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2008 International Meeting
Meeting Begins: 7/6/2008
Meeting Ends: 7/11/2008
Call for Papers Opens: 9/1/2007
Call for Papers Closes: 2/1/2008
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Program Units
American Academy of Religion (AAR)
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Ancient Near East
Description: The ancient Near East section explores the texts and material culture of the ancient world, especially Egypt, the Levant, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia from the birth of writing through the Hellenistic period. Our aim is to study the ancient world with a variety of methods and from a variety of perspectives—anthropological, archaeological, art-historical, economic, legal, literary, philological, sociohistorical, etc. We welcome work that reads the literature or material culture of one region against another, as well as work that is more limited in scope. Each year, we anticipate hosting two panels: one devoted to any aspect of the study of the ancient Near East, and one focussing on a more narrowly defined theme, region, approach, or time period.
Call for papers: Papers are invited from a wide variety of areas, but particular attention will be given to those dealing with the theme of "Rhetoric, Ritual and Power in the Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Israelite Texts."
Tags: Anatolian (Hittite, Luwian, Hurrian) (Ancient Near Eastern Literature - Region), Ancient Near East - Bronze Age (History & Culture), Ancient Near East - Hellenistic Period (History & Culture), Ancient Near East - Iron Age (History & Culture), Ancient Near East - Late Antiquity (History & Culture), Ancient Near East - Neo-Assyria (History & Culture), Ancient Near East - Neo-Babylonia (History & Culture), Aramaic (Philology / Linguistics (incl. Semiotics)), Comparative Approaches (Interpretive Approaches), Egyptian (Philology / Linguistics (incl. Semiotics)), Hebrew (classical) (Philology / Linguistics (incl. Semiotics)), Latter Prophets - Ezekiel (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Northwest Semitic - Canaanite (Phoenician, Punic, Moabite, Ammonite) (Ancient Near Eastern Literature - Region), Social-Scientific Approaches (Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology) (Interpretive Approaches), Torah/Pentateuch - Genesis (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint))
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Aotearoa New Zealand Association for Biblical Studies (ANZABS)
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Derek Tovey
St. John's College
Private Bag 28907
Remuera
Auckland 1541
New Zealand
d.tovey@auckland.ac.nz
Phone:+64 9 521 2725 ext. 816
Fax: +64 9 521 2420
Call for papers: Proposals from ANZABS members should be sent directly to Prof. Derek Tovey at the email address below. All others please email Prof. Tovey for information on the ANZABS program.
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Apocalyptic Literature
Description: The Apocalyptic Literature Section provides the International Meeting’s only general forum for studies related to apocalyptic literature. The Section welcomes papers that engage the wide range of apocalyptic texts, that provide analysis of the history and conventions of apocalyptic literature, and that employ diverse methodological perspectives.
Call for papers: The Apocalyptic Literature Section is open to papers involving all aspects of ancient Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature, including the history of their reception.
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Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Description: The Section fosters ongoing study of extra-canonical texts, as subjects of literary and philological investigation; as evidence for the history of religion, theology, and cult practice; and as documents of the socio-symbolic construction of traditions along lines of class and gender.
Call for papers: The Section fosters ongoing study of extra-canonical texts, as subjects of literary and philological investigation; as evidence for the history of religion, theology, and cult practice; and as documents of the socio-symbolic construction of traditions along lines of class and gender.
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Archaeology
Description: This unit is designed to encourage conversation and collaboration between collaboration between archaeologists and biblical scholars. Our definition of “archaeology” is broad, so we also include papers that present historical reconstructions using archaeological and textual data. Our stated goal is for all of the participants to address how their focused research in archaeology or biblical studies relates to the work of specialists in other areas. To date our sessions have included approximately an equal number of field archaeologists and textual specialists. The sessions thus promote dialogue between the presenters and the participants in the audience. The dialogue includes hermeneutical and historical discussions.
Call for papers: This unit is designed to encourage conversation and collaboration between collaboration between archaeologists and biblical scholars. Our definition of “archaeology” is broad, so we also include papers that present historical reconstructions using archaeological and textual data. Our stated goal is for all of the participants to address how their focused research in archaeology or biblical studies relates to the work of specialists in other areas. To date our sessions have included approximately an equal number of field archaeologists and textual specialists. The sessions thus promote dialogue between the presenters and the participants in the audience. The dialogue include hermeneutical and historical discussions. Papers are welcome on any topic on the archaeology and history of biblical and New Testament Israel.
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Association for Theological Education in South East Asia (ATESEA)
Description: The Association for Theological Education in South East Asia has members in Australia, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Call for papers: For information, please contact:
Dr. Yeow Choo Lak atesea@info.com.ph
Association for Theological Education in South East Asia (ATESEA)
Post Office Box 3167
Manila, Philippines
Telephone: 632.416.4994
Fax: 632.722.8568
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Association of Practical Theology in Oceania (APTO)
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Australia New Zealand Society for Theological Studies (ANZSTS)
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Australian and New Zealand Association of Theological Schools (ANZATS)
Description: ANZATS aims
1) to provide a meeting ground where the needs and problems of the schools in Australia and New Zealand may be studied, and to provide facilities for members schools to confer concerning all matters of common interest.
2) To help member schools keep theological education relevant to the changing situation in Australia and New Zealand.
3)To recommend standards of theological education and to maintain a list of members on the basis of such standards, and to arrange for such other affiliations or connections as will assist in promoting theological enquiries in Australia and New Zealand.
4) To carry out an agreed evaluation of the educational enterprise of the members.
5) To encourage the most efficient use of resources for theological education available in Australia and New Zealand, and to promote, where practicable, cooperation between members in sharing lecturers and facilities.
6) To promote the improvement of theological education in such ways as it may deem appropriate.
