22nd October 2025
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The joint Adelaide Research Seminar will be hosted by Australian Lutheran College and offers three papers.
Allegory, Pleasure, and the Serpent within Philo’s Hermeneutical Landscape
Dr Anna Nuernberger (ALC)
Anna is Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Co-Director of Research at ALC. Before joining ALC, she taught in secondary schools in both Germany and Australia and also lectured at Hamburg University. Her research interests, alongside hermeneutics, lie in Early Christianity and Second Temple Judaism. She is particularly fascinated by what people in these periods believed and doubted, and by how emotions intersect with both belief and doubt.
Afraid, Amazed and Astonished: Emotion at the Limits of Appraisal in the Synoptic Gospels
Rev’d Professor Bart Bruehler (UCLT)
Bart is the Director of Biblical Studies at the Uniting College for Leadership and Theology. He and his family moved to South Australia from America where he worked with schools and churches in the Wesleyan tradition. He is the author of A Public and Political Christ and Holding Hands with Pascal as well as several articles. His research interests include sociorhetorical
interpretation, spatiality in biblical narrative, and affect/emotion in communication. He is married to Anne, and they have three children. They love it when he bakes bread, and they tolerate it when he practices his trombone.
Citizenship as Motif of Conversion at Philippi
Dr Damian Szepessy (SBC)
Damian is the Academic Dean at St Barnabas College. He also teaches in the New Testament. His area of interest is researching how Paul sought to form Christian identity amongst his first converts.
Monday 27 October 2025, 11:00am-1:00pm (ACDT)
ALC Library
Level 1, 22 Pulteney St, Adelaide
Refreshments provided, RSVP by Fri 24 Oct to research@alc.edu.au
Zoom Meeting ID: 813 4712 5024 Passcode: 861126
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