Egyptology and Ancient Israel

Call For Papers: The Egyptology and Ancient Israel section will hold TWO session in the coming SBL 2024. The first session: Environmental studies on the Egypt-Levant Interface. Description: Many of the biblical accounts pertaining to the interrelations between Egypt and the Levant include environmental elements that are either pertinent to the narrative or provide it with background. The aim of this session is to promote the dialogue between biblical scholars and researchers from the exact and natural sciences that deal with the ancient environment, ecology, fauna and flora from Egypt and the Levant. Papers should deal with environmental aspects of the interaction between Egypt and the Levant or their manifestations in the biblical texts. The second session: Elephantine in Context. Description: The Literature and History of the Persian Period section together with the Egyptology and Ancient Israel section will host a special session to promote the dialogue between the study of the Elephantine archive and the history and archaeology of Ancient Egypt in the Persian Period. We invite papers that will contextualize the Elephantine Aramaic ostraca and papyri within the realm of current archaeological field work in Egypt and the study of Late Period contemporanous Egyptian texts. The session will include both invited speakers and refereed papers.

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