Call for papers: ANZATS is offering six sessions in Auckland, New Zealand. Presentation of papers will be open to all attending the congress but preference will given to ANZATS/STANZ participants. For details on papers, please click on Requirements to submit a paper proposal. Papers will be either 20 or 30 minutes followed by 10 minutes discussion. Final time allocation depends on the number of proposals accepted for each session. Contact chairs for more information on themes below.
Spirituality and Ecotheology - Session One focuses on the link between spirituality and ecology, although other papers in spirituality may be considered. Papers emphasizing an indigenous Christian spirituality, a feminist eco-spirituality, or a spirituality in dialogue with newer understandings of science are welcome.
Science and Theology - Session Two opens up the area of science and theology. This session includes papers which look at methodology, papers which encourage dialogue between social sciences and theology or the natural sciences and theology. Papers in the intersection of technology and theology will also be included.
The Question of God - Session Three invites contributors to articulate questions, themes or issues around the theme of God. All abstracts on the theme will be considered; papers on the question of God in relation to contemporary local or global contexts will be especially welcomed.
Salvation - Session Four examines the theme of ‘Salvation’ which lies at the heart of Christian faith. Papers are invited on any aspects of this theme.
The Common Good: Theological Ethics - Session Five reflects on the extent to which the axiom of the common good does/might provide a framework for contemporary theological decision-making.
Theology and Violence - Session Six will examine the connection between Christian theology and violence.
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Australian Association for the Study of Religion (AASR)
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Australian Association of Jewish Studies (AAJS)
Description: The Australian Association of Jewish Studies provides a meeting place for tertiary academics, Jewish educators, researchers, students and others devoted to the study of Jewish life, thought and culture.
Call for papers: Please direct all questions and correspondence to:
Dr. Marianne Dacy mdacy@library.usyd.edu.au
Box 233
Holme Building
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY NSW 2006
Tel: 61 2 9351 4162
Fax: 61 2 9351 2890
E-mail: mdacy@library.usyd.edu.au
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Australian Catholic Biblical Association (ACBA)
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Australian Catholic Theological Association (ACTA)
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Bethsaida Excavations Project
Description: The Bethsaida Excavations unit reports on the current progress of the dig and on topics related to the history and traditions of Bethsaida.
Call for papers: We seek presentation that will dal with the following issues:
1. History and archaeology of Iron Age sites relating to the discoveries at Bethsaida.
2. History and archaeology of Galilee during the Hellenistic-Roman periods relating to the discoveries at Bethsaida.
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Bible and Critical Theory Seminar
Description: The Bible and Critical Theory is an exploratory and innovative online scholarly journal for biblical studies. The journal explores the intersections between critical theory, understood in the broad sense, and biblical studies. It publishes peer-reviewed articles that investigate the contributions from critical theory to biblical studies, and contributions from biblical studies to critical theory. Several book reviews are also published in each issue.
Call for papers: Abstracts are welcome on any aspect of the intersection between the Bible and critical theory, and are particularly, though not exclusively, sought from scholars working in New Zealand, Pacific Islands, and Australian contexts.
Contact: James Harding (james.harding@stonebow.otago.ac.nz)
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Bible and Its Influence: History and Impact
Description: This unit offers a forum for papers on both the theory of reception studies and critical analysis of historical and contemporary case studies related to the Bible’s use and influence, in spheres ranging from art, literature and music to religion, society and culture.
Call for papers: The question of how texts and readers interact is an old one. In this unit we are particularly concerned with the question of how, if at all, the Bible can be shown to have made a difference. A second closely related area of enquiry is how the Bible has been used. 'Use' and 'influence', of course, often overlap. Proposals for papers that deal with these issues are welcome and for the 2008 meeting the influence and/or use of the Bible in ethics are particularly encouraged. Papers that deal withe the more general issues of the reception of the biblical text in art, music, literature and culture will also be considered.
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Bible and Music
Description: This program unit is concerned with all aspects of music in relation to the Bible and biblical studies.
Call for papers: Papers are welcome on any aspect of Bible and music, including music as exegesis and music with the text and ancient culture.
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Bible and Visual Culture
Description: The Bible and Visual Culture is premised on the recognition that some of the most engaging and creative interpretations of biblical texts are to be found in visual media from antiquity to the present. Further encouragement to attend to visual interpretations of the Bible is offered by our awareness that such readings have often captured the collective and especially popular imagination to a far greater extent than have many written interpretations and in doing so, these visualizations have shaped and influenced our reading and understanding of the biblical texts themselves. The section offers an academic space for the critical exploration and discussion of biblical texts, characters, motifs and themes as they are represented in visual media including (but not limited to) painting, sculpture, print making, illustration, moving pictures (including film, television and gaming), advertising, street art and other expressions of visual culture. The section welcomes efforts to situate visual interpretations of the Bible within a wider hermeneutical context and to explore the ways in which such interpretations challenge or support other non-visual readings of biblical texts. The nature of the subject explored in this section demands an openness to the insights of a range of different approaches and disciplines beyond biblical studies, including (but again, not limited to) art history, psychology, film, theatre as well as studies in gender and postcolonialism.
Call for papers: The Bible and Visual Culture Unit invites papers for the International SBL meeting in July 2008. Papers related to the representation of the biblical narrative by New Zealander, Pacific Islander or Australian artists are particularly welcomed in this session, as are papers that examine current academic progress in the emergence of a shared exegetical and/or analytical methodology between the disciplines of Art History and Theology.
Please note: If you intend to offer a paper, please ensure that the images you intend to use are of a very high quality and, if necessary, appropriately enlarged so that they can be clearly seen by a large audience.
