Peter Kirby

Now's the time to get those last minute proposals and abstracts written!

Here's my own...

"Early Writings Websites" (Submitted to Computer-Aided Research Group)

Early Christian Writings and its companion site, Early Jewish Writings, have become very popular over the past five years, receiving well over a million visitors in that time and being recognized occasionally in print publications. These sites catalog the writings of Christians and Jews respectively through the first two centuries of the common era, highlighting publicly available introductions and translations. My other website, devoted to the Gospel of Thomas, suggests a future course for these sites, including a detailed and interactive line-for-line display of text, translation, commentary, and user comments as well as cross-references.

See you in Boston if possible!

yours,
Peter Kirby

Peter Kirby

I am really happy. With some hammering out with the chair of the CARG (Computer Aided Research Group) section, my paper has been accepted as follows:

Early Writings Websites

"Early Christian Writings and its companion site, Early Jewish Writings,
have become very popular over the past five years, receiving well over a
million visitors in that time and being recognized occasionally in print
publications. These sites catalog the writings of Christians and Jews
respectively through the first two centuries of the common era,
highlighting publicly available introductions and translations. The
websites and their functionality will be illustrated and a future course
for the sites will be suggested."

Woot!

yours,
Peter Kirby

-Jay-

Congratulations, Peter!

I regularly use the CD versions of your sites, and have referred several people to them in the last year. The work you've put into them is very impressive, and they're definite assets to the community.

regards,

NinJay

Malachi151

I'd like to submit a paper on the Gospel of Mark, and since I have most of the content already together, I could possibly get it done by the 1st, but I'm not sure of the details I would need to do this. Any help pointing me in the right direction? I'm sure my paper will suck, but I can submit it anyway.

DrJim

Good News, Peter!

We will have to have an IIDB get together there. I'm working on a couple of proposals.

Hopefully I will have my proposal off today to the Israelite prophetic literature session on theory of myth and the interpretation of the prophetic literature. I want to argue along the lines of the prophetic corpus being a genre of mythology instead of just including references or allusions to myths. It is a kind of legacy of ancient 'prophets' who may be not entirely legendary but effectively filling the role of culture heroes for various ideological groups in Persian/Hellenistic Judah.

If I can manage it, I also want to do a literary study of Nahum looking at the cosmological language and so forth. This will go to the Book of the Twelve session.

I hope to see you there.

Amaleq13

Your websites have certainly made the job of BC&H moderator easier.

Thanks again for your work!

Jeffrey Gibson

To submit a proposal, you have to be an SBL member. So you need to join. Details for how to do this may be found at the SBL website at:

http://www.sbl-site.org/

Once you are a member, click on this URL to get to the paper proposal section:

http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Con...x?MeetingId=12

There is a specific Mark Group to which you could submit your proposal, but this year the group is concentrating on issues relating to Mk. 1:1-15.

So your best alternative would be to submit your proposal to the Synoptic Gospels section.

One more thing -- since you have never read at paper at SBL before, you will need to submit the full paper to the program chair along with an abstract of it by March 1st (see below).

You should also keep in mind that a presenter has 30min total for a presentation. Most try to get their presentations down to under 25 minutes so as to leave some time for questions and responses.

Jeffrey

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2008 Annual Meeting
Boston

Meeting Begins: 11/21/2008
Meeting Ends: 11/25/2008

Call For Papers Opens: 11/17/2007
Call For Papers Closes: 3/1/2008
Requirements to Submit a Paper Proposal

Membership Requirements

* SBL Program
o SBL Membership is required at the time of a proposal for the SBL program
o SBL Membership will be checked on June 15, 2006 and non-current members will be removed from the program at that time
o SBL Membership must be current at time of Annual Meeting in November
o AAR Members can receive a 1 time waiver for the SBL Program
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* Affiliate Organization Programs
o Affiliate organization membership is required to participate.

Participation Limits

* Participation is limited to two appearance total.
* Presiding at a session counts as an appearance.
* Appearances on Affiliate programs count towards this total.
* SBL Committee and business sessions do not count towards this total

First Time Proposals

* Members who have never read a paper at the Annual Meeting must submit the entire paper as a part of the proposal. Please contact the Program Unit Chair of the unit in question for details

Registration for Meeting

* All meeting participants must be registered by May 15th. Registration will be checked and those not registered will be removed from the program

Malachi151

Thanks Jeffery.

A few more questions. I've written to several different groups to see which one I should submit to. I wrote to the following groups: Synoptic Gospels, Contextual Biblical Interpretation, and Bible, Myth, and Myth Theory. I'm currently waiting on replies.

In what form should the paper be submitted, in the manner that it would be read, or should it be a paper that simply contains the ideas and argument that will be presented, etc?

DrJim

My understanding of it is that you should submit a paper that is as close to what you want to present as you can get together. Since it is an oral paper, technically you should not need footnotes etc., but do get them in proper order: you want the session chairs to see that you are really a serious scholar.

That's the way I did it when I submitted my first paper and it seems to have worked. Of course, what I ended up presenting had evolved a good bit over the months.

Jim

Jeffrey Gibson

It should be in a form which is as close as possible to what you are going to present -- in other words as if it were a submission to a journal.

Jeffrey