Bible in Ancient and Modern Media

Call For Papers: The Bible in Ancient and Modern Media invites papers for three sessions on our 2013 program. First, we invite papers for a joint session with the New Testament Textual Criticism Section on the topic of the public reading of texts in early Christianity. Although this general focus may include a variety of possible topics, we especially welcome papers on oral/written transmission and textual variants. Second, we invite proposals for a joint session with the Synoptic Gospels unit that seeks to raise new questions about the origins of, and relationships between, the Synoptic Gospels from the perspective of recent research on ancient media culture. Proposals are invited for papers that view the Synoptic Problem through the lens of new models of oral tradition, ancient manuscript culture, performance, and collective memory. Successful proposals will apply one or several of these and/or related theoretical models to established critical questions. Third, we invite papers for a session focused on the relationship between memory and material culture, particularly memories of lost things and specifically here with reference to Jewish and Christian memories of the lost Temple(s), its furnishings, and its cult. Emphasis is placed on how these items gain and shed meanings as they circulate through time and through space, from Jerusalem in the pre-exilic period to 17th century Europe. In what ways and forms do these lost objects live on in those societies? By bringing together specialists from across historical periods and fields of study—biblical studies, Jewish studies, social memory studies, material culture studies, history, and anthropology—this session seeks to illuminate how Judean, Jewish, and Christian communities have understood, used, and reused temple objects, and the roles that they have played in the construction of memory and identity before and after their loss.

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