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2024 Annual Meeting

San Diego, California

Meeting Begins11/23/2024
Meeting Ends11/26/2024

Call for Papers Opens: 1/24/2024
Call for Papers Closes: 3/20/2024

Requirements for Participation

Reading, Theory, and the Bible


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: Reading, Theory and the Bible offers a home for innovative, experimental work on the Bible and related texts. We welcome work that explores new approaches and pushes the boundaries of scholarship and conventional hermeneutics. We work on the assumption that traditional questions of provenance, philology, and history are amply accommodated by other groups in the SBL. Critical theory, continental philosophy, and other recent theoretical movements are especially welcome, as are papers that take seriously literature and reading as forms of conversation and criticism. We also encourage innovative presentation. For 2024, we are planning four sessions: Our FIRST SESSION is an open session; we invite papers on any topic. Our SECOND SESSION is a cosponsored session with Latina/o/e and Latin American Biblical Interpretation and others on the impact and influence of the work of the late queer performance theorist José Esteban Muñoz on the study of religion and sexuality. Our THIRD SESSION, cosponsored with AAR's "Religion and Popular Culture," is on Andrew Jacobs' book "Gospel Thrillers." Panelists will be invited for this session. Our FOURTH SESSION is a cosponsored session celebrating the twentieth anniversary of The Journal of Bible and Critical Theory. Panelists will be invited for this session.

Program Unit Chairs

Peter Sabo
Rhiannon Graybill

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