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Meeting Program Units

2009 Annual Meeting

New Orleans, LA

Meeting Begins11/21/2009
Meeting Ends11/24/2009

Call for Papers Opens: 12/15/2008
Call for Papers Closes: 2/28/2009

Requirements for Participation

Pseudepigrapha


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: 2009 Annual Meeting The Pseudepigrapha Section will host two sessions. One session will be open with paper proposals welcome. Papers need not be limited to texts traditionally identified as Old Testament Pseudigrapha but may include other texts(literary, epigraphical, artistic, etc.) from Judaism during the Second Temple period, such as the Apocrypha of the Jewish Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo, Josephus, etc. Paper proposals should argue a clear thesis and give a concrete sense of the specific texts that will be subject to analysis. Discussion of method will also be welcome. The second session will address the topic, "Inspiration in Antiquity: The Production and Interpretation of Literary Texts." Participants have been invited to offer very brief presentations--a maximum of eight minutes--and to provide a one-page handout with a precis and indispensable ancient texts, including portions of Jubilees, 4 Ezra, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hekalot literature, Philo, and Revelation. The latter half of the session will consist of a discussion of this fascinating topic, with audience participation.

Program Unit Chairs

Hindy Najman
John R. Levison
Judith H. Newman

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