Program

OBSA 2013

Jovili Meo Mission Centre

Pacific Theological College, Suva, Fiji

1-3 August 2013

Presenters

Main paper

Jione Havea (United Theological College/Charles Sturt University): “Fekuki with methodological obsessions, and with Gibeonites (Joshua 9-10)”

Other papers

1. Dr Mosese Ma'ilo (Piula Theological College): “Celebrating Hybridity: Jesus, the Tamaalepo (Child of the Dark) in Mataio 1:18-26”
2. Vaitusi Nofoaiga (PhD cand, University of Auckland): “Discipleship in Matthew 4:12- 25 from tautua i le va (serve/service in-between)”
3. Samasoni Moleli Alama (Malua Theological College, Samoa): “Deuteronomy’s ‘National Imagination’- YHWH the Landowner as Reflecting the Samoan Pulega a Alii ma Faipule”
4. Terry Pouono (PhD cand, University of Auckland): “Teu le Va’: The Samoan Cosmic-Community in Aotearoa. Preserving Harmonious Relationships … Where is the Harmony?”
5. Arthur Wulf (PhD cand, University of Auckland): “Gafataulimaina Reading Perspective: A Samoan Ecological Hermeneutics”
6. Dr Anthony Rees (Lecturer in Biblical Studies, PTC): “Towards an Ecological Reading of the Law of the Sotah”
7. Marlene Wilkinson (PhD cand, England, UK): “Help Us Read the Bible”
8. Dr Matt Tomlinson (Australia National University, Canberra): “Anthropological Perspectives on Oceanic Biblical Interpretation”
9. Dr Holger Szesnat (Senior Lecturer, Biblical Studies, PTC): “The Bible, Democracy, and Public Christian Discourse in Fiji: Biblical-Hermeneutical Reflections of a Vulagi and Paroikos”
10. Dr Kath Rushton (Nga Whaea Atawhai Sisters of Mercy, Christchurch): “Teaching Biblical Studies: A Call to 'Consistent Resistance'”

Panels

1. Interpreting the Bible in Oceania – panelists sharing experiences and views on biblical interpretation from an Oceanic perspective
2. Teaching the Bible in Oceania - panelists sharing experiences and views on teaching biblical studies in the diverse contexts of Oceania