Our final paper comes from James Crossley, who is discussing the role of the Bible in the English uprising of 1381. #BNTS2025

I'm chairing our next session, which started with Cambry G Pardee on the reception history of the notion of the devil in disguise, and is continuing with U-Wen Low's analysis of Revelation and the body of Christ from the perspective of performance criticism. #BNTS2025

You can read the abstracts at: bnts.org.uk/short-papers...

MiJa Wi will chair Emanuele Scier, ‘Codex H as a Living Artifact: Layers of Text and Layers of Use in a Fragmented Pauline Manuscript’ and Nathanael Vette, ‘“By Way of Sidon in the Region of the Decapolis” (Mark 7:31): Mark’s Jesus and the Restoration of the Land of Israel’

Session 3, the joint session with Johannine Literature will feature John Nelson on ‘The Next Quest for Jesus’ Physical Appearance’ with a response from James Crossley.

You can read the abstracts at: bnts.org.uk/synoptic-gos...

Session 1 will feature Lydia Lee on  ‘Not an Echo but a Reverb: Transformative Dynamics within Aesthetic Figural Interpretation’ and Session 2 will feature Aminta Arrington on ‘The Foreigner Who Returned: Narrative Repair and Counterstory in the Healing of the Ten Lepers’.

...and James Crossley on ‘The Bible of the English Uprising of 1381: The Cases of William Grindecobbe and John Wrawe’.

You can read the abstracts at: bnts.org.uk/reception-cr...

Session 2 will feature Cambry G. Pardee on ‘Inheriting Satan’s Disguise: The Reception of 2 Corinthians 11:14 from the New Testament to Today’, U-Wen Low on ‘Re-reading the mutable body of Christ in the Book of Revelation’...

...and Lynda Burnhope on ‘Reading the Vice List in Romans 1 with Bakhtin and “Novelised Dialogism”’.