Dr. Barbara Leung Lai
Professor of Old Testament
Director, Pastoral and Chinese Ministry Program
Tyndale Seminary, Toronto, Canada
Director, Pastoral and Chinese Ministry Program
Tyndale Seminary, Toronto, Canada
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- Presented a paper, `Word Becoming Flesh: Toward a Methodology of Contextual Biblical Interpretation,`at the Contextual Biblical Interpretation Consultation at SBL, Nov. 2012.
- At invitation of the Institute of Biblical Research (IBR), as one of the 5 key-note speakers, presented a paper “Word Becoming Flesh (On Appropriation): Engaging Daniel as a Survival Manual” at the Annual Lecture on “Global Reading of Scriptures,” Nov. 18-22, 2011, San Francisco.
- Presiding at a section of the Psychology and Biblical Studies Section at the Annual meeting of AAR/SBL, Nov. 19-22, San Francisco.
- Presented a paper: “Engaging Bakhtin Tri-focally: The Meet/Melt-ing Point of Psychology, Literary Studies, and the Empirics of Reading (The Case of Isaiah 49),” at the Bakhtin and the Biblical Imagination Section, SBL Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, Nov. 20-23, 2010.
- Presented a paper: “In Times like This: Chaos, Embracing & Equipping,” at the Pastoral Conference on Faith Seeking Understanding, Tyndale Seminary, March 27, 2010 (in both English and Chinese streams).
- Presented a paper: “What Would Bakhtin Say about Isaiah 21:1-12? A Reading,” at the Biblical Seminar, Dept. of Biblical Studies, Tyndale Seminary, January 29, 2010. (A revised version of the same paper presented in Nov. 2009, SBL).
- Presented a paper: “Total Otherness, Self-Condemnation, and ‘Mission Impossible’: A Psycho-Dramatic Reading of Isaiah 6,” at the Psychology and Biblical Studies Section, SBL Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov 20-24, 2009.
- Presented a paper: “Fostering a ‘Whole-Brained’ Scholastic Experience in Classroom Teaching” at the Psychology and Biblical Studies Section, AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, Nov. 17-20, 2007. (The Same paper in a slightly different version was presented at the Faculty Colloquium, Tyndale UC and Seminary, Nov 8, 2007).
- Presented a paper: “Toward an Appropriation Theory: A Contextual Reading of the (Zakar) Motif in Deuteronomy,” at the Contextual Biblical Interpretation Consultation, AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Nov. 18-21, 2006.
- Presented a paper: “Voice and Interiority: The Interweaving of Speaking Voices in Isaiah 21: 1-12,” at the Biblical Criticism and Literary Criticism Section, AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Nov. 18-21, 2006.
- Invited to present a paper “Psalm 44 and the Function of Lament and Protest” at the Psychological Hermeneutics of Biblical Themes and Texts Consultation, ISBL Annual Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-6, 2006.
- Presented a paper: “Uncovering the Isaian Personality: Wishful Thinking or Viable Task?” at the Psychology and Biblical Studies Section, AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Nov., 2005.
- Presented a paper: “Surely, all are in vain! –Psalm73 and Humanity Reaching Out to God” at the Lament in Sacred Texts and Cultures Group, AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Nov., 2005.
- Presented a paper “Immersing Ourselves in the Visionary Experience of Daniel: Reading, Emotive-Experiencing, Appropriation,” at the Psychology and Biblical Study Section, AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonia, TX on Nov. 20, 2004. A longer version of the same paper was read at the Tyndale Faculty Colloquium, Nov. 2004.
- Presented a paper: “Hearing God’s Bitter Cries: A Reading of Hosea 11:1-9”at the Biblical Hebrew Poetry Section, AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Toronto, 2002.
- Presented a paper: “Hearing God’s Bitter Cries (Hosea 11:1-9): Reading, Emotive-Experiencing, Appropriation,” at the Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium, Fuller Theological Seminary, Oct, 2003.
- Invited to present a paper: “The Language of ‘Emotion’ and ‘Self’ in Isaiah 21:1-12: Reading as a Chinese-Canadian Woman” at the Asian and Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics Group, AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, Nov., 1999.
- Presented a paper on Psychological Biblical Criticism at the Faculty Forum, Tyndale Seminary, Fall, 2002.
- Presented a paper: “The Language of Emotion, Culture, Gender, and Biblical Interpretation,” The Centre of Bible and Culture, Department of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield, January, 1995.
