Contextual Interpretation of the Bible (Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and New Testament)
Program Unit Type: Consultation
Accepting Papers? Yes
Call For Papers: This is an ongoing contracted publication project. Continuing to develop the book series TEXTS@CONTEXTS (Fortress Press; volume on GENESIS, published beginning of 2010 and THE GOSPEL OF MARK, 2010; volumes on EXODUS-DEUTERONOMY and MATTHEW at the Press), we seek papers on *contextual* biblical interpretations (readings of the Bible that take the present-day readers’ contexts into account in some meaningful way) in preparation for new volumes. Particularly (but not exclusively) we are interested in contextual readings of the following biblical books (focused on possible themes): LEVITICUS-NUMBERS (territory and identity, “law” and praxis, divine names, ritual and magic, taboos, gender and family), And SAMUEL-KINGS-CHRONICLES (hereditary monarchy and charisma, cities and temples, social institutions in the making, economy and gender relations); the Gospels of JOHN (identity, honor and shame, hybridity, community); 1 & 2 CORINTHIANS (unity, diversity, identity, cross, holiness, Lord’s Supper), and LUKE-ACTS. We shall also accept papers on other biblical texts, in preparation for future volumes, provided their contextual contents and methodologies are strong. All papers need to make explicit their "contextual" strategies (e.g. inculturation, inter[con]textualization, reading with others, liberation) and methodologies. For general format see http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/religious_studies/GBC/outline_comm.html.
Drafts of accepted papers will be published on Athalya Brenner's homepage (home.medewerker.uva.nl/a.brenner) a fortnight before the event. At the conference papers will be summarized, not read, and discussed extensively.
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