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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

LGBTI/Queer Hermeneutics


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The LGBT/ Queer Hermeneutics program unit invites papers for OPEN SESSIONS on the following topics: "Legal Literature through a Queer Lens," which continues our genre series. We invite proposals that extend LGBT/Queer hermeneutics to legal texts within the biblical tradition. This includes texts traditionally described as "Law" (i.e. the legal materials in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy), household codes (i.e. Pauline, Deutero-Pauline, Pastorals), and interpretive traditions which are related or interpret these legal discourses. Papers that engage the relationship between biblical traditions and contemporary discussions of law from a queer perspective are also welcome. We also invite papers that engage "Intersections between Drag and Biblical Traditions." Papers may explore cross dressing in biblical traditions and cognate literatures, the ways in which drag theory illuminates biblical texts, and/or the ways in which biblical texts are employed and reinterpreted in drag performance. Proposals on any aspect of LGBT/Queer Hermeneutics in conversation with biblical and cognate literatures--including texts from the ancient Near East--are welcome as well. We also invite papers for a JOINT SESSION with the program unit "Women in the Biblical World." The session will be 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) and seeks to discuss commonalities and differences in feminist and queer readings. Finally, we encourage proposals or projects about "mentoring" as part of the larger collaborative effort of the NON-TRADITIONAL HERMENEUTICS programming units under the rubric of "Difference." We seek collaborative work or demonstrations of collaboration between faculty mentors and mentees in dialogue with any non-traditional hermeneutic. In this session graduate students and more established scholars will present their work.

Program Unit Chairs

David Tabb Stewart
Lynn R. Huber

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