The Jesus Blog: Take the Conference-Participant Quiz

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Take the Conference-Participant Quiz

It is that time of year again! The masks are being touched up. The costumes are at the cleaners. The dirty tricks and sweet treats are on their way. Of course, I'm talking about the AAR/SBL fright night. Last year, I created a taxonomy of the different creatures that you're likely to meet at this professional conference. Now you can determine which mask you will don this year.

Take this quiz to find out which conference-personality type fits you best.

Quiz: Which Conference Participant Are You?

Are you the Gladiator?

Are you the Vacationeer?

Are you the Greenhorn?

Are you the Observer?

Are you the Artisan?

Are you the Resident Tourist?

Are you the Reunionist?

Are you the Zombie?

Quiz here: http://uquiz.com/sBFUyE

Comment below to let us know (a) your results, (b) what you think you really are or aspire to be, and (c) what other personality types are not included in the quiz, but should be...

-anthony

3 comments:

BarabbasFreedOctober 23, 2014 at 8:35 AM
I got "Grumpy git that sits at the back and looks asleep, rousing only to make some ascerbic comment". Pretty perceptive quiz.
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Timothy N. MitchellOctober 23, 2014 at 1:45 PM
Wow, I am impressed. The quiz was spot on, "Greenhorn."
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J.P.November 2, 2014 at 9:51 AM
Vacationeer, of course. That's pretty good to me!
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James Crossley (PhD, Nottingham) is Professor of Bible, Society, and Politics at St. Mary's University, Twickenham, London. In addition to most things historical Jesus, his interests typically concern Jewish law and the Gospels, the social history of biblical scholarship, and the reception of the Bible in contemporary politics and culture. He is co-executive editor of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus.

Christine Jacobi studied protestant theology and art history in Berlin and Heidelberg. She is research associate at the chair of exegesis and theology of the New Testament and apocryphal writings. She completed her dissertation at the Humboldt-University of Berlin in 2014. She is the author of Jesusüberlieferung bei Paulus? Analogien zwischen den echten Paulusbriefen und den synoptischen Evangelien (BZNW 213), Berlin: de Gruyter 2015. Christine Jacobi is a member of the „August-Boeckh-Antikezentrum“ and the „Berliner Arbeitskreis für koptisch-gnostische Schriften“.

Chris Keith (PhD, Edinburgh) is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity and Director of the Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, London.

Anthony Le Donne (PhD, Durham) is Associate Professor of New Testament at United Theological Seminary. He is the author/editor of seven books. He is the co-founder of the Jewish-Christian Dialogue and Sacred Texts Consultation and the co-executive editor of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus.

Brant Pitre (PhD, University of Notre Dame) is Professor of Sacred Scripture at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. Among other works, he is the author of Jesus, the Tribulation, and the End of the Exile (Mohr-Siebeck/Baker Academic, 2005), and Jesus and the Last Supper (Eerdmans, 2015). He is particularly interested in the relationship between Jesus, Second Temple Judaism, and Christian origins.

Rafael Rodríguez (PhD, Sheffield) is Professor of New Testament at Johnson University. He has published a number of books and essays on social memory theory, oral tradition, the Jesus tradition, and the historical Jesus, as well as on Paul and Pauline tradition. He also serves as co-chair of the Bible in Ancient and Modern Media section of the Society of Biblical Literature.

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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Take the Conference-Participant Quiz

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