Children in the Biblical World

Call For Papers: The Children in the Biblical World section plans to host three sessions in 2017. The first will be an open session. We invite submissions on any topic related to children and the Bible, the ancient world, or how biblical texts affect children in the post-biblical world. The second session will present the work of the project “Tiny Voices from the Past: New Perspectives on Childhood in Early Europe” (Univ. of Oslo/Norwegian Research Council), and the publications which have resulted from this four year long examination of children in the ancient world (see http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/projects/childhood/index.html). The committee will invite the presenters for this session. The third session will be a joint session with the Women in the Biblical World and LGBTI/Queer Hermeneutics sections. Proponents of so-called "traditional" family values often appeal to biblical texts to implicitly or explicitly exclude families, or some people from families, that don't conform to a certain model. Yet, biblical texts often prove to be notoriously tricky analogues or preludes for such claims. This panel invites papers that consider strategies that build upon such disconnections or non-correspondences, as an opening onto critical, creative, or constructive uses of the context, content, or interpretation of the Hebrew Bible or New Testament.

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