Call for Papers

Third Annual GIA

20-21 February 2009

Graduate Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Biblical World—an annual, international, and interdisciplinary postgraduate conference in biblical studies and cognate fields—is pleased to invite papers for its third annual symposium on 20-21 February 2009, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.  The symposium is open to presentations by all current master and doctoral students working in the traditional chronological and geographical parameters of Biblical Studies: Persia to Rome, from the Bronze Age to the Rise of Christianity. Primary engagement with ancient evidence – literary criticism, archaeology, epigraphy, and historiography – will be presented in dialogue with fields of secondary analysis such as anthropology and sociology, with an emphasis on the interaction of multiple methodologies.  Submissions are sought for the following five themes:

Material Culture and Historiography.  This theme intends to explore how archaeology and material culture inform the writing and the historiography of biblical periods.

Cultural Transmissions.  This theme will explore the influence and interactions within the Mediterranean and Ancient Near East in culture, thought, and religion.

Prophecy in the Mediterranean and Ancient Near East.  This theme will attempt to understand the phenomenon of prophecy as it appeared in the various regions and how it influences the understanding of prophecy in the biblical text.

Intra- and Extra-biblical Reception Criticism. This theme intends to explore how previous biblical texts were received both by later biblical writers and post-biblical communities.

Language, Text, and Translation.  This session will offer a forum for the exploration of the linguistic, translational, and version issues of the biblical and extra-biblical texts.

Specifics

Papers should be twenty minutes in length and in English; strictly 250-word abstracts should be submitted by 5 December 2008 to giaconf@tcd.ie and should include the applicant’s educational standing (year, course) and the desired theme.  There will be no poster session. 

Cost

There is no submission fee; registration fee (in Euros only) is €40 on site, €25 in advance.  You can pay (or make a donation) via PayPal in the Contacts Page.  See also the Contacts page for postal address and other contact information.

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