Yes, difficult to make sense of this story.  Something seems to be missing?  Written in a hurry?  Coming from a news service may be a clue of being more of a superficial than substantive inquiry of the nature of this conference.  As you & Littlebear bare something wrong with lack of a Jewish scholar to give a presentation alongside Christian presenters.  If Jewish scholars were to have a conference on some aspect of Christian scripture, Christians would consider it serious scholarship to have a Christian presenter.  When only one side analyzes a subject without input from other vested group, something lost in translation?  Seems like a conference sponsored by the Trump School of Theology, no?