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October 3, 2011 e-newsletter

Annual Meeting Information for Attendees

The annual e-newsletter with information for attendees will be sent out in mid-October. It will include helpful information on travel from the airport to the meeting; updates on technology at the meeting (including info on the new mobile app) and special events planned for the exhibit hall. Look for it in your e-mailbox!

Annual Meeting Session Highlights

Annual Meeting Orientation (S19-102)
Saturday, Nov 19, 8:15 AM to 9:00 AM

The Student Advisory Board invites all meeting attendees to an informal Q&A session to share practical tips for maximizing your experience of the SBL Annual Meeting and for full conference participation. The topics discussed at this session include networking opportunities, meeting strategies, and session etiquette. Discussion will be facilitated by experienced meeting attendees. Please join us with your questions.

Book Review: Hermann Speickerman and Reinhard Feldmeier, God of the Living: A Biblical Theology (Baylor, 2011) (S20-110)
Sunday, Nov 20, 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM

God of the Living is the English translation of Der Gott der Lebendigen: Eine biblische Gotteslehre (Mohr Siebeck, 2011). Participants include Paula Fredriksen, Walter Brueggemann, Richard B. Hays, Jack Miles, and Larry W. Hurtado, as well as authors Hermann Spieckermann and Reinhard Feldmeier.

Common English Bible Panel Discussion (S20-216)
Sunday, Nov 20, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Join presenters David Petersen, M. Daniel Carroll R., Sharon H. Ringe, Philip Towner, John D. Witvliet, Brent Strawn, David deSilva, and Joel B. Green as they discuss why we need a new Bible translation.

Unpublished Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Recently Acquired by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (S21-247)
Monday, Nov 21, 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM

In 2010, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary acquired eight Dead Sea Scroll fragments, seven of which have never before been published. Seven of these fragments have been identified as pieces of biblical manuscripts, and one of them is from an unidentified work. This session will introduce the seven unpublished fragments to the scholarly community and begin the conversation about their significance for biblical studies and serve as a point of departure for discussing pertinent aspects of larger issues.

Childcare Available!
We are proud to provide childcare service at the Annual Meeting for the convenience of our members. Childcare is available at an hourly or daily rate. The children's program is for children ages 6 months through 12 years old and will be located in the San Francisco Marriott Marquis. The Kiddie Corp sign up deadline is October 21. Please visit the Kiddie Corp website for more information.

Employment Center News
Employment Center registration for candidates is currently open. Register for the 2011 Employment Center when you register online for the meeting. If you have already registered for the conference, you may use your access key to return to your record and register as a job candidate. Registration for candidates closes on October 24. Registration for employers also closes on October 24. Learn more about the Employment Center, here.

Great Hotel Rooms Still Available!
Conference hotels are filling quickly as we approach the Annual Meeting. Don't miss your chance to stay close to the action without breaking the bank or your departmental travel budget. We have negotiated competitive rates at 11 hotels in San Francisco, beginning at $135/night. If you have not yet registered, you may make your hotel reservation when you register online. If you have registered and now would like to add a hotel reservation, please contact us at AnnualMeeting@sbl-site.org and let us know that you are interested. Please contact us by October 21.

Accordance Bible Software Reception at the 2011 Annual Meeting

Biblical scholarship has become increasingly served by digital technology. SBL is grateful to the many software developers for the various technological tools now available for research and for the classroom. SBL is also grateful to Accordance for its financial support of the development of SBL's Bible Odyssey website. Please join your fellow members at an informal Accordance reception whether you are a user of the software or just interested in the new resources. You'll have an opportunity to meet the Accordance scholars and staff and mingle with users in a relaxed setting. The Accordance Bible Software Reception will be held in San Francisco at the Annual Meeting on Sunday, Nov. 20, from 7 pm to 9 pm in the Plaza Room B – Hilton Union Square.

