Jewish Christianity / Christian Judaism

Call For Papers: For the 2023 SBL Annual Meeting, the "Jewish-Christianity/Christian Judaism” section welcomes proposals on any topic related to our general theme, including but not limited to proposals relating to our two foci. We plan to hold two sessions this year. 1) This first session, cosponsored with the Christian Apocrypha unit, will focus on questions of Judaism in and through “Apocryphal” literature. This session continues the vibrant conversation from the previous year on topics relating broadly to "Pseudepigrapha," "Christian Apocrypha," and/or Jewish texts transmitted by Christians. Questions of representation of Jews and Judaism in Christian apocryphal texts, as well as representations of Christians in Jewish texts, are also welcomed. 2) Our second session, Manichaeans: Real and Imagined, which is cosponsored with the Syriac Studies unit, raises broader questions regarding the "location" of Manichaeism within and beyond the boundaries of Syriac Studies, and in conversation with adjacent fields, including heresiology, late antique Judaism, liturgy, scholasticism, book culture, and the Roman-Sasanian borderlands. Given the emergence of Manichaeism as a form of "Aramaic Christianity," where should Manichaeism "fit" in relation to the study of Syriac Christianity or Christianity more broadly? What desires and anxieties animate the emergence and durability of "Manichaeism" as a distinct category of thought, in the past and in the present? In what ways might the Manichaean literature, writ large, prove useful for the study of the late antique world and its many communities?

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