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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

Contextual Biblical Interpretation


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: We welcome papers that examine biblical texts or methodology while explicitly engaging a reader’s contemporary context. There are three open sessions and one invited session. (1) We welcome papers for an open session on contextual biblical interpretation. Papers should examine biblical texts from a reader’s contemporary context(s) or with communities they engage. This call is open to papers on any topic related to contextual readings or methodologies. (2) We seek papers on the “Bible and Nationalism” co-sponsored with the Minoritized Criticism Biblical Interpretation Unit. This session seeks to analyze the specific role the Bible has played in relation to nationalism. Questions of interest include, but are by no means limited to: What are some ways in which the Bible has been interpreted to explain particular forms of nationalism? What biblical language, tropes, motifs, images, narratives, and rhetorics have been used to construct, critique, or sacralize nationalist claims? How has the Bible informed ways of thinking and talking about the origins of the nation, its mission, its destiny, its role in the world? How has biblical interpretation reinforced nationalist notions of the minoritized Other? We especially welcome proposals of interdisciplinary and intersectional nature. (3) We seek papers for co-sponsored with Gender, Sexuality and the Bible and Biblical Ethics units, that respond to and build on the volume Terror in the Bible.This volume picks up on Phyllis Trible's Texts of Terror and extends it to thinking about the impact of biblical texts on gender, caste, violence, and colonization/imperialism. The use of the Bible in colonization and mission, past and present, invites thinking of "terror" from a communal and collective location. Papers are invited that take up or supplement the methods and approaches and apply them to new texts, other bodies, different scriptures, biblical afterlives. BIPOC and global south perspectives are especially invited.

Program Unit Chairs

Karri Whipple Alldredge

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