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Meeting Program Units

2013 Annual Meeting

Baltimore, MD

Meeting Begins11/23/2013
Meeting Ends11/26/2013

Call for Papers Opens: 12/15/2012
Call for Papers Closes: 2/28/2013

Requirements for Participation

Meals in the HB/OT and Its World


Program Unit Type: Consultation
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: We welcome proposals for a session on "Meals, Feasting, and Cultural Exchange in the Persian Period." This session seeks to address aspects of meals, offering meals, and feasts in this time of enormous cultural exchange. Papers can address meals in the biblical text, as well as in the archaeology, iconography, and texts of the ancient Near East and Magna Graeca from the period of Persian hegemony. Our second session, made up of invited papers, will take up the topic "Meals and Gender."

Program Unit Chairs

Nathan MacDonald
Peter Altmann

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