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Meeting Program Units

2015 Annual Meeting

Atlanta, GA

Meeting Begins11/21/2015
Meeting Ends11/24/2015

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

Requirements for Participation

Economics in the Biblical World


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The "Economics in the Biblical World" program unit will have two sessions in 2015. The first will be an invited panel on Nehemiah 5, with examination of this pivotal text from a variety of angles. Papers will involve literary analysis, assessment of relevant archaeological evidence from the Persian period, and how the political-economic relations in Nehemiah 5 fit the imperial economy under the Persians and the local officials who served them. A second, open session will focus on biblical texts (legal collections, prophets, writings, Gospels) addressing the use of land, people’s relationship to the land (land tenure), and claims on the land by kings or the temple-state and their officers. For this open session, proposals should focus on key texts, critically evaluated in their historical political-economic context and/or in relation to analogous ethnographic information. Archaeological evidence may be helpful, particularly in relationship to central biblical passages on this topic. Those anticipating the submission of proposals should feel free to communicate with Sam Adams (sadams@upsem.edu) or Richard Horsley (richard.horsley@umb.edu) with any questions.

Program Unit Chairs

Richard A. Horsley
Samuel L. Adams

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