International Meeting

Don't forget to register today for the 2013 International Meeting in St Andrews! Registration will officially close this Friday, June 21. Information about the meeting, program highlights, and the online program can be found on the ISBL homepage.

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JBL 132.2 has been posted

Mark Leuchter, Genesis 38 in Social and Historical Perspective

Joshua Berman, Histories Twice Told: Deuteronomy 1–3 and the Hittite Treaty Prologue Tradition

Yitzhaq Feder, The Aniconic Tradition, Deuteronomy 4, and the Politics of Israelite Identity

C. L. Seow, An Exquisitely Poetic Introduction to the Psalter

Amy Erickson, “Without My Flesh I Will See God”: Job’s Rhetoric of the Body

Jeremy Schipper, Interpreting the Lamb Imagery in Isaiah 53

Eric D. Reymond, The Meanings of “Life” in the Hebrew of Ben Sira

Matthew Thiessen, Revisiting the prosēlytes in “the LXX”

Michael Bartos and Bernard M. Levinson, “This Is the Manner of the Remission”: Implicit Legal Exegesis in 11QMelchizedek as a Response to the Formation of the Torah

Alexander E. Stewart, Narrative World, Rhetorical Logic, and the Voice of the Author in 4 Ezra

Thomas R. Blanton IV, Saved by Obedience: Matthew 1:21 in Light of Jesus’ Teaching on the Torah

Alicia D. Myers, “Jesus Said to Them . . .”: The Adaptation of Juridical Rhetoric in John 5:19–47

Brian C. Dennert, Hanukkah and the Testimony of Jesus’ Works (John 10:22–39)

Troy W. Martin, Peribolaion as “Testicle” in 1 Corinthians 11:15: A Response to Mark Goodacre

Annual Meetings

Did you miss the Super Saver rate for registration for the upcoming SBL Annual Meeting in Baltimore? Do not worry, there are still ways to save! The Early Bird registration rates are available now through August 15. Register Now and make plans to enjoy time with your colleagues in a great city.

Publications Announcement

SBL Publications now offers both hardcover and paperback editions (as well as a variety of e-book versions) of our own works after an eleven-year hiatus during which Brill Academic Publishers offered all SBL titles in hardcover. SBL hardcover editions are ideal for libraries and institutions, although they are priced to appeal to individuals as well. Our first four hardcover-paperback publications are:

Eileen M. Schuller and Carol A. Newsom, The Hodayot (Thanksgiving Psalms): A Study Edition of 1QHa: hardcover   paperback

Ann Killebrew and Gunnar Lehmann, eds., The Philistines and Other Sea Peoples in Text and Archaeology: hardcover   paperback

Voula Tsouna, Philodemus, On Property Management: hardcover   paperback

Melvin K. H. Peters, ed., XIV Congress of the IOSCS, Helsinki, 2010: hardcover   paperback

Look for all future SBL publications to appear simultaneously in hardcover, paperback, and e-book forms—and please encourage your librarian to buy all SBL titles in the format best suited to your institution's needs.

International Cooperation Initiative

ICI at the SBL International Meeting:
An informal ICI session to exchange ideas and provide feedback will be held at the SBL International Meeting, July 8, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM in Meeting Room 10 - MBS (17). Please notify Ehud Ben Zvi if you plan to participate.

The ICI Member Handbook has been posted to the ICI web page or you may read it here.

SBL Website Redesign

We are working on a website redesign for 2014! If you have any suggestions for improving the site that you have been keeping to yourself- now is the time to let us know. Send ideas to sharon.johnson@sbl-site.org

Career Development

SBL and AAR have launched a new Employment site managed jointly by SBL and AAR. The new site offers all of the services offered by the previous Employment Center, including the ability to list jobs online and to display candidate credentials and register for interviews.

To find job listings or submit a job, click here.

• Job Seekers: you will be asked to log-in with your SBL (or AAR) member ID. Your membership must be current and active in order to access the job listings.
• Employers: you will be asked to log-in with your institutional credentials, which have been communicated to you. If you have any questions, please contact careercenter@sbl-site.org.

