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Meeting Program Units

2015 Annual Meeting

Atlanta, GA

Meeting Begins11/21/2015
Meeting Ends11/24/2015

Call for Papers Opens: 12/17/2014
Call for Papers Closes: 3/4/2015

Requirements for Participation

Islands, Islanders, and Scriptures


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: We invite proposals for two open sessions: 1. Biblical Coastlands and Coastal Readings: We invite presentations on scriptural texts relating to coasts and coastlands (e.g., Eze 26, Acts 28:1-10; see also Isaiah texts that use the notions “coastlands” or “coastlands and islands”). Is there a specific geography that these texts have in mind with these references or is it an imaginary geography? If imagined what informs that imagination to depict coastal regions rather than say for want of something more expressive, continental space? What's different about coasts and coastland ways? How have these texts been read? By/for whom? How might you read these texts islandly? 2. Caribbean Readings: Rhythmic Bible Readings and the Riddims of Reading the Bible. (Riddims here serves as a cultural appropriation of the English term rhythms that speaks to a certain musicality.) This session features papers that explore the interface between text and contexts, in this case the Bible and Caribbean cultures, with an ear to music production. Taking the Caribbean as the starting point, how does this context read the Bible as well as critique the Bible through its music? Additionally, what are the places where the Bible's integral message critically addresses the Caribbean contexts, perhaps calling common assumptions into question? Papers will provide descriptions and analyses of these relationships as the foundation for articulating the peculiarities of a Caribbean biblical exegesis.

Program Unit Chairs

Althea Spencer Miller
Jione Havea

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