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Call For Papers
2011
Call for Papers: SBL 2012 International Meeting
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
22-26 July 2012
Meeting Begins: 7/22/2012
Meeting Ends: 7/26/2012
Call For Papers Opens: 10/15/2011
Call For Papers Closes: 2/1/2012
For more information please click here
SBL international/EABS/OTS meeting, Amsterdam (22-26 of July)
"Digital Humanities and Manuscripts"
A research group has been open on digital research in the field of
early Jewish and Christian studies:
«Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies, Early Jewish, and Christian Studies».
At the next SBL international/EABS/OTS meeting, Amsterdam (22-26 of
July), two sessions are proposed, about «Digital Humanities and
Manuscripts» and «Digital Humanities and Academic Publishing», chaired
by David Hamidovic, Andrew Gregory and Claire Clivaz.
The call for papers is open until the 1st February.
You will find all the details here
Here is the call for papers for the manuscripts session, «Digital
Humanities and Manuscripts»:
The process of editing of ancient biblical manuscripts, as well as of
editing other ancient Jewish and Christian manuscripts, has been
transformed by the emerging digital culture. The digitalization of the
manuscripts raises technical questions, such as automatic reading or
multispectral imagery, and leads us to new challenges. How do we
understand the "text" in the digital culture? In addition, the
capacity to study and valorize online a specific manuscript challenges
the notion of “critical edition”.?The seminar welcomes proposals of
papers about ancient Hebrew, Greek or Arabic manuscripts - either
literary or documentary texts - in the fields of biblical studies,
early Jewish and Christian studies. We hope to receive papers either
on technical points, or new interpretations with digitalization or
data managing, or questions about the notion of “critical edition”.
The Paul J. Achtemeier Award for New Testament Scholarship
and
David Noel Freedman Award for Excellence and Creativity in Hebrew Bible Scholarship
Deadlines
10 January 2012: Nominations or intent to submit
1 March 2012: Submission of materials requirded for consideration
30 April 2012: Announcement of Award
Please consult the website for submission requirements.
Biblical Reception 1 (2012)
This will be the first volume of a new journal, Biblical Reception
(BibRec), to be published in October 2012.
For more info please click here
CALLS FOR PAPERS: On Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins
The fourth meeting of the Enoch Graduate Seminar will be held June
18-20, 2012 on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, chaired by
Prof. James C. VanderKam. The sessions will begin at noon on Monday,
June 18 and will conclude at noon on Wednesday, June 20.
Graduate or Post-Doc students working in the general area of Second
Temple Judaism and Christian Origins who wish to present a paper at
the seminar should submit an abstract (no more than one page) clearly
stating the shape of the argument and the conclusion. The abstract
should be sent to the secretary of the Conference, Isaac Oliver
, no later than December 15, 2011.
Around 15 papers will be selected and presented at the Seminar. Papers
in their final form must be completed by May 15, 2012. They will
circulate in advance among the participants and will be only briefly
introduced (5 minutes) by the author at the conference, where one hour
will be devoted to the discussion of each paper, with all participants
acting as respondents. The best papers will be selected for
publication in the journal Henoch.
Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniensis 2012
It is now possible to register, and to propose papers, for the 2012
Leuven Colloquium Biblicum on "Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures" (July 26-28, 2012).
For a prospectus on the topic of the Colloquium, the program, and
registration, see http://theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/centres/centr_collbibl/.
Call for papers
EABS Graduate Symposium 2012
Hamburg, Germany. 30th March - 1st April, 2012
Deadline for abstracts 15th February 2012.
The European Association of Biblical Studies is happy to announce the
4th graduate symposium, which will take place in Hamburg from 30th
March – 1st April, 2012. The event will bring together PhD candidates
and post doctoral researchers from a variety of subfields relating to
biblical studies. As always, senior scholars will attend the event. In
2012, EABS president Jorunn Okland (University of Oslo) and Dr Diana
Edelman (University of Sheffield) are going to attend. There will be a
joint session with graduate students from the University of Alberta,
organised with Professor Ehud Ben Zvi.
The format of the event is a small, residential gathering, which will
allow for extended discussion, networking, and in-depth feedback.
Graduates are invited to present a paper, run a workshop session, lead
a round-table discussion or use any other format they see fit to
present their topic. Due to the scale of the event space is limited.
Candidates should submit their abstracts of no more than 300 words to
f.uhlenbruch@derby.ac.uk no later than February 15th, 2012. Please
mention the preferred format in the abstract (i.e. paper, workshop,
pre-circulated paper, discussion etc.) and whether you are going to
need a 30 minute or a 45 minute time slot.
