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2010 International Meeting

Tartu, Estonia

Meeting Begins7/25/2010
Meeting Ends7/29/2010

Call for Papers Opens: 10/1/2009
Call for Papers Closes: 2/2/2010

Requirements for Participation

Israel and the Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the Persian and Hellenistic Period (EABS)


Program Unit Type: Affiliate
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The goal of this research programme is to explore the social processes, ideological matrices, and matters of identity formation involved in the production and use of authoritative texts in the Persian and Early Hellenistic periods. Papers (and thematic sessions) may deal with: • How the various books in the Hebrew Bible have been shaped in order to serve as guidelines and authoritative illustrations for behaviour for the emerging Jewish communities in Yehud or in the diaspora in the Persian and early Hellenistic periods; • How some books were intended to socialize their readers by constructing shared images of the past; • How authoritative books shaped and reflected a system of shared sites of memory that contributed to self-understanding and social cohesion; • How and why books became authoritative and what ‘authoritative’ may mean in this regard; • Anything related to the production and reception of authoritative books in the Persian and Early Hellenistic period, from socio-political considerations to studies of the discursive environment within which the books emerged or read and reread. • Thematic sessions may deal with individual books, collections of books; or may focus on some aspect of the production and reception of the relevant books.

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