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Meeting Program Units

2009 Annual Meeting

New Orleans, LA

Meeting Begins11/21/2009
Meeting Ends11/24/2009

Call for Papers Opens: 12/15/2008
Call for Papers Closes: 2/28/2009

Requirements for Participation

Lament in Sacred Texts and Cultures


Program Unit Type: Group
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: We are seeking papers for three sessions: 1. A session jointly sponsored with the Ecological Hermeneutics section on responses to natural disasters in the earth community (human and non-human), in the Bible, and in the ancient Near East. A natural disaster (e.g., drought, flood, hurricane) may be experienced by living beings or by nature. Preference will be given to proposals that engage with ecological hermeneutics and the process of identifying with the non-human domains. 2. A session on the responses of artists, poets, and writers to experiences of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation of New Orleans. 3. An open session using a variety of methods and critical approaches to the biblical tradition of lament, Lamentations, and other expressions of grief, complaint and/or protest from ancient and contemporary contexts. Preference will be given to papers responding to William Morrow, Protest Against God: The Eclipse of a Biblical Tradition (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2006).

Program Unit Chairs

William S. Morrow
Nancy C. Lee

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