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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

Poverty in the Biblical World


Program Unit Type: Consultation
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: All papers will be (if possible) posted in the website two weeks before the meeting and they will be available for a short period after the meeting. In 2012 two sessions are planned. Some presenters are invited but both sessions are open for proposals. The first session invites scholars to present papers about specific biblical (and also non-canonical but related) texts which focus on debt and generation of wealth and poverty. The second session will focus on the methods, epistemology and analysis of preconditions/consequences of the different reading strategies of (biblical and non-canonical) poverty texts. How do we create the knowledge about poverty and how that knowledge has been and continues to be used when we read biblical texts? Besides the classical exegetical approach, this session will have also a special concern for the interaction between the reality of (present experienced/ known) poverty and reading/analyzing biblical texts. This can include contextual reading of poverty texts, reports and analysis of experiments to develop the methods.

Program Unit Chairs

Glenna S. Jackson
Kari Latvus
Richard A. Horsley

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