A18: Sacred Tropes: The Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Qur’an as Literary Works

Seminar Leader: Roberta Sabbath, University of Nevada – Las Vegas

Friday, April 16, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Breakout Room #1

Brian Schmidt, University of Michigan: “Those Other Prophets, Priests and Kings of the Bible: Narrative Strategies for the Remaking of Sacred Texts”

Jessie Cheny, University of Chicago: “If the Words Be Well Understood: Canticles and the Problematic of Spiritual Metaphor”

Gottfried Hagen, University of Michigan: “Filling the Narrative Gaps in the Qur’an: Stories of the Prophets”

Saturday, April 17, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Breakout Room #1

Alexander Knysh, University of Michigan: “Power and Impotence in the Qur’an”

Mark A. Weinstein, University of Nevada – Las Vegas: “A Comparison of the Story of Joseph in the Hebrew Bible with the Story of Joseph in the Qur’an”

John Ulreich, University of Arizona: “Isaac as the Lamb of God: A Hermeneutic Crux in the Christian Reading of Jewish Texts”