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2022 Annual Meeting

Denver, Colorado

Meeting Begins11/19/2022
Meeting Ends11/22/2022

Call for Papers Opens: 1/19/2022
Call for Papers Closes: 3/18/2022

Requirements for Participation

African Biblical Hermeneutics


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: 1)Developments in Methodologies and Theories of African Biblical Interpretation-This session invites papers utilizing various methods, theories, contexts, and concerns to generate African interpretations of specific biblical texts. Proposals that apply new reading methods (including trans-disciplinary ones) to particular books or themes of the Hebrew Bible or the New Testament. 2) Reading the Bible in the Context of Covid 19-The session invites papers that examine reading paradigms and methodologies generated in response to Covid 19 and related pandemics. Papers utilizing theories and methods from the fields of health, economics, ethnicity and race, religion and faith, ecology, spirituality, and work in relation to the African context are especially welcome. 3) Genesis: African Interpretations-This session calls for papers that utilize any of the following approaches to interpreting the book of Genesis: inter-testamental, inter-textual, inter-contextual, inter-religious, and inter-disciplinary African interpretations of the book of Genesis. Abstracts should engage specific texts from the book of Genesis, with attention to the ancient biblical culture, modern African culture, and the themes of empire, environment, exile/migration, and ancestors. 4) ABH/AASR: African Oral Traditions and the Bible African oral pedagogies and epistemologies are critical to understanding the Bible and its impact on identity formation and communal belonging. Jesus’ and early Christian epistemologies and pedagogies reflected the practices of Jewish and Hellenistic oral cultures. Considering that storytelling and ritual actions constitute powerful forms of symbolic speech that convey and connect Christian history and present practice, this joint session between ABH and AASR invites proposals of formal papers to participate in a panel that explores the interaction between African oral traditions and biblical interpretation.

Program Unit Chairs

Alice Yafeh-Deigh
Funlola O. Olojede

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