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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

Biblical Exegesis from Eastern Orthodox Perspectives


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The unit welcomes proposals for four sessions: 1) Figural vs. Historical Exegesis: This session will focus on ancient “figural” and “historical” exegesis and the supposed dichotomy between them. We especially welcome papers that address the relationship between these types of exegesis and the development of Christian doctrine in antiquity and/or the Orthodox traditions that followed. 2) Orthodox Christianity and Judaism: This session seeks to widen Jewish-Christian dialogue by considering how Orthodox exegetical traditions, liturgy, history, contemporary thought, and ongoing political experience, especially in the Middle East, can and should affect not only Orthodox Christianity’s own relationship to Jews and Judaism, but also its relationship to Jewish-Christian dialogue more broadly. We welcome submissions from a wide range of methodological and disciplinary approaches. Cosponsored with the AAR Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit. 3) Universalism: This session will explore Kierkegaard’s nuanced and unique treatment of the issue of universal salvation. Attention will be given to the roots of universalism in certain features of the New Testament, its blossoming in the thought of patristic theologians like Origen and Gregory of Nyssa, and its re-emergence in the nineteenth century and contemporary Orthodox thought. Cosponsored with the AAR Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Unit. 4) Divine inspiration: This session aims to reconstruct the dialectic of continuity and discontinuity among ancient authors (e.g. Plato, Philo, Plutarch, Origen, Chrysostom) reflecting on the transmission of divine knowledge to humans via inspiration or divination. Cosponsored with the SBL Religion and Philosophy in Late Antiquity Unit. For more information on any of these sessions, see https://orthodoxbiblical.org/sbl-sessions/.

Program Unit Chairs

Leslie Baynes
Michael G. Azar

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