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2017 International Meeting

Berlin, Germany

Meeting Begins8/7/2017
Meeting Ends8/11/2017

Call for Papers Opens: 11/9/2016
Call for Papers Closes: 2/21/2017

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The Bible in the Twenty-First Century: Politization of Bibles and Biblization of Politics (EABS)


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: “Bibles, Politics, Ideologies and Contexts: Case Studies” In recent years we have focused on various ways and means used by communities for adapting “their” bibles for political ends, in the widest signification of “political”, the past as well as the present. Continuing our project of investigating how bibles are conceived today, and how they are defined and enlisted for shaping societies and for remembering the future, be those societies religious or secular, in previous years we examined notions and methodologies employed for reading biblical families, fraternity and sorority, and most recently, genealogies. We now go back to a more general definition, which is how this research group started. Under the heading, “Bibles, Politics, Ideologies and Contexts: Case Studies”, we invite papers on and around these themes, both in the Hebrew Bible and in the New Testament. When papers are in dialogue with postcolonial discourse, queer studies, empire studies, international relations studies, subaltern studies, and related methodological-theoretical approaches, they will be particularly welcome. One session at least will be a joint session with the SBL Contextual Biblical Interpretation Seminar. For this session Proposals on the Five Scrolls or the Historical Books (Samuel-Kings-Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah) are especially but not only sought, with view for publication in the Texts@Contexts series.

Program Unit Chairs

Athalya Brenner-Idan
Jeremy Punt

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