Redescribing Christian Origins

Invited panelists will offer short reflections on various aspects of Smith’s work and intellectual legacy. This set of reflections will be followed by a larger discussion, in which we warmly encourage audience participation.

The third seminar, jointly organized with the North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR), will feature a retrospective on the legacy of Jonathan Z. Smith and specifically, the influence of Drudgery Divine on the study of early Christianity.

Our second panel is an open call. We encourage all submissions related to the scholarly redescription of Christian origins. Papers from early career scholars are especially welcome.

...as well as Christians’ reception and redeployment of such rhetoric and ideologies. We welcome papers that center questions of gender and/or sexuality, race and/or ethnicity, supersessionism, empire, dis/ability and all other forms of supremacist discourse.

Session #1 invites a broad range of submissions that consider the relationship between supremacist ideologies and Christian origins. Potential submissions might interrogate the supremacist rhetoric and ideologies that appear in the texts and traditions of formative Xianity

A gentle reminder about the Call for Papers for Redescribing Christian Origins seminar for SBL 2024 in San Diego. The CFP closes in two days, on March 20. We will have three panels:

A final reminder about our upcoming panels at #aarsbl23! Safe travels for those on the move and looking forward to celebrating this work and our forthcoming conversations! 🤓 @zafulotus @SarahRollens @Chan_Sok_Park @alexichantz @Praxeas @DanielB44771123

Thanks to the generosity of @SarahRollens @thedglove and @JonHatter we are up and running on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/redescribin…

Some amazing panels in store for @RedescribingXO at #SBL2023!!!! @zafulotus @vox_magica @DanielB44771123 @MockClay @jan_heilmann @Chan_Sok_Park @de_robs

🚨Don't forget to check out our CFP for #sbl2023 ! 🚨 We will host three panels, including (1) Redescribing Idolatry (2) Redescribing the Last Supper and (3) an "Open Session." Some terrific proposals are already coming in-- join us! 🤓 @RedescribingXO #SBLAAR2023

*** Check out @RedescribingXO CFP for #SBL2023!!!*** We will host three panels, including (1) Redescribing Idolatry (2) Redescribing the Last Supper and (3) an open third session. Be in touch with your ideas and looking forward to your CFPs!!!!!

@mbrandonmassey presenting now on The Persistence of Antisemitism and the Future of New Testament Studies @RedescribingXO #SBLAAR2022

@r_falcasantos being amazing as always!!! @RedescribingXO

Our Redescribing Historiography session is underway!!! @RedescribingXO @vox_magica @ChanceBonar @r_falcasantos @mbrandonmassey

**Please join our sessions for SBL/AAR 2022!*** We are thrilled to present our panel *Redescribing Historiography: Legacies and Possibilities* with @vox_magica @ChanceBonar @r_falcasantos Brandon Massey and Brandon Hawk. Papers pre-circulated! 11/21 9-11:30AM CC-Mile High 3B

***Please join our sessions for SBL/AAR 2022!*** Our second panel, co-hosted with Interrelations of the Gospels, will review @zafulotus The Origins of Early Christian Literature. This is sure to be a great conversation! 11/20 1-3:30PM CC-Mile High 1D

***Please join our sessions for SBL/AAR 2022!*** Our first panel is in celebration/remembrance of the late Barry Crawford, longtime member of RCO. Merrill Miller, Bill Arnal, and others will be presenting on Barry's legacy and career. 11/19 4:00-6:30PM Room: CC-201

Terrific conference going on this week on the #NextQuest for the historical Jesus (spoiler alert: the category itself is being scrutinized). Papers today were amazing with more to come this weekend-- sign up!

*** Last Call!!! Submit your abstracts to a set of exciting panels for SBL/AAR 2022!!! **** redescribingxo.com/cfp-sbh-a…