Japanese Biblical Studies

On November 3, I attended the 2014 Fall Meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study in Japan (Nihon Kyūyaku Gakkai). The one-day conference was held at Hokusei Gakuen University, in Sapporo, Hokkaido.

The Former Hokkaido Government Office Building (Red Brick Office)

Three women presented during the morning session (English titles are my translations): Continue Reading…

The Japan Society of New Testament Studies （日本新約学会・Nihon Shinyaku Gakkai）held its annual meeting in Tokyo on September 13–14, 2013.

Rikkyo University, Ikebukuro, Tokyo (Site of the 2013 JSNTS Meeting)

Here are the presenters, paper titles (translations mine), moderators, and other speakers: Continue Reading…

Biblical scholar and theologian Richard Bauckham （リチャード・ボウカム） is giving a series of lectures and sermons in Japan this week.

Richard Bauckham is Professor Emeritus at the University of St Andrews

“Gospel Traditions: Anonymous Community Traditions or Eyewitness Testimony?”

「福音伝承：目撃者証言か匿名的共同体伝承か」

June 17 Lecture at the Japan Biblical Institute（日本聖書学研究所） Continue Reading…

The Society for Old Testament Study in Japan (日本旧約学会・Nihon Kyūyaku Gakkai) will hold its annual Spring Meeting at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo on June 12, 2013.

Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo (Site of the SOTSJ Spring Meeting)

Presenters and Paper Titles (translations mine)

Kaoru Miyazaki, Doctoral Candidate at Tokyo Union Theological Seminary
“Multi-layered Structure in the Book of Esther”

Akio Moriya, Professor at Tokyo Woman’s Christian University
“Characteristics of the Received Texts of the Masoretic and Samaritan Pentateuchs Based on a Consideration of the nun paragogicum”

Akeo Hiragi, Professor at Nanzan University
“The Genealogy of Terah (Genesis 11:27–32)”

Presenters and Paper Titles in Japanese

宮嵜　薫（東京神学大学大学院博士課程後期課程）
「エステル記における重層的構造」

守屋　彰夫（東京女子大学教授）
「nun paragogicumの考察によるマソラ（モーセ五書部分）とサマリア五書の受容聖書textus receptusの特徴について」

柊　曉生（南山大学教授）
「テラの家系—創世記11章27–32節—」