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2024 International Meeting

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Meeting Begins7/28/2024
Meeting Ends8/1/2024

Call for Papers Opens: 11/29/2023
Call for Papers Closes: 2/13/2024

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 2-3 open sessions on the interpretation of a biblical text from within a reader's explicitly articulated context, personal as well as communal, while firmly anchored in clear methodology. We are particularly interested in the contextual counter readings/subversions of the same character or narrative by “ordinary” readers on the margins. We also invite papers that propose critical and creative readings of a biblical text about a minoritized (“number 2”) biblical character. We will warmly consider proposals that are also queer, cross-scriptural and/or dip into the flows of orality.

Program Unit Chairs

Jaqueline S. du Toit
Wei Huang

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