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August 9, 2013 e-newsletter
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Annual Meetings

The last chance for Early Bird registration for the SBL Annual Meeting is Thursday, August 15!   Early Bird registration rates are in effect through the end of the day (11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time). After this day they will increase an additional $50 so please make sure to Register Now.  You may also make a hotel reservation at one of our available conference hotels when you register. 

With a rich historical background, Baltimore is a colorful, diverse city that is known for its beautiful harbor, distinct neighborhoods, unique museums and historical attractions.    From the shops and restaurants located in the Harborplace shopping district, visiting the aquatic life at Maryland’s Science Center and National Aquarium to learning about the past history from the B&O Railroad Museum and the Edgar Allen Poe tours, Baltimore is a family-friendly experience.  We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore at the SBL Annual Meeting 2013!

Publications

SBL Publications now offers both hardcover and paperback editions (as well as a variety of e-book versions) of our own works after an eleven-year hiatus during which Brill Academic Publishers offered all SBL titles in hardcover. SBL hardcover editions are ideal for libraries and institutions, although they are priced to appeal to individuals as well.

Our latest hardcover-paperback publications are:

Jonathan Stökl and Corrine L. Carvalho, eds., Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ancient Near East
Hardcover Paperback 

Carl P. E. Springer, Sedulius, The Paschal Song and Hymns
Hardcover Paperback

Ronald Leprohon, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary
Hardcover Paperback

Look for all future SBL publications to appear simultaneously in hardcover, paperback, and e-book forms—and please encourage your librarian to buy all SBL titles in the format best suited to your institution's needs.

Baltimore Annual Meeting Award Sessions Scheduled

Paul J. Achtemeier Award for New Testament Scholarship
The Achtemeier Award session will be held on Monday, November 25 at 9:00 am at the Annual Meeting in Baltimore. Joshua Jipp is the 2013 recipient. The award panelists will be announced next month.

David Noel Freedman Award for Excellence and Creativity in Hebrew Bible Scholarship
The Freedman Award session will be held on Monday, November 25 at 1:00 pm at the Annual Meeting in Baltimore. Jeremy Hutton is the 2013 recipient. The award panelists will be announced next month.

De Gruyter Prize – Call for Papers
Walter De Gruyter Prize for Biblical Studies and Reception History
The De Gruyter Prize call for papers is now open. Papers are due June 1, 2014. The award promotes the study of the reception history of the Bible and aims to highlight the broad impact of the Bible in a wide variety of historical contexts and cultural settings. For more information click here.

The following books were added to the ICI Online Book depository in July:

Chase, Frederic Henry. The Lord’s Prayer in the Early Church. Text and Studies Vol 1, No. 3. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2004.

Edwards, Timothy. Exegesis in the Targum of Psalms: The Old, the New, and the Rewritten. Biblical Studies, 28/1. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007.

Faust, Avraham. Judah in the Neo-Babylonian Period: The Archaeology of Desolation. Archaeology and Biblical Studies, 18. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012.

Kelle , Brad E., Frank Ritchel Ames, and Jacob Wright, eds. Interpreting Exile: Displacement and Deportation in Biblical and Modern Contexts. Ancient Israel and Its Literature, 10. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011.

Perdue, Leo G. ed., The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001.

Skinner, Christopher W. and Kelly R. Iverson, eds. Unity and Diversity in the Gospels and Paul: Essays in Honor of Frank J. Matera. Early Christianity and Its Literature, 7. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012.

More information on the ICI program

Membership and Subscriptions

Address Change
We have dropped the use of our post office box. Please send all mailings for SBL directly to Society of Biblical Literature, The Luce Center, 825 Houston Mill Road, Atlanta, GA 30329 . Please be sure to use the most recent membership and subscription form

Subscriptions
The Journal of Biblical Literature is the flagship journal of the field. It is published quarterly and includes scholarly articles and critical notes by members of the Society. Essential reading for over a century, it is now available online and in print. 

In order to receive the printed issue 132:2 of the Journal of Biblical Literature your subscription and payment must be received no later than August 15, 2013. The subscription form can be found at: 
http://sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/JournalSubscriptions.pdf . 
You may fax or email your form to the office. Our Fax number is 404-727-2419 or you may email the form to SBLServices@sbl-site.org. If you prefer, you may renew your subscription online, by logging into the website at http://www.sbl-site.org/membership/joinnow.aspx and following the directions. You may also of course mail your subscription form to us at 825 Houston Mill Road, Atlanta, GA 30329 for later issue subscriptions. 

