Ethics and Biblical Interpretation
Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes
Call For Papers: The Ethics and Biblical Interpretation section is planning two sessions at the 2022 Annual Meeting:
1. Pandemic, Ethics, and the Bible:
The Ethics and Biblical Interpretation section invites papers focused on the intersection of biblical text(s), ethical interpretation(s), and the experience(s) of pandemic. Biblical scholars, theologians, and ethicists are invited to consider how the COVID-19 pandemic has altered or illuminated our hermeneutical concerns; ethical inquiries and perspectives; and engagements with biblical texts and theological topics. Papers should interpret biblical text(s) or theological topic(s) in close connection with the themes of personal health, sickness, healing, health equity, public health, vaccine mandates, personal freedom, corporate responsibility, resilience, hope or some combination of these or other relevant matters.
2. The Intersection of Climate Change, Violence, Migration:
It has become increasingly evident in recent years that the phenomena of climate change, violence, and migration are deeply intertwined. Environmental crises force people to migrate, the scarcity of resources puts communities at the brink of violence, and civil wars turn many stable communities into refugees and asylum seekers. The way these phenomena are interconnected is not linear, since migration may stir conflict and it may have an impact on the natural order of where people desperately look for a better life. And the cycle keeps on unfolding. The intersection between environmental crises, violence, and migration is not new. Biblical traditions reflect strong connections between experiences of exile, forced migration, diaspora, imperial violence, famines, and food scarcity. The Ethics and Biblical Interpretation Section calls for papers that focus on the intersection of the phenomena of environmental crises, violence, and migration as reflected in texts from the Bible, the ancient Near East, Second Temple, or the Greco-Roman world.
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