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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

Textual Criticism of the New Testament, the Old Testament and the Qur’an (EABS)


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: Two sessions are scheduled for the meeting in Berlin: An open session where papers on any topic within the range of the interests of the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, the Old Testament and the Qur’an research group are welcome. A thematic session “Scribal habits” where we will attempt to explore the field trying to answer questions such as: what is a scribal habit? Are scribal habits personal or general? Are they just mistakes, dropped words, idiosyncratic spellings? Are they corruptions and deliberate interpolations? Are they related with variant readings? But also considering whether scribal habits contribute or are part of an editorial work (adding, embellishing, reordering). Whether later scribes copy in the text earlier reader’s notes in their exemplar? Do scribes omit more often than they add? And about the scribes themselves, are they copyists, correctors, interpreters or editors? Finally, do scribal habits contribute to Textual Criticism? Is there (any) space for scribal habits in an apparatus criticus? The “Textual Criticism of the New Testament, the Old Testament and the Qur’an” research group cordially invites the submission of proposals for papers for the forthcoming joined EABS-SBL meeting in Berlin. We welcome paper proposals that focus on the above mentioned topics and related aspects.

Program Unit Chairs

Alba Fedeli
Theodora Panella

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