Call for Papers on Healthcare and Disability in the Ancient World for the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature





November 22-25, 2014 San Diego, California

Call for Papers Closes: 3/5/2014

This unit, titled Disability Studies and Healthcare in the Bible and
Near East until 2011, seeks to foster scholarship related to disability,
illness, medicine, and healthcare in the biblical world and text. Major
areas of interest include: the religious, legal, and cultural status of
persons with disabilities or illness in the biblical and formative
Jewish and Christian periods; the representation of disability and
illness in biblical and cognate texts; the theology of such texts; the
history and archeology of medicine and healthcare in the ancient Near
East and Greco-Roman worlds; and the subjects of disability, illness,
medicine and healthcare in the history of biblical interpretation.

Program Unit Chairs

Joel S. Baden
Nicole Kelley

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