Πρόσκληση για εισηγήσεις σε σεμινάριο του ΕΑBS

Η ομάδα "The Use of the Bible for Group Demarcation in the Second Temple Period and Late Antiquity", προσκαλεί, όσους ενδιαφέρονται, να συμμετέχουν ενεργά στις εργασίες της με την παρουσίαση ενός θέματος-εισηγήσεως μέσα στα πλαίσια της θεματικής του σεμιναρίου. Η πρώτη συνάντηση έγινε τον Αύγουστο 2008 στη Λισαβώνα της Πορτογαλίας και τα πρακτικά της θα δημοσιευθούν προσεχώς από τον εκδοτικό οίκο Brill στη σειρά Jewish Christian Perspectives.

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Use of the Bible for Group Demarcation in the Second Temple Period and Late Antiquity

In the next annual meeting of the European Association of Biblical
Studies (EABS), held from July 26th to 29th, 2009 at the University of
Lincoln, UK, the Early Christianity, and the Early Judaism and
Rabbinics programs will jointly explore ways in which ancient Jews and
Christians interpreted the Bible for constructing a group identity or
when delineating the boundaries between themselves and others.

Various biblical figures, themes, narratives and interpretative motifs
were used to denote self perception, to mark the other as other and to
create the group identity against other contemporary tendencies.
Several cultural practices took part in this process, such as methods
of interpretation of the biblical text, application of the Bible to
the liturgy and ritual, as well as applying the content of biblical
events to the current time.

All these phenomena will be the object of our study in the next
meeting of the EABS.
We would like to approach the study of such interpretative strategies
as was applied to the different subgroups and subcultures in late
antiquity that defined their identity by reference to the Bible,
groups as Judaism and Christianity, as well as other groups and
streams of thought.

Papers may discuss themes such as the importance of genealogical
origin (i.e. Davidic or priestly decent) for group demarcation; the
identity function of eschatological model narrated by the subgroup;
the use of biblical archetypes for defining the exemplar of a group
member; the relation between hermeneutical strategies (i.e. allegory,
fables, or peshers) and group identity; the assigning of biblical
categories to other populations (as Hellenistic or pagan),
interpretative motifs prevailing among particular subgroups and so on.

Please send suggested proposals by December 31st, 2008.

--
Outi Lehtipuu
Ph.D.
Postdoctoral researcher
University of Helsinki

Department of Biblical Studies
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