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Meeting Program Units

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

Bible and Popular Culture


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers:

The Bible and Popular Culture Unit will host two sessions in 2022. Our first session is an open session, and we invite and welcome proposals for papers focusing on any aspect of the reciprocal relationship between the Bible and popular culture.

Our second session is a joint session with Intertexuality in the Hebrew Bible exploring unexpected intersections between biblical texts and pop culture productions. Intertextuality puts two or more unlike things in conversation in order to illuminate each other and create new and unexpected "truths" via their dialogue. Understood in this way, we invite presenters to put the Hebrew Bible and pop culture into unsuspected dialogues that stimulate novel perspectives and ideas. For example, how might reading science fiction change the way we understand prophecy? What new modes of feminist literature could be inspired from the intersections of Beyonce and Judith? How might Tik Tokers and the biblical writers teach each other and future communicators about (un)effective storytelling? What does K-Pop have to do with the Deuteronomistic History? How might reading modern poets and Psalms together create new understandings of poetry? Presenters are encouraged to pursue creative lines of investigation that bring the Hebrew Bible and modern examples of popular culture into new and fresh dialogue.

Program Unit Chairs

Dan W. Clanton Jr.
Elizabeth Rae Coody

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