For further information visit http://www.eabs.net/szone.aspx or the
EABS Graduate Student Network page at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/128211731797/
The Paul J. Achtemeier Award for New Testament Scholarship and
David Noel Freedman Award for Excellence and Creativity in Hebrew Bible Scholarship
Call for Papers 2012 Now Open
Deadlines: 10 January 2012
Nominations or intent to submit: 1 March 2012
Submission of materials: 30 April 2012
Please consult the website for submission requirements.
http://www.sbl-site.org/membership/SBLAwards.aspx
ELEVENTH ANNUAL SEAN W. DEVER MEMORIAL PRIZE 2012
The William F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in
Jerusalem announces the
2012 Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize call for papers. This prize provides
$650 for the
best published article or paper presented at a conference by a Ph.D.
candidate in Syro-
Palestinian or biblical archaeology. Authors may be of any nationality
but the article or
paper must be in English. Co-written or co-presented pieces may be
submitted if all the
authors or presenters are doctoral candidates; the prize, if awarded,
will be divided
equally among authors/presenters.
All submissions must include the author's academic affiliation,
mailing and email address
and phone number. Please indicate the department in which the author
is enrolled and
the expected date of graduation. Submission of conference papers must
include the
name of the conference and the date on which the paper was presented.
Submission of
published papers must include the full bibliographic citation. Print
submissions must be
received no later than December 31, 2011; electronic submissions will
not be accepted.
The prize will be announced on Sean's birthday, March 9, 2012.
Send six (6) print copies to:
Mr. Sam Cardillo
W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research
P.O. Box 40151
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Email: cardillo@sas.upenn.edu
Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize Committee: Carol Meyers and Beth Alpert
Nakhai, cochairs;
Aaron Brody, Seymour Gitin and Joe D. Seger, members; Norma Dever and J.
Edward Wright, ex-officio.
2011 Prize Recipient: Helen R. Jacobus of the University of
Manchester. Her paper,
"4Q318: A Jewish Zodiac Calendar at Qumran," was presented, under a
slightly different
title, at a conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls at the University of
Birmingham in 2007. It
has since been published in The Dead Sea Scrolls: Texts and Contexts,
ed. C. Hempl
(Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 90; Leiden: Brill, 2010),
pp. 365-95.
THE SEAN W. DEVER MEMORIAL PRIZE WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2001 BY
PROFESSOR WILLIAM G. DEVER AND MRS. NORMA DEVER, IN MEMORY
OF THEIR SON SEAN.
Call for Papers: "The Other Temples"
25-27 May 2012, Dublin, Ireland
Hekhal: The Irish Society for the Study of the Ancient Near East
The role of the temple cult is extremely important for Judaism despite
Deuteronomic centralisation never being fully realised. As such, other
Jewish temples may offer a fruitful area for discussing the
development of Judaism in the Ancient Near East. We are therefore
calling for papers dealing with temple ideology and its material
culture in the context of temples other than the one in Jerusalem,
whether those be real ones such as Elephantine, Leontopolis or
Gerizim, or conceptual ones like the Qumran Yahad or the new Jerusalem
in Revelation. The committee would hope to receive submissions on
topics as diverse as diaspora Judaism, early Christianity, Qumran,
early Samaritan studies, and any other historiographic and/or
archaeological fields of research referencing these paradigms.
We invite abstracts of under 500 words to reach us by email no later
than 27 January 2012 Late submissions will not be considered.
Abstracts for presentation shall be selected by peer review. The
committee intends to publish the proceedings within a peer-reviewed
and edited volume. Contributors should therefore only submit abstracts
for publishable, original work.
The presentation of papers at this symposium will be 40 minutes long
within a one-hour slot, allowing time for ample discussion after each
paper.
Cost: Euro 60 on the day. Euro 50 if paid before 1 May 2012.
Abstracts must be submitted to hekhal.dublinia@gmail.com by January 27th 2012
Hekhal: The Irish Society for the Study of the Ancient Near East
First Annual Conference
Hekhal is an academic association established by four graduates and
postgraduates of Trinity College Dublin. The society’s primary aim is
to facilitate rigorous research in Ireland in the fields of Biblical
Studies, Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Archaeology and
Historiography, towards a more comprehensive
understanding of the Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern worlds and their texts.
8th Congress of the Societe d'Etudes Samaritaines
Erfurt (Germany)
The 8th Congress of the Societe d'Etudes Samaritaines will take place
in Erfurt (Germany),
15th-20th July 2012, jointly organized by the SES
and the Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg, Faculty of
Theology. The Congress of the SES meets every four years and is the
most important meeting of experts working in the field of Samaritan
studies worldwide.
