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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

Contextual Interpretation of the Bible (Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and New Testament)


Program Unit Type: Seminar
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: This Seminar underlines the significance of contextual interpretation and its contribution to biblical studies. We invite contributions to 4 sessions (proposed and solicited papers): (1) Interpreting the bible in a pandemic (i): COVID-19 and a search for the relevance of biblical scholarship's exegetical strategies and instruments. From different locations and disciplinary strategies, we invite papers rooted in a clear methodology. The papers are expected to engage with existing interpretations and counter interpretations to the bible highlighted by the pandemic. This includes engagement with the social issues it foregrounded, the responses and counter responses of communities at large, and the strategies of justification, comfort and support. (2) Interpreting the bible in a pandemic (ii): Biblical figures/texts that brought meaning to ordinary readers in a time of crisis. We invite critical engagement with interpretive strategies followed especially by marginal communities in foregrounding particular biblical figures or a particular biblical text at this time of crisis. (3) We invite contributions to two open sessions on the interpretation of the biblical text from within a reader's explicitly articulated context, personal as well as communal, while firmly anchored in a clear methodology.

Program Unit Chairs

Jaqueline S. du Toit
Wei Huang

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