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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

The Bible and Animal Studies


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Bible and Animal Studies research unit will host four sessions. We welcome proposals for papers to sessions 1, 2, and 4. (1) An OPEN SESSION in which contributors use any aspect of animal studies to interrogate and explore biblical (and biblical-adjacent) texts. (2) A session on ANIMALITY AND GENDER, in which contributors consider questions like: how are women and nonhuman animals conceptualised and treated in interconnected ways? Does the breakdown of the male-female binary undertaken by queer theorists have implications for the human-animal binary? How do animals’ own gender relations manifest in biblical texts? (3) A BOOK PANEL on Arthur Walker-Jones and Suzanna Millar (eds.), Exploring Animal Hermeneutics (SBL 2024) (invited speakers only). (4) A JOINT SESSION with “Ecological Hermeneutics”. Half the session will feature an invited book panel on Dong Hyeon Jeong, Embracing the Nonhuman in the Gospel of Mark (SBL 2023). The other half will contain proposed papers which engage with the themes of this book, particularly focussing on the agency/actancy of animals and inanimate beings. What might this term “agency” mean for the different members of creation: humans, animals, insects, non-sentient beings, etc.; to what extent can non-sentient entities have agency (e.g., Psalm 148:8-10)?

Program Unit Chairs

Sébastien Doane
Suzanna Millar

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