Biblical Hebrew Poetry

Call For Papers: Our section will be holding four sessions: (1) Blessings and Curses, (2) Reading Poetic Texts Disruptively (cosponsored by Biblical Hebrew Poetry & Feminist Hermeneutics of the Bible), and (3-4) two general sessions. Session (1): Blessing and cursing are performative speech acts and vehicles of communication. Blessing and cursing speak life and death into the ears of the objects thereof. Blessing and cursing saturate a large swath of poetry in the Bible. The session on blessing and cursing in ancient Hebrew poetry and beyond will consist of two invited papers, two submitted papers, followed by a prepared response and a Q&A. Accepted papers must be submitted in final draft by August 31, 2020. Session (2): Reading Poetic Texts Disruptively: Moving beyond simple appreciation of the artfulness of Hebrew and NT poetic texts, how might we read biblical poetry disruptively in the context of the twenty-first century globalized world? Which features of poetic signifying may be fruitfully deconstructed, resisted, or refigured in transgressive ways in arenas having to do with agency, borderlands, diaspora, embodiment, gender, indigeneity, interiority, marginality, memory, sexuality, suffering, or social hierarchy? This invited panel will explore the possibilities afforded by radically disruptive readings of biblical poetry. Sessions (3-4): General papers regarding any aspect of biblical poetry. All papers are welcome, but we are particularly interested in the topic of how space is represented in poetry whether figurative or literal.

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