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2023 International Meeting

Pretoria, South Africa

Meeting Begins7/3/2023
Meeting Ends7/7/2023

Call for Papers Opens: 11/2/2022
Call for Papers Closes: 1/31/2023

Requirements for Participation

Families and Children in the Ancient World


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: For 2023, the Families and Children in the Bible unit will host two sessions. In a first session, the focus will be on the importance of space in the study of families and children in the Bible. While the spatial environments within which they lived are seldom denied, the spatial turn requires more attention to perceived, conceived and lived space (Lefebvre) which is often under-acknowledged in research on families and children in the Bible. Papers that investigate how families and children are involved or implicated in (the construction of) space and that approach the topic from a variety of approaches and perspectives, such as socio-historical, literary, theological and especially in connection to space or place theory are encouraged. In an open session, we invite papers that address families and children in the ANE, the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Testament and early Christian, Rabbinic and Greco-Roman material from a variety of perspectives and using a variety of methods. Proposals that seek to investigate in such literature the roles of families and children, and the portrayal of such roles, in relation to various ancient socio-historical contexts are particularly welcome.

Program Unit Chairs

Jeremy Punt
Louise Tsui-yuk Liu

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