New Prize for Biblical Studies and Reception History

De Gruyter, in partnership with The Society of Biblical Literature, has launched an annual “Prize for Biblical Studies and Reception History” to support biblical scholars in the early stages of their careers who are working in the field of reception history. De Gruyter’s sponsorship of the award will include an annual cash prize of $1,500 for the best recent unpublished dissertation or first monograph in biblical studies, with special attention to the field of reception history. The prize will also include a commitment to publish the winning work after it has been revised into a publishable book acceptable to De Gruyter. . The inaugural prize will be awarded at the SBL Annual Meeting in November 2014.
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2013 Travel Grant Awards Announced

We are pleased to announce that the 2013 SBL Travel Grant recipients:
Shira Leibowitz Schmidt – Michlalah College - Jerusalem, Israel; Nicholas Al-Jeloo – University of Sydney, Australia; Fatima Tofighi – University of Glasgow, Iran; Ivor Poobalan – Colombo Theological Seminary, Sri Lanka
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2013 David Noel Freedman Award for Excellence and Creativity in Hebrew Bible Scholarship

We are pleased to announce that the 2013 David Noel Freedman Award for Excellence and Creativity in Hebrew Bible Scholarship has been awarded to Jeremy M. Hutton (University of Wisconsin – Madison). His paper is entitled, “Upon the Roof of the Temple: Reconstructing Ancient Levantine Small-Scale Altar Usage.”
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Congratulation to SBL Members Receiving 2013 ACLS Fellowships Awards!

We are very pleased to announce and congratulate the 2013 ACLS fellowship recipients among the SBL membership:

Catherine M. Chin / Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship
Associate Professor, Religious Studies, University of California, Davis
Incarnate Language in Christian Late Antiquity

Ellen Muehlberger / Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship
Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Studies and History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The Moment of Reckoning: Death and Violence in Late Ancient Christian Culture

Michael D. Swartz / ACLS Fellowship
Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Ohio State University
Ritual Theory and Religious Professionalism in Judaism in Late Antiquity

A list of all ACLS fellowship recipients is available here: http://www.acls.org/fellows/new. The application deadlines for the upcoming 2013-14 competitions are available on the ACLS website: http://www.acls.org/programs/comps/.

Annual Meetings

Take advantage of the Super Saver registration rates for the Annual Meetings 2013! Super Saver registration rates are in effect through the end of the day Saturday, June 15. You may also make a hotel reservation at one of our available conference hotels when you register.

Register Now and make plans to enjoy time with your colleagues in a great city. We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore!

International Meeting

Registration for the International Meeting in St Andrews, Scotland, is available online only through Friday, June 21! Rates are significantly higher onsite, so be sure to register now. If you have not yet made housing reservations, there is still time to book dormitory accommodations within the University of St Andrews. Please visit our website for more information on booking a room.

International Cooperation Initiative

ICI at the SBL International Meeting:
An informal ICI session to exchange ideas and provide feedback will be held at the SBL International Meeting, July 8, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM in Meeting Room 10 - MBS (17). Please notify Ehud Ben Zvi if you plan to participate.

Books Posted in May:
The following books, including a title from our newest partner Fortress Press, were added to the Online Book depository in May:

Joynes, Christine E. and Christopher C. Rowland, eds. From the Margins 2: Women of the New Testament and Their Afterlives. Bible in the Modern World 27. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009.

Kim, Seong Hee. Mark, Women and Empire: A Korean Postcolonial Perspective. Bible in the Modern World 20. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010.

Collins, John J. Introduction to the Hebrew Bible. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004.

Runia, David T. and Gregory E. Sterling, eds. The Studia Philonica Annual: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism, Volume XXIV. Studia Philonica. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012.

Schuller, Eileen M. and Carol A. Newsom. The Hodayot (Thanksgiving Psalms: A Study Edition of 1QHa). Early Judaism and Its Literature, Number 36. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012.

Singer, Itamar. The Calm before the Storm: Selected Writings of Itamar Singer on the Late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant. Writings from the Ancient World Supplements, Number 1. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011.

The ICI Member Handbook has been posted to the ICI web page or you may read it here.

Career Development

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Membership and Subscriptions

Address Change
We have dropped the use of our post office box. Please send all mailings for SBL directly to Society of Biblical Literature, The Luce Center, 825 Houston Mill Road, Atlanta, GA 30329 . Please be sure to use the most recent membership and subscription form.


Optional Profile Winners
Every month, we randomly select two members from the pool of those who have filled out the Optional Profile for a free one-year membership. The June 2013 winners are:

Tze-Ming Quek
Chloe Ting Sun

As our privacy policy indicates, we will never divulge information from your profile to a third party. Thank you to all of you who have supplied this optional data. If you have not yet filled in the information (or you would like to update it), you may do so by logging into our website with your SBL Member number and going to the "my profile" tab, which will appear on the left hand side of the screen in the box where you logged in. While you are filling out the Optional Profile, please make sure all of your profile information is up to date!

