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Meeting Program Units

2022 Annual Meeting

Denver, Colorado

Meeting Begins11/19/2022
Meeting Ends11/22/2022

Call for Papers Opens: 1/19/2022
Call for Papers Closes: 3/18/2022

Requirements for Participation

Syriac Studies


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: We invite proposals for three thematic sessions and one general session. (1) Our session on ‘The Bible in Syriac Manuscript Cultures’ invites papers that address, for example, lectionaries, illuminated manuscripts, scribal habits, the ‘new philology’, or manuscript transmission. (2) For a session on prayer, co-sponsored with the program unit on Prayer in Antiquity, we welcome contributions that engage with various forms or modes of prayer in the Syriac tradition in its social or cultural contexts, such as liturgical prayer, efficacy of prayer, prayer and illness/healing, praying with the body, praying with material objects, cultivating a disposition of prayer. (3) For a session on ‘Supernatural Beings’, co-sponsored with the program unit on Social History of Formative Christianity and Judaism, we invite papers on the role of angels (as intermediaries, role models, or guardians) or other types of divine beings, perhaps more ambiguously portrayed. (4) Our general session welcomes proposals on any aspect of Syriac Studies that pertains to biblical or parabiblical traditions and their reception in Syriac-speaking communities.

Program Unit Chairs

Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Ute Possekel

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