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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

Nature Imagery and Conceptions of Nature in the Bible


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: We are planning to have three sessions in San Diego 2024, all open for suggested proposals. (1) We invite papers for the Open session on any topic relevant to this group’s focus on nature imagery in the Bible. (2) We call for proposals on the theme Precipitation (rains of different kinds) and Water sources which are used within various biblical texts including narrative, poetry, wisdom, and beyond. This will bring to completion our three year focus on climate experiences. We encourage presenters to engage in multi-disciplinary collaborations to decipher the biblical imagery, its contents and functions. Finally, (3) The Ancient Near Eastern Iconography and the Bible, the Biblical Lexicography, and the Nature Imagery and Conceptions of Nature in the Bible Program Units are pleased to announce another year of collaboration. We are planning a joint session on the theme of “Identification of Flora and Fauna in the Bible.” We seek proposals for papers that engage methodological considerations on textual, iconographical, archeological and/or biological materials in establishing the varieties of plants, animals, and other aspects of nature that appear in the Bible.

Program Unit Chairs

Dalit Rom-Shiloni
Mark J. Boda

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