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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

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Meals in the HB/OT and Its World


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The SBL ‘Meals in the HB/OT and Its World’ unit will host two sessions at the 2024 SBL Annual Conference in San Diego. The first is a joint-session with the ‘Book of the Twelve’ unit. This open session welcomes paper proposals on the topic of ‘Agrarian and Food-Focused Readings of the Book of the Twelve.’ If the majority of the population of ancient Israel—even among the elites—had a close connection to the land, how might this familiarity with agriculture/husbandry have influenced the literature that they produced? Fruitful avenues for investigation include (but are in no way limited to) trauma/violence depicted with the language and metaphors of food/agriculture (e.g., warfare in the Book of Joel), agricultural abundance (or lack thereof) as a recurring theme within a book/s, as well as explorations of the Book of the Twelve’s use of food language, meal scenes, and agricultural imagery for exploring the experience of judgment and restoration (e.g., the ‘cup of wrath’ in Obadiah, hills flowing with ‘new wine’ in Amos 9). The second is a non-themed open session. We invite papers that deal broadly with food, foodways, feasting, famine, agriculture and more within the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and its World. As we look to foster new voices in the field, we especially encourage submissions from early career scholars and graduate students. Our unit members can offer supportive feedback and we welcome new colleagues working on a variety of topics which intersect with food.

Program Unit Chairs

Margaret E. Cohen
Michelle A. Stinson

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