Program
Presenters
Presenters
Main paper
Jione Havea (United Theological College/Charles Sturt University): “Fekuki with methodological obsessions, and with Gibeonites (Joshua 9-10)”
Other papers
- Dr Mosese Ma'ilo (Piula Theological College): “Celebrating Hybridity: Jesus, the Tamaalepo (Child of the Dark) in Mataio 1:18-26”
- Vaitusi Nofoaiga (PhD cand, University of Auckland): “Discipleship in Matthew 4:12- 25 from tautua i le va (serve/service in-between)”
- Samasoni Moleli Alama (Malua Theological College, Samoa): “Deuteronomy’s ‘National Imagination’- YHWH the Landowner as Reflecting the Samoan Pulega a Alii ma Faipule”
- Terry Pouono (PhD cand, University of Auckland): “Teu le Va’: The Samoan Cosmic-Community in Aotearoa. Preserving Harmonious Relationships … Where is the Harmony?”
- Arthur Wulf (PhD cand, University of Auckland): “Gafataulimaina Reading Perspective: A Samoan Ecological Hermeneutics”
- Dr Anthony Rees (Lecturer in Biblical Studies, PTC): “Towards an Ecological Reading of the Law of the Sotah”
- Marlene Wilkinson (PhD cand, England, UK): “Help Us Read the Bible”
- Dr Matt Tomlinson (Australia National University, Canberra): “Anthropological Perspectives on Oceanic Biblical Interpretation”
- 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”
- Dr Kath Rushton (Nga Whaea Atawhai Sisters of Mercy, Christchurch): “Teaching Biblical Studies: A Call to 'Consistent Resistance'”
Panels
- Interpreting the Bible in Oceania – panelists sharing experiences and views on biblical interpretation from an Oceanic perspective
- Teaching the Bible in Oceania - panelists sharing experiences and views on teaching biblical studies in the diverse contexts of Oceania
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