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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

Poverty in the Biblical World


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Poverty in the Biblical World program unit will host three sessions. SESSION 1 (INVITED): “Wealth in the Bible and Beyond”: Wealth is often perceived as an antithesis of poverty, with little appreciation for the causative interplay between the two. In this invited session, presentations will examine attitudes toward wealth in the Bible so as to better understand ancient attitudes toward fortune and scarcity, and what they might mean for readers, today. SESSION 2 (INVITED): We will co-sponsor an invited panel with the Social Sciences and Hebrew Scriptures program 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 Gottwald's 1992 SBL Presidential address, invited panelists will reflect, revisit, explore, and expand the relevance of class concept in current biblical scholarship, especially in relation to this pandemic situation. SESSION 3 (OPEN): The third session is an open session, and we invite papers on any topics that relate to themes of poverty in the biblical world.

Program Unit Chairs

Crystal L. Hall
Kelly Murphy

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