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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

Social Scientific Criticism of the New Testament


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The SSCNT of the New Testament unit is pleased to offer three sessions this year. One session, which will be co-sponsored with Redescribing Christian Origins and Interrelations of the Gospels, will be a review session for Robyn Walsh’s new book The Origins of Early Christian Literature. Participants will be invited. The other two sessions will both be open sessions, for which we enthusiastically seek papers on any aspect of the social-scientific study of the New Testament and/or early Christianity. Submissions could concern topics such as the social structure of the Roman empire, gender identities, urban or rural experiences, honor/shame constructions, social identity theory, economic/wealth/poverty studies, ethnicity, kinship, ritual studies, memory theory, communal identity, social movements, and sociological studies of early Christianity (to name a few). We especially encourage submissions from current and former participants in the Context Group. We emphasize that despite the name of the unit, we will happily accepted proposals on any social-scientific aspect of early Christianity.

Program Unit Chairs

Ernest van Eck
Tony Keddie

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