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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

Book History and Biblical Literatures


Program Unit Type: Consultation
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Book History and Biblical Literatures Consultation will hold two sessions in 2015 on the theme of Paratext. Paratexts include features that are materially connected to a text to frame or surround it, such as titles, prefaces, epilogues, colophons, scholia, marginalia, rubrics, tables of contents, decorative elements, or, in the case of codices, covers and front matter. Such paratextual features, according to literary theorist Gerard Genette, serve as a threshold or a frame for the text itself; they mark off a text’s boundaries, mediate between the text and its readers, and govern the way the text is received. The Consultation welcomes papers that discuss the nature and function of paratextual material in sources from all sub-fields of the SBL. How do paratexts inform the way texts are interpreted and received? Where is the boundary between text and paratext? To what extent are our paratextual categories (such as titles or epilogues) adequate for describing ancient textual phenomena in their own scribal contexts? How does studying paratextual material contribute to our understanding of the composition, transmission, use, and interpretation of our sources? We especially encourage contributions that approach paratext comparatively and theoretically, and are open to papers not only about ancient textual practices, but also about the modern framing of our sources.

Program Unit Chairs

Eva Mroczek
Jeremy Schott

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