The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) has announced an Information Fluency Workshop on Philosophy, Religious Studies, and the History of Ideas. The workshop is made possible by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It is co-sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Council on Library and Information Resources. It is endorsed by the Society of Biblical Literature, the American Academy of Religion, and the American Philosophical Association.
The CIC is accepting applications for this workshop, which will be held February 13–15, 2014, in Charleston, South Carolina. The workshop is intended to help institutions move beyond teaching information literacy in the general education curriculum to infusing information fluency into those studying philosophy, religious studies, and the history of ideas.
The Society of Biblical Literature hopes you will consider sending an institutional team to this workshop. For more information, please see this announcement. Please do not hesitate to contact Stephen Gibson, CIC’s director of programs, at sgibson@cic.nche.edu if you have any questions.
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Please, please, please fill out your new member profile. You can access the SBL member profile by logging in to the SBL website with your SBLID number. Once you have logged in to the website, click on “my profile” in the Login Box. On the next screen, click on the “Edit Button” under Member Profile.
The response has already been outstanding, but we need to have a majority of members represented, in order to better serve you. There are many reasons why this is important. Plus, you will be entered into a drawing to receive one of two iPads!
If you have filled it out already, Thanks!
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The SBL Annual Meeting is a little over two months away! Featuring the latest in related research, and hosting one of the world's largest exhibits of books and digital resources for biblical studies, scholars attending this meeting will benefit from sessions on religion, philosophy, ethics, and diverse religious traditions. If you haven’t done so already, please Register Now and join us November 23-26, 2013 in Baltimore, MD.
If you have already registered, please visit our SBL Annual Meeting website for updated information on travel discounts, housing information, child care options and employment center opportunities.
We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore at the SBL Annual Meeting 2013!
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SBL Publications now offers both hardcover and paperback editions (as well as a variety of e-book versions) of our own works after an eleven-year hiatus during which Brill Academic Publishers offered all SBL titles in hardcover. SBL hardcover editions are ideal for libraries and institutions, although they are priced to appeal to individuals as well.
Our latest hardcover-paperback publications are:
Pauline Allen, John Chrysostom, Homilies on Philippians
Hardcover Paperback
Ryan S. Schellenberg, Rethinking Paul's Rhetorical Education: Comparative Rhetoric and 2 Corinthians 10–13
Hardcover Paperback
Matthew J. Goff, 4QInstruction
Hardcover Paperback
Look for all future SBL publications to appear simultaneously in hardcover, paperback, and e-book forms—and please encourage your librarian to buy all SBL titles in the format best suited to your institution's needs.
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The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce that the 2013-14 ACLS fellowship competitions are now open. ACLS offers 13 fellowship programs that promote the full spectrum of humanities and humanistic social sciences research and support scholars at the advanced graduate student level through all stages of the academic career. Comprehensive information and eligibility criteria for all programs can be found at www.acls.org/programs/comps.
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The following books were added to the ICI online book depository in August. Please click here for the complete online books list.
Miller, Robert D., Ed. Syriac and Antiochian Eegesis and Biblical Theology for the 3rd Millennium. Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 6. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2008.
Farag, Lois. St. Cyril of Alexandria, A New Testament Exegete. Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2007.
Sorek, Susan. Remembered for Good: A Jewish Benefaction System in Ancient Palestine. The Social World of Biblical Antiquity, Second Series, 5. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010.
Gray, John. The Book of Job. Text of the Hebrew Bible, 1. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010.
Anderson, Robert T. and Terry Giles. The Samaritan Pentateuch: An Introduction to Its Origin, History, and Significance for Biblical Studies. Resources for Biblical Study, 72. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012.
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We have dropped the use of our post office box. Please send all mailings for SBL directly to Society of Biblical Literature, The Luce Center, 825 Houston Mill Road, Atlanta, GA 30329 . Please be sure to use the most recent membership and subscription form.
