Divine Embodiment in Zechariah 4”
- Nathan Mastnjak - S24-338 Review of Jacqueline Vayntrub, "Body Language: Voice, Embodiment, and Textuality in the Hebrew Bible"
- Daniel Bannoura, Panelist – “Religion, Scholasticide, and Campus Repression”
Tuesday November 25
- Andres Frischeisen – “Rethinking Material Culture in the Transition to Christianity: Insights from Beneath the Basilica of SS. Giovanni e Paolo on the Caelian Hill”