THE ST. ANDREWS CONFERENCE ON OLD TESTAMENT INTERPRETATION AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, held by my colleague Professor Philip Esler, begins this evening. I am not directly involved, but I do plan to drop in on some of the papers. The conference schedule follows.


WEDNESDAY 30 JUNE 2004

noon � 7.00 p.m. Registration at St Salvator�s Hall, North Street, St Andrews

6.00 � 6.30 p.m. Dinner in St Salvator�s Hall

7.30 � 9.00 p.m. Opening Function in Parliament Hall


THURSDAY 1 JULY 2004

7.45 � 8.30 a.m. Breakfast in St Salvator�s Hall

8.45 � 9.45 a.m. Marvin Chaney, �Models Matter: Some Implications of Political Economy for the Textual Exegesis of Micah 6:9-11�

9.45 � 10.45 a.m. Lester Grabbe, �Prophets Ancient and Modern: Anthropological Insights on Israelite Prophecy�

10.45 � 11.15 a.m. Morning Tea

11.15 - noon John H. Elliott, �Euphemism and Dysphemism in the Biblical Communities and Their Cultural Roots: A Social-Scientific Study of Deut 25:11-12�

Noon � 12.45 p.m. Philip F. Esler, �What Solomon�s Father Did in the Ammonite War: A Narrative and Social-Scientific Study of 2 Samuel 10-12�

1.00 � 1.30 p.m. Lunch in St Salvator�s Hall

1.45 � 3.30 p.m. Guided tour of ruins of Castle, Cathedral and Chapter House (or free time)

3.30 � 4.00 p.m. Afternoon tea at St Mary�s

4.00 � 5.00 p.m. Mario Aguilar, �Symbolic Wars, Age-Sets and the Anthropology of War in 1 Maccabees�

5.00� 6.00 p.m. Jutta Jokiranta, �The Prototypical Teacher in the Qumran
Pesharim�

6.30 � 7.00 p.m. Dinner in St Salvator�s Hall


FRIDAY 2 JULY 2004

7.45 � 8.30 a.m. Breakfast in St Salvator�s Hall

8.45 � 9.45 a.m. Robert Coote, �Tribalism in Ancient Palestine and the Hebrew Bible�

9.45 � 10.45 a.m. Adriana Destro and Mauro Pesce, �Levitical Sacrifice in Anthropological Perspective�

10.30 � 11.00 a.m. Morning Tea

11.00 � 11.45 a.m. Zeba Crook, �Modelling Exchange in the Biblical Era�

11.45 � 12.30 p.m. Gary Stansell, �Wealth in Ancient Israel: or, How Abraham Became Rich�

1.00 � 1.30 p.m. Lunch in St Salvator�s Hall

2.00 � 3.00 p.m. Richard E. DeMaris and Carolyn Leeb, �(Dis)honor and Ritual Enactment in the Jephthah Story�

3.00 � 6.00 p.m. Tour of Falkland Palace and Gardens (summer palace of the Stewart kings), or golf or free time

6.30 � 7.00 p.m. Dinner in St Salvator�s Hall


SATURDAY 3 JULY 2004

7.45 � 8.30 a.m. Breakfast in St Salvator�s Hall

8.45� 9.45 a.m. Carolyn Leeb, �Polygyny in the Biblical World: Insights from Haiti�

9.45 � 10.45 a.m. Dietmar Neufeld, �Body, Ritual and States of Ecstasy in the Old Testament�

10.45 � 11.15 a.m. Morning Tea

11.15 � noon John Pilch, �Altered States of Consciousness and Visions in Ezekiel�

Noon � 12.45 p.m. Anselm Hagedorn, �Ethnicity and Stereotypes in the Book of Nahum: Social-Scientific Insights into the Literary History of a
Prophetic Book�

1.00 p.m. Lunch in St Salvator�s Hall

2.00 � 2.45 p.m. Andrew Mayes, �Freud, Moses and Monotheism�

2.45 � 3.30 p.m. Bruce J. Malina, �Identity Theory, Politics and the Pontifical Biblical Commission�s The Jewish People and Its Scriptures in the Christian Bible �

3.30 � 4.00 p.m. Afternoon Tea

4.30 � 5.30 p.m. Douglas E. Oakman, �Marcion's Truth: Biblical Hermeneutics in Developmental Perspective�

8.00 for 8.30 p.m. Conference Dinner at Rufflets Restaurant


SUNDAY 4 July 2004

8.00 � 8.30 a.m. Breakfast in St Salvator�s Hall

9.00 � 10.00 a.m. Conference liturgy in St Leonard�s Chapel

10.00 a.m. & after Departures

Noon St Salvator�s to have been vacated (but we can arrange other accommodation for those wanting to stay on)