Canonical Approaches to the Bible (EABS)

Call For Papers: Title of the meeting: "The endings of biblical books as a hermeneutical key." In the biblical manuscripts the various books are separated by clear markers, for example blank lines, head lines or final remarks made by the Masoretes. Beneath the opening the ending is therefore the most prominent part of a book. Often they are composed with special care: the plots of the book come to an end, so it could be worth to compare an ending with the beginning of a biblical book. Often also the view is widened at the end to other books. We are calling for papers to delineate the means by which the endings of biblical books were composed in order to create intertextual connections. The variety of their shapes and functions should be investigated with the aim of a classifying them and creating a foundation for engaging in a Biblical Theology that is conscious of the Bible as canon. We expect exegetical contributions from the fields of Old and New Testament scholarship but also contributions concerning the history of interpretation from the fields of Jewish studies and Church history. The panel is open for the entire spectrum of relevant questions, from literary composition to the function of book endings, from reflection upon the material conditions for the production of books to insights from hermeneutics and cognitive science concerning the interpretation of books and the means by which that interpretation is guided.

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