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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

Performance Criticism of the Bible and Other Ancient Texts


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Performance Criticism of the Bible and Other Ancient Texts (PC-BOAT) section will offer three sessions on the topic of Bible Translation and Performance:

  • Translation Theory and Performance: James Maxey will help us to explore contemporary translation theories and performance criticism to facilitate synergy between these two approaches and to contribute to the advancement of both. Concrete examples in theory and practice of Bible translation will be discussed, which have an impact on Bible translation for various communities, academia, and church use. Gerald West will explore the relationship between translation and performance based on his research on community-based praxis. Two invited respondents will interact and the whole audience will be invited to participate.
  • Sign Language and Performance Criticism: There is much for biblical scholars to learn from the deaf community about performance as a critical lens to analyze biblical texts. For many scholars, performative issues such as tone, spatialization, and emotion are considered optional. However, in sign language, these elements are not optional. We are honored to have Mr. Noah Bucholz, a PhD candidate at Princeton Theological Seminary and a lecturer at Princeton University, as our primary speaker. Noah Bucholz is a profound Deaf scholar, well-known as a Bible translator and a trainer of deaf translators. His presentation will delve into the interplay of performance criteria in Sign Language linguistics and how Deaf epistemology can provide a different perspective on Bible texts, benefiting both the Deaf and hearing communities in exegesis, hermeneutics and translation praxis. Three panelists who are involved in Sign Language Bible translation projects in various capacities will respond with their own examples. This will be followed by a time of interaction between the presenter, panelists, and the audience.
  • Open Session:

    Program Unit Chairs

    Jeanette Mathews
    Peter S. Perry

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