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Meeting Program Units

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

Wisdom in Israel and in ANE Wisdom Literature (EABS)


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: Paper proposals are welcome on the Ways of Acquiring Wisdom in Israel and in ANE Wisdom Literature (Listening, Memorizing, Writing). This unit is interested in the process by which wisdom is acquired as revealed by wisdom texts in Israel and the ANE. Listening, memorization and writing are three key areas. Interest might also focus on the role of the different parts of the body that are engaged in the process of internalizing wisdom. The wider question is also raised: What is the identity of the teacher/sage and the pupil/student? This is also to include social setting – family, school, courtly, scholastic, administrative – and the identity of the teacher/sage in such contexts. EABS Invited Papers Allegory in Proverbs and Other Biblical and Apocryphal Wisdom Books and Qumran. This unit focuses on the use of allegory in the book of Proverbs and beyond. The Wisdom/Folly figures of Proverbs 1-9 are obvious contenders, but the net will be cast wider than this into other parts of the wisdom literature. This is an area that is underdeveloped in wisdom study and will provide fascinating fresh insight into a key feature of this primary wisdom text.

Program Unit Chairs

Professor Katharine J. Dell
Tova Forti

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