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Bible in the Pacific
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Call for papers: Proposals are welcome on any aspect of the spread and use of the Bible in the Pacific Islands and aboriginal Australia. The following topics are of special interest: indigenous interpretation and appropriation of the Bible, collaboration and resistance in biblical translations, constructing the "native" with help from the Bible, the Bible as a component of imperialism, and teaching the Bible in Pacific contexts.
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Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Law
Description: The purpose of the Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Law Section is to promote interdisciplinary research on ancient Near Eastern, biblical, and post-biblical law. Methodological perspectives include historical-critical, literary, legal-historical, feminist, and social-scientific approaches.
Call for papers: The Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Law Section of the International SBL is issuing an open call for academic papers for its 2008 meeting in Auckland. Scholars may present papers on a range of topics affecting the interpretation of particular biblical laws and law collections or relate such laws and law collections to (other) legal corpora from the ancient Near Eastern world.
Tags: Law (Comparative Religion / History of Religion), Law Codes & Legal Documents (Ancient Near Eastern Literature - Genre)
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Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Wisdom
Description: The unit seeks to encourage an ongoing discourse on new ideas and methodologies in the study of Wisdom Literature. The primary focus is on Biblical wisdom - Proverbs, Job, Qoheleth, the Wisdom Psalms and other texts influenced by wisdom ideas, as well as Ben Sira and Wisdom of Solomon. The section is also concerned with the relationship between biblical wisdom literature and cognate texts of the ancient Near East.
Call for papers: Proposals for papers are welcome on philological, literary and ideational aspects of the wisdom literature in the Bible. This year's meeting gives preference to esoteric fields of wisdom such as navigation, art, and mantic practices.
Tags: Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) (Biblical Literature - Deuterocanonical Works), Wisdom (Ancient Near Eastern Literature - Genre), Wisdom and Philosophical Literature (Early Jewish Literature - Jewish Pseudepigrapha), Wisdom of Solomon (Biblical Literature - Deuterocanonical Works), Writings - Ecclesiastes (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Writings - Job (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Writings - Proverbs (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint))
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Biblical Characters in Three Traditions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
Description: This seminar approaches biblical literature through its most famous and pivotal characters, for it is around them that the subsequent biblical story is organized and arranged. Moreover, these characters have come to enjoy a life and fame that extends well beyond the basic Old Testament, Miqra, and New Testament, and even into the Qur’an and Islamic oral and written texts. As was demonstrated at the recent Tartu seminar, Samaritan texts and traditions (unfamiliar to many) have a contribution to make to the seminar as well. Our work seeks, among other goals, to facilitate a meaningful and informed dialogue between Jews, Christians, Muslims and Samaritans—foregrounded in the academic study of the treatment of characters across texts and
traditions—by providing both an open forum at annual conferences, and by providing through our publications a written reference library to consult. A further goal is to encourage and provide a forum in which new scholarly talent in biblical and related studies may be presented.
Call for papers: Our theme for 2008 : Jesus: Teacher, Prophet, Savior and the Lord.
Martin Buber in his lecture in 1952 , New York addressed his audience saying; In sum to here the question echoing out the depth of stillness, teach me to have faith in reality, in Verities of existence. Who indeed, can help me if thou canst not?
For Buber, Jesus's uniqueness lay in the strength, the immediacy.He referred to the immediate realm of the unconditional dialogue, and he invited his disciples to do the same. Buber sees the I of Jesus as one of solidarity and unconditional relationship.
In our seminar we wish to experience Buber's suggestive connection between the Scripture and Literature, between Archaeology and Philosophy. We wish to learn that within the familiar context we are offered new point of views embracing many disciplines and the spirit of their wisdom is in our midst.
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Biblical Interpretation in Early Christianity
Description: This program unit explores the interpretative structures, methodologies, and concerns of patristic exegesis and the various assumptions underlying it.
Call for papers: This new unit especially invites paper proposals on the Psalms in early Christian interpretation, but will also consider proposals which contribute to our understanding of the structures, methodologies, concerns and assumptions functioning within patristic readings of other biblical texts.
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Biblical Studies and Technology
Description: The section's primary focus is on the application of ever changing information technology to biblical research and pedagogy. Its focus is upon well-established technologies as well as the emerging and experimental.
Call for papers: The Biblical Studies and Technology section welcomes paper proposals on any area of application of technology to biblical studies. Possible topic areas include: (1) reports on new or ongoing projects using digitizing or encoding to deliver biblical studies resources to scholars; (2) new software or computational techniques for analysis of biblical texts; (3) new research strategies emerging from the digitization of textual resources for biblical scholarship; (4) the pedagogical use of technology for classroom instruction; and (5) reports of technologies related to information structure that may have applicability to biblical studies.
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Biblical Theology
Description: The unit explores the hermeneutical innovations and theological implications of the location of critical biblical interpretation within the confessional communities of the various traditions. Particular attention is given to the relationship between systematic theology, practical theology, philosophical theology, and biblical studies, with respect to their nature and status as discrete disciplines.
Call for papers: The unit explores the hermeneutical innovations and theological implications of the location of critical biblical interpretation within the confessional communities of the various traditions. Particular attention is given to the relationship between systematic theology, practical theology, philosophical theology, and biblical studies, with respect to their nature and status as discrete disciplines.
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Catholic Biblical Association (CBA)
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Catholic Epistles
Description: This unit provides a forum for sharing original research regarding all aspects of and approaches to the interpretation of the Catholic Epistles (James, 1–2 Peter, 1–3 John, and Jude) as a collection or individual letters, including a variety of critical methodologies and especially welcome studies demonstrating interdisciplinary approaches.
Call for papers: All papers related to the Pastoral and Catholic Epistles, including Hebrews, are welcomed.
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Comparative Studies of Literature from the Persian and Hellenistic Periods
Description: This section, titled Historical Books (Hebrew Bible) through 2011, encourages comparative studies of literature from the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in order to map the common trends (theological; socio-psychological; rhetorical; etc.) occurring in historiographical (biblical; apocryphal; extra-biblical), prophetic and wisdom literature of the period.
