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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

African-American Biblical Hermeneutics


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: CALL FOR PAPERS 2022 The African American Biblical Hermeneutics section welcomes proposals for papers on various aspects of engagement with the Bible from the perspective of African American culture, history, literature, or politics. Four (4) sessions are planned for the unit. The first session will be a joint session with the Bible and Practical Theology section. We welcome papers that address issues of borders and difference in the biblical world in conversation with the range of global, political issues that have arisen around racialized violence, immigration, and xenophobia. The second session is an invited panel dedicated to the work of Cain Hope Felder (1943-2019), renowned New Testament scholar, editor of Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation, and long-time member of the faculty at Princeton Theological Seminary and Howard University School of Divinity. The third session, “Minoritized Bodies in Biblical Studies Spaces” is an invited panel designed to explore the struggles, shifts, and strategies for scholars of color. This panel is co-sponsored with Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee of SBL (CUREMP). The fourth session is an open call for paper proposals taking up interdisciplinary discussions advancing the study of African American biblical hermeneutics.

Program Unit Chairs

A. Francis Carter, Jr.
Kimberly D. Russaw

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