From the research unit pages you can find their calls for paper for the Wuppertal 2021 conference.
Ancient Jewish and Christian religions in their broader religious landscapes
Animals and the Bible
Anthropology and the Bible
The Bible and Ecology
The Bible in the Iberian World: Fundaments of a Religious Melting Pot
The Biblical World and Cultural Evolution
The Biblical World and its Reception
Bodies of Communication
Canonical Approaches to the Bible
Central Theologumena in the Narrative Texts of the Pentateuch
Citations and Allusions in the Hebrew Bible
Comparative Methodology
The Core of the Book of Deuteronomy and its World
Cultural Hegemony and the Power of Sacred Texts
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Deconstructive Poetics
Developing Exegetical Methods
Diachronic Poetology of the Hebrew Bible and Related Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Jewish Literature
Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies, Early Jewish and Christian Studies
Early Christianity
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’
Food-Symbolism in Biblical and Extra-Biblical Perspectives
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
The Language of Colour in the Bible: From Word to Image
“Literary Features” – Fact or Fiction
Lived Scriptures in Late Antiquity
Medicine in Bible and Talmud
Memory, Method, and Text
Northwest Semitic Epigraphy Related to the Biblical World
Open Forum for New Testament and Early Christian Studies
Orality and Literacy in Early Christianity
“Outside” Evidence – Evidence for Religion and Culture in the Persian, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods from Sources “Outside” the Biblical Canons
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 Biblical Texts – Understanding Contemporary Contexts
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
The Septuagint and the Cultural World of the Translators
Septuagint of Historical Books
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
Yahwistic Diversity and the Hebrew Bible: Tracing Perspectives of Group Identity from Judah, Samaria, and Diaspora in Biblical Traditions
Biblical Theological Investigations into the Attributes of God
Comparing Ancient Historiographies: The Yehudite Book of Chronicles, Herodotus and Babylonian Chronicles
Deuteronomy and the Books of Kings – a Complex Relationship?
Experience the Body, Experience the Text: Experience in and from the Song of Songs
Miracles and Paradoxography in Biblical Reception from Late Antiquity
Personal Christology: Hermeneutical Perspectives of the New Testament
Re/conceiving Empire in Ancient Texts: Questioning Subaltern Perspectives
Epistemology of the Ancient Fertile Crescent
“History of the Biblical World” as a Challenge to Deal with Biblical History and Exegetical Understanding of the Southern Levant – Evaluations from Related Sciences
John the Baptist in Apocrypha and Early Christian Poetry: Narrative Exegesis and Fortleben
Prologomena to the project of an Editio Critica Maior of Hebrews
Visionary Spaces: Narrating Spaces in Vision Reports
The Annual Conference 2021 takes place 2-5 August in Wuppertal. Read more.