Calendar

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July 2013
7/1-7/5	The Metaphorical Use of Language in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature (ICDCL 2013) Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Haus, Ziegelstr. 30,10117 Berlin, Germany More information
7/4- 7/6	Peter in Earliest Christianity A conference sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins, University of Edinburgh (immediately before the SBL International Meeting in St. Andrews). Speakers include: Timothy Barnes, Markus Bockmuehl, Sean Freyne, Larry Hurtado, Peter Lampe, Tobias Nicklas, and Margaret Williams. Topics include: the historical Peter, Peter in Galilean and Roman archaeology, and Peter in the first three Christian centuries. Offers of short papers (20 minutes) may be submitted to Dr. Helen Bond before March 15, 2013. Registration opens October 1, 2012. Registration fee, which covers conference fee, coffee breaks, and Friday lunch, is £40 before April 15, 2013, and £50 after April 15, 2013 (and £35 for students any time). There will also be a conference dinner Friday evening, for which the fee is £25 payable at registration. More information
7/7- 7/11	SBL International Meeting Held in St. Andrews, Scotland More information
7/15- 7/17	Christian Contribution to the Arab Renaissance during the Second Millennium The ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organizing its Thirty Seventh International Conference on Christian Contribution to the Arab Renaissance during the Second Millennium, to be held at the Oriental Institute, the University of Oxford, 15-17 July 2013.The conference will start on Monday 15th July at 9am, finishing on Wednesday 17th July at 6pm. Each speaker’s paper is limited to 35 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion. All papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review. If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact the Aram Society, the Oriental Institute, Oxford University, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, England. Tel. 01865-514041 Fax. 01865-516824. Email for more information.
7/16- 7/18	Paul’s Graeco-Roman Context The Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense is an annual international conference on Biblical Studies jointly organised by the theological faculties of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Université Catholique de Louvain. The meetings take place in the Faculty of Theology at the KU Leuven and are alternately dedicated to a topic in Old and in New Testament Studies. More information
7/22-7/25	SOTS Summer Meeting The Summer Meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study will be held at Bangor University, Bangor. More information
7/23-7/27	Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas The annual meeting of the Society for New Testament Studies, the peak international body for New Testament scholarship and research, will be held in Perth, Western Australia, at Murdoch University. More information
7/29–7/31	The Decapolis: History and Archaeology ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organizing its Thirty Fiftth International Conference on the theme of The Decapolis: History and Archaeology, to be held at Oxford University. The conference aims to study the movement of nomads and their settlements in the Syrian Orient; and it will pay a special attention to the migration of Arab nomads from the Arabian Peninsula to the Fertile Crescent in the pre-Islamic period. The conference will start on Monday July 29th at 9am, finishing on Thursday, July 31st at 6pm. Each speaker’s paper is limited to 30 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion. All papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review. If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact our Oxford address:ARAM, the Oriental Institute, Oxford University, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, England. Tel. 01865-514041 Fax. 01865-516824. Email ARAM
7/30-8/2	EABS Annual Meeting Annual Meeting of the European Association of Biblical Studies Hosted by The University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany More information
August 2013
8/2- 8/4	OSBA 2013 Oceania Biblical Studies Association (OBSA) 2013 meeting will be held at the Pacific Theological College in Suva, Fiji.Call for papers is now opened and information for OBSA 2013 is available online at https://sites.google.com/site/wavesofthemoana/. The main conference theme is “What is Oceanic Biblical Interpretation?” The deadline for all paper proposals is June 30th, 2013. For further information, please contact Dr Nasili Vaka’uta (n.vakauta@auckland.ac.nz) or send an email to OBSAMail@gmail.com.
