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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

Cultic Personnel in the Biblical World


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Cultic Personnel in the Biblical World Unit will run four sessions this this year. Of these, two are open, and two are invited. The two open sessions are 1. An entirely open call on anything linked with cultic personnel in the Bible and other literature and archaeology from the ancient Near / Middle East in antiquity. 2. An open call on Cultic Landscapes. For this session we welcome papers that study in particular how cultic landscapes are established, maintained and adapted, whether gradually or through a sudden intervention. Cultic landscapes include settings such as temples, sanctuaries, and processional routes that have traditionally been interpreted as cultic as well as settings that have a less obvious or a more ad hoc sacred quality. This session (as well as its invited sister session) will focus on material from the ancient Near / Middle East in antiquity, but is open also to papers that study later uses of such ancient cultic landscapes. The focus on cultic landscapes will be the unit's main focus for the years 2022 and 2023. 3. There will be an invited session on Cultic Landcapes to complement the open session on the same theme. 4. There will be an invited session on the theme magic and its practitioners co-sponsored with Assyriology and the Bible.

Program Unit Chairs

Shana Zaia
Jonathan Stökl

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