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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

Social Sciences and the Interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Social Sciences and the Interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures will hold four sessions this year. (1) The first will address the question: Does Wisdom Have a Sense of Humor? This session will seek to initiate a discussion on the presence and purpose of humor in Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, and related texts. Is humor a part of the sage’s rhetorical and pedagogical strategy, can we discern it, and what purposes does it serve? This is an invited panel and will be jointly sponsored by the “Wisdom in Israelite and Cognate Literature” unit; however, proposals addressing the core question of the seminar in creative ways will be carefully considered. Both positive and negative responses are welcome. (2) The second session is another invited panel, co-sponsored with the Poverty in the Biblical World unit, on the topic, "Social Class as an Analytic and Hermeneutical Category Thirty Years Later: Critical Reflections on the Work of Norman K. Gottwald." Thirty years after his 1992 SBL Presidential address, the invited panelists will reflect, revisit, explore, and expand the relevance of the class concepts in the current biblical scholarship, especially in relation to this pandemic situation. (3) The third session is open and jointly sponsored with the Bible & Film unit on the topic of Trauma, Film, and Society. As the world struggles to manage the trauma of COVID, we invite proposals that investigate societal trauma in the Bible and film. We welcome all papers that can illuminate our understanding of trauma in the Bible and film using social scientific approaches. (4) Our fourth session is open. We invite all proposals that incorporate methods and theories from the social sciences and apply them to issues related to the Hebrew scriptures.

Program Unit Chairs

Eric X. Jarrard
Rosanne Liebermann

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