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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

Performance Criticism of the Bible and Other Ancient Texts


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: Theme: Comparative Methodologies: Rhetorical Criticism and Performance Criticism

Biblical Performance Criticism is inherently interdisciplinary, synthesizing the insights of many critical methods to construct scenarios of ancient performances and reframing analysis of Biblical traditions in the context of oral/scribal cultures of Judaism and early Christianity. Rhetorical Criticism is a critical partner in understanding the composition, preparation, and delivery of these traditions. The first session, a joint meeting with the Rhetoric and Early Christianity section, is for invited papers that will compare methodologies and consider how changes in both Biblical Performance Criticism and Rhetorical Criticism over the last 10 years produce new opportunities for insight and development. Live performance of texts in the session will be invited and analyzed rhetorically and the insights compared with independent analysis of those texts.

A second session will be an open session inviting papers that bring rhetorical criticism and performance criticism into dialog in the theme, "Rhetoric and Performance of Biblical Literature.”

Program Unit Chairs

Jeanette Mathews
Peter S. Perry

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