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2022 International Meeting

Salzburg, Austria

Meeting Begins7/17/2022
Meeting Ends7/21/2022

Call for Papers Opens: 11/3/2021
Call for Papers Closes: 2/1/2022

Requirements for Participation

Bible and Empire


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Bible and Empire section invites papers for two sessions. (1) A themed session of papers that explore Performances of Empire. Proposals are invited for papers which look at various ways biblical texts have supported and informed aspects of imperial performances, real and imagined. Historical depictions of imperial performances including the rituals, architecture, cultural productions such as musicals, operas or visual arts, among other things provide critical spaces for the appropriation and manipulation of biblical images. In addition, they create ways in which biblical texts have and continue to shape ideas regarding the performances of empire that persist in various forms particularly through apocalyptic expressions. Further, proposals that explore the performances of empire imagined in biblical texts through literary, traditio-historical, redaction, and other analyses are also encouraged. (2) An open session that features papers that examine the influence of imperial political powers on the development of the Bible in its historical context as well as the Bible’s use and reception throughout subsequent history.

Program Unit Chairs

Ana T. Valdez
Steed Vernyl Davidson

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