The Review of Biblical Literature (RBL), founded by the Society of Biblical Literature, presents reviews of books in biblical studies and related fields. Appearing in digital form and in print, RBL is comprehensive, international, and timely.In order to receive the printed annual of the Review of Biblical Literature for 2013 your subscription and payment needs to be received by October 15, 2013. The subscription form can be found at: http://sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/JournalSubscriptions.pdf . 
You can print the form, fill it out and mail it with your payment or payment information to 825 Houston Mill Road, Atlanta , GA 30329. Or, you can fax it to 404-727-2419. If you prefer you can renew your subscription online by logging into the website at http://www.sbl-site.org/membership/joinnow.aspx and following the directions. 

Special subscription rates to JBL and RBL are available to institutions in ICI countries. Download the ICI order form here.

Calendar

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August 2013
8/2- 8/4 OSBA 2013
Oceania Biblical Studies Association (OBSA) 2013 meeting will be held at the Pacific Theological College in Suva, Fiji.Call for papers is now opened and information for OBSA 2013 is available online at https://sites.google.com/site/wavesofthemoana/. The main conference theme is “What is Oceanic Biblical Interpretation?”
The deadline for all paper proposals is June 30th, 2013. For further information, please contact Dr Nasili Vaka’uta (n.vakauta@auckland.ac.nz) or send an email to OBSAMail@gmail.com.
 
8/4–8/9 International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT)
The 21st Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) will take place at the University of Munich, Germany. As usual it will be joint with the Congresses of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS, 1.-3. of August), of the International Organization for Qumran Studies (IOQS), the International Organziation for Masoretic Studies (IOMS), the International Organization for Targum Studies (IOTS) and the International Syriac Language Project (ISLP).
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8/13-8/16 Identity Formation in the Gospel of Mark
International Conference hosted by the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
For more information contact Prof. Dr. Gudrun Guttenberger or Prof. Dr.Heike Omerzu.
8/29-8/31 British New Testament Society
2013 conference will be held at the University of St. Andrews. Details forthcoming.
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September 2013
9/1 Call for Papers Deadline: Biblical Studies, West and East: Trends, Challenges and Prospects
Conference hosted by the Department of Theology of the Ukrainian Catholic University. Abstracts are being accepted for the three panels: Current Methods and Approaches in Biblical Studies, Judaic Context of the New Testament, Hebrew and Greek Bibles.
Indications of interest should be made as soon as possible with an abstract of up to 300 words and a short CV to Yuriy Shchurko. Inclusion in/and panels will be confirmed by September 3rd 2013 at the latest.
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9/3-9/6 EASR Annual Conference
The 12th EASR Annual Conference will be hosted by the Bristish Association for the Study of Religions at Liverpool Hope University, 3-6 September 2013.
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9/19- 9/20 Biblical Studies, West and East: Trends, Challenges and Prospects
International conference hosted by the Department of Theology of the Ukrainian Catholic University. 
Keynote Speakers: EMMANUEL TOV, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; REINHARD NEUDECKER SJ, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome; JANUSZ CZERSKI, University of Opole, Poland; PETER DUBOVSKY, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome; PAOLO GARUTI, Angelicum, Rome / Ecole biblique, Jerusalem.
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9/26- 9-28 Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha in North American Perspectives (2013 York Christian Apocrypha Symposium)
The 2013 York Christian Apocrypha Symposium, “Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha in North American Perspectives,” will take place at York University September 26–28, 2013. The event is organized by Tony Burke (York University) in consultation with Brent Landau (University of Oklahoma). It brings together 22 Canadian and U.S. scholars to share their work and discuss present and future collaborative projects.
The symposium is open to scholars, students, and interested members of the public; all may register for the event and take part in discussions. One of the goals of the symposium is to make the work of North American scholars on the Christian Apocrypha more widely known, not only to scholars in cognate disciplines (such as New Testament Studies or Medieval Studies) but also to students, who will be the future scholars in the discipline, as well as to the wider public who is interested in the texts but has been ill-informed about them through films, novels, and fringe scholarship.
For additional information on the 2013 Symposium contact: tburke@yorku.ca or bclandau@gmail.com
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9/30 Call for Papers
The Leonardo Museum in downtown Salt Lake City has been chosen to host a major exhibit on the Dead Sea Scrolls entitled, “Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Biblical Times,” November 22, 2013 — April 27, 2014.

In connection with the conclusion of the exhibit, the museum is hosting an academic conference, “The Prophetic Voice at Qumran and Contemporary Communities.”

