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2017 International Meeting

Berlin, Germany

Meeting Begins8/7/2017
Meeting Ends8/11/2017

Call for Papers Opens: 11/9/2016
Call for Papers Closes: 2/21/2017

Requirements for Participation

Ritual in the Biblical World


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Ritual in the Biblical World section will offer at least two planned sessions of papers at the 2017 International Meeting in Berlin, Germany. 1) The first session will be an open session inviting papers on the role of ritual experience, including the formation, maintenance and dissolution of ritual structures, in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and material culture from the entire Ancient Near East. 2) Continuing the ongoing discussion from the 2016 International Meeting in Seoul and the Annual Meeting in San Antonio, the second session will focus on ritual failure and the strategies utilized to compensate for these failures as described in the Hebrew Bible, New Testament and the Ancient Near Eastern material. Though the biblical texts as well as ANE material tend to focus on the idealized performance of successful ritual, ritual failure reflected the reality of experience and thus is an important component of the biblical world's ritual life. We invite all who are interested in participating to submit their proposal.

Program Unit Chairs

Ada Taggar Cohen
Daniel Belnap

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