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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

Requirements for Participation

Israel and the Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the Persian and Hellenistic Period (EABS)


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: For the Berlin meeting 2017 we invite submissions focussing on “vulnerability and resilience in the production and reception of authoritative biblical texts in the Persian and Hellenistic Period”. In the past years, a discourse on vulnerability has been evolving in several disciplines. E.g. in anthropology: describing vulnerability as a human condition, in ethics: looking for corresponding options for action, but also in theology: providing appropriate images of God. In our sessions we want to trace the implications of a discourse on vulnerability for understanding biblical texts of Persian and early Hellenistic times. Assuming that the conquest of Israel and Juda and the following exile revealed the vulnerability of the people in an existential way, we ask how authoritative texts process the experience of vulnerability. Literary strategies might include repression of vulnerability and strengthening of concepts of security as well as emphasising the fundamental vulnerability of all human beings or creating textual resources of resilience. Furthermore, a discourse on vulnerability also affects the images of God – ranging from compassionate or even distressed to powerful and inviolable. To address these issues, a methodological discussion is necessary in order to clarify in which ways authoritative texts treat vulnerability and whether different genres have developed specific ways of dealing with vulnerability. We welcome papers focusing on aspects like the following: • Construction of vulnerability in narrative texts, poetry or law texts • The role of vulnerability, assurance mechanisms, and resilience in constructions of identity • Correlations between vulnerability, trauma and resilience • Appreciation or avoidance of vulnerability in the process of (inner-biblical) reception and interpretation • Avoidance of vulnerability in theological concepts • Concepts of resilience.

Program Unit Chairs

Prof. Dr. Maria Haeusl
Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher

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