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.