Lectures may deal with any aspect of the Samaritan community, their
contemporary life and living conditions, their history, their religion
and their laws, their literature and languages etc. Scholars who wish
to give a paper at this conference are invited to submit their
proposal (see contact below) before 2nd January 2012. The proposal
should state the paper’s topic, purpose, and main arguments, to be
evaluated for acceptance by the scientific committee of the
conference. A lecture should not exceed 30 min (plus 10 min
discussion). SES-membership is not required at the time of submitting.
Junior scholars are especially encouraged to submit a proposal.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Schorch
Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg
Theologische Fakultat
D - 06099 Halle (Saale)
Germany
email: stefan.schorch@theologie.uni-halle.de
Histories of the End
In 2012, Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception will publish a
special issue dedicated to reception histories of the end times,
however they might be imagined, in religious contexts. We welcome
reception histories not only of Christian imaginaries of the book of
Revelation, but also of the end of days in other traditions and in
more diffuse settings such as the Western esoteric and New Age
milieus.
If you are interested in submitting to Relegere's "Histories of the
End," please send an abstract of a maximum of 300 words to
editors@relegere.org by December 1, 2011. The issue will appear in
December 2012. We would be grateful if you would distribute this Call
for Papers widely.
Deane Galbraith
Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception
http://relegere.org
16th SOMA - Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology
Florence (Italy)
March 1-3, 2012
The symposium will be organized jointly by the University of Florence,
CAMNES (Center for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies) and
GAMA (General Association of Mediterranean Archaeology) under the
patronage of the City of Florence.
The main topic will be "IDENTITY & CONNECTIVITY".
Papers will be grouped in different sessions dedicated to the
different regions of the Mediterranean:
1. Western Mediterranean
2. Central Mediterranean
3. Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean
4. Near East and Egypt
5. Mediterranean Interactions
For further information, registration procedure and submission of
abstracts (deadline: 15 January 2012), see the 1st circular posted at:
http://www.soma2012florence.net/Info/1st_CIRCULAR.html.
It may be downloaded at
http://www.soma2012florence.net/Info/1st_CIRCULAR_files/SOMA%201st%20Circular.pdf
Or feel free to write to: info@soma2012florence.net
Department of Hebrew, Biblical, and Jewish Studies
Dead Sea Scrolls Conference in Memory of Emeritus Professor Alan Crown
November 1-2, 2011
In memory of the late Emeritus Professor Alan Crown, the University of
Sydney is convening a conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls to be held
November 1-2, 2011. The occasion will also mark the purchase of the
facsimile edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Fisher Library, an
acquisition that came about at the initiative of Emeritus Professor
Crown. (See http://www.facsimile-editions.com/en/ds/)
Papers exploring any aspect of the Dead Sea Scrolls are welcome.
Priority consideration will be given to papers that address those
scrolls that are included in the facsimile edition, that is, the first
7 scrolls from Qumran Cave 1, currently at the Shrine of the Book in
Jerusalem, and the texts of Testimonia (4Q175), Pesher Isaiahb
(4Q162), and Qohelet (4Q109)
Length of presentation: 30 minutes
Deadline for proposals: All abstracts and participation forms must
arrive by 15 May via email as a Word document addressed to Associate
Professor Ian Young ian.young@sydney.edu.au. Notification of
acceptance of papers will be sent by email no later than 1 July 2011.
Submissions must include author’s name, postal and email address,
institutional affiliation, abstract of the paper to be presented and
short biographical note. The abstract must be 200-300 words and the
biographical note no more than 50 words.
This conference is being held in conjunction with the Symposium being
held on 1 November 2011:
University of Sydney - Israel Research Partnership Forum:
Shared Challenges, Future Solutions
An exhibition of the facsimile edition and other rare items of Judaica
held by the Fisher Library at the University of Sydney will be
displayed in conjunction with the conference.
ASOR 2011 ANNUAL MEETING
NOVEMBER 16-19, SAN FRANCISCO , CA
"SECONDARY CONTEXT FOR OBJECTS WITH NO KNOWN ORIGIN"
A WORKSHOP ABOUT THE ETHICS OF SCHOLARLY RESEARCH
International conventions and policies have been promulgated in an effort to stem if not curtail the trade in looted antiquities. As the CSIG-sponsored Round Table at ASOR 2010 demonstrated, there are deep-seated feelings regarding the interpretation of these legal measures.
