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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

Ideological Criticism


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: We invite paper proposals for two open sessions: Activism and the Bible III- This will be our third consecutive session devoted to the ways in which the Bible has been used to promote or to oppose activism aimed at instigating social change. Proposals on any topic related to this issue will be considered. Beyond Ideology- This session will explore whether there are experiences—dreams, sex, pain, or death, for example—that are not shaped by ideology and whether, if there are such experiences, they transcend ideology, serve as its foundations or both. Proposals are sought for papers that use biblical texts or issues in biblical scholarship to investigate this question. For both these sessions, proposals from graduate students and persons from groups that have been historically underrepresented in the SBL are especially welcome. We will also have two sessions devoted to invited panels; one will discuss the Bible as a construct of scholarship, the other will be a conversation between contributors to "Still at the Margins: Biblical Scholarship Fifteen Years After the Voices from the Margin" ed. by R. S. Sugirtharajah.

Program Unit Chairs

Dr. Janet L.R. Ross
Randall Reed

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