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. 

Hyperlinked papers are viewable via YouTube (added as they become available).
 

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
 

November 7, 2025 (Thursday)

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

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
 

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
 

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
 

March 5, 2026 (Thursday)

Katarina Pålsson (Lund)
Jerome of Stridon on Revelation & Apocalyptic
11am US ET / 5pm CET (Zoom)
Zoom link: TBA
 

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
 

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
 

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