Some scholars feel that what we are able responsibly to do is unfairly circumscribed should our research require study of artifacts without context. Is there a way research can go forward, given present injunctions prohibiting publication or exhibition? We aim to
provide a forum for responsible discussion and dissemination of information regarding ethical issues related to study of artifacts without known origin; contribute to a clearer understanding of researcher responsibility both in the field and in the laboratory; investigate strategies for how we can collectively and as individuals combat illegal trafficking in archaeological objects of study;
develop a "situational" approach to publication and display of unprovenienced artifacts; document our collective wisdom regarding this matter as a basis for further discussion with colleagues. We will revise existing film documents and invite other scholars to contribute to the debate in person or in interview; provide background information and case studies, choosing discussion topics from among a constellation of shared concerns.
ASOR/CSIG members: The Chairs hope that you will submit a position paper on any aspect of the topic considered in the abstract above. If you have an “alternate tack” on the issue, we would be excited to hear from you, for our aim is eventually to create a document for the field that will contribute responsibly to ongoing discussion of researcher responsibility. Should your own research have been affected by the UNESCO rulings on illegal trafficking and ASOR/AIA publication prohibitions now in place, the field would benefit
mightily from a case study of this work.
Presentations at this Workshop are necessarily brief—three to five minutes only, for they are meant to stimulate discussion. Think of them as “opinion pieces” or editorials. If you cannot attend the Conference and your paper is one of those selected, we will
arrange a recorded interview, edited to support your point of view. Frank and open discussion by attendees will follow each presentation.
Scholars in filmed presentations need not be ASOR members nor in attendance at the Conference. If you do attend and present in this session, normal membership requirements obtain. See ASOR website for details (http://www.asor.org/am/2011/call-2.html ) or call Rick
Hauser to discuss your concerns ( [651] 224–1555 or beyond.broadcast@mindspring.com ).
Deadline for submissions is February 15, 2011.
The proceedings of last year’s Round Table, including recorded intervention by Elizabeth Stone, David Owen and Zahi Hawass, are archived here: http://coroplasticstudies.org/archive.html.
Call for Papers: Organic Residue Analysis in Archaeology, at the ASOR
annual meeting, November 16-19, 2011 in San Francisco, California.
Abstract: Organic residue analysis increasingly has been used as a
means to answer archaeological questions about diet and cuisine, but
also more recently, cult and crafts manufacture, that is to say, any
activity that may have left behind traces of organic residue. In this
session, papers will present a variety of methods for analyzing
organic residues in archaeological contexts. Discussion will focus on
critiquing different techniques and addressing present limitations and
potential complications, as well as avenues for future research.
Questions about the session can be addressed to one of the co-chairs,
listed below. Please note the deadline for submission of abstracts is
February 15, 2011.
For information on the annual meeting, including registration and
abstract submission go to:
http://www.asor.org/am/call-for-papers.html. Membership in ASOR is
required to present at the meeting and registration for the meeting
must be done together with abstract submission. Additional information
about the annual meeting is available on the ASOR web site
http://www.asor.org/.
SBL Annual Meeting
San Francisco , California
November 19- 22, 2011
Access the Call for Papers Here: http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/AnnualMeeting.aspx
University of Sydney Mandelbaum Trust with the Department of Hebrew, Biblical, and Jewish Studies
Dead Sea Scrolls Conference in Memory of Emeritus Professor Alan Crown
CALL FOR PAPERS
October 31– November 1, 2011
In memory of the late Emeritus Professor Alan Crown, the University of Sydney is convening a conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls to be held October 31–November 1, 2011. The occasion will also mark the purchase of the facsimile edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Fisher Library, an acquisition that came about at the initiative of Emeritus Professor Crown. (See http://www.facsimile-editions.com/en/ds/) .
The keynote speaker will be Emeritus Professor Emanuel Tov of the Hebrew University .
Papers exploring any aspect of the Dead Sea Scrolls are welcome. Priority consideration will be given to papers that address those scrolls that are included in the facsimile edition, that is, the first 7 scrolls from Qumran Cave 1, currently at the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem , and the texts of Testimonia (4Q175), Pesher Isaiahb (4Q162), and Qohelet (4Q109)
Length of presentation: 30 minutes
Deadline for proposals: All abstracts and participation forms must arrive by 15 May via email as a Word document addressed to Associate Professor Ian Young ian.young@sydney.edu.au. Acceptance of papers will be notified by email no later than 1 July 2011. Submissions must include author’s name, postal and email address, institutional affiliation, abstract of the paper to be presented and short biographical note. The abstract must be 200-300 words and the biographical note no more than 50 words.
