Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible

Call For Papers: Our FIRST session invites all papers with an INTERSECTIONAL approach for our 2022 themed session. We are excited to receive dynamic papers that explore gender alongside post-colonialism, critical race theory, disability, cultural studies, queer theory, or other intersectional disciplines. Paper submissions can engage any biblical / extra-canonical text(s) that illuminate issues of gender and/or sexuality, from texts that easily lend themselves to gendered analyses to texts that are underexplored. Our SECOND session is co-sponsored with the The Social History of Formative Christianity and Judaism, Religious Worlds of Late Antiquity, and Violence and Representations of Violence in Antiquity. This session is dedicated to a future-directed exploration of Elizabeth A. Clark’s scholarly legacy. This session is one of invited papers that center on the exploration of “big ideas” emerging from Clark’s research. Our THIRD session is co-sponsored with the Biblical Law program unit on the topic of gender identity (beyond the binary opposition between man and woman) and legal status. We will consider the role that gender plays in conferring specific legal rights, obligations, and social statuses in Near Eastern and biblical law. (See the Biblical Law unit for a full description). Our FOURTH session is co-sponsored with Biblical Ethics. We invite papers that respond to and build on the volume Terror in the Bible (https://bit.ly/3KcxW7L). This volume picks up on Phyllis Trible's Texts of Terror and extends it to thinking about the impact of biblical texts on gender, caste, violence, and colonization/imperialism. The use of the Bible in colonization and mission, past and present, invites thinking of "terror" from a communal and collective location. Papers are invited that take up or supplement the methods and approaches and apply them to new texts, other bodies, different scriptures, biblical afterlives. BIPOC and global south perspectives are especially invited.

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