Call for papers: The Historical Books Section invites proposals for 1) open sessions on the historical books and 2) focused sessions engaging the connections between history writing and identity (re)formation. Evidence of using the past to find a (re)new(ed) identity in socio-political and socio-religious circumstances may be found in Hebrew Bible historiographies. The so-called Deuteronomistic History as well as the works of Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah are often read from the perspective of a community trying to address identity issues in changed circumstances. We seek to examine this perspective further. Any theortectical reflections on the relationship between historiography and identity (re)formation or illustrations from Hebrew Bible historiographies would be welcomed. A few keynote speakers will be invited to introduce the discussion and we also invite proposals.
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Concept Analysis and the Hebrew Bible
Description: The unit examines concepts that unify particular textual units or books in the Hebrew Bible and the interrelationship of competing concepts within the same book or corpus in the Hebrew Bible (e.g., God's love and hate; peace and violence; wealth and poverty).
Call for papers: We invite papers in two categories: 1) Papers that examine unifying concept(s) of a particular textual unit or book in the Hebrew Bible; (2) Papers that explore the recurrence and interrelationship of particular concept(s) within the Historical Books. Papers in both categories should define the concepts and the extent of the text where the concepts are discerned.
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Critical Theory and Biblical Interpretation
Description: The unit provides a forum to encourage innovative and experimental approaches to biblical studies, to facilitate critical reflection on the role of theory in reading, and to support biblical scholarship informed by cross-disciplinary conversation.
Call for papers: While we welcome presentations in all areas of ideological criticism (gender; materialism; minority; queer; postcolonial; etc.,), for the 2008 Meeting in Auckland proposals focusing on Asia are especially welcome.
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Early Christianity and the Ancient Economy
Description: The unit is the foundational component of an international, interdisciplinary project that seeks to delineate the relationship between early Christianity and the ancient economy in the period from Jesus to Justinian, demonstrating both similarities and differences in attitudes, approaches to problems, and attempted solutions.
Call for papers: The Early Christianity and Ancient Economy unit sponsors three sub-projects. The first is "The Ancient Economy," with particular attention given to the economies of Classical Greece, the Hellenistic World, and the Roman Empire (especially the Roman Near East). The second is “First-Century Early Christianity and the Economy,” and the third is “Christianity and the Economy in the Second to Fifth Centuries.” Both the second and the third sub-projects give attention to the relationship of early Christianity to the ancient economy and to Christianity’s own economic aspects. Given the scope of the project, we anticipate that studies will be both synchronic and diachronic, with some contributions focused on specific texts, authors, and events, and others being more comprehensive and thematic in nature. Each of the three sub-projects plans to hold at least one session at the 2008 meeting in Auckland. Paper proposals for all three sub-projects are welcomed. Those submitting a proposal should designate in the Abstract the sub-project for which the paper should be considered.
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Ecological Hermeneutics
Description: This unit will focus on hermeneutical principles and models for ecological readings of the biblical text and tradition. Attention would be paid to the anthropocentric bias of texts and readers as well as to discerning alternative traditions sympathetic to ecology, Earth and the Earth community. The aim is to explore the art of reading the text with empathy for the natural world.
Call for papers: A special focus of this unit in 2008 will involve texts where God blesses or curses nature and the implications of the reader identifying with the objects of God's blessing/cursing for retrieving the voice of nature. Papers employing the basic principles of ecological hermeneutics will also be cosidered.
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Epigraphical and Paleological Studies Pertaining to the Biblical World
Description: The unit focuses on inscriptions and icons bearing on the Bible world, with special concentration on the meaning and analysis of seals, ostraca, magic bowls, inscriptions, and scripts from the ancient Near East.
Call for papers: The unit focuses on inscriptions and icons bearing on the Bible world, with special concentration on the meaning and analysis of seals, ostraca , magic bowls, inscriptions, and scripts from the ancient Near East.
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Expressions of Religion in Israel
Description: Formerly titled "Israelite Religion," this program unit focuses on the broad scope of Israelite religion and cult beginning with the first temple period. It provides a forum for scholars to explore rapidly expanding conceptions of "Israelite religion." Contributors interpret biblical traditions and artifactual discoveries in Israel in the light of comparable traditions and material evidences in neighboring countries.
Call for papers: This section looks into the developments within Israelite religion and cult occurring within the time frame of the eighth to the third centuries BCE. Papers delineating such change through the use of specific texts diachronically considered are especially encouraged.
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Globalization for the Common Good (GCG)
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Greco-Roman World
Description: The unit provides a forum for discussing ancient texts, artifacts and concepts from the Hellenistic and Roman worlds and relating them to the study of the New Testament world.
Call for papers: The unit provides a forum for discussing ancient texts, artifacts and concepts from the Hellenistic and Roman worlds and relating them to the study of the New Testament world.
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Healthcare and Disability in the Ancient World
Description: The unit seeks to foster scholarship related to disability in all fields of biblical studies. Major areas of concern include medical history of the Ancient Near East and Greco-Roman worlds; the religious, legal, and cultural status of people with disabilities in the biblical and formative Jewish and Christian periods; the representation of disability in biblical and cognate texts, biblical theology of the same, and disability in the history of biblical interpretation.
Call for papers: The Unit plans to have two sessions at the 2008 meeting. The first session will be an open session for which submissions exploring ancient representations of disability and the body in biblical or ancient cognate literary or historical texts are encouraged. The second session will be an open session for which all submissions on disability, illness, medicine, and healthcare and biblical studies or cognate literature are welcome. All methods are invited. Inquiries about the sessions should be addressed to either R. Magdalene (rachelmagdalene@augustana.edu) or Anke Dorman (j.h.w.dorman@rug.nl).
