British New Testament Society

BNTS Call for Papers 2026 Proposals for papers are invited for the British New Testament Society Meeting 2026 to be hosted by St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, Monday 24 August to Wednesday 26 August 2026. Paper…

📣BNTS 2026 will take place in Maynooth this August and the Call for Papers is now live.

📅You can submit until 13th April - please tell your friends, colleagues, and casual acquaintances!

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I am particularly keen to hear from PhD students, independent scholars and others who are under-represented and under-celebrated in the Society.

If you are sharing news to celebrate others, please include them in the email!

Toot your own horn, or let us toot it for you BNTSers!

Book cover for Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse, edited by David Bolt. The book has a wide purple stripe across the bottom, with the text overlaid in white. The top section of the book is black with a splattered pattern breaking up the black. Inside the splatter are random blue marks on fuzzy light red lined paper. The background is brown/kraft cardboard.

A snapshot of chapter 8. Entitled A New Testament - Changing Positionality,Changing Interpretation. Emma Swai.

So it "finally" arrived through my door. I am actually really proud of this chapter, purely because I wanted to open up on the fact that experience changes exegetes (even if we like to pretend it doesn't).

Thank you @davidbolt13.bsky.social for giving me a soap box to stand on!

Examples could include recent publications (2025 for this first instalment), PhD completions, smaller events, awards, funding opportunities, job congratulations etc. A few sentences and any images you have will suffice.

As discussed at the AGM and in Michelle's recent email, we're hoping to launch the first instalment of the BNTS newsletter in the new year.

As such, I'd be grateful if you could share your news either in the comments or via email to Siobhán at info.officer@bnts.org.uk.

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New from @thevcs.bsky.social - Bible and Art Daily will take you on a series of journeys through the world of Scripture and the history of art. Watch the exclusive preview by @benquash.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/shorts/Mpy9w...

The British New Testament Society conference is taking place in Manchester. Tonight, we have a panel on decolonising New Testament Studies. #bnts25
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Very stimulating book panel on Steve Walton’s commentary on the Acts of the Apostles with Steve Walton and respondents Luke Mcnamara, David Horrell and Loveday Alexander at the Acts seminar of the British New Testament Conference in Manchester #bnts25

Title slide - Debt, Hunger, and the Inversion of Forgiveness in the Matthew Lord's Prayer in light of 4QInstruction

Our final session of #BNTS2025 is a plenary lecture from Ben Wold of @tcddublin.bsky.social on 'Debt, Hunger, and the Inversion of Forgiveness in the Matthean Lord’s Prayer
in light of 4QInstruction'.

It's our final day in Manchester, where the @uomreligion.bsky.social team have arranged a display of local culture ( = it's raining again). Our final seminar sessions are running at the moment, before our closing session plenary later this morning. #BNTS2025

The panel sat behind a table

Our second plenary session is underway, with a panel on Decolonising the New Testament Curriculum. #BNTS2025

This afternoon's simultaneous short papers are under way. In room 1 we have discussion of the historical Jesus in relation to Christian Zionism and enslavement, and in room 2 we have discussion of Codex H and the restoration of Israel in Mark. #BNTS2025

Our final paper comes from James Crossley, who is discussing the role of the Bible in the English uprising of 1381. #BNTS2025

I'm chairing our next session, which started with Cambry G Pardee on the reception history of the notion of the devil in disguise, and is continuing with U-Wen Low's analysis of Revelation and the body of Christ from the perspective of performance criticism. #BNTS2025

We're off to a great start in the new Reception, Critical Theory, and Interdisciplinary Studies seminar at #BNTS2025.

@tdbiii.bsky.social chaired our first session, which featured papers on decolonising hospitality, positionally and applying Bakhtin to Romans.

We are at #BNTS2025 today and tomorrow - come and say hi at our book stand and check out some lovely books!

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The UoM logo on a building against a blue sky.

It’s a sunny day in Manchester (for now!) and our seminar sessions are underway with some excellent papers. Don’t forget to share your highlights! #BNTS2025

Title slide - Luke's Rewriting of Matthew's Infancy Narrative, Helen Bond, University of Edinburgh

The Graham Stanton Memorial Lecture marks the start of #BNTS2025, given this year by our former president Professor Helen Bond of @uoedivinity.bsky.social

The 44th meeting of the British New Testament Society is underway in Manchester, hosted by @uomreligion.bsky.social for the fourth time. #BNTS2025

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Good morning, conference goers! 👋

We’re looking forward to welcoming you online and in Manchester later on today. Please share your photos and updates on #BNTS2025 and tag us so we can repost.

Booking for #BNTS2025 remains open until Sunday evening for online attendance, so don't miss out on what promises to be an excellent programme!

You can read the abstracts at: bnts.org.uk/short-papers...

MiJa Wi will chair Emanuele Scier, ‘Codex H as a Living Artifact: Layers of Text and Layers of Use in a Fragmented Pauline Manuscript’ and Nathanael Vette, ‘“By Way of Sidon in the Region of the Decapolis” (Mark 7:31): Mark’s Jesus and the Restoration of the Land of Israel’

SIMULTANEOUS SHORT PAPERS

Josh Bloor will chair Ronit Dassa, ‘The Land of Israel, Christian Zionism, and the Quest for the Historical Jesus’ and Norbert Nagy,‘Once in a Lifetime? The Historical Jesus and His Only Recorded Contact with a Slave’.

Session 3, the joint session with Johannine Literature will feature John Nelson on ‘The Next Quest for Jesus’ Physical Appearance’ with a response from James Crossley.

You can read the abstracts at: bnts.org.uk/synoptic-gos...

Session 1 will feature Lydia Lee on  ‘Not an Echo but a Reverb: Transformative Dynamics within Aesthetic Figural Interpretation’ and Session 2 will feature Aminta Arrington on ‘The Foreigner Who Returned: Narrative Repair and Counterstory in the Healing of the Ten Lepers’.

SYNOPTIC GOSPELS, chaired by Tim Carter & Séamus O’Connell, will host two sessions and a joint session with Johannine Literature.

...and James Crossley on ‘The Bible of the English Uprising of 1381: The Cases of William Grindecobbe and John Wrawe’.

You can read the abstracts at: bnts.org.uk/reception-cr...