Hebrews at the Annual ETS Meeting

Evangelical Theological Society

78th Annual Meeting

November 17—19

Denver, CO

 

Tuesday, November 17

 

9:00 AM - 12:10 PM
General Epistles: The General Epistles’ Contribution to the Study of the New Covenant 

 

9:50 AM - 10:30 AM
J. Michael McKay, Jr.
(Cedarville University)
Hebrews and the New Covenant

 

1:30 PM - 4:40 PM
Systematic Theology: Atonement
 

2:20 PM - 3:00 PM
Judson Greene
(Redemption Seminary)
Atonement in Hebrews: A New Assessment

 

 

Wednesdy, November 18

 

3:00 PM - 6:10 PM
New Testament Greek Language and Exegesis: Linguistic Stylistics 

 

4:40 PM - 5:20 PM
David I. Yoon
(Talbot School of Theology | McMaster Divinity College)
Grammatical Metaphor in Hebrews: Nominalization as Theological Art 

 

2:00 PM - 5:10 PM
New Testament: Studies in Hebrews 

 

Moderator: Daniel Stevens
(Boyce College, SBTS)

2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
James Beevers
(Westminster Theological Seminary)
Edenic Rest and the Double-Edged Sword: The Cherub Sword as Structural Bridge to Hebrews 4:14-16
 

2:50 PM - 3:30 PM 

Andrew Iversen
(Wheaton College)
The Covenantal Foundation of Access: Greek Jeremiah 38:31-34 as the Logic of Hebrews 8-10
 

3:40 PM - 4:20 PM
Luke Kieser
(Trinity Evangelical Divinity School)
The Function of Divine Immutability in the Letter to the Hebrews
 

4:30 PM - 5:10 PM
Daniel Stevens
(Boyce College, SBTS)
Who Put That There? The Title of Hebrews and Its Inclusion in the Pauline Letter Collection

Hebrews at the Annual SBL Meeting

SBL 2026 Annual Meeting 

Denver, CO

November 21–24

Saturday, November 21

P21-239s The Relationship between the Testaments as Canon-Consciousness

1:05 PM - 1:25 PM 

George Guthrie. 

The "Christ Frame" and Canon Consciousness: The Hermeneutic of Hebrews at 2:12–13.

 

S21-241 Novum Testamentum Graecum: Editio Critica Maior Seminar

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM 

Emanuele Scieri.

The Greek Text of Hebrews in Codex Claromontanus (GA 06/VL 75). 

 

S21-315 Linguistics and New Testament Ethics

4:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Laura Hunt. 

Burning Cognitive Metaphors (John 15:6 and Hebrews 6:8): Descriptive Explanation or Directive Ethical Injunction?

 

S21-317 Bible and Emotion Section and Gospel of Luke Section

4:00 PM - 6:30 PM 

Angela Standhartinger. 

The Weeping Redeemer: Jesus’s Tears in the Context of a History of Emotions.

 

Sunday, November 22

S22-144 Scripture in Lived Context: Biblical Interpretation and Practical Theology

10:40 AM - 10:55 AM 

Julie Leyva. 

A Tale of Two Contexts: Abraham’s Persevering Faith in Hebrews   

 
S22-122 Intertextuality in Paul and Hebrews
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM
Tammy L. Wiese. 

“The Remembrance of Sin”: A Collocation in the Septuagint and New Testament as Support for a Judicial Reading of Hebrews 10:3 and 10:17.

 

Monday, November 23

S23-116a Hebrews and the Gospel of Matthew: Common Themes

9:00 AM - 11:30 AM 

Madison N. Pierce. 

Messianism in Hebrews and Matthew.

Bryan R. Dyer. 

Hebrews, Matthew, and Gethsemane.

 

Erik Waaler. 

Mathew, Matthew’s Jesus, Hebrews' Author, and Paul: Similarities and Differences in their Re-contextualization of Israel's Scripture.

 

Alida Carolin Euler. 

The Psalms in Matthew and Hebrews: Patterns of Psalm Reception and Psalm 110 as a Test Case.

 

S23-222 Gospel of Luke Section

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM  

Tammy L. Wiese. 

Perfected on the Third Day: τελειόω as Definitive Attestation in Luke 13:32 and Hebrews.

 

S23-227 Hebrews Section

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

 

Judson Greene. 

The Author of Hebrews Reading Romans.

 

Stephen Wunrow. 

“We Have an Altar”: Hebrews 13:9–16, Spatial Mapping, and Sacrifice.

 

Cynthia Long Westfall. 

Sarah: A Bonafide Exemplar of Faith in Hebrews 11:11. 

 

Roderick Saxey. 

Observations on Test Passages in Hebrews: Early Findings from the Hebrews ECM Project.

 

S23-327 Hebrews Section

4:00 PM - 6:30 PM 

 

Ryan Cason. 

Red Heifer, Not Scapegoat: Hebrews 9, Death-Defilement, and Covenant Inauguration.

 

Alberto Solano. 

Hebrews 9:4 and the Spatial Relocation of the Worshipper.

 

Kevin Johnson. 

Jesus as the “Better Hope” of Hebrews 7:19.

 

Sergey Panfilov. 

The Anguish of the Flesh: Reassessing Jesus’s Prayer and Deliverance from Death in Hebrews 5:7.

 

Lee D. Hoffer, Jr. 

A Will Is Secure in Honor of the Dead: Testamentary Protocol in Hebrews 9:16–17.

 

S23-315 Fluid Identity and Locality in Early Jewish Christianity / Christian Judaism

4:50 PM - 5:15 PM

Phillip Strickland. 

Longing for a Better Country: The Promised Land in Judaism and in the Epistle to the Hebrews.

 

Tuesday, November 24 

S24-124a Christian Theology and Bible Section 

10:30 AM - 10:55 AM

Luke Kieser. 

A Theological Grammar of Divine Immutability for the Epistle to the Hebrews.

The Letter to the Hebrews according to the Oldest Papyrus

I am finally getting around to posting about this book. I want to thank Jordi Cervera for this beautiful book. The book is written in Catalan. The title translated is The Letter to the Hebrews according to the Oldest Papyrus. The oldest manuscript in this case is the Chester Beatty Papyrus (P46).

The book is a large coffee-table sized book.

Here are the table of contents:

The presentation:

The book contains full-page color photos of the Chester Beatty Papyrus:

Each photograph is followed by a full transcription of the text:

Then a translation in Catalan follows each transcription:

These pages are followed by a thematic structure of Hebrews:

This is followed by a section-by-section study translation:

Then a section-by-section commentary follows:

Back of the book:

The book comes with a bookmark explaining the symbols in the book:

Again, many thanks to Jordi Cervera who brought me the book all the way from Barcelona!