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Meeting Program Units

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

African-American Biblical Hermeneutics


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? No

Call For Papers: The AABHS plans 4 sessions for Boston. 1) an open session that covers any area of hermeneutics in the African-American traditions, and may take seriously but is not limited to the notion that Boston historically was a site of resistance in U.S. and African-American history for biblical interpretative endeavors; 2) a call to explore political implications in Pauline texts as a joint session with Paul & Politics Section; 3) review panel for Wil Gafney's Daughters of Miriam and Mignon Jacob's Gender, Power, and Persuasion: The Genesis Narratives and Contemporary Portraits; and 4) an invited review panel for a forthcoming Biblia Africana commentary (this last session may be modified).

Program Unit Chairs

Rodney Sadler
Valerie Bridgeman

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