Participants

Presenters

Meripa Toso (m.toso@auckland.ac.nz), “O le aoga o le poto: The importance of knowledge from a Samoan perspective”

Maulolo T. Amosa, “Matai Biblical Exegesis”

Arthur Wulf (awulf04@yahoo.com), “Genesis Creation Account: The Lauga of God”

Mark Brett (mbrett@whitley.unimelb.edu.au), “The Persian Imperial context of the Pentateuch”

Maakesi Neemia (makesi_neemia@hotmail.com), “The ger in the priestly writings: It’s implications on a Samoan claim to customary (ancestral) land”

Tau’alofa Anga’aelangi (tangaaelangi@gmail.com), “A fakahē reading of Ecclesiastes 8:1-17” Vaitusi Nofoaiga (nofoaigavaitusi@gmail.com), Seeing Matthew 8:1-17 as a ‘Fia Ola’ (Opportunity

Seeker): A reading from a Samoan postcolonial location in hybridity

Nasili Vaka’uta (nvakauta@gmail.com), “Myth of male innocence in patriarchal narratives”

Inise Foiakau (Inise.Foiakau@ampcapital.com), “Exodus 4:24-26 – A marama iTaukei reading”

Brian Fiu Kolia (brian.kolia@hotmail.com), “Lifting the Tapu on Sex: A Samoan Re-Reading of Sex in the Bible through a ‘Tulou’ Hermeneutic”

Bruce Riding (eljireh8@gmail.com), “The Day of YHWH’: Its Origin, Precursors and Development before Amos and Hosea”

Siosifa Pole (siosifap@dmm.org.nz), “Vahevahe: A Tongan Concept of Receiving and Using the Bible in Relation to Matthew 4:19 and 28:19”

Kuli Fisi’iahi (fisiiahi@gmail.com), “Theology begins with humanity: The most important thing we can’t live without is love”

Adi Mariana Waqa (adimariana33@gmail.com), “Wild waters cannot be tamed: An Oceanic reading of Ben Sira 24”

Jione Havea (jhavea@gmail.com), “Faka(l)ongo e Tohitapu: Silencing/hearing Jonah with Sia Figiel”