Subscriptions
The Journal of Biblical Literature is the flagship journal of the field. It is published quarterly and includes scholarly articles and critical notes by members of the Society. Essential reading for over a century, it is now available online and in print.

In order to receive the printed issue 132:2 of the Journal of Biblical Literature your subscription and payment must be received no later than August 15, 2013. The subscription form can be found at:
http://sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/JournalSubscriptions.pdf .
You may fax or email your form to the office. Our Fax number is 404-727-2419 or you may email the form to SBLServices@sbl-site.org. If you prefer, you may renew your subscription online, by logging into the website at http://www.sbl-site.org/membership/joinnow.aspx and following the directions. You may also of course mail your subscription form to us at 825 Houston Mill Road, Atlanta, GA 30329 for later issue subscriptions.

The Review of Biblical Literature (RBL), founded by the Society of Biblical Literature, presents reviews of books in biblical studies and related fields. Appearing in digital form and in print, RBL is comprehensive, international, and timely.In order to receive the printed annual of the Review of Biblical Literature for 2013 your subscription and payment needs to be received by October 15, 2013. The subscription form can be found at: http://sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/JournalSubscriptions.pdf .
You can print the form, fill it out and mail it with your payment or payment information to 825 Houston Mill Road, Atlanta , GA 30329. Or, you can fax it to 404-727-2419. If you prefer you can renew your subscription online by logging into the website at http://www.sbl-site.org/membership/joinnow.aspx and following the directions.

Special subscription rates to JBL and RBL are available to institutions in ICI countries. Download the ICI order form here.

