Families and Children in the Ancient World

Call For Papers: At the SBL in Amsterdam we plan two sessions. The first will be a joint session with a EABS group, “Politization of Bibles and Biblization of Politics: Brotherhood[s]/Fraternity, Sisterhood[s]/Sorority”. After earlier explorations of how biblical “families” are largely defined by scholars as well as “ordinary” readers according to their contemporaneous needs and wishes, our inquiry is extended into one aspect of familial reality and metaphor: fraternity and sorority, brotherhood and sisterhood. Our goal in this session is to trace how, why, when and by whom kinship terms get abstracted into other social and ideological realities, already in the Jewish and Christian bibles and beyond them. Paper proposals are invited on and around these topics, both in the Hebrew Bible and in the New Testament. Papers in dialogue with postcolonial discourse, queer studies, empire studies, international relations studies, subaltern studies, and related methodological-theoretical approaches will be particularly welcome. (For more detail, cf http://www.eabs.net/rgroupDetails.aspx?ID=58). The other will be a an open session in which we encourage submissions ona broad range of topics relating to children and families. We particularly encourage papers relating to issues of disability/illness, whether in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, Early Christianity, or the Greco-Roman world in general. Submissions from a variety of perspectives, such as gender, medicine, archaeology and literature, are very much welcome.

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