Social Scientific Criticism of the New Testament
Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes
Call For Papers: The SSCNT unit is pleased to offer four sessions this year: 1. Open session. We enthusiastically seek proposals on any aspect of the social-scientific study of the New Testament and related literature. We especially encourage papers that engage with feminist, queer, decolonizing, and/or other critical reevaluations of classical theories and models. 2. “Intersectionality and Urban Space in Common Era Antiquity” (collaboration with Space, Place, and Lived Experience in Antiquity). We invite papers to consider ways that shared urban spaces such as marketplaces, crossroads, streets, cemeteries, shops, cauponae, insulae, domus, associations, etc. furnished places for such things as the generation of social contacts, differing forms of visibility, displays of identity, the exchange of ideas, the dynamic construction of social and religious identities, etc., and ways in which such generation, possibilities, displays, and exchanges shaped the practices, experiences, and imagination of urban spaces. 3. For a joint session with the Social Sciences and the Interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures unit, we seek papers addressing the current state of the field with the goal of evaluating what might be distinctive about biblical studies-oriented approaches to the social sciences and vice versa. We are especially interested in research in either/both testament(s) and/or related literature that critically engages with recent methods, models, and theories from the social-scientific disciplines as classically defined—anthropology, political science, psychology, sociology—and/or emerging subfields. 4. An invited panel on “Jewish and Christian Utopian Communities of the Hellenistic-Roman Era” (collaboration with Utopian Studies). *Please state which of the first three sessions your proposal is for.
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