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Hellenistic Greek Language and Linguistics
Description: Hellenistic Greek forms the basis of studies relative to both testaments as well as much of the ancient world. This section welcomes papers on any aspect of the Greek found in the Septuagint, New Testament, or other Hellenistic literature. Linguistic, grammatical and lexical studies are particularly encouraged.
Call for papers: This section welcomes studies on any part of the Hellenistic corpus, whether related to religious literature or non-religious texts. This year promises to continue last year's stimulating discussion. As such, studies on particular New Testament syntactic issues remain welcome, as do discussions of Hellenistic Greek unrelated to New Testament issues.
Tags: Greek - Attic (Philology / Linguistics (incl. Semiotics)), Greek - Koine (LXX, NT, Patristics) (Philology / Linguistics (incl. Semiotics))
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Intersectional Feminism(s)
Description: The aim of this unit is to generate collaborative insights within a broad understanding of intersectional feminism(s). Its purpose is to be inclusive and to challenge hegemonic paradigms and structures (including within feminism). This unit prides itself on championing interdisciplinarity, positionality, and recognition that the personal is political. We particularly welcome papers which reflect the breadth of voices and experiences that comprise global feminisms and encourage contributors from all contexts.
Call for papers: The aim of this unit is to generate collaborative insights within a broad understanding of intersectional feminism(s). Its purpose is to be inclusive and to challenge hegemonic paradigms and structures (including within feminism). This unit prides itself on championing interdisciplinarity, positionality, and recognition that the personal is political. We particularly welcome papers which reflect the breadth of voices and experiences that comprise global feminisms and encourage contributors from all contexts.
Tags: Gender and Sexuality Criticism (incl. Feminist, Womanist, Masculinity Studies, Queer Theory) (Interpretive Approaches)
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Johannine Literature
Description: The unit promotes the study of the Johannine literature, a major component of the Christian Scripture; addressing the issues and concerns having to do with the analysis and interpretation of the literature.
Call for papers: The unit promotes the study of the Johannine literature, a major component of the Christian Scripture; addressing the issues and concerns having to do with the analysis and interpretation of the literature.
Tags: Gospels - John (Biblical Literature - New Testament)
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Judaica
Description: The unit draws together scholars from around the world to explore diverse issues that are related to Hebrew Scripture in its relationship to ancient, medieval, and modern Judaisms: medieval lexicography and poetics, musical exegesis, philosophy, and the study of the Talmud in the Far East.
Call for papers: The section accepts proposals that focus upon the literatures of ancient, medieval, and modern Judaisms, especially as they intersect with the Hebrew Bible and Biblical literature. Exploration of Judaism and the arts as well as material culture are also encouraged; this may include Judaism in film.
Tags: Ancient Near East - Iron Age (History & Culture), Apocalyptic Literature and Related Works (Early Jewish Literature - Jewish Pseudepigrapha), Art, Film, Music, and Literature (History of Interpretation / Reception History / Reception Criticism), Babylonian Talmud (Early Jewish Literature - Rabbinic Literature), Biblical Interpretations (Early Jewish Literature - Dead Sea Scrolls), Biblical Texts (Early Jewish Literature - Dead Sea Scrolls), Comparative Approaches (Interpretive Approaches), Dead Sea Scrolls (Early Jewish Literature - Dead Sea Scrolls), Expansions of the Old Testament and Other Legends (Early Jewish Literature - Jewish Pseudepigrapha), Hebrew (classical) (Philology / Linguistics (incl. Semiotics)), Hymns and Prayers (Early Jewish Literature - Dead Sea Scrolls), Jerusalem Talmud (Early Jewish Literature - Rabbinic Literature), Jewish (Ideology & Theology), Jewish Pseudepigrapha (Early Jewish Literature - Jewish Pseudepigrapha), Josephus (Early Jewish Literature - Other), Legal Writings (Early Jewish Literature - Dead Sea Scrolls), Lexicography (Text and Translation), Literary Criticism (incl. poetics, new criticism, formalism, close reading, narratology) (Interpretive Approaches), Mishnah (Early Jewish Literature - Rabbinic Literature), Nonliterary Texts (lists, contracts) (Early Jewish Literature - Dead Sea Scrolls), Other Jewish Compositions (e.g., 1 Enoch) (Early Jewish Literature - Dead Sea Scrolls), Other Rabbinic Works - Exegetical Midrashim (Early Jewish Literature - Rabbinic Literature), Other Rabbinic Works - Haggadic Midrashim (Early Jewish Literature - Rabbinic Literature), Other Rabbinic Works - Halakic Midrashim (Early Jewish Literature - Rabbinic Literature), Other Rabbinic Works - Homiletical Midrashim (Early Jewish Literature - Rabbinic Literature), Other Texts (Early Jewish Literature - Other), Philo (Early Jewish Literature - Other), Prayers, Psalms, and Odes (Early Jewish Literature - Jewish Pseudepigrapha), Rabbinic Literature (Early Jewish Literature - Rabbinic Literature), Rule Documents (Early Jewish Literature - Dead Sea Scrolls), Sectarian Texts (Early Jewish Literature - Dead Sea Scrolls), Targumic Texts (Early Jewish Literature - Rabbinic Literature), Testaments (Early Jewish Literature - Jewish Pseudepigrapha), Tosefta (Early Jewish Literature - Rabbinic Literature), Wisdom and Philosophical Literature (Early Jewish Literature - Jewish Pseudepigrapha)
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Language and Linguistics
Description: The unit to provides a cross-disciplinary forum for the application of modern linguistic theory and methodology to the study of biblical texts. It serves to encourage interest in linguistics and its advantages for biblical exegesis and interpretation among biblical scholars who do not have prior training in linguistic theory.
