THE SBL HELLENISTIC JUDAISM SECTION has a call for papers for the November 2009 meeting and Annette Reed has e-mailed to ask colleagues to alert anyone who might be interested in presenting. Deadline for submission on the Society of Biblical Literature website is 28 February. Consider yourselves alerted!

SBL Hellenistic Judaism
Call for Papers, 2009 SBL Annual Meeting

This year, the Hellenistic Judaism Section will be dedicating 1-2 sessions to the late antique, medieval, and modern reception-histories of Hellenistic Judaism. We invite proposals for papers that speak to the reception of the Hellenistic Jewish figures, ideas, narratives, and texts -- as well as to the prehistory and formation of the very notion of "Hellenistic Judaism." We especially encourage submissions that speak to the appropriation and redeployment of these materials for the articulation of cultural and religious identities, past and present. Through a focus on reception, we hope to explore the afterlives of these materials in historiography, ethnography, translation, etc. Papers on other topics related to Hellenistic Judaism are also welcome.