Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible

Call For Papers: We are planning three sessions calling for papers for the Atlanta meeting. FIRST SESSION is jointly sponsored with the Israelite Prophets section. This session examines depictions of male/masculine embodiment in prophetic literature, in particular the body of male prophets. Papers will highlight and inspect portrayals of masculinity using a broad range of theoretical insights to draw attention to the undertheorized and unexamined representations of the male body in prophetic texts. Focus will also be paid to how masculinity advances/deters the prophetic message, as well as its significance for gender and/or sexuality. The SECOND SESSION invites papers on Monstrosity and Animality. The Bible is populated with various human, animal, and supernatural characters and the boundaries between these categories do not always remains fixed. This session will examine the ways in which the animal, as well as the human-animal and supernatural-animal hybrids are often associated with monstrosity. In addition, this session will pay particular attention to the ways in which animality and monstrosity combine in discourses about sex and gender (as well as race, ethnicity, and religion) in biblical texts and their later interpretations. Proposals that deal with either monstrosity of animality, as well as those that combine them, will be considered. The THIRD SESSION is an open session, welcoming proposals for papers on any element of research related to gender, sexuality, and the body in the study of the bible and/or antiquity, including their various afterlives and influences. Questions or further inquiries for these sessions may be directed to the chair, Gwynn Kessler at kessler@swarthmore.edu.

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