Bible, Myth, and Myth Theory

Call For Papers: We will be hosting two sessions this year. The first will be an open session We welcome proposals on the use of myth and myth theory in biblical studies. We especially encourage papers that explore various definitions of myth and what it means to utilize this category within biblical studies. We welcome participants from diverse specializations, including Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Ancient Near Eastern Literature, and Greco-Roman Religions. We aim to include studies covering a range of methodologies, critical theories, and types of data: textual and literary criticisms, philology, cognitive sciences, archeology, art history, and social and anthropological theories. We welcome scholars from a range of career positions (senior, mid-career, junior, as well as graduate students) and from a variety of personal and institutional backgrounds. The second session is titled Studying Biblical Myth through Comparison. This session will feature invited papers exploring potential intersections between the study of myth in biblical literature and in other corpora. These papers, which will investigate a range of topics, are meant to illustrate the immense potential of efforts to bring the study of biblical myth into conversation with the study of myth elsewhere, and to draw attention to new approaches and new techniques that might be useful for the study of biblical myth.

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