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Call for Papers

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The Call for Papers for for the European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Conference 2023 (10-13 July)

November 2, 2022

You can submit abstracts to both research units and workshops until 5 January 2023 (23:59 CET) via the abstract system at the following link. 

Over the course of the abstract submission period we will be highlighting individual research units and workshops daily, but you can see them all, along with their specific focuses for 2023’s Annual Conference here.

New Research Units for 2023 


  • The Book of Jeremiah

  • The Bible in Arabic amongst Jews, Christians and Muslims (Biblia Arabica) – A Continued Exploration

  • Early Judaism and Rabbinic Literature

  • Prophets and Prophecy 

  • Slavonic Apocrypha 

  • Bible and Ecology 

  • The Graeco-Roman Society and the New Testament

  • Iconography

  • Literary Features 

  • Historical Approaches to the Bible and the Biblical World

New Workshops for 2023


  • A Critical History of Exegesis Since c. 1900

  • The Bible in Ukraine: History, Language and Topicality

  • Imperial Language Politics in the Ancient Near East

  • Antisemitism and Biblical Scholarship

  • Minority and Postcolonial Criticism: Exegetical Explorations & Decolonial Approaches to Biblical Interpretation

  • Living in the Last Days: New Testament Eschatology and its Contexts

  • Ancient Jewish and Christian Apocalypses

  • Material culture of the Southern Levant


Conference Venues

You can now find updated information about the venues we will be using for this year’s Annual Conference on our website. Please make sure to book accommodation in Ortigia, rather than the centre of Syracuse in order to be in the vicinity of our venues! 

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85th International Meeting of The Catholic Biblical Association, July 22-25, 2023 at Creighton University (Nebraska).

November 2, 2022

The 85th International Meeting of The Catholic Biblical Association is scheduled July 22-25 at Creighton University. The call for participation will be sent to CBA members in late January 2023. 

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Ninth North American Syriac Symposium, "Syriac at the Center", June 11-14, 2023 at Yale University

December 21, 2022

Syriac has often been treated as an auxiliary language in the modern humanities, an adjunct tool to scholarship on Early Christianity, Late Antiquity, early Islam, the histories of theology and of science, and other areas of inquiry. It is an “extra language” in humanistic curricula. This conference welcomes papers on topics that treat Syriac as central, not peripheral, to scholarly investigation. How do our research subjects look when we stand with Syriac and regard other traditions and areas as peripheral?

We welcome particularly papers addressing

  • Syriac and translation activity

  • Syriac manuscripts, documents, and epigraphy

  • Syriac geographical thought

  • Social and economic history using Syriac sources

  • Bodily and ritual practices

  • Christological considerations

  • Development of canon law

  • Relations with the religious “other” from the Syriac Christian perspective

  • Philoxenus of Mabbug on the sesquimillennial anniversary of his death


Submit proposal for papers before Jan 2, 2023.

NB: This symposium coincides with the 6th Yale Liturgy Conference, June 12-15, 2023.


For further information, click HERE.

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