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Meeting Program Units

2024 Annual Meeting

San Diego, California

Meeting Begins11/23/2024
Meeting Ends11/26/2024

Call for Papers Opens: 1/24/2024
Call for Papers Closes: 3/20/2024

Requirements for Participation

Social Sciences and the Interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Social Sciences and the Interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures will hold three sessions this year. (1) The first—jointly held with the Social Scientific Criticism of the New Testament unit—seeks papers addressing the current state of the field with the goal of evaluating what might be distinctive about biblical studies-oriented approaches to the social sciences and vice versa. We are especially interested in research in either/both testament(s) and/or related literature that critically engages with recent methods, models, and theories from the social-scientific disciplines as classically defined—anthropology, political science, psychology, sociology—and/or emerging subfields. (2) A second session is an invited panel with new research that engages Tim Hogue's new book The Ten Commandments: Monuments of Memory, Belief, and Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 2023). (3) Our third session is open. We invite all proposals that incorporate methods and theories from the social sciences and apply them to issues related to the Hebrew scriptures.

Program Unit Chairs

Eric X. Jarrard
Rosanne Liebermann

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