This conference is being held in conjunction with the Symposium being held on 31 October 2011: University of Sydney - Israel Research Partnership Forum: Shared Challenges, Future Solutions
An exhibition of the facsimile edition and other rare items of Judaica held by the Fisher Library at the University of Sydney will be displayed in conjunction with the conference.
CALLS FOR PAPERS: "Ancient Jewish Texts and the 'Literary'"
Ancient Jewish Texts and the 'Literary'
14,15 March 2012
Institute of Jewish Studies (University of Antwerp)
The Institute of Jewish Studies (University of Antwerp) in
collaboration with Ghent University is happy to announce an
international seminar on Ancient Jewish Texts and the 'Literary.' The
aim is to bring together scholars working on various ancient Jewish
texts and their distinct textual - often called literary - features.
The goal is to exchange ideas on the 'literary' in these works and
stimulate future research and collaboration.
Invited keynote speakers:
Prof. Dr. Scott Noegel, University of Washington (United States of
America) (confirmed)
Prof. Dr. Ellen Van Wolde, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (Netherlands)
Prof. Dr. Wilfred Watson, Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
Prof. Dr. Robert Gordon, Cambridge University (United Kingdom)
Since the 60s and 70s of the previous century the form and exact
wording of ancient Jewish texts has been the focus of attention of a
literary approach within biblical/Jewish studies. This subfield relies
on the insights of narratology on the one hand and rhetoric on the
other. Resulting from this approach any research involving the
creative use of language, e.g. in the Hebrew Bible, is considered
literary.
In recent years this term has increasingly been questioned as being a
presupposition rather than the result of research. 'Literary'
therefore should be understood as the common though not necessarily
apt umbrella term for all studies focusing on the form of ancient
texts. Contributors are encouraged to interpret the term either in
defense of literariness or against it.
We invite participants from all related fields: Jewish studies,
biblical studies, ancient Near Eastern studies, classical studies,
literary studies, and stylistics. Possible approaches include among
others analyses of the Hebrew Bible, its old translations, early
commentaries and retellings, as long as they can be considered ancient
(i.e., pre-medieval) and Jewish (i.e., written by Jews or in a Jewish
setting).
Proposals up to 300 words can be submitted no later than July 31 2011,
to Karolien Vermeulen karolien.vermeulen@ua.ac.be or
karolien.vermeulen@ugent.be.
The Author in the History of Jewish Textual Culture
Sapir College
Deadline May 1
For more info please click here
Minhagim: Custom and Practice in Jewish Life
International Conference
Tel Aviv University
13-15 May, 2012
For more info please click here
Call for Papers:Magic and Divination in the Biblical World
European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Conference,
Thessaloniki, Greece, August 8-11 2011
Chairs:Helen Jacobus, Philippe Guillaume and Anne Katrine Gudme .
The aim of the group is to investigate the practices of divination and
magic: the practitioners and those who used them, issues of
prohibition, and the relationship between magic and/or divination and
religion. New approaches in this field with regards to the Bible, the
Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha and archaeological
research are welcome.
Participants are welcome to submit their papers the 2011 session at
Thessalonki for publication in a volume with Gorgias Press.
If you have any queries or would like to discuss your possible
contribution before submitting your proposal through the EABS website
, please feel free to contact. Email: jacobus.helen@gmail.com.
The call for paper closes on January 31st 2010.
Link to the EABS website: http://www.eabs.net/conf.aspx.
Call for papers for the annual meeting of the
European Association of Biblical Studies
August 8-11,2011 - Thessaloniki, Greece
Please note that the Call for papers for the annual meeting of the
European Association of Biblical Studies is now open.
The meeting will be held August 8-11,2011 in Thessaloniki, Greece.
You can submit your paper proposal via the EABS website at http://www.eabs.net/rgroups.aspx.
The last date to submit a proposal has been extended until February 15, 2011.
Registration for the conference will begin in April, 2011.
Conference: From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era: Readings and
Literacies
Swiss Institute of Biblical Sciences (IRSB), University of Lausanne
(CH), 23rd-25th August 2011
www.unil.ch/digitalera2011
This international conference is proposed by a interdisciplinary team
of researchers. It seeks to demonstrate the major impact of the
Digital Era on knowledge, by studying the history of cultural
technologies. The present evolution of the ancient manuscript allows
one to detect this turning-point, notably with the digital editions of
Homer and the New Testament. The notions of authorship and critical
edition are questionned : modern history and contemporary analysis
have to be enrooted in ancient memory to reflect upon the digital
turn. A public evening will conclude the conference on the 25th August
with posters, editors' booths, artistic animations and a round table
discussion, bringing together publishers and scholars: "What Will Come
After the Book ?".
