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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

Speech and Talk in the Ancient Mediterranean World


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: In 2015, "Speech and Talk" is holding a joint session with "Rhetoric and the New Testament." For this joint session, we invite papers exploring the rhetorical configurations of speech, sight, and space in relation to early Christian/ancient texts. For example, how does visual imagery function rhetorically in ancient texts (e.g., invoking the built or natural environments)? How do ancient authors situate sight or speech in particular spaces (e.g., Cicero's speeches and the theater; private vs. public conversations; teaching "in the temple"/synagogue; Paul at the Areopagus)? What were the boundaries of sight and speech (e.g., Philo's claim that God's speech was visible at Sinai, or the Book of Revelation's paradox of "hearing" one thing but "seeing" another)? What is the significance of speech-sight-space when we consider the oral performance of ancient narratives or epistles (e.g., how might our understanding of Paul's letter to the Romans be shaped by the visual realities of the ancient Roman spaces in which it was read/performed)?  Such questions are meant to be suggestive, not restrictive. Papers addressing other ways speech, sight, and space intersect are welcome.

Program Unit Chairs

Jeremy F. Hultin
Michal Beth Dinkler

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