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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

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Apocalypse Now: Apocalyptic Reception and Impact throughout History


Program Unit Type: Seminar
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: One of the stock elements in early Jewish apocalyptic descriptions of the final period preceding the end of history is the inversion of the human and natural order. Family and friends rise against each other, parents fight their children, and vice versa, and the order or nature is disturbed. The 2024 session of this group focuses on how the motif of the disturbance of the natural order has played and plays a role in end-time narratives. Obviously, the current climate crisis warrants attention in this respect, but also end-time narratives in a more distant past. How did or does the motif of the disturbance of the natural order play a role in end-time narratives and the ways they intended to influence people? Therefore, we accept papers on this topic, and we will also accept papers for an open session on themes connected to our research seminar.

Program Unit Chairs

Ana T. Valdez
Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte

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