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Call for Papers
Biblical Exegesis and the Emergence of Science in the Early Modern Era
We invite submissions for papers for a conference to be held at Birkbeck
College, University of London, on November 27th 2004.
The conference will examine how biblical hermeneutics in the early modern
period contributed to the natural philosophy of the era. The emphasis of
the conference – on biblical reading practices, rather than ‘religion’ in
general – is intended to focus on the specific procedures of interpretation
and to propose models for how they interacted with scientific thought and
discourse on the natural world.
We take ‘science’ in a broad sense, to encompass both residual and emergent
models of nature. We include natural magic, alchemical and emblematic views
of the natural world within our definition, as well as chemical and
paracelsian models of reality. We also include emergent natural history,
medical theory, and ideas of corporeality from atomism to monism. Topics
might include:
Exegesis and the natural world
Scripture and the Signatures of Natural Things
The book of Scripture and the book of Nature
The bible and Animals
Natural philosophy in biblical commentary
Scripture and the nature of corporeal being
Interpretation as prediction – comets, astronomy, apocalypse and biblical
commentary.
Alchemy, cabala and exegesis
Scriptural physics / the physics of creation in the early modern mind
Keynote Speaker: Peter Harrison, Bond University, Australia. Author of ‘The
Bible, Protestantism and the Rise of Natural Science’ (Cambridge University
Press, 1999).
Deadline for proposals: 15th June 2004
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