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Meeting Program Units

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

Stylistics and the Hebrew Bible


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: For the Pretoria meeting in 2023 we will organize two sessions: one thematic and one open session. The first session welcomes papers discussing ambivalence and complexity in Biblical Narrative. There are those who view the Bible as characterized by polarized thinking and holding a dichotomous worldview indicative of the simplicity of outlook of early Israel. This position is grounded on the claim that the Bible makes wide use of polar contrasts such as the contrast between total righteousness and absolute wickedness. Our unit wishes to uncover the more complex and ambivalent perspectives in the Bible, to appreciate the literary and narrative tools used to present this complexity and ambivalence, and understand the reasons – ideological, historical, redactional - for their existence. We are interested in studies pointing to complexity and the gray zone in character evaluation and ideological perspective. The second session will be open to all who are interested in stylistics and the Hebrew Bible, including semantic, structural, grammatical, phonetic or other features. The goal is to explore the relation between form and meaning of the text drawing on a variety of approaches (rhetorical, narratological, cognitive, literary, ideological...).

Program Unit Chairs

Talia Sutskover
Zvi Shimon

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