Journal of Biblical Literature Posted

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Membership and Subscriptions

Membership
Optional Profile Winners: Every month, we randomly select two members from the pool of those who have filled out the Optional Profile for a free one-year membership. The October 2011 winners are:

Marlene Reid
Matthew Garamone

As our privacy policy indicates, we will never divulge information from your profile to a third party. Thank you to all of you who have supplied this optional data. If you have not yet filled in the information (or you would like to update it), you may do so by logging into our website with your SBL Member number and going to the "my profile" tab, which will appear on the left hand side of the screen in the box where you logged in. While you are filling out the Optional Profile, please make sure all of your profile information is up to date!

Subscriptions
The Review of Biblical Literature (RBL), founded by the Society of Biblical Literature, presents reviews of books in biblical studies and related fields. Appearing in digital form and in print, RBL is comprehensive, international, and timely.

  • Comprehensive: RBL includes reviews of various topical studies, multi-author volumes, reference works, commentaries, dictionaries, bible translations, software, and other resources for the classroom and research. Multiple and contrasting reviews are often presented. The material reviewed and our reviewers come from varied academic, social, and religious perspectives.
  • International: RBL provides a forum for international scholarly exchange and cutting edge innovations with reviews of German, French, Italian, and English books as well as reviews in those languages. Our editorial board includes members from across the globe.
  • Timely: RBL produces reviews of the most recent titles in biblical studies.
  • Authoritative: RBL reviews are written by the most qualified scholars available, whether a member of the SBL or the broader scholarly guild, and are vetted to ensure their quality by a highly regarded editorial board.

In order to receive the printed annual of the Review of Biblical Literature for 2011 your subscription and payment needs to be received by October 15, 2011. The subscription form can be found at: http://sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/JournalSubscriptions.pdf .

You can print the form, fill it out and mail it with your payment or payment information to 825 Houston Mill Road, Suite 213 Atlanta , GA 30329. Or, you can fax it to 404-727-2419. If you prefer you can renew your subscription online by logging into the website at http://www.sbl-site.org/membership/joinnow.aspx and following the directions.

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October 2011
10/14- 10/15 Between Hermeneutics and Exegesis: Cases from the Pauline Letters and the Gospel of Mark
Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
 More information >>>

10/31 Workshop Call for Papers Deadline
The Program in Judaic Studies in collaboration with the Brown University Library's Center for Digital Scholarship is pleased to announce plans for a two-day workshop devoted to investigating the ways in which the digital humanities has or can change the study of religion in antiquity. The workshop will take place on February 13-14, 2012, at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

We invite proposals for papers and presentations that explore the intersection of ancient religion and the digital humanities. We are particularly interested in presentations of projects that have the potential to open up new questions and avenues of research. Can digital tools not only allow us to do our work faster and more thoroughly but also enable entirely new kinds of research? How might different digital data (e.g., textual, geographic, and material culture) be used together most productively? The workshop will concentrate primarily on research rather than directly on pedagogy or scholarly communication. One session will be devoted to "nuts and bolts" issues of funding and starting a digital project.

The focus of the workshop will be on the religions of West Asia and the Mediterranean basin through the early Islamic period. Proposals relating to other regions, however, will also be considered.

More and updated information 

Please submit proposals of up to 300 words by October 31, 2011, to Michael Satlow  


10/31 Call for Papers
Prophecy and Politics in Ancient Israel and in Ancient Cultures
The Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Haifa is holding an international conference May 28- 31 2012. The intention of the conference is to examine the biblical prophets and prophecy in ancient cultures in general—within the geographical compass of Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Levant—from the beginnings of writing until the first century CE. The focus will be on the attitudes of ancient writers and readers to political-historical events.

A one day excursion is planned: In the footsteps of Elijah, Elisha and the necromancer of En-Dor. We would like to interest you in this conference, and we invite you to propose a lecture. Please let us know of your interest by 31 October 2011, by E-mail or regular mail.

