Our Biblical Exegesis from Eastern Orthodox Perspectives will host the following sessions at the Annual Meeting in Denver (November 21–24, 2026):
Saturday, November 21, Hyatt Regency Denver, Capitol 5 (Fourth Floor), 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Platonism and Exegesis
Presentations
Abraham Wu, University of Cambridge: Your Word Is a Lamp: Illuminating the Spiritual Senses and the Shadows of Plato’s Protagoras in Origen’s Commentary on Matthew 25:1–13
William M. Wright, IV, Duquesne University: Middle Platonism and the Spiritual Senses in John and Origen
Eric Foster-Whiddon, Tabor College (Kansas): Jesus the Traveling Spectacle: Reading the Fourth Gospel as Inverted Narrative θεωρία
William Horst: Platonic Personifications: Death and Sin in Paul’s Letter to the Romans
Felix Albrecht, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities: Healing the Dissonances: Textual Authority and Scriptural Harmony in Origen’s Hexaplaric Psalter
Saturday, November 21, Hyatt Regency Denver, Capitol 5 (Fourth Floor), 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
The Reception of Wisdom Literature
Maria Pazarski, Supreme Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens: Wisdom as Cosmic and Saving Mediator: Proverbs 8 and the Wisdom of Solomon 7–9 in Dialogue with Plato, Numinous, and Philo
Caleb Keokolo Wachsmuth, Boston College: The Dream of a Ridiculous Ecclesiastes: Dostoevsky’s Satire as Catalyst for Reclaiming Ecclesiastes in Eastern Orthodox Exegesis
Justin M. Gohl, St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary: Exegeting the Spiritual Life from the Book of Proverbs: Comparing the Proverbs Commentaries of Evagrius of Pontus and the Catena of the Three Fathers
Paul Hinsberg: The Covenant Formula as the Canonical Architecture of Revelation 21: Divine Presence, Adoption, and Eschatological Communion
Leslie Baynes, Missouri State University: John Chrysostom on the Book of Revelation
Monday, November 23, Hyatt Regency Denver, Capitol 7 (Fourth Floor), 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Review, Brad Boswell, The Narrative Conflict of Traditions in the Late Antique World (Cambridge, 2025)
Presenters
Thomas McGlothlin, International Christian University
Jeremiah Coogan, Santa Clara University
Lee Blackburn, Jr., Milligan University
Brad Boswell, Samford University
Monday, November 23, Hyatt Regency Denver, Capitol 7 (Fourth Floor), 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Passion Narratives / Apocalyptic Literature
Cosmin Pricop: Christ’s Passion in Three Dimensions: Biblical, Apocryphal, Liturgical; Mutually Exclusive or Mutually Complementary?
Geoffrey Ready, Trinity College, University of Toronto: The Translator’s Apology: The Prologue to Ben Sirach and the Orthodox Reception of Scriptural Wisdom
Charles H. Cosgrove, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary: Lamenting Jesus: Piety or Passion?
Mersha Alehegne Mengistie, Addis Ababa University: The Ethiopian Commentary Tradition and Its Patristic Roots: The Commentary on Gen 3 as a Test Case
Mary Jett: The Prophesied Crucifixion: Fifth-Century Minor Prophet Commentaries
For our past sessions see the following links: