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Meeting Program Units

2021 International Meeting

Canterbury, England

Meeting Begins7/25/2021
Meeting Ends7/29/2021

Call for Papers Opens: 11/4/2020
Call for Papers Closes: 1/27/2021

Requirements for Participation

Bible and Empire


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: For the 2021 International Meeting in Kent, the Bible and Empire group will convene one thematic session and an open session. The thematic session will explore the impact and transformations (cultural, religious, economic, ecological) that empires create by entering, ruling, and/or departing colonized regions. Papers can focus on transformations addressed in the biblical texts or can bring the biblical witness to bear on post-biblical transformations under imperial pressures. Given the thematic focus of the 2021 ISBL meeting and the fact that in recent decades the world’s most powerful nations have contributed greatly to climate change and other ecological transformations (dam construction, deforestation, water usage, desertification etc.), proposals with an environmental orientation are especially but not exclusively encouraged. Papers are also invited for an open session on empires and imperialism in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the New Testament, and in subsequent reception history. Analyses from any number of critical and interpretive perspectives are welcome.

Program Unit Chairs

Ana T. Valdez
Steed Vernyl Davidson

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