Please reply through one of the following addresses:

Prof. Dr. Gershon Galil, Department of Biblical Studies, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel
galilg@research.haifa.ac.il

Dr. Dan'el Kahn, Department of Biblical Studies, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel
danelka@netvision.net.il

Dr. Ilan Abecassis, Department of Biblical Studies,University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel
nabu_ilan_usur@walla.co.il

Dr. Shirly Natan-Yulzary, Department of Biblical Studies,University of Haifa and Beit-Berl College, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905; Beit Berl, 44905 , Israel
Shirliyul@walla.com
November 2011
11/11 Shakespeare & the Bible
a symposium on the 1611 bible at Rhodes College, Memphis TN. Invited speakers include Robert Alter, Brian Cummings, Hannibal Hamlin, and Naomi Tadmor.
More information
11/16- 11/19 ASOR Annual Meeting
The American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) will hold their Annual Meeting at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, CA
More information
11/17- 11/19

Adventist Society for Religious Studies
The 2011 meeting will convene in San Francisco, California. The theme for the meeting is: "Gates and Walls: Inclusivity and Exclusivity and the People of God." 
more information

11/18- 11/22 SBL Annual Meeting,
The SBL Annual Meeting will be held in San Francisco, California.
More information
11/25 Call for Papers Deadline: Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World X: Tradition, Transmission, and Adaptation
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
When oral theory first entered classical studies, it concerned itself mostly with the transmission of narratives in verse, and one of its first concerns was the accuracy of this process. It is time to think about transmission in a wider context. Information traveled by a variety of mechanisms in antiquity. Texts, ideas, and practices were all transmitted through time and space. Sometimes both form and content were retained, but were placed in a new context; often both were profoundly transformed.

This iteration of the biennial conference on Orality and Literacy will consider the differences between oral and written transmissions, as well as their interactions. When knowledge crosses cultural and linguistic boundaries, does it matter whether it is transmitted orally or in writing? Are written texts always less fluid than oral performances? How should we think about the different kinds of writing as methods of transmitting information, from the wax tablet to the monumental inscription?

We are seeking contributions from classicists as well as scholars in ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies. Papers should be 25-30 minutes in length. There will be ample time for discussion.
The conference will include an excursion to Detroit and a session introducing Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) oral tradition, and an opportunity to visit the University of Michigan's renowned papyrus collection.

Those interested in presenting a paper should send a one-page abstract to Orality2012@umich.edu by November 25, 2011.
For further information, please email Ruth Scodel
December 2011
January 2012
1/5- 1/8 APA/AIA Annual Meeting
The American Philological Association and the Archaeological Institute of America will meet in Philadelphia, PA
More APA information More AIA information
1/23 - 1/27 A program of ongoing training at the Pontifical Biblical Institute
The Pontifical Biblical Institute begins a program of ongoing training for researchers in, and teachers of, Sacred Scripture in Faculties of Theology and other institutions of learning.
More information
February 2012
2/13- 2/14 Digital Humanities Workshop
The Program in Judaic Studies in collaboration with the Brown University Library's Center for Digital Scholarship is pleased to announce plans for a two-day workshop devoted to investigating the ways in which the digital humanities has or can change the study of religion in antiquity. The workshop will take place on February 13-14, 2012, at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

We invite proposals for papers and presentations that explore the intersection of ancient religion and the digital humanities. We are particularly interested in presentations of projects that have the potential to open up new questions and avenues of research. Can digital tools not only allow us to do our work faster and more thoroughly but also enable entirely new kinds of research? How might different digital data (e.g., textual, geographic, and material culture) be used together most productively? The workshop will concentrate primarily on research rather than directly on pedagogy or scholarly communication. One session will be devoted to "nuts and bolts" issues of funding and starting a digital project.

The focus of the workshop will be on the religions of West Asia and the Mediterranean basin through the early Islamic period. Proposals relating to other regions, however, will also be considered.

More and updated information 
March 2012
3/16-3/19 Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society
Boston, Massachussetts, Omni Parker House Hotel
More information

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