Call for papers until the 30th April 2011 in Ancient World, New
Testament and Early Christian Literature, Biblical Studies, Modern
History, French and English Literature.
The Fourth Warsaw Conference
for Young Jewish Studies Researchers
Warsaw, 14th-16th June 2011
The conference is planned for last year undergraduate students, postgraduate
students and PhD students under the age of 30. It aims at showing the full
view of today's interests of young researchers, as well as the condition
of research on widely understood Jewish Studies. Conference will focus on
worldwide history of Jews and the history Israel from ancient time until
today. It will cover Shoah-related topics, sociology, culture, literature,
history of art, linguistics (Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino) as well as religion
and philosophy related questions.
We would like this conference to become a platform for young researchers
across the world, on which they could exchange thoughts, ideas and
interests. The history and culture of Jews is an integral part of European
social life throughout centuries and therefore it deserves researches as
wide as possible.
Over a year ago our colleagues published chosen presentations given on the
first conference our Jewish Studies Section of the Historians' Knowledge
Circle have organized. Currently we are finalizing the publication
summarizing the second and third conference. Accordingly to our financial
possibilities we expect to publish a book summarizing the fourth conference
by the end of year 2011. We expect the publication to be in two languages
accordingly to the language of presentation: English and Polish with a short
summary of each speech given in another language.
To take part in the conference kindly download the conference form and fill
it in. Please submit your forms together with a short draft of the paper to
konferencja.judaistyczna@gmail.com. Please keep in mind we will only
consider papers send in Polish or English language.
We expect the proposed speeches to be not longer than 15 minutes, that's
approximately 7 pages of standard print. The deadline for submitting papers
is 31st March 2011.
We will provide you with all the documents your home university may need to
help you take part in the conference. Should you need any help or
information do not hesitate to ask the organizing committee at
konferencja.judaistyczna@gmail.com
Philosophical Investigation of the Hebrew Scriptures, Talmud and Midrash
The Hebrew Bible occupies an anomalous position on the contemporary
academic landscape. The field of biblical studies produces a steady
stream of works on the compositional history, philology, and literary
character of the biblical texts. But the ideas that find expression in
the Hebrew Scriptures—the metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and
political philosophy of the biblical authors—have seldom been explored
by the field of biblical studies in a systematic fashion. At the same
time, philosophers, political theorists, and historians of ideas, who
see the study of ideas as the principal interest of their work, tend
to assume that the biblical texts fall outside the scope of their
disciplines. The result is that despite general agreement that the
Bible has had an unparalleled significance in the history of the West,
its ideas have remained, until recently, largely beyond the reach of
sustained academic investigation.
Much the same can be said about the other classical Jewish sources as
well: The Talmud and Midrash seem frequently to explore subjects of
intrinsic philosophical interest. Yet these texts remain all but
unknown to philosophers, political theorists, and historians of ideas.
The ongoing neglect of the Hebrew Bible, Talmud, and Midrash by
philosophers is especially striking given the rapidly growing interest
in theological questions in philosophy departments throughout the
English-speaking world. Over the last generation, Christian
philosophers have labored successfully to introduce “philosophical
theology” (or, more recently, “analytic theology”) into philosophy
departments at leading universities. In keeping with longstanding
Christian philosophical tradition, this discipline has focused on a
priori argumentation concerning the concept of God as “perfect being,”
and has usually been conducted with little reference to the Bible. As
a consequence, philosophical theology has until now continued the
larger pattern of academic neglect of the ideas of the Hebrew
Scriptures and other Jewish sources. This has also meant that
philosophical theology has been of only very limited relevance to
Jews, whose tradition of philosophical and theological speculation is
largely text-based.
This is unfortunate because philosophy as a discipline could
contribute much to the elucidation of the Hebrew Scriptures and
classical rabbinic texts. The law-oriented emphasis of much
traditional rabbinic exegesis has meant that these texts have not
usually been investigated using philosophical tools and with an eye
for philosophical questions. So we can ask what do philosophical
questions and the answers that have been given until now teach us
about the Bible and Talmud? What, for example, does the nature of the
mind or language, reality or morals, as understood by philosophers,
have to offer us in enhancing or extending the insights from these
traditional sources?