Call for papers: The unit to provides a cross-disciplinary forum for the application of modern linguistic theory and methodology to the study of biblical texts. It serves to encourage interest in linguistics and its advantages for biblical exegesis and interpretation among biblical scholars who do not have prior training in linguistic theory.
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Methods in Hebrew Bible Studies
Description: This section focuses on the exploration and application of critical methods for the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. The use of new methods and the consideration of the implications of their application for understanding the text and religion of ancient Israel are especially encouraged.
Call for papers: This unit will have three sessions. The first session will be centered on the theme: “Biblical Studies of the Future: Method and the Advance of the Biblical Academy." We envision papers that discuss what work still needs to be done on the Hebrew Bible from a methodological perspective. The second session will be centered on the theme “Rewriting the Bible in Music and Theater.” We hope to receive papers that investigate biblical interpretation and biblical retellings through the medium of theater, music, or musical drama (opera or musical theater). The third session is an open session. We invite submission of any paper that uses new, creative methods to interpret the Hebrew Bible. Address inquiries to Rachel Magdalene (rachelmagdalene@augustana.edu).
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Methods in New Testament Studies
Description: The unit is devoted to the exploration and application of new methods to the New Testament text. The use of literary critical methods is encouraged. The goal of the unit is to develop new ways to understand the development of the early Christian community.
Call for papers: The unit is devoted to the exploration and application of new methods to the New Testament text. The use of literary critical methods is encouraged. The goal of the unit is to develop new ways to understand the development of the early Christian community.
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Mind, Society, and Tradition
Description: This program unit aims to initiate cross-disciplinary theory-forming in biblical studies and a dialogue between social-scientific methods and the so-called cognitive science of religion. The cognitive science of religion is a new multidisciplinary field that emerged in the 1990s. It examines cross-culturally recurrent patterns in religious thought, experience, and practice, explaining these regularities in terms of the architecture of the human mind. This field has opened up new ways of understanding religiosity in general, as well as the emergence and development of religious movements, sometimes challenging established theories in classical anthropology and comparative religion. These developments have potential relevance for biblical studies. The program unit welcomes papers using social-scientific or cognitive approaches, or their combination. Of particular interest are studies focusing on the interaction between mind and society, cognition and culture, as well as on the transmission of religious knowledge. Relevant theories and areas include memory studies, social identity theory, evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, ritual theories, models of counterintuitiveness, theory of mind, social cognition, emotion, and religious experience. The program unit welcomes papers using either traditional social-scientific or new cognitive approaches, or their combination. Of particular interest are studies focusing on interaction between mind and society, cognition and culture, as well as on the transmission of religious knowledge. Relevant theories and areas include memory studies, social identity theory, evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, ritual theories, models of counterintuitiveness, theory of mind, social cognition, emotion, and religious experience. For more information, visit http://blogs.helsinki.fi/mindsocietyreligion/.
Call for papers: During the Auckland meeting, the Mind, Society, and Tradition unit will be organizing two sessions. The first session will be focusing on altruism, morality, and cooperation in Biblical Literature and Biblical Religions from the perspective of the cognitive science of religion and/or social scientific theory.
We are inviting proposals for the second session, dealing with social-scientific and/or cognitive approaches in the study of biblical texts and traditions, as stated in the description of the program unit.
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New Zealand Association of Theological Schools (NZATS)
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Palestine and Babylon: Two Jewish Late Antique Cultures and Their Interrelation
Description: This section focuses on the uniqueness of the Palestinian and the Babylonian rabbinic cultures, and traces their interrelation: what are typical, or original, Palestinian exegetical, Halakhic and narrative traditions; what are the characteristics, of the Babylonian rabbinic culture, its development and crystallization; how and when did the Babylonian culture gain prominence in the Jewish culture of the Byzantine and Medieval periods.
Call for papers: We welcome proposals for papers which highlight the distinctiveness of the Palestinian rabbinic culture or the Babylonian one, papers which trace the evidence of Palestinian traditions within the Babylonian setting, or the influence of the Babylonian rabbinic culture on the later Palestinian culture.
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Paul and Pauline Literature
Description: The unit provides a forum for presentation and discussion of original scholarly research on all facets of the interpretation of the Pauline Corpus in the New Testament. This includes consideration of exegetical, socio-historical, history of religions, theological, literary, history of interpretation, and methodological questions.
Call for papers: The Paul and Pauline Literature Section invites papers that explore the historical, literary, rhetorical, and theological matters which bear upon the interpretation of the letters of the Pauline Corpus. Papers that focus on how the cultural experiences of present-day readers contribute to a fuller understanding of texts are especially encouraged, as are papers that bring insights from the social world of the New Testament.
Tags: Pauline Epistles (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Pauline Epistles - 1 Corinthians (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Pauline Epistles - 1 Thessalonians (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Pauline Epistles - 1 Timothy (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Pauline Epistles - 2 Corinthians (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Pauline Epistles - 2 Thessalonians (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Pauline Epistles - 2 Timothy (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Pauline Epistles - Colossians (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Pauline Epistles - Ephesians (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Pauline Epistles - Galatians (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Pauline Epistles - Philemon (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Pauline Epistles - Philippians (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Pauline Epistles - Romans (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Pauline Epistles - Titus (Biblical Literature - New Testament)
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Pentateuch (Torah)
Description: The unit provides a forum for presentation and discussion of research on the Pentateuch / Torah, with a particular focus on transmission-historical issues and linkage of that area of inquiry with other more synchronic methodologies.
Call for papers: While papers are welcome in all areas of pentateuchal studies, papers are especially encouraged which apply newer interpretive methodologies to specific pentateuchal passages, or apply one or more of these newer methodologies to more encompassing matters, such as the study of the Pentateuch as literature, the socio-economic world(s) of the Pentateuch, or the growth and development of the Pentateuch.
