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Meeting Program Units

2009 Annual Meeting

New Orleans, LA

Meeting Begins11/21/2009
Meeting Ends11/24/2009

Call for Papers Opens: 12/15/2008
Call for Papers Closes: 2/28/2009

Requirements for Participation

Healthcare and Disability in the Ancient World


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Disability Studies and Healthcare in the Bible and Near East section plans to have two sessions at the 2009 meeting. The FIRST SESSION will be an open session (accepting papers). In this session, we especially encourage proposals for 20-minute papers exploring the portrayal or experience of injury, impairment, disease, and disability (broadly defined) within contexts of war and its aftermath in ancient Israel. This session will be co-sponsored with the Warfare in Ancient Israel section and will include time for a panel discussion following the presentations. All methods are invited. The SECOND SESSION will consist of a discussion by invited panelists of Rebecca Raphael's book, Biblical Corpora: Representations of Disability in Hebrew Biblical Literature (T and T Clark, 2008). Inquiries about these sessions should be addressed to either Sarah Melcher (melcher@xavier.edu) or Jeremy Schipper (schipper@temple.edu).

Program Unit Chairs

Sarah J. Melcher
Jeremy Schipper

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