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The Journal of Biblical Literature is the flagship journal of the field. It is published quarterly and includes scholarly articles and critical notes by members of the Society. Essential reading for over a century, it is now available online and in print.
In order to receive the printed issue 132:4 of the Journal of Biblical Literature your subscription and payment must be received no later than November 15, 2013. The subscription form can be found at: http://sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/JournalSubscriptions.pdf . You may fax or email your form to the office. Our Fax number is 404-727-2419 or you may email the form to SBLServices@sbl-site.org. If you prefer, you may renew your subscription online, by logging into the website at http://www.sbl-site.org/membership/joinnow.aspx and following the directions. You may also of course mail your subscription form to us at 825 Houston Mill Road, Atlanta, GA 30329 for later issue 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. In order to receive the printed annual of the Review of Biblical Literature for 2013 your subscription and payment needs to be received by October 15, 2013. 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, 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.
Special subscription rates to JBL and RBL are available to institutions in ICI countries. Download the ICI order form here.
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September 2013 |
9/19- 9/20 |
Biblical Studies, West and East: Trends, Challenges and Prospects
International conference hosted by the Department of Theology of the Ukrainian Catholic University.
Keynote Speakers: EMMANUEL TOV, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; REINHARD NEUDECKER SJ, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome; JANUSZ CZERSKI, University of Opole, Poland; PETER DUBOVSKY, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome; PAOLO GARUTI, Angelicum, Rome / Ecole biblique, Jerusalem.
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9/26- 9-28 |
Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha in North American Perspectives (2013 York Christian Apocrypha Symposium)
The 2013 York Christian Apocrypha Symposium, “Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha in North American Perspectives,” will take place at York University September 26–28, 2013. The event is organized by Tony Burke (York University) in consultation with Brent Landau (University of Oklahoma). It brings together 22 Canadian and U.S. scholars to share their work and discuss present and future collaborative projects.
The symposium is open to scholars, students, and interested members of the public; all may register for the event and take part in discussions. One of the goals of the symposium is to make the work of North American scholars on the Christian Apocrypha more widely known, not only to scholars in cognate disciplines (such as New Testament Studies or Medieval Studies) but also to students, who will be the future scholars in the discipline, as well as to the wider public who is interested in the texts but has been ill-informed about them through films, novels, and fringe scholarship.
For additional information on the 2013 Symposium contact: tburke@yorku.ca or bclandau@gmail.com
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9/30 |
Call for Papers
The Leonardo Museum in downtown Salt Lake City has been chosen to host a major exhibit on the Dead Sea Scrolls entitled, “Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Biblical Times,” November 22, 2013 — April 27, 2014.
In connection with the conclusion of the exhibit, the museum is hosting an academic conference, “The Prophetic Voice at Qumran and Contemporary Communities.”
The conference is co-sponsored by the Religious Studies Center and the Evans Professor of Religious Understanding at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. We plan to publish the conference proceedings.
We are pleased to announce a call for paper or presentation proposals that address the theme expressed in the conference title. Topics may include the nature of prophecy at Qumran, the interpretation of prophecy at Qumran, the identification and status of Jewish prophets at that time, the authoritative prophetic voice at Qumran compared to contemporary communities or groups, text-critical issues regarding prophetic texts, and so forth.