Tags: Torah/Pentateuch (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Torah/Pentateuch - Deuteronomy (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Torah/Pentateuch - Exodus (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Torah/Pentateuch - Genesis (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Torah/Pentateuch - Leviticus (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Torah/Pentateuch - Numbers (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint))
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Pericope: Scripture as Written and Read in Antiquity
Description: The recurring question during the Pericope sessions is whether the search for the oldest extant delimitation markers of the biblical text helps us to understand the biblical tradition in a better way. In the form of seminars, workshops, and papers the participants will discuss various methods of analyzing delimitation markers. It will be discussed whether the delimitations in the ancient manuscripts reflect and/or depend on ancient exegesis. In addition the question may be addressed whether this testimony from ancient exegesis is of any help for modern exegesis. Those colleagues who wish to discuss questions regarding the methodology are also invited to submit a proposal. Sessions are in the form of seminars, workshops and papers.
Call for papers: The recurring question during the Pericope sessions is whether the search for the oldest extant delimitation markers of the biblical text helps us to understand the biblical tradition in a better way. In the form of seminars, workshops, and papers the participants will discuss various methods of analyzing delimitation markers. It will be discussed whether the delimitations in the ancient manuscripts reflect and/or depend on ancient exegesis. In addition the question may be addressed whether this testimony from ancient exegesis is of any help for modern exegesis. Those colleagues who wish to discuss questions regarding the methodology are also invited to submit a proposal. Sessions are in the form of seminars, workshops and papers.
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Poster Session
Description: Posters on all subjects are welcome.
Call for papers: By emphasizing dialogue, posters provide an effective vehicle for exchanging information and ideas with other scholars and for making some of the latest research available to a wider audience within the SBL. We invite proposals for posters on all subjects.
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Professional Issues
Description: When a scholar takes up a new appointment (or a postgraduate student joins an existing department) there is more to 'fitting in' than finding a desk, a computer and access to the photocopier. There is also the need to build a place in discussions, a role in meetings, a respect for and valuing of his/her skills/ commitment/ discipline/ methodology/ etc
Call for papers: Co-Creating Shared Intellectual Space - Building Your Role as a Valued Colleague: we welcome proposals for 20 min papers (with 10 min for questions) and 7 min presentations (with 3 min for questions) for this workshop style session where there will be ample time for contributions (comments, questions, case studies) from the floor.'
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Prophets
Description: This unit aims to provide an open forum for scholars to present papers on a variety of topics germane to the study of ancient Israelite prophecy and prophetic literature.
Call for papers: Within the general parameters of the Prophets Programme Unit, special attention may this time be given to papers which advance the study of Israelite prophecy from an anthropological and comparativist perspective.
Tags: Former Prophets (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Former Prophets - 1-2 Kings (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Former Prophets - 1-2 Samuel (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Former Prophets - Judges (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Former Prophets -Joshua (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Latter Prophets (not including The Twelve) (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Latter Prophets - Ezekiel (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Latter Prophets - Isaiah (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Latter Prophets - Jeremiah (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Latter Prophets - The Twelve (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Latter Prophets - The Twelve - Amos (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Latter Prophets - The Twelve - Habakkuk (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Latter Prophets - The Twelve - Haggai (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Latter Prophets - The Twelve - Hosea (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Latter Prophets - The Twelve - Joel (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Latter Prophets - The Twelve - Jonah (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Latter Prophets - The Twelve - Malachi (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Latter Prophets - The Twelve - Micah (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Latter Prophets - The Twelve - Nahum (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Latter Prophets - The Twelve - Obadiah (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Latter Prophets - The Twelve - Zechariah (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint)), Latter Prophets - The Twelve - Zephaniah (Biblical Literature - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Greek OT (Septuagint))
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Psychological Hermeneutics of Biblical Themes and Texts
Description: Psychological Criticism complements approaches that consider texts and their impact/s from the perspective of the reader, alongside literary, rhetorical and theological approaches, identifying how texts operate within the minds of their readers, or portray thoughts and motivations of the characters in their narratives.
Call for papers: Psychological Hermeneutics of Biblical Themes and Texts invites papers which interpret aspects of biblical studies through the lens of psychological models and perspectives. This section is the arena, therefore, for presentations and discussion dealing with the interface and mutual illumination of the sciences of Psychology and Biblical Studies. Papers will be welcomed which address specific biblical texts, narratives, pericopes; or biblical or biblical-theological themes, interpreted or illumined by means of psychological insights. There will be opportunity for nine substantial papers and discussions of each, organized in three sessions. We would like an international list of presenters with a broad spectrum of psychological themes and perspectives. The sessions will be completed by forming a panel of the presenters to provide an open discussion with the audience. Each presentation will be one hour including discussion.
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Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Description: The unit provides forum for presentation and discussion of views relating to the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Qumran settlement, and the people of that place and of those documents.
Call for papers: This section pays particular attention to the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for the understanding of the Hebrew Bible. The Dead Sea Scrolls provide new insights into the textual, canonical, and receptions histories of the Hebrew Bible. Furthermore, they shed new light on linguistic issues and provide new insights into the time when the late biblical books were written. In addition to papers dealing with these issues submissions dealing with other issues of Dead Sea Scrolls studies will be accepted, too.
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Relevance Theory and Biblical Interpretation
Description: The sections provides a forum for discussion on Relevance Theory perspectives on biblical narrative and hermeneutics. Topics related to the application of Relevance Theory to biblical interpretation are considered each year, as will more general essays on pragmatics and interpretation.
Call for papers: The sections provide a forum for discussion of how Relevance Theory informs our understanding of hermeneutics and the interpretation of biblical texts. Topics regarding the applicaton of Relevance Theory to biblical interpretation and theology will be considered, as will other essays which apply pragmatic and cognitive approaches to interpretation.
