Conferences & Lectures

Academic Conferences

1. “Wood-gatherer, Limited Resources, and Surveillance: Rereading Sabbath Transgression in Numbers 15”
   Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX (2021)
   Unit: Reading, Theory, & Bible
2. “Onan, Sly Civility, & Anonymous Collectivity”
   Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Online (2020)
   Unit: Reading, Theory, & Bible
3. “Scriptures, Defining ‘Religion,’ & the Marginalization of Indigenous Beliefs in Indonesia: A Hermeneute’s Response”
   European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting, Wuppertal, Germany
   (September 2021)
   Unit: Politization of Bibles & Biblization of Politics in the 21st Century
4. “White Domination and Nancy Leong’s Racial Capitalism in the SDA World Headquarters”
   2020 Southeastern Commission of the Study of Religion, Athens, GA (March 2020)
   Unit: Religions in America
5. “The Intertwined Agendas in the Book of Ezekiel: Yahweh and Nebuchadnezzar (and Ezekiel?)”
   2019 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA (2019)
   Unit: Ideological Criticism
6. “For the Lord: The Flexibility of Sabbath, Paul’s Ethnic-Reasoning
   and Indonesian Politics of Identity”
   2019 Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting, Rome, Italy (2019)
   Unit: Political Biblical Criticism
7. “Theological Education and its American Influence: A Postcolonial Reading”
   2019 Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting, Rome, Italy (July 2019)
   Unit: Postcolonial Studies
8. “Ancient Household and the Matthean Jesus: A Socio-Rhetorical Approach
   in Reading Matthew 10:34-39”
   15th Annual Yale Edward A. Bouchet Conference Yale University, New Haven, CT (2018).
   Unit: Literature, Arts, and Culture
9. “The Levitico-Chronistic Designation of ‘the Ark’ in Psalm 132 as a Liturgical Legitimation: Revisiting Gwynne Henton Davies’ the Ark in the Psalms”
   2018 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Meeting Yale University, New Haven, CT (2018)
   Unit: Hebrew Bible
10. “The Formation of ‘Killer Wife’ Superstition in Jewish and Javanese Tradition:
    The Tale of Sarah in the Book of Tobit and the Bahu Laweyan Woman”
    GEO Conference, The University of Maryland, College Park, MD (2018)
11. “Towards an Indonesian Triadic-Multi-Textual Hermeneutics”
    14th Annual James A. Rawley Conference in the Humanities
    The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE (March 10, 2018)
12. “Exploring the Role of the Redactor in Order to Resolve ‘The Face Issue’ in Exodus 33:11 and 23,”
    14th Annual Yale Edward A. Bouchet Conference Yale University, New Haven, CT (2017)
    Unit: Literature, Arts, and Culture
13. “Theological Analysis of the Phrase ‘Silly Dove Without Heart’ in Hosea 7:11”
    4th International Scholars’ Conference
    Klabat University, Manado (October 25-26, 2016)
14. “Theological Analysis of the Interpretation of Sons of God Based on Genesis 6:4”
    3rd International Scholars’ Conference
    Universitas Advent Indonesia, Bandung (October 21-22, 2015)

Academic Lectures

1. “The Book of Ezekiel: An Eccentric Prophet”
   Lecture, DIV/REL 6500: Hebrew Bible
   Vanderbilt University (October 2020)
2. “Biblical Scholarship & Decentering Attempts”
   Biblical Webinar Series
   Association of Christian Theologians in Indonesia (July 2020)
3. “YHWH, YHW3, YHW, & YHH: “The LORD” Beyond the Davidic-Zion Tradition”
   Invited Lecture at the Colloquium Biblicum
   Indonesian Theological Seminary in Jakarta (August 5, 2019)
4. “Middle Weak Verbs”
   Lecture, STH TO723: Biblical Hebrew I
   Boston University (November 2017)