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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

Qumran


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Qumran Section has three goals: (1) It provides a forum for scholarly discussion of any aspect of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the material culture of Qumran, and the history, literature, and worldviews of the people associated with them. (2) It encourages new discussions and new approaches in the field of Dead Sea Scrolls studies. (3) It strives for integrating the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls with other fields of biblical and related studies. In 2022, the unit organizes four sessions. (1) The first is an invited and joint session with Hebrew Scriptures and Cognate Literature unit. The session will discuss the concept of “authorship”—human and divine—and its ramifications in cuneiform literature and Qumran. (2) The second is a thematic session on new perspectives on the dating of the Qumran Scrolls. Recent advances shed light on paleographic and Carbon-14 dating, while at the same time changes are required in the concept of dating scrolls/texts/compositions and on their assignments to the respective caves. The historical context in the Hasmonean/Herodian period will also be discussed. The session is partly invited but also welcomes proposals. (3-4) In addition, we invite paper proposals to two open-call sessions that will address any aspect of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran. We commit ourselves to balance senior and junior voices. In order to maximize opportunities for presenters, scholars should not present more than two years in succession. This restriction does not apply to invited papers.

Program Unit Chairs

Jonathan Ben-Dov
Jutta Jokiranta

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