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February 28, 2007
Doors Open at 9. The Trouble will Begin at 11:10
With due respect to Mark Twain's announcement of his first lecture in San Francisco, the title of this post reflects a small part of my feeling about the March 19th "Convocation on Job." John Cobb emailed me yesterday to ask if I would preside over one of the five sessions at the Convocation. It seems that a competent presider has a major conflict and Professor Cobb somehow thought I should serve in his place. I won't be giving a presentation or anything. In fact, my duties seem fairly easy. I will introduce a presenter, I think it will be James Sanders, be attentive to his remarks, and then ask Loren Fisher to comment. At this point, I supposed my major responsibility would be to keep Fisher and Sanders from doing each other bodily harm. And while I know Sanders only through some of his work, I do know Fisher quite well and I can't imagine keeping them away from each other's throats will be too much of a chore. I do expect that they will have their academic differences. When that exchange has run its course, I will moderate questions from the gathered group at large. I suppose at the end of the session I will need to say, "Thank you" and announce the lunch break or something of the kind. So maybe there won't be too much trouble after all.
I reported on this one day conference a month or so ago. The sessions will all relate to Loren Fisher's translation of major portions the Book of Job, The Rebel Job, and his stimulating, if until now under appreciated, interpretation of its composition and the role and intention of one of its major literary sources or perhaps better authors. The meeting will feature Fisher, whose novels, in particular The Minority Report: Silenced by Religion, are integral to understanding how he interprets Job; Ziony Zevit, whose book, The Religions of Ancient Israel: a Synthesis of Parallactic Approaches, which I will finish in a day or two; James Sanders, co-editor of The Canon Debate, which I hope to finish reading before the Convocation; Jack Wilcox, whose book of The Bitterness of Job: A Philosophical Reading, I just finished and George Pixley, whose major commentary on Job, El libro de Job: Comentario Bíblico Latinoamericano, I can't read because it is in Spanish.
If you are in the Southern California area, you are welcome to attend. The Convocation on Job will be held at the Haddon Conference Center at Claremont School of Theology and is open to the public. I believe it will be a lively and instructive affair. You can review the most recent (well, almost the most recent) program details and get additional information from the Center for Process Studies website.
I'll have more to say about this as the event approaches.
Posted by Duane Smith at February 28, 2007 7:30 PM | Read more on Hebrew Bible |
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