In Fall 2010, the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, with the generous
support of the John Templeton Foundation, has launched an initiative
aimed at developing a Jewish “philosophical theology” that will seek
to advance the study of the ideas of the Hebrew Scriptures, the Talmud
and Midrash in the academic setting. This initiative is part of a
broader “Analytic Theology” project of the Templeton Foundation, which
will also support Christian centers for philosophical theology at the
University of Notre Dame and the University of Innsbruck, Austria. The
Jewish component of the project envisions the development of a
uniquely Jewish discipline that will use philosophical tools and
methods for examining classical Jewish sources. The project is open to
Jewish and non-Jewish scholars interested in the philosophical
elucidation of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Talmud and Midrash.
In the context of this project, the department of Philosophy,
Political Theory and Religion (PPR) at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem
invites submissions for an interdisciplinary conference on
“Philosophical Investigation of the Hebrew Scriptures, Talmud and
Midrash,” to be held in Jerusalem on June 26-30, 2011.
Invited speakers: Lenn Goodman, Jacob Howland, Joseph Isaac Lifshitz,
Alan Mittleman
This will be the first in a series of three annual conferences. For
the 2011 conference, the organizing committee will give priority to
papers exploring metaphysics and God’s nature. This topic is intended
to address questions of what human beings can know about the
fundamental nature of reality. Subjects for discussion will include
the nature of reality and being, and the relationship of this reality
with truth and with goodness. Particular attention will be paid to the
question of what can be known about God, including questions of
whether God can in fact be considered to be in some sense a being, his
attributes, and his relationship to the world.
However, superior papers will be considered on all subjects relating
to the philosophical investigation of the Hebrew Bible, Talmud, and
Midrash.
Abstracts of no more than 1,000 words should be submitted together
with a current cv by January 15, 2011.
An overview of the “Jewish Philosophical Theology” project at the
Shalem Center is available here.
A Select Bibliography of relevant scholarship is available here.
A limited travel fund will be available to assist scholars and
students wishing to attend the conference. Conference papers will be
considered for publication in a forthcoming anthology of papers.
Please direct correspondence to Kate Deutsch, kated@shalem.org.il.
Conference: Religion in the Persian Period
Religion in the Persian Period: Emerging Judaisms and other Trends
11-13 July 2011
Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield UK
It is thought that early forms of Judaism began to emerge in the
Persian period amongst population groups with ancestral connections to
the territories of Samaria and Yehud. The possible influence of
Zoroastrianism on emerging Judaism has been explored periodically, but
the issue of whether the Achaemenids continued to practice old Persian
religion or emerging Zoroastrianism remains a point of debate. Persian
policy with regard to religious tolerance or intolerance throughout
the empire also could be profitably explored, as well as developments
in religion amongst other subject groups under Persian hegemony.
Papers that explore some aspect of religion within any area of the
Persian empire are welcome. Paper slots will be 45 minutes (30 minutes
for the paper and 15 minutes for questions) or 30 minutes (20 minutes
for presentation and 20 minutes for questions. You can choose which
length you prefer.
SBL International Meeting
King’s College London, Waterloo Campus
July 4-8, 2011
Access the Call for Papers Here: http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Internationalmeeting.aspx
14TH ITALIAN MEETING OF AFRO-ASIATIC LINGUISTICS
TURIN, 15-17.6.2011
We thank those who expressed their interest in taking part in the
Meeting. Please send us your title - if you have
not done so yet - and abstract (DOC and PDF) at soonest.
You can visit the website of the Meeting at:www.afroasiatic.unito.it/call.html.
BEN-ZVI INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN THE EAST
Call for Papers for Ginzei Qedem
Ginzei Qedem is a peer-reviewed annual publication of the Friedberg Genizah Project devoted to Genizah texts and studies.
We seek articles which may include publications of new texts or new analyses of previously published materials, and may be written in Hebrew, English or other major European languages.
Articles and inquiries may be directed to the editor at brody@mscc.huji.ac.il or to the assistant editor at zvi56@ybz.org.il.
The Birth of the Author Individual vs. Collective Composition in Early Judaism and Rabbinic Literature
Early Judaism and Rabbinic Sessions,
The Annual Meeting of the European Association for Biblical Studies,
Thessaloniki, 8 – 11 August, 2011.
For more information please click here
Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics
The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics is conceived as a
reference work that offers a systematic and comprehensive treatment of
the Hebrew language from its earliest attested form to the present
day.
Anyone interested in writing any of the articles posted below should
contact Diana Steele, Project Manager, Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language
and Linguistics at <ehll@brillusa.com> for terms and directions.
