Announcing
“John and Judaism”
A Pre-SBL Conference
Hosted by the McAfee School
of Theology
at Mercer University
November 18-20, 2015
2930 Flowers Road
Atlanta, GA 30341
Building on the success of the Symposium on
the Johannine Epistles, hosted by Mercer in 2010, and the conference on C.H.
Dodd and Raymond E. Brown, hosted by St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore in 2013,
the McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University is pleased to announce a
conference on “John and Judaism,” that will begin with dinner on Wednesday,
November 18, and end at noon on Friday, November 20.
Following the keynote address by Prof. Jan
van der Watt on Wednesday evening, the conference will address three
topics: (1) John as a Source for
Understanding Judaism (Thursday morning), (2) aposynagogos? Reappraising John’s Relationship to Judaism (Thursday
afternoon and evening); and (3) Reading John as Jews and Christians (Friday
morning). Major papers will be presented
by Craig R. Koester, Adele Reinhartz, Craig A. Evans, and Reimund Bieringer,
and nine short papers, three on each topic, will fill out the program.
Registration for the conference (including
dinner on Wednesday and lunch and dinner on Thursday) is $125. Checks should be made payable to McAfee
School of Theology and sent to
Ms. Diane Frazier
McAfee School of Theology3001 Mercer University Drive
Atlanta, GA 30341
Please include your e-mail address. Further information and the full program will
be sent to registered participants.
Conference rates (and transportation to campus) are available at the
Hampton Inn—Northlake; 3400 Northlake Parkway, N.E.; Tucker, GA 30084
(770-493-1966).
For further information, please contact
Diane Frazier (frazier_d@mercer.edu;
678 547-6470) or Alan Culpepper (culpepper_ra@mercer.edu).
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