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Meeting Program Units

2010 Annual Meeting

Atlanta, GA

Meeting Begins11/20/2010
Meeting Ends11/23/2010

Call for Papers Opens: 12/15/2009
Call for Papers Closes: 3/1/2010

Requirements for Participation

Writing/Reading Jeremiah


Program Unit Type: Group
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Writing/Reading Jeremiah group invites new readings and constructions of meaning with the book of Jeremiah “this side” of historicist paradigms and postmodernism. We welcome all strategies of reading Jeremiah that seek to reconfigure, redeploy, and move beyond conventional readings of Jeremiah. Our manifesto: not by compositional history alone, nor biographical portrayal alone, nor their accompanying theological superstructures; rather, we seek interpretation from new spaces opened for reading Jeremiah by the postmodern turn. Our group invites proposals on the following topics for 2010. 1) Papers treating any aspect of the oracles against the nations in Jeremiah. Preference will be given to papers that show a nuanced awareness of hermeneutical issues raised by postmodernism, for example engaging deconstruction, postcolonial critique, gender studies, or some other such dimension of reading. 2) For an open session: papers on any interpretive issue presented by the book of Jeremiah. 3) A third panel, co-sponsored with the Formation of the Book of Isaiah group, will explore first-person figurations of servant and suffering in Isaiah and Jeremiah. Papers for this panel have already been invited.

Program Unit Chairs

Carolyn J. Sharp
Else K. Holt

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