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Working Title: aspectual adverbs
Section: Morphological notions
Subject Editor: Ora Schwarzwald
Length: 1000-2000 words
Working Title: cataphora
Section: Syntactic notions
Subject Editor: Tamar Zewi
Length: 1000-2000 words
Working Title: demographics and politics of Hebrew in Europe
Section: General Articles
Subject Editor: Geoffrey Khan
Length: 1000-2000 words
Working Title: educated/formal Hebrew
Section: Sociolinguistic notions
Subject Editor: Gary Rendsburg
Length: 1000-2000 words
Working Title: Hebrew handwriting in the modern period (and its
historical background)
Section: Hebrew script
Subject Editor: Geoffrey Khan
Length: 1000-2000 words
Working Title: Hebrew in medieval women's liturgy
Section: General Articles
Subject Editor: Geoffrey Khan
Length: 1000-2000 words
Working Title: Hebrew in polemic discourse
Section: Descriptions of Hebrew of Specific Texts and Traditions
Subject Editor: Shmuel Bolozky
Length: 1000-2000 words
Working Title: Hebrew loanwords in Rotwelsch
Section: Loanwords
Subject Editor: Aaron Rubin
Length: 200-500 words
Working Title: language and ethnicity
Section: General Articles
Subject Editor: Steve Fassberg
Length: 1000-2000 words
Working Title: Language diversity in Modern spoken Israeli Hebrew
Additional Information: (including variations in types of
pronunciation and grammatical structure, with reference to
non-standard forms)
Section: General Articles
Subject Editor: Ora Schwarzwald
Length: 5000 words
Working Title: language landscape
Section: General Articles
Subject Editor: Steve Fassberg
Length: 200-500 words
Working Title: literacy. (ii) Modern Hebrew
Section: Sociolinguistic notions
Subject Editor: Gary Rendsburg
Length: 1000-2000 words
Working Title: mechanisms of change
Section: Notions from historical linguistics
Subject Editor: Aaron Rubin
Length: 1000-2000 words
Working Title: Morocco, Hebrew in
Additional Information: [its history, distribution of use and
distinctive features, not modern reading traditions]
Section: Descriptions of Hebrew of Specific Texts and Traditions
Subject Editor: Geoffrey Khan
Length: 1000-2000 words
Working Title: privative (particles/affixes)
Section: Syntactic notions
Subject Editor: Tamar Zewi
Length: 200-500 words
Working Title: pronominalization
Section: Syntactic notions
Subject Editor: Tamar Zewi
Length: 1000-2000 words
Working Title: prosody (not poetic metre), (i) pre-Modern
Section: Phonetic/phonological notions
Subject Editor: Shmuel Bolozky
Length: 1000-2000 words
Working Title: Rabbinic Hebrew (Tannaitic and Amoraic) (2), orally
transmitted reading traditions
Section: General Articles
Subject Editor: Geoffrey Khan
Length: 5000 words
Working Title: rhyme
Section: Notions from historical linguistics
Subject Editor: Aaron Rubin
Length: 1000-2000 words
Working Title: specifier
Section: Syntactic notions
Subject Editor: Tamar Zewi
Length: 200-500 words
Working Title: speech accommodation
Section: Psycholinguistic notions
Subject Editor: Shmuel Bolozky
Length: 1000-2000 words
Working Title: synonym (ii) Rabbinic Hebrew (Tannaitic and Amoraic)
Section: Textlinguistic / semantic / stylistic / pragmatic notions
Subject Editor: Gary Rendsburg
Length: 200-500 words
Working Title: Syrian reading traditions of Hebrew
Additional Information: [including a description of the consonants,
vowels, shewa and dagesh]
Section: Descriptions of Hebrew of Specific Texts and Traditions
Subject Editor: Geoffrey Khan
Length: 1000-2000 words
Working Title: The interpretation of Hebrew in medieval exegetical
thought (Europe)
Section: Pre-Modern Hebrew linguistic traditions
Subject Editor: Geoffrey Khan
Length: 1000-2000 words
Working Title: United States, Hebrew in
Additional Information: [its history, distribution of use and
distinctive features]
Section: Descriptions of Hebrew of Specific Texts and Traditions
Subject Editor: Aaron Rubin
Length: 1000-2000 words
Working Title: vocalization of liturgical texts
Section: Masoretic Tradition
Subject Editor: Geoffrey Khan
Length: 1000-2000 words
Working Title: vowel elision/reduction: (i) Biblical reading traditions
Additional Information:
Section: Phonetic/phonological notions
Subject Editor: Shmuel Bolozky
Length: 1000-2000 words
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Diana Steele
Project Manager, Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics
Brill USA, Inc.
153 Milk Street, Sixth Floor
Boston, MA 02109 USA
ehll@brillusa.com
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