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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

History and Literature of Early Rabbinic Judaism


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: Proposals for papers in all aspects of the history and literature of early rabbinic Judaism are welcome. Topics of particular interest for the 2012 Annual Meeting are the relationship of the late antique rabbis to the Hebrew Bible (including, but not limited to, studies of the midrash compilations), rhetorical readings of rabbinic texts, the application of legal theory to rabbinic literature of late antiquity, and the rabbis' rhetorical engagement with Empire. A thematic session may arise out of the open call, possibly with a respondent.

Program Unit Chairs

Alyssa M. Gray
Carol Bakhos

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