8/4–8/9	International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) The 21st Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) will take place at the University of Munich, Germany. As usual it will be joint with the Congresses of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS, 1.-3. of August), of the International Organization for Qumran Studies (IOQS), the International Organziation for Masoretic Studies (IOMS), the International Organization for Targum Studies (IOTS) and the International Syriac Language Project (ISLP). More Information
8/13-8/16	Identity Formation in the Gospel of Mark International Conference hosted by the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. For more information contact Prof. Dr. Gudrun Guttenberger or Prof. Dr.Heike Omerzu.
8/29-8/31	British New Testament Society 2013 conference will be held at the University of St. Andrews. Details forthcoming. More information
September 2013
9/3-9/6	EASR Annual Conference The 12th EASR Annual Conference will be hosted by the Bristish Association for the Study of Religions at Liverpool Hope University, 3-6 September 2013. More information
October 2013
10/4- 10/6	Pilgrims’ Progress: Pilgrimage across Time and Cultures The Institute of Pilgrimage Studies in conjunction with the International Consortium for Pilgrimage Studies invites abstracts for the 2nd annual Symposium to be held at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. The conference will embrace thematic sessions including:Artistic and Literary Responses to Pilgrimage,Health and Pilgrimage,Material Culture of Pilgrimage,Pilgrimage in the Eastern Mediterranean,Pilgrimage in the Ancient World,Personal Reflections on Pilgrimage,Space, Place and Lived Experience of Pilgrimage. More information
10/23-10/26	Westar Institute Fall Meeting The biannual meeting of the Westar Institute, advancing religious literacy through a twofold mission of fostering collaborative research in religious studies and communicating the results of scholarship to a broad non-specialist public, will take place this Fall in Santa Rosa, California. Critical questions to be considered include: Did Christianity begin with Jesus, Paul, Luke, or Constantine? Which came first, the Gospel of John or the Gospel of Luke? What did the first New Testament look like? How did the debate about rules and rituals shape Christianity? Does the date of Christian origins impact Jewish-Christian relations? Please inquire about student discounts at westar@westarinstitute.org. Program details and registration now available at: http://www.westarinstitute.org/events/westar-institute-national-meeting/
November 2013
11/20- 11/22	John, Jesus, and History: Engaging the Legacies of C.H. Dodd and Raymond E. Brown The occasion of this pre-SBL conference at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore is the 50th and 60th anniversaries of Dodd’s books on John and history as well as the ongoing significance of Brown, who taught at St. Mary’s from 1959 to 1971. The conference is sponsored by St. Mary’s and the SBL’s John, Jesus, and History section. The keynote address will be given by Jimmy Dunn. Papers and other presentations will be given by John Ashton, Alan Culpepper, Jonathan Draper, Craig Koester, Wendy E. S. North, Tom Thatcher, Jan van der Watt, and Catrin Williams, as well as Paul Anderson, John Donahue, Michael Gorman, and Jaime Clark-Soles. For further information, contact Craig Koester (ckoester@luthersem.edu) or Michael Gorman (mgorman@stmarys.edu). Registration begins June 1 at The occasion of this pre-SBL conference at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore is the 50th and 60th anniversaries of Dodd’s books on John and history as well as the ongoing significance of Brown, who taught at St. Mary’s from 1959 to 1971. The conference is sponsored by St. Mary’s and the SBL’s John, Jesus, and History section. The keynote address will be given by Jimmy Dunn. Papers and other presentations will be given by John Ashton, Alan Culpepper, Jonathan Draper, Craig Koester, Wendy E. S. North, Tom Thatcher, Jan van der Watt, and Catrin Williams, as well as Paul Anderson, John Donahue, Michael Gorman, and Jaime Clark-Soles. For further information, contact Craig Koester (ckoester@luthersem.edu) or Michael Gorman (mgorman@stmarys.edu). Registration begins June 1
11/23- 11/26	SBL Annual Meeting The SBL Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of biblical scholars in the world. Each meeting showcases the latest in biblical research, fosters collegial contacts, advances research, and focuses on issues of the profession. The Annual Meeting will be held in Baltimore, Maryland More information
December 2013
January 2014
1/2-1/5	Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America LSA’s 2014 Annual Meeting will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota More information
1/2- 1/5	AIA and APA Joint Annual Meeting The Joint Annual Meeting (AM) of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the American Philological Association (APA) will be held in Chicago, IL at the Hyatt Regency Chicago Hotel. The academic program will begin on January 3. More information