Call for Short Papers
The call for short papers at the IOSOT 2025 in Berlin (August 11–15, 2025) is now open. Applicants can propose short papers (20 minutes) to be presented in the following panels covering the main fields of Hebrew Bibel and Ancient Israel.
- Pentateuch
- Former Prophets
- Latter Prophets
- Writings
- Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Theology, Ethics, and Hermeneutics of the Hebrew Bible
- Reception History
- Archaeology of Ancient Israel and the Southern Levant
- History of Ancient Israel within the Ancient Near East
- Religions of Ancient Israel and the Ancient Near East
Furthermore, the following specialized panels on recent research questions also accept short paper proposals. More information on these panels is available on the following subpages. The panel hosts will review proposals for short papers to be presented in these panels.
- Apocalyptic Thinking in Antiquity
- Between Foreign Politics and Scribal Theology: Prophecy Concerning the Nations
- Digital Humanities and Computational Approaches to the Bible
- Philological and Linguistic Variety in Northwest Semitic languages (late 2nd and 1st mill. BCE)
- Scribal Culture and the Hebrew Bible
- State of Archaeology and Inscriptions in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Persian Period
To propose a short paper, applicants should fill out the proposal form provided on our website and send it to iosot2025@hu-berlin.de. The deadline to submit a proposal is November 15, 2024.
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