SBL Meetings and Events

2015 Annual Meeting

Atlanta, GA

Meeting Begins: 11/21/2015
Meeting Ends: 11/24/2015

Call for Papers Opens: 12/17/2014
Call for Papers Closes: 3/4/2015

Requirements for Participation

Greek Bible

Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Greek Bible Section offers a unique forum for current scholarship on the reception history of the ancient Greek translations of the Jewish scriptures. A focus of the section has been the interpretation of the Greek text, including (but not limited to) ancient Jewish authors, the writers of the New Testament, the Church Fathers, Greek historians or philosophers, and medieval Jewish scholiasts. Topics of discussion have included the history of biblical exegesis, the life and culture of Jews and Christians, Jewish-Christian relations, the text of the Greek Bible, and the history of the Greek language. For a number of reasons this is a very important area of research, with implications for the study of Hellenistic Judaism, Early Christianity, as well as late antiquity and the Byzantine world.

For the 2015 meeting in Atlanta the Greek Bible section invites papers for two sessions:

A special session, "The Afterlives of Greek Isaiah.” This session will explore the reception history of the Old Greek version of the book of Isaiah, with reference to topics such as transmission, redaction, intertextuality, exegesis, scholarly approaches and social cultural issues. Papers should demonstrate engagement with the Greek text as such.

An open session, “Greek Bible.” This session deals with any aspect of the reception history of the Hebrew-Greek translations of antiquity, including (but not limited to) their use within Hellenistic, Tannaitic and medieval Judaism, the New Testament and early and Patristic Christianity. Papers should demonstrate engagement with the Greek text as such.

Program Unit Chairs

Robert Hiebert

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2015 Annual Meeting

Greek Bible