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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

Senses, Cultures, and Biblical Worlds


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: We plan to hold two sessions in 2015. First: As a love poem, the Song of Songs is arguably the most sensual book in the Hebrew Bible. For an open panel, we invite paper proposals that offer a sensory analysis of the Song or of any element in the reception history of the Song. Papers that relate the sense(s) under investigation to larger questions about social order, cosmology, cognition, or cultural values are especially welcome. The abstract should state the paper's thesis, outline the approach that will be taken, and identify the primary texts to be discussed. Second: With the Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity seminar, we are sponsoring a joint session exploring the non-visual senses. While sight is often the most prominent of the senses deployed by biblical and cognate texts, sensory language involving hearing, touching, tasting, smelling, proprioception, pain, or any other sense demands our attention as well. The papers in this session will examine the use of this language by examining how and why the rhetoric of the texts employs such sensory language. As sensory experience is culturally mediated, interpretation of sensory language in ancient texts will also require us to attend to the cultural meanings the different senses evoked in their indigenous contexts. Moreover, since the senses are more often than not simply assumed by the texts, attending to how they function when they are explicitly engaged will help us to understand these texts better. This session will consist of three invited papers and one respondent.

Program Unit Chairs

Greg Schmidt Goering

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