The EABS research units and workshops for the 2023 conference in Syracuse
Ancient Jewish and Christian religions in their broader religious landscapes
Animals and the Bible
Anthropology and the Bible
The Bible, Ecology and Sustainability
The Bible in Arabic amongst Jews, Christians and Muslims (Biblia Arabica) – A Continued Exploration
Biblical Theological Investigations into the Attributes of God
The Biblical World and Cultural Evolution
The Biblical World and its Reception
Bodies of Communication
The Book of Jeremiah
The Book of Numbers in the Context of Second Temple Literature
Canonical Approaches to the Bible
Central Theologumena in the Narrative Texts of the Pentateuch
Citations and Allusions in the Hebrew Bible
Comparing Ancient Chronographic Historiographies from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Judah and Greece in the Persian and Hellenistic Period
Cultural Hegemony and the Power of Sacred Texts
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Developing Exegetical Methods
Diachronic Poetology of the Hebrew Bible and Related Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Jewish Literature
Early Christianity
Early Judaism and Rabbinics
Emotions and the Biblical World
Enoch Within and Outside the Books of Enoch: Parabiblical Writings, Iconography and Oral Tradition
Evil, Exorcism, and Magic
Exegesis and Higher Education Didactics ‘Verstehen von Anfang an’
Graeco-Roman Society and the New Testament
Historical Approaches to the Bible and the Biblical World
Iconography and Biblical Studies
Impact of Hellenistic Empires
Intersections: A Forum for Research on Ancient Israel, Hebrew Bible, and Cognate Topics
Israel in the Ancient Near East
Johannine Literature
The Language of Colour in the Bible: From Word to Image
“Literary Features” – Fact or Fiction
Lived Scriptures in Late Antiquity
Medicine, Sciences and Knowledge in Biblical and Talmudic Traditions
Memory, Method, and Text
Miracles and Paradoxography in Biblical Reception from Late Antiquity
Northwest Semitic Epigraphy Related to the Biblical World
Open Forum for New Testament and Early Christian Studies
Parabiblical Texts: Literature Inhabiting the Narrative World of Scriptural Texts
Perceptions and Receptions of Persia (PERSIAS)
Politization of Bibles and Biblization of Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Prophets and Prophecy
Reading, Theory and Poetics
Re(de)fining Historical Criticism of the Hebrew Bible in Light of Textual History
The “Remembered Paul” and the “Historical Paul”
Representations of Cultural Trauma in the Hebrew Bible
Scribes and Scribal Groups in the Early Second Temple Period
The Septuagint and the Cultural World of the Translators
Slavonic Apocrypha
Slavonic Parabiblical Traditions
Textual Criticism of the New Testament, the Old Testament and the Qur’an
Vision and Envisionment in the Bible and its World
Wisdom in Israel and in ANE Wisdom Literature
Ancient Jewish and Christian Apocalypses: What Is at Stake?
Antisemitism and Biblical Scholarship
The Bible in Ukraine: History, Language and Topicality
Imperial Language Politics in the Ancient Near East
Material culture of the Southern Levant
Minority and Postcolonial Criticism: Exegetical Explorations & Decolonial Approaches to Biblical Interpretation