Hebrews at the 2025 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting

2025 SBL Annual Meeting
November 22–25, 2025

Boston, MA

S22-123
Hebrews Section
9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place - New Hampshire (Fifth Floor)
Open Session 1
Presider: Eric Mason (Saint Xavier University, Chicago)

Albert Coetsee, North-West University, South Africa
“Let All God’s Angels Worship Him”: The Entrance Motif in Hebrews 1:6b (30 min)

Michael Francis, The Catholic University of America
Figuring Ritual and Moral Impurity in Hebrews (30 min)
 

Carlos Garcia Alayon, University of Notre Dame
Heavenly Ritual in Hebrews: A Spectrum of Ritualized Behavior (30 min)

Biao Liu, Wheaton College
A “Heavenized” New Cosmos: Revisiting the Cosmic Eschatology of Hebrews 12:25–29 (30 min)

S22-204
Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity Seminar
1:00 PM–3:30 PM

Analytical Seminar

This year’s analytical seminar features two commentators: Chris Holmes (Commentary on Hebrews) and Russ Sisson (Commentary on Q).
Presider: Donghyun Jeong (Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary)
 

Christopher Holmes, First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta
Commentary on Hebrews (40 min)

S22-214
Gospel of Luke Section and Hebrews Section
1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center - 104 (Plaza Level)

Hebrews and the Gospel of Luke: Exploring Common Themes
 

Amy Peeler, Wheaton College
The Humanity of the Son of God in Luke and Hebrews (30 min)
 

Nick Moore, Cranmer Hall, Durham University
The Event of the Ascension in Luke-Acts and Hebrews (30 min)
 

Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder, Chicago Theological Seminary
Mining the Maternal (30 min)
 

Julie Leyva, Duke University
Son of Adam, Son of God: Jesus the Son in Luke and Hebrews (30 min)
 

Panel Discussion (30 min)

S24-123
Homiletics and Biblical Studies Section
9:00 AM–11:30 AM

 

Kyoohan Lee, Liberty University John W Rawling School of Divinity
Rabbinic Rhetoric and Crescendo of Creation: Hermeneutical Rhetorical Interpretation and Homiletical Application of the Old Testament Citation Strategy in Hebrews 1:5–14

S24-226
Nature Imagery and Conceptions of Nature in the Bible Section
1:00 PM–3:30 PM

 

William Horst, Fuller Theological Seminary
Above and Below: The Terrestrial Sphere and the Epistle to the Hebrews (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Integrating Discussion (10 min)

S24-330
Hebrews Section
4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place - Arlington (Third Floor)
Open Session
Presider: Cynthia Westfall (McMaster Divinity College)

Marlon Lahope, Wheaton College
Constructing Identity, Creating Family: A Reading of Hebrews 2:5-18 in the Greco-Roman Context (30 min)

Daniel Smith, Saint Louis University
The Israelite Wilderness Generation as (Negative) Paradigm in Hebrews 4:11 (30 min)
 

Jihyung Kim, McMaster Divinity College
Situating the Heroes of Faith within Israel’s Wilderness: Hebrews 11 through the Lens of Social Memory (30 min)
 

Rebecca Muir, Ridley College Melbourne
The Perfection and Faithfulness of Jesus in Hebrews: Joining the Dots in Recent Scholarship (30 min)

George Guthrie, Regent College
Ordination as an Interpretive Frame of Reference in Hebrews (30 min)

S25-118
Intertextuality in the New Testament Section
9:00 AM–11:30 AM

Nicholas Mariakis, University of St Andrews
The Aqedah in Hebrews 11 and the Primary Colors of Resurrection in Genesis (30 min)