Michael Bird writing an article on “The Incident in Antioch: The Making of Paulinism”

Michael F. Bird is writing an essay for a volume in honour of Martin Hengel on “The Incident in Antioch: The Making of Paulinism.” You can surf on over for a summary of what he takes to be the formative factors and decisive events leading up to the incident in Antioch (Galatians 2:11-14).

Galatians at ETS 2008

Thanks to Ricoblog I see that the Evangelical Theological Society has posted the tentative program for their 60th annual meeting in Providence, RI on November 19-21. There are two presentations that focus specifically on Galatians.

Thursday 8:30 AM-9:10 AM
John Taylor (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary)
Building Up the Faith: Galatians 2:17-18 in Context.

Friday 9:10 AM-9:50 AM
Michael Bird (Highland Theological College)
What If Luther Had Read the Dead Sea Scrolls? The Challenge of Historicizing Reformed Theology: Galatians as a Test Case.
This presentation will be given in the New Perspective on Paul section with others given by Mark Nanos (Paul between Christians and Jews) and Craig Evans (Phinehan Zeal, Works of Law, and Paul).