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2008 Annual Meeting

Boston

Meeting Begins11/22/2008
Meeting Ends11/25/2008

Call for Papers Opens: 11/17/2007
Call for Papers Closes: 2/29/2008

Requirements for Participation

Social History of Formative Christianity and Judaism


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Social History of Formative Christianity and Judaism Section invites papers for three sessions: (1) A session devoted to ancient trash and concepts of waste: What can ancient garbage and trash heaps; refuse practices; and ideas about the disposability of objects, lives, souls, and the like tell us about the social history of early Judaism and early Christianity? To what extent can we draw conclusions about gender, class, demographics, economics, and ancient proclivities on the basis of what gets cast off and thrown away? What meaning might be recycled from the contents and contexts of ancient trash? (2) A co-sponsored session devoted to the social history of scribal practice, with an emphasis on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Papers are welcome on wide-ranging topics, including the material evidence of the scrolls; the economics and technology of manuscript production; scribal practice and gender; literacy; and the social status of scribes. Some papers for this session will be invited in advance. (3) An open call for papers on any topic of pertinence to the social history of formative Christianity and/or Judaism.

Program Unit Chairs

Cynthia M. Baker

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