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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

Performance Criticism of the Bible: Texts, Tradition, and Identity


Program Unit Type: Consultation
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Performance Criticism of the Bible—Texts, Tradition, and Identity unit is hosting two OPEN sessions at the 2021 meeting. The first session will focus on indigenous communities whose traditions customarily include storytelling and the transmission of myths. The performance-critical discussion is expected to take up insights applicable to interpretation of the biblical texts that observation of indigenous rituals can evoke, including ritual and identity from the perspective of a minority people; preservation of cosmological perspectives through storytelling; and adaptation of ancient oral traditions to interpret new cultural experiences. The second session invites papers that focus on the formative influence of performance on the production of biblical texts, the performance of such texts in ancient contexts, the representation of oral performance in written texts, and performance-related features embedded in biblical and other ancient texts.

Program Unit Chairs

Lee A. Johnson
Jin H. Han

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