Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible

Call For Papers: FIRST SESSION: An open session focused around non-binary (“enbee” or “NB”) gender identities. We invite papers that explore non-binary identities of/in ancient texts, of interpreters, in reception history, as part of the identity of the scholar, and more. We encourage presenters to take an intersectional approach to gender and sexuality. In a commitment to interrogate the overwhelming whiteness of scholars, we particularly welcome contributions with Queer of Color emphases. SECOND SESSION: An invited panel to review Jennifer Bird’s book Marriage in the Bible (Rowman & Littlefield). THIRD SESSION: A joint session with Senses and Cultures exploring gender, sexuality, and the senses. While gender, sexuality, and the senses have been explored separately, we are excited about the potential overlap between the two, as seen in the research of Constance Classen, Anne Létourneau, and Uroš Matic. Papers can address any aspect of gender and/or sexuality and the senses in the Bible. We are particularly interested in the intersections of the fields with masculinity studies, the deconstruction of whiteness, or the less studied senses, such as taste, smell, touch, kinaesthesia (the sense of movement), and proprioception (the sense of the body in space). Proposals are encouraged to contain an explicit reflection on methodology, the scope of the data that will be examined, and the theories and methods that will be applied in the presentation.

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