Calendar

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June 2013
6/7	Melanesian Association of Theological Schools CFP Deadline The biennial conference of the Melanesian Association of Theological Schools to be held at the Kefamo Conference Centre, Goroka, 25-28 June 2013. Papers will be accepted in four broad areas of theological enquiry—Old Testament, New Testament, theology (systematic and historical), and applied theology (ministry, ethics, missiology). Persons who hold or are currently undertaking a postgraduate degree in a theology-related field are invited to present 30 minute papers which will be followed by five minutes of questions from the audience. Abstracts of 250 words should be sent by post, fax, or email (as Word attachments) to: Dr. Scott Charlesworth School of Theology Pacific Adventist University Private Mail Bag Boroko NCD Papua New Guinea (675) 328 0200 / 328 0305 [Tel.] (675) 328 1257 [Fax]sdchar@gmail.com email for more information
6/12- 6/16	AAUP's Conference on the State of Higher Education The American Association of University Professors' (AAUP) Annual Conference on the State of Higher Education and annual business meeting will be held in Washington DC. More information
July 2013
7/1-7/5	The Metaphorical Use of Language in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature (ICDCL 2013) Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Haus, Ziegelstr. 30,10117 Berlin, Germany More information
7/4- 7/6	Peter in Earliest Christianity A conference sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins, University of Edinburgh (immediately before the SBL International Meeting in St. Andrews). Speakers include: Timothy Barnes, Markus Bockmuehl, Sean Freyne, Larry Hurtado, Peter Lampe, Tobias Nicklas, and Margaret Williams. Topics include: the historical Peter, Peter in Galilean and Roman archaeology, and Peter in the first three Christian centuries. Offers of short papers (20 minutes) may be submitted to Dr. Helen Bond before March 15, 2013. Registration opens October 1, 2012. Registration fee, which covers conference fee, coffee breaks, and Friday lunch, is £40 before April 15, 2013, and £50 after April 15, 2013 (and £35 for students any time). There will also be a conference dinner Friday evening, for which the fee is £25 payable at registration. More information
7/7- 7/11	SBL International Meeting Held in St. Andrews, Scotland More information
7/15- 7/17	Christian Contribution to the Arab Renaissance during the Second Millennium The ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organizing its Thirty Seventh International Conference on Christian Contribution to the Arab Renaissance during the Second Millennium, to be held at the Oriental Institute, the University of Oxford, 15-17 July 2013.The conference will start on Monday 15th July at 9am, finishing on Wednesday 17th July at 6pm. Each speaker’s paper is limited to 35 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion. All papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review. If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact the Aram Society, the Oriental Institute, Oxford University, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, England. Tel. 01865-514041 Fax. 01865-516824. Email for more information.
7/16- 7/18	Paul’s Graeco-Roman Context The Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense is an annual international conference on Biblical Studies jointly organised by the theological faculties of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Université Catholique de Louvain. The meetings take place in the Faculty of Theology at the KU Leuven and are alternately dedicated to a topic in Old and in New Testament Studies. More information
7/22-7/25	SOTS Summer Meeting The Summer Meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study will be held at Bangor University, Bangor. More information
7/23-7/27	Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas The annual meeting of the Society for New Testament Studies, the peak international body for New Testament scholarship and research, will be held in Perth, Western Australia, at Murdoch University. More information
7/29–7/31	The Decapolis: History and Archaeology ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organizing its Thirty Fiftth International Conference on the theme of The Decapolis: History and Archaeology, to be held at Oxford University. The conference aims to study the movement of nomads and their settlements in the Syrian Orient; and it will pay a special attention to the migration of Arab nomads from the Arabian Peninsula to the Fertile Crescent in the pre-Islamic period. The conference will start on Monday July 29th at 9am, finishing on Thursday, July 31st at 6pm. Each speaker’s paper is limited to 30 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion. All papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review. If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact our Oxford address:ARAM, the Oriental Institute, Oxford University, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, England. Tel. 01865-514041 Fax. 01865-516824. Email ARAM
7/30-8/2	EABS Annual Meeting Annual Meeting of the European Association of Biblical Studies Hosted by The University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany More information
August 2013
8/2- 8/4	OSBA 2013 Oceania Biblical Studies Association (OBSA) 2013 meeting will be held at the Pacific Theological College in Suva, Fiji.Call for papers is now opened and information for OBSA 2013 is available online at https://sites.google.com/site/wavesofthemoana/. The main conference theme is “What is Oceanic Biblical Interpretation?” The deadline for all paper proposals is June 30th, 2013. For further information, please contact Dr Nasili Vaka’uta (n.vakauta@auckland.ac.nz) or send an email to OBSAMail@gmail.com.
8/4–8/9	International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) The 21st Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) will take place at the University of Munich, Germany. As usual it will be joint with the Congresses of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS, 1.-3. of August), of the International Organization for Qumran Studies (IOQS), the International Organziation for Masoretic Studies (IOMS), the International Organization for Targum Studies (IOTS) and the International Syriac Language Project (ISLP). More Information
8/13-8/16	Identity Formation in the Gospel of Mark International Conference hosted by the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. For more information contact Prof. Dr. Gudrun Guttenberger or Prof. Dr.Heike Omerzu.
8/29-8/31	British New Testament Society 2013 conference will be held at the University of St. Andrews. Details forthcoming. More information
September 2013
9/3-9/6	EASR Annual Conference The 12th EASR Annual Conference will be hosted by the Bristish Association for the Study of Religions at Liverpool Hope University, 3-6 September 2013. More information
October 2013
10/4- 10/6	Pilgrims’ Progress: Pilgrimage across Time and Cultures The Institute of Pilgrimage Studies in conjunction with the International Consortium for Pilgrimage Studies invites abstracts for the 2nd annual Symposium to be held at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. The conference will embrace thematic sessions including:Artistic and Literary Responses to Pilgrimage,Health and Pilgrimage,Material Culture of Pilgrimage,Pilgrimage in the Eastern Mediterranean,Pilgrimage in the Ancient World,Personal Reflections on Pilgrimage,Space, Place and Lived Experience of Pilgrimage. More information
November 2013
11/20- 11/22	John, Jesus, and History: Engaging the Legacies of C.H. Dodd and Raymond E. Brown The occasion of this pre-SBL conference at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore is the 50th and 60th anniversaries of Dodd’s books on John and history as well as the ongoing significance of Brown, who taught at St. Mary’s from 1959 to 1971. The conference is sponsored by St. Mary’s and the SBL’s John, Jesus, and History section. The keynote address will be given by Jimmy Dunn. Papers and other presentations will be given by John Ashton, Alan Culpepper, Jonathan Draper, Craig Koester, Wendy E. S. North, Tom Thatcher, Jan van der Watt, and Catrin Williams, as well as Paul Anderson, John Donahue, Michael Gorman, and Jaime Clark-Soles. For further information, contact Craig Koester (ckoester@luthersem.edu) or Michael Gorman (mgorman@stmarys.edu). Registration begins June 1 at The occasion of this pre-SBL conference at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore is the 50th and 60th anniversaries of Dodd’s books on John and history as well as the ongoing significance of Brown, who taught at St. Mary’s from 1959 to 1971. The conference is sponsored by St. Mary’s and the SBL’s John, Jesus, and History section. The keynote address will be given by Jimmy Dunn. Papers and other presentations will be given by John Ashton, Alan Culpepper, Jonathan Draper, Craig Koester, Wendy E. S. North, Tom Thatcher, Jan van der Watt, and Catrin Williams, as well as Paul Anderson, John Donahue, Michael Gorman, and Jaime Clark-Soles. For further information, contact Craig Koester (ckoester@luthersem.edu) or Michael Gorman (mgorman@stmarys.edu). Registration begins June 1
11/23- 11/26	SBL Annual Meeting The SBL Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of biblical scholars in the world. Each meeting showcases the latest in biblical research, fosters collegial contacts, advances research, and focuses on issues of the profession. The Annual Meeting will be held in Baltimore, Maryland More information