The conference is co-sponsored by the Religious Studies Center and the Evans Professor of Religious Understanding at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. We plan to publish the conference proceedings.
We are pleased to announce a call for paper or presentation proposals that address the theme expressed in the conference title. Topics may include the nature of prophecy at Qumran, the interpretation of prophecy at Qumran, the identification and status of Jewish prophets at that time, the authoritative prophetic voice at Qumran compared to contemporary communities or groups, text-critical issues regarding prophetic texts, and so forth.

Proposals for papers and presentations may be submitted until September 30 to Professor Dana M. Pike at BYU’s Religious Studies Center at the following email address: rsc@byu.edu (please put DSS Conference in the subject line)
October 2013
10/4- 10/6 Pilgrims’ Progress: Pilgrimage across Time and Cultures
The Institute of Pilgrimage Studies in conjunction with the International Consortium for Pilgrimage Studies invites abstracts for the 2nd annual Symposium to be held at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. The conference will embrace thematic sessions including:Artistic and Literary Responses to Pilgrimage,Health and Pilgrimage,Material Culture of Pilgrimage,Pilgrimage in the Eastern Mediterranean,Pilgrimage in the Ancient World,Personal Reflections on Pilgrimage,Space, Place and Lived Experience of Pilgrimage. More information
10/9- 10/12 Changing Perspectives in Old Testament Studies: Past, Present, and Future
An International Conference at the University of Copenhagen. The conference focuses on the major changes within the field of Old Testament Studies during the past 50 years. It is the aim of the conference to investigate those changing perspectives within a broader context of Hellenistic studies, theories of composition, theories of history, anthropology, archaeology, Ancient Near Eastern religion and comparative literature, Dead Sea texts and cultural memory studies, and to suggest future prospects for the discipline.More information
10/23-10/26 Westar Institute Fall Meeting
The biannual meeting of the Westar Institute, advancing religious literacy through a twofold mission of fostering collaborative research in religious studies and communicating the results of scholarship to a broad non-specialist public, will take place this Fall in Santa Rosa, California. Critical questions to be considered include:
  • Did Christianity begin with Jesus, Paul, Luke, or Constantine?
  • Which came first, the Gospel of John or the Gospel of Luke?
  • What did the first New Testament look like?
  • How did the debate about rules and rituals shape Christianity?
  • Does the date of Christian origins impact Jewish-Christian relations?
Please inquire about student discounts at westar@westarinstitute.org. Program details and registration now available at: http://www.westarinstitute.org/national-meetings/westar-fall-meeting-2013/
November 2013
11/20- 11/22 John, Jesus, and History: Engaging the Legacies of C.H. Dodd and Raymond E. Brown
The occasion of this pre-SBL conference at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore is the 50th and 60th anniversaries of Dodd’s books on John and history as well as the ongoing significance of Brown, who taught at St. Mary’s from 1959 to 1971. The conference is sponsored by St. Mary’s and the SBL’s John, Jesus, and History section. The keynote address will be given by Jimmy Dunn. Papers and other presentations will be given by John Ashton, Alan Culpepper, Jonathan Draper, Craig Koester, Wendy E. S. North, Tom Thatcher, Jan van der Watt, and Catrin Williams, as well as Paul Anderson, John Donahue, Michael Gorman, and Jaime Clark-Soles. For further information, contact Craig Koester (ckoester@luthersem.edu) or Michael Gorman (mgorman@stmarys.edu). Registration begins June 1 at The occasion of this pre-SBL conference at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore is the 50th and 60th anniversaries of Dodd’s books on John and history as well as the ongoing significance of Brown, who taught at St. Mary’s from 1959 to 1971. The conference is sponsored by St. Mary’s and the SBL’s John, Jesus, and History section. The keynote address will be given by Jimmy Dunn. Papers and other presentations will be given by John Ashton, Alan Culpepper, Jonathan Draper, Craig Koester, Wendy E. S. North, Tom Thatcher, Jan van der Watt, and Catrin Williams, as well as Paul Anderson, John Donahue, Michael Gorman, and Jaime Clark-Soles. For further information, contact Craig Koester (ckoester@luthersem.edu) or Michael Gorman (mgorman@stmarys.edu).
Registration begins June 1
11/23- 11/26 SBL Annual Meeting
The SBL Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of biblical scholars in the world. Each meeting showcases the latest in biblical research, fosters collegial contacts, advances research, and focuses on issues of the profession. The Annual Meeting will be held in Baltimore, Maryland
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