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Religious History Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (RHAAZ)
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Society of Asian Biblical Studies (SABS)
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Call for papers: The SABS will hold two sessions in Auckland:
Session One: An open session on the theme - " Asian Interpretations of the Bible " - we welcome proposals that look at the Bible explicitly in light of and/or in relation to Asian contexts, past or present (interpretive concerns are understood broadly here to include translational as well as pedagogical issues).
Session Two: " Trends and Prospects in Asian Biblical Studies" - A Panel Presentation. Panelists have already been selected.
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Status of Women in the Profession
Description: The Committee holds sessions each year exploring the nature of the profession as experienced by women biblical scholars. The goal of the sessions are to provide a forum for open discussion, networking, and the sharing of ideas.
Call for papers: The Committee holds sessions each year exploring the nature of the profession as experienced by women biblical scholars. The goal of the sessions are to provide a forum for open discussion, networking, and the sharing of ideas.
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Synoptic Gospels
Description: The Synoptic Gospels, which have formed a coherent unit since antiquity, have played an important role in modern scholarship. This section provides an open forum for the presentation of papers, from a variety of perspectives and using a variety of methods, on these seminal religious texts.
Call for papers: The Synoptic Gospels Section invites proposals that focus on any academic issue within the gospels of Mark, Matthew, and/or Luke. Panels are also welcome and would have a sixty-minute time allotment. Please contact Glenna S. Jackson(gjackson@otterbein.edu) with any questions.
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Syriac Lexicography
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Systematic Theologians Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (STAANZ)
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Call for papers: For information on the STAANZ program, please contact
Prof. Graham Redding principal@knoxcollege.ac.nz
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Text Criticism Workshop on Samuel and Kings
Description: “Workshop on Textual Criticism of Samuel – Kings” aims at enhancing cooperation and exchange of ideas between scholars working on the text of Samuel and Kings in various languages. (At the present, there is activity in editorial projects on critical editions of the Septuagint text, various projects on the daughter versions of the Septuagint, and projects around the Hebrew text aiming at commentaries,text-editions, or monographs on text-history.) Such cooperation is necessary, due to the very complicated nature of the textual history of these books, and promises good results, as it is the advantage of all parties to be informed of the progress of work by their colleagues.
Call for papers: “Workshop on Textual Criticism of Samuel – Kings” aims at enhancing cooperation and exchange of ideas between scholars working on the text of Samuel and Kings in various languages. (At the present, there is activity in editorial projects on critical editions of the Septuagint text, various projects on the daughter versions of the Septuagint, and projects around the Hebrew text aiming at commentaries,text-editions, or monographs on text-history.) Such cooperation is necessary, due to the very complicated nature of the textual history of these books, and promises good results, as it is the advantage of all parties to be informed of the progress of work by their colleagues.
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Textual Criticism: Manuscripts & Methods
Description: This program unit is devoted to the textual criticism of early Jewish and early Christian writings: This includes the Jewish Bible, early Jewish literature, and the Old Testament (in Hebrew and Aramaic, Greek, and other ancient languages), as well as early Christian literature and the New Testament (in Greek, Latin, and other ancient languages). We offer a forum for the investigation of all types of material witnesses related to the text of this literature—tablets, manuscripts, ostraca, inscriptions—and for the consideration of the textual form of this literature reflected in its citation and use by ancient authors and in writings from antiquity through the Middle Ages. This consists not only of contributions that deal with the Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin textual witnesses, but also those that engage evidence in Ugaritic, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopic, Coptic, Armenian, and other linguistic traditions. A wide variety of additional issues related to textual criticism are also addressed, including epigraphy, manuscript studies, papyrology, codicology, paleography, scribal habits and the production of texts, the history of transmission (and its cultural, social, and religious settings), the practice of textual criticism from antiquity to modern times, restoration and conservation, the use of modern technology in studying this material, the production of critical editions, and discussions of particular passages.
Call for papers: Papers concentrating on any aspect of the practical work with manuscripts of the Bible are welcome: managing variants, computer assisted tools, preservation techniques, evaluating the evidence of versions, papyrological insights, technical developments, social historical studies, scribal habits, producing critical editions, new projects, systematic-theological problems, teaching text-criticism in an academic setting, etc.
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Whence and Whither?: Methodology and the Future of Biblical Studies
Description: The aim of this section is to explore the changing landscape of biblical studies in the face of post-modernity, with particular attention to the application and implications of critical theory and cultural analysis.
Call for papers: In Auckland there will be one session with invited papers on the theme "Context Matters in Reading the Bible in Aotearoa New Zealand." Judith McKinlay (University of Otago) and Elaine Wainwright (University of Auckland) are organizing the session.
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Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity
Description: Our group seeks to develop more rigorous and sophisticated ways to speak about wisdom and apocalyptic texts and motifs in early Judean and early Christian literature. We are committed to attending to the concrete social location of particular texts.
Call for papers: Our group seeks to develop more rigorous and sophisticated ways to speak about wisdom and apocalyptic texts and motifs in early Judean and early Christian literature. We are committed to attending to the concrete social location of particular texts.
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Women Scholars of Religion and Theology (WSRT)
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Writings (including Psalms)
Description: The aim of the unit to promote all aspects of and approaches to the study of the texts commonly referred to as the Writings (Ketuvim) in the Hebrew Bible.
Call for papers: Papers are welcome on any of the Writings, particularly those that apply newer interpretive methodologies to specific passages. Moreover, papers that address more general matters, such as the formation of the Psalter, the connection of wisdom and apocalyptic, statecraft and warfare in Chronicles/Ezra-Nehemiah, or the poetics of Classical Hebrew poetry are also encouraged.
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