Use, Influence, and Impact of the Bible

Call For Papers: This year we aim to have at least one open session: proposals are welcome on any aspect of the Bible's reception history. For the open sessions our preference is for papers that do not focus on the narrower history of scholarship, but explore wider aspects of the Bible's impact on religions, society and culture, art, literature and music. We are aiming to hold a joint session with the Bible and Visual Art section, and would particularly welcome proposals around the theme of ‘The Politics of Biblical Art’: for this we are particularly interested in papers addressing the political impact of individual works of art, but we encourage submissions which engage creatively with the above theme from any angle. We also intend to continue the focus on 'The Cultural History of Biblical Commentary' that we began in 2014. The commentary has long been the dominant form of biblical interpretation, and we invite papers that examine the history and practice of commentary writing from the second temple period to the 21st century. We are particularly interested in papers that will examine areas such as the development of the form of the commentary, the material production and consumption of commentaries, the ideological assumptions that underpin commentaries, and the religious, cultural and/or political influence of particular commentaries.

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