Annual Meeting, Washington, November 18-21, 2006

Presider: JOSEPH VERHEYDEN, University of Leuven, Belgium

PAUL FOSTER, University of Edinburgh, UK: The Coming One: The Eschatological Christology of Q (30 min)

SIMON J. JOSEPH, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA: "Blessed is Whoever is Not Offended by Me": The Subversive Appropriation of Messianic Ideology in Q 3-7 (30 min)

Discussion (15 min)

STEPHAN WITETSCHEK, University of Leuven, Belgium: What Did John Hear? Literary Preparation and Christological Framing of the Baptist's Question (Q 7:18-23) (30 min)

HARRY T. FLEDDERMANN, Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI: The Christology of Q and the Pauline Kerygma (30 min)

Discussion (15 min)

Joint meeting with The Bible and American Popular Culture Consultation

Presider: MELANIE JOHNSON-DEBAUFRE, Drew University, Madison, NJ (5 min)

ANDREW S. JACOBS, University of California, Riverside, CA: Secret Gospels, Gospel Thrillers, and the American Religious Imaginary (30 min)

JODI EICHLER-LEVINE, Columbia University in the City of New York: Imagining Mary Magdalene: The Discourse of the Hidden Past in Popular Culture (30 min)

Discussion (15 min)

Break: (5 min)

RICHARD G. WALSH, Methodist University, Fayetteville, NC: Stigmata: The Sayings of the Hollywood Jesus (30 min)

MARGARET RAMEY, University of St. Andrews, UK: When Infancy Gospels and Popular American Fiction Meet: Considering Anne Rice's "Christ the Lord" (30 min)

Discussion (10 min)

Presider: PAUL FOSTER, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (5 min)

DENNIS R. MACDONALD, Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, CA: Why Q Vanished (30 min)

ROBERT DERRENBACKER, Regent College, Vancouver, Canada: Out of Sight but Not Out of Mind? Matthew's Use of Q in Matthew 5-7 (30 min)

Break: (5 min)

ALAN KIRK, Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA: Critical Reflections on the Revival of Oral Q (30 min)

JOHN S. KLOPPENBORG, University of Toronto, Canada: Thinking about the Composition of the Synoptic Gospels (30 min)

Discussion (20 min)