Please use the button below to register for the 2024 Bible Faculty Summit, to be held at Maranatha Baptist University from Monday, July 29, through Wednesday, July 31, 2024.

(In lieu of individual proposal acceptance emails, look below to see if your name is on the list. Let Mark Ward know if you see any errors or scheduling difficulties. Andrew Goodwill [[email protected]] will be handling airport pickups.)

Monday, July 29

• 3:00–5:00 pm – Registration
• 5:00 pm – Dinner
• 6:00 pm – Greetings from Mark Ward and MBU Representative
• 6:15 pm – Cory Marsh – “Urgency in the Mundane: Present Living in Light of the Parousia Texts in 1 and 2 Thessalonians”
• 7:05 pm – Phil Brown – “Integrity, Sin, and Saints: What does it mean to be a person of integrity who is both holy and confesses sin?”

Tuesday, July 30

• 7:30 am – Breakfast
• 8:15 am – Devotional: Andrew Goodwill or MBU Representative
• 8:30 am – Mark Ward – “The Influence of Sinaiticus and Vaticanus on the Critical Text of the Gospels”
• 9:15 am – Andrew Goodwill – “The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Prophets: the implications of Deuteronomy 18:15–22 and the Transfiguration accounts to a positive interpretation of 1 Kings 19”
• 10:00 am – Break
• 10:15 am – Brian Collins – “Premillennial New-Creation Millennialism: A Response to Thomas Schreiner”
• 11:00 am – Neal Cushamn – “Isaiah’s 2-Stage Restoration of Israel”
• 11:45 am – Group Photo
• 12:00 pm – Lunch
• 1:00 pm – Joseph Jo – “Romans 9:30–10:4: An Extended Proclamation of Paul’s Soteriological Justification”
• 1:45 pm – Leroy Hill – “Science Over Scripture? The Implications of William Lane Craig’s Approach to Adam’s Historical and Theological Identity”
• 2:30 pm – Break
• 2:45 pm – Mark Snoeberger – “The New Creation Model and the Believer’s Eternal Expectation”
• 3:30 pm – Glenn Kerr – “The Clean Animal Count in Genesis 7:2: A Cultural, not Primarily Exegetical, Question”
• 4:15 pm – Break
• 5:00 pm – Dinner
• 6:15 pm – Joel Arnold – “1 Timothy 2:9–15: A Hermeneutical Case Study in Reshaping Texts through Cultural Background”
• 7:00 pm – Troy Manning – “Overly Contextualized Bible Translations: The Products of Faulty Understandings of Linguistics, Translation Methodology, Exegesis, and Theology”

Wednesday, July 31

• 7:30 am – Breakfast
• 8:30 am – Devotional and BFS Comments: Mark Ward
• 8:45 am – Matt Shrader – “‘A Ministry of Enlarged Culture’: The First American Baptist Seminaries, 1811–1850”
• 9:30 am – Bruce  Meyer – “Shattered By Betrayal: Using Psalm 35 as a Paradigm for Counseling a Survivor of Abuse”
• 10:15 am – Break
• 10:30 am – Stephen Winiarski – “Tell it to the ἐκκλησίᾳ: Evaluating Church Discipline through the Lens of Socio-Cultural Interpretation”
• 11:15 am – David Potter – “Mihaly Kornya: Peasant Prophet, Transylvanian Baptist Hero”
• 12:00 pm – Lunch and dismissal

The Bible Faculty Summit paper proposal period will end on Friday, May 10, 2024.

We are in need of several more proposals this year. Now that graduation is over (for some of you!), please take some time to write one up. Click below.

The Bible Faculty Summit paper proposal period will end in two weeks, on Friday, May 10, 2024.

(Note: the proposal page erroneously stated that the proposal period would end April 30. This error has been fixed.)

• Remember to keep papers to 30 minutes to allow for discussion time.
• Your paper need not be completed till 24 hours prior to your delivering it, but we do ask that you read a paper as opposed to giving a talk.
• This year we will again have a publications committee working to help the best papers get published.