B-Greek: The Biblical Greek Forum

What sessions are you all involved with or particularly interested in at SBL 2021?

I will post two sessions that are hosted by the Nida Institute and the Copenhagen Alliance in this thread. Please post other sessions that you think people might be interested in ...

Theme: Creating and Curating High Quality Datasets for Open Biblical Scholarship
Nida Institute – Copenhagen Alliance
Jonathan Robie, Clear Bible, Presiding
P20-337
11/20/2021
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: 210 (Meeting Room Level) - San Antonio Convention Center

• SIL Datasets: Translation Resources of the Future (30 min)
  Paul O’Rear, SIL International
  Tag(s): Computer-Assisted Research (Technology)
• The Common Text Project: Some Essential Features (30 min)
  Stephen Daley, SIL International
  Tag(s): Computer-Assisted Research (Technology), Hebrew Bible (Ideology & Theology)
• MACULA: An Open Ecosystem for Creating and Curating Biblical Datasets (30 min)
  Jonathan Robie, Clear Bible, Inc
  Tag(s): Computer-Assisted Research (Technology)
• The Universal Apparatus (30 min)
  Alan Bunning, Center for New Testament Restoration
  Tag(s): Computer-Assisted Research (Technology)

Theme: Psalms: Layer by Layer
Nida Institute – Copenhagen Alliance
Reinier de Blois, Nida Institute for Biblical Scholarship at the American Bible Society, Presiding
11/23/2021
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: 208 (Meeting Room Level) - San Antonio Convention Center

Psalms: Layer by Layer is a new initiative for creating exegetical resources for Psalms targeted at the needs of Bible translations. These resources focus on literary quality and communicative effect. The project’s goal is to produce simple, visual outlines of each Psalm with key structural, literary and performance (including emotional) features from the Hebrew. We will produce a series of visualisations for each Psalm that present, in successive stages (from simple overview to complex and detailed), what we understand to be the 'inner logic' of the Psalm. Academic analysis is thus packaged so as to make it accessible and useful to Bible translators without an academic background.

• Elizabeth Robar, Cambridge Digital Bible Research, Panelist
• Ryan Sikes, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Panelist
• Joshua Harper, Dallas International University, Panelist

I have a session in this one too:

S22-109
Biblical Lexicography
11/22/2021
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Bowie A (Second Floor) - Grand Hyatt
Theme: Greek Lexicography

Reinier de Blois, Nida Institute for Biblical Scholarship, Presiding

Alexander Chantziantoniou, University of Cambridge
The Πίστις Lexicon in the Book of Revelation: Lexical Semantics, Pragmatics, and an Ancient Idiom (30 min)
Tag(s): Lexicography (Text and Translation), Greek (Philology / Linguistics (incl. Semiotics)), Revelation (Biblical Literature - New Testament)

Laurentiu Florentin Mot, Adventus University
Is λιβανοτός Exceptionally a Censer/Brazier in Revelation 8:3, 5? How in the Lexicon Is This Possible? (30 min)
Tag(s): Greek (Philology / Linguistics (incl. Semiotics)), Revelation (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Commentary (Text and Translation)

Alan Bunning, Center for New Testament Restoration
Orthographical Priority for Interpreting Homophones in New Testament Manuscripts (30 min)
Tag(s): Greek - Koine (LXX, NT, Patristics) (Philology / Linguistics (incl. Semiotics)), Computer-Assisted Research (Technology), Lexicography (Text and Translation)

Travis Wright, University of Cambridge
The Possibility of a Post-Classical Greek Constructicography (30 min)
Tag(s): Greek - Koine (LXX, NT, Patristics) (Philology / Linguistics (incl. Semiotics)), Lexicography (Text and Translation)