Connecting John: Intertextualities, Contexts, Reception
Program Unit Type: Consultation
Accepting Papers? Yes
Call For Papers: The “Connecting John” unit will convene three sessions at the 2024 SBL Annual Meeting, all of which have open calls: (1) The first session, co-sponsored by the “Pauline Theology” unit, will be a mixed invited/open call panel exploring connections between the Johannine Literature and Paul (inclusive of Pauline theology, the Pauline and Deutero-Pauline literature, the figure of Paul, and the social history of the “Pauline” communities). Although the Gospel of John is often identified with the same geography of Paul’s own journeys, little attention is given to the possible connections between the Johannine, Pauline, and Deutero-Pauline literatures. The “Connecting John” unit welcomes papers that will bring their literature into conversation and/or explore different ways of configuring the “Johannine" and “Pauline” worlds. (2) The second session, co-sponsored by the “Interrelations of the Gospels” group, will commemorate the centenary of B. H. Streeter’s The Four Gospels—a classic text exploring the relationship of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The session invites proposals, submitted to the Interrelations group, on any aspect of Streeter’s magnum opus. (3) The final session will be a fully Open Call, welcoming presentations that set the Gospel of John in dialogue with another object of study, ancient or modern (e.g., Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Jewish literature, Greco-Roman contexts, ancient gospels, epistles, apocalypses, apocryphal acts, patristic writings, and art).
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