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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

Hebrew Bible and Political Theory


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: This year the Unit for Hebrew Bible and Politcal Theory will be sponsoring two sessions: 1) One session will be devoted to Greek political thought and the Hebrew Bible. Papers should take a particular biblical text or topic and explore them by invoking the writings of a particular figure of Greek thought, or a range of Greek writers on a particular topic. 2) Joint session with the Joshua-Judges Section. This session seeks papers that examine Joshua-Judges through the prism of political science, broadly conceived. As other program units already explore feminist ideology, African-American hermeneutics and post-colonial approaches, this session will give preference to papers that employ theoretical models concerning, for example, notions of nationhood, citizenship, law, class, social hierarchy, economic distribution, modes of leadership, and the like. Alternatively, papers may analyze the texts of Joshua-Judges through the political thought of the great thinkers of political theory, classical, medieval or modern.

Program Unit Chairs

Francis Borchardt

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