Seminar Season 3 (2025-2026)

Revelation Reception Network Seminar

Sessions typically take place on the first Thursdays of each month at 11am US ET / 5pm Germany time, with several important exceptions (see below). All sessions are via Zoom. Once posted, these events may also be viewed on the Beyond Canon calendar here.?
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Hyperlinked papers are viewable via YouTube (added as they become available).
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October 2, 2025 (Thursday)

John Lamoreaux (SMU Dallas)
Apocalypse & the Doctrine of the Antichrist in the Greek Church (ca. 200–1100)
11am US ET / 5pm CET (Zoom)
Zoom link: TBA
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November 6, 2025 (Thursday)

Laurentiu Mot (Institutul Teologic Adventist)
Armageddon: The Mountain Meeting Its Megiddo
11am US ET / 5pm CET (Zoom)
Zoom link: TBA
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December 4, 2025 (Thursday)

Giovanni DiRusso (Harvard)
The Earliest Translation of Revelation into Arabic? Examining the Book of Revelation in the Arabic Apocalypse of Peter
11am US ET / 5pm CET (Zoom)
Zoom link: TBA
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December 11, 2025 (Thursday)

Book Review Session
Live reviews of new books with real-time author response, followed by audience Q&A.?

• Nathan Betz (Regensburg) reviews Martina Vercesi,?Revelation 19-21 in the Exegesis of Early Christian Roman Africa (Mohr Siebeck, 2025)
• Ian Boxall (Oxford) reviews Nathan Betz, City of Gods: The New Jerusalem of John's Revelation in Early Christianity (Brill, 2025)
• Andrew Mbuvi (UNISA) reviews Humphrey Waweru,?The Apocalypse of John and Liberation Theology in Africa (Bloomsbury, 2023)

11am US ET / 5pm CET (Zoom)
Zoom link: TBA
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February 2, 2026 (Monday)

Lynn Huber (Elon)
Light Space, Good Space? Revelation's Throne Room as White Mythic Space
11am US ET / 5pm CET (Zoom)
Zoom link: TBA
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March 5, 2026 (Thursday)

Katarina P?lsson (Lund)
Jerome of Stridon on Revelation & Apocalyptic
11am US ET / 5pm CET (Zoom)
Zoom link: TBA
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April 2, 2026 (Thursday)

Samuel Pomeroy (U. Tennessee Knoxville)
Erik Peterson & Karl Ludwig Schmidt on the Heavenly Jerusalem
11am US ET / 5pm CET (Zoom)
Zoom link: TBA
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May 7, 2026 (Thursday)

Benedikt Brunner (Mainz)
The Heavenly Jerusalem in the Reformation Revelation Commentaries of Bullinger, Chytraeus, & Hoffman
11am US ET / 5pm CET (Zoom)
Zoom link: TBA
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June 1, 2026 (Monday)*

Colin McAllister (U. Colorado Colorado Springs)*
Music in the Apocalyptic Mode
11am US ET / 5pm CET* (Zoom)
*Annual planning meeting follows @ 12 noon US ET / 6pm CET
Zoom link: TBA