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Meeting Program Units

2012 Annual Meeting

Chicago, IL

Meeting Begins11/16/2012
Meeting Ends11/20/2012

Call for Papers Opens: 2/8/2012
Call for Papers Closes: 3/7/2012

Requirements for Participation

Women in the Biblical World


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: 1. Joint session with LGBT/Queer Hermeneutics. A session of invited papers based on the new book "Bible Trouble: Queer Reading at the Boundaries of Biblical Scholarship" (ed. Teresa J. Hornsby and Ken Stone; Semeia Series; SBL August 2011). The session seeks to discuss commonalities and differences in feminist and queer readings. 2. Open session. We invite papers that explore the ways in which food and drink function in texts to negotiate women's lives, e.g. a reading of Abigail's encounter with David (1 Samuel 25); Jael's encounter with Sisera (Judges 4-5); the Levite and his concubine and her father (Judges 19); female body parts compared to fruit (Lady Folly or the Woman in Song of Songs); the Samaritan woman (John 4); or the drunken woman envisioned in Revelation 17. A range of approaches from literary, socio-historical to reader-oriented readings are welcome.

Program Unit Chairs

Susan E. Hylen
Valerie Bridgeman

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