Proposals for papers and presentations may be submitted until September 30 to Professor Dana M. Pike at BYU’s Religious Studies Center at the following email address: rsc@byu.edu (please put DSS Conference in the subject line) |
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October 2013 |
10/4- 10/6 |
Pilgrims’ Progress: Pilgrimage across Time and Cultures
The Institute of Pilgrimage Studies in conjunction with the International Consortium for Pilgrimage Studies invites abstracts for the 2nd annual Symposium to be held at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. The conference will embrace thematic sessions including:Artistic and Literary Responses to Pilgrimage,Health and Pilgrimage,Material Culture of Pilgrimage,Pilgrimage in the Eastern Mediterranean,Pilgrimage in the Ancient World,Personal Reflections on Pilgrimage,Space, Place and Lived Experience of Pilgrimage. More information |
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10/9- 10/12 |
Changing Perspectives in Old Testament Studies: Past, Present, and Future
An International Conference at the University of Copenhagen. The conference focuses on the major changes within the field of Old Testament Studies during the past 50 years. It is the aim of the conference to investigate those changing perspectives within a broader context of Hellenistic studies, theories of composition, theories of history, anthropology, archaeology, Ancient Near Eastern religion and comparative literature, Dead Sea texts and cultural memory studies, and to suggest future prospects for the discipline.More information |
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10/15 |
Application Deadline-CFP
The University of Southern California's West Semitic Research Project (http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp) has finished training the third round of applicants for training in Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) and is looking for another round of applicants.
USC'S TRAINING Program is for scholars, conservators, library and museum professionals, archivists and researchers. Participants are trained in the use of Reflectance Transformation imaging (RTI) for documenting ancient texts and artifacts, including the loan of imaging equipment.The objective of this project is to develop an infrastructure for training scholars in the use of RTI technology and subsequently to lend the necessary imaging equipment to participants in the training program so they can do an initial RTI documentation project either in field environments (archaeological sites, etc.) or in libraries, museums and/or other similar venues, worldwide (for examples of RTI images see this video.
This initial undertaking should be understood to be a pilot project that can develop into an ongoing, broader documentary effort and preferably may also serve as the catalyst for establishing a scholarly network consortium for image documentation of a given corpus (or corpora) of ancient texts and/or artifacts. All equipment to be lent out is both rugged and compact and is thus ideal for doing sophisticated imaging in remote locations. Twenty awards over three years (approximately seven per year) for traineeships will be provided based on the merit and intrinsic importance of a proposed pilot imaging project as well as the appropriateness of the subject matter for RTI imaging.
More information or see http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/projects/imls.shtml, or contact Marilyn Lundberg (mlundber@usc.edu) or Bruce Zuckerman (bzuckerm@usc.edu). |
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10/23-10/26 |
Westar Institute Fall Meeting
The biannual meeting of the Westar Institute, advancing religious literacy through a twofold mission of fostering collaborative research in religious studies and communicating the results of scholarship to a broad non-specialist public, will take place this Fall in Santa Rosa, California. Critical questions to be considered include:
- Did Christianity begin with Jesus, Paul, Luke, or Constantine?
- Which came first, the Gospel of John or the Gospel of Luke?
- What did the first New Testament look like?
- How did the debate about rules and rituals shape Christianity?
- Does the date of Christian origins impact Jewish-Christian relations?
Please inquire about student discounts at westar@westarinstitute.org. Program details and registration now available at: http://www.westarinstitute.org/national-meetings/westar-fall-meeting-2013/ |
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November 2013 |
11/20- 11/22 |
John, Jesus, and History: Engaging the Legacies of C.H. Dodd and Raymond E. Brown
The occasion of this pre-SBL conference at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore is the 50th and 60th anniversaries of Dodd’s books on John and history as well as the ongoing significance of Brown, who taught at St. Mary’s from 1959 to 1971. The conference is sponsored by St. Mary’s and the SBL’s John, Jesus, and History section. The keynote address will be given by Jimmy Dunn. Papers and other presentations will be given by John Ashton, Alan Culpepper, Jonathan Draper, Craig Koester, Wendy E. S. North, Tom Thatcher, Jan van der Watt, and Catrin Williams, as well as Paul Anderson, John Donahue, Michael Gorman, and Jaime Clark-Soles. For further information, contact Craig Koester (ckoester@luthersem.edu) or Michael Gorman (mgorman@stmarys.edu).
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11/23- 11/26 |
SBL Annual Meeting
The SBL Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of biblical scholars in the world. Each meeting showcases the latest in biblical research, fosters collegial contacts, advances research, and focuses on issues of the profession. The Annual Meeting will be held in Baltimore, Maryland.
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December 2013 |
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12/31 |
Deadline for Member Profile Drawing
Fill out your new member profile to be entered into a drawing to receive one of two iPads! You can access the SBL member profile by logging in to the SBL website with your SBLID number. Once you have logged in to the website, click on “my profile” in the Login Box. On the next screen, click on the “Edit Button” under Member Profile.
Read why it is so important to have a majority of members represented. |
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January 2014 |
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1/2-1/5 |
Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
LSA’s 2014 Annual Meeting will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota
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1/2- 1/5 |
AIA and APA Joint Annual Meeting
The Joint Annual Meeting (AM) of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the American Philological Association (APA) will be held in Chicago, IL at the Hyatt Regency Chicago Hotel. The academic program will begin on January 3.
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1/6 |
Call for Papers Deadline
Rewriting in Luke and Acts: A Conference on Luke’s Literary Creativity, to be held 22-25 June 2014 in Roskilde, Denmark.
For more information please see the June 22-25 entry. |
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1/15 |
Call for Papers Deadline
Political Memory in and after the Persian Empire will be held will be held in Leiden on 18, 19 and 20 June 2014.
The significance of Achaemenid imperial hegemony for the political thought and aspirations of subject and successor societies is evaluated in starkly different terms in the various disciplines studying the ancient Near East. While Assyriologists treat Cyrus’s heirs as legitimate successors of the Babylonian kings, biblical scholars often speak of a “kingless era” in which the priesthood took over the function of the Davidic monarch. Egyptologists see their land as uniquely independently minded despite conquests, while Hellenistic scholarship tends to evaluate the interface between Hellenism and native traditions without reference to the previous two centuries of Persian rule.
The aim of this conference is to examine local responses to the loss of native kingship in the subject areas of the Persian Empire, both in terms of political reaction and literary reflection.
Abstracts of no more than 400 words are invited until 15 January 2014. (send to either j.m.silverman@hum.leidenuniv.nl or jason.m.silverman@gmail.com).
The conference is organized as part of the ERC project BABYLON at the Leiden Institute of Area Studies. There are plans to publish the proceedings.
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1/15 |
Application Deadline-CFP
The University of Southern California's West Semitic Research Project (http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp) is looking for another round of applicants for training in Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI.)
USC'S TRAINING Program is for scholars, conservators, library and museum professionals, archivists and researchers. Participants are trained in the use of Reflectance Transformation imaging (RTI) for documenting ancient texts and artifacts, including the loan of imaging equipment.The objective of this project is to develop an infrastructure for training scholars in the use of RTI technology and subsequently to lend the necessary imaging equipment to participants in the training program so they can do an initial RTI documentation project either in field environments (archaeological sites, etc.) or in libraries, museums and/or other similar venues, worldwide (for examples of RTI images see this video.
This initial undertaking should be understood to be a pilot project that can develop into an ongoing, broader documentary effort and preferably may also serve as the catalyst for establishing a scholarly network consortium for image documentation of a given corpus (or corpora) of ancient texts and/or artifacts. All equipment to be lent out is both rugged and compact and is thus ideal for doing sophisticated imaging in remote locations. Twenty awards over three years (approximately seven per year) for traineeships will be provided based on the merit and intrinsic importance of a proposed pilot imaging project as well as the appropriateness of the subject matter for RTI imaging.
More information or see http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/projects/imls.shtml, or contact Marilyn Lundberg (mlundber@usc.edu) or Bruce Zuckerman (bzuckerm@usc.edu). |
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1/30-2/1 |
Exploring New Frontiers for Post-western Biblical Studies
The Biblical Studies Department of the United Theological College, Bangalore, India, is organizing Bible Darshan, an International Conference from January 30-Feb.1, 2014, in Bangalore, India on the theme: Exploring New Frontiers for Post-western Biblical Studies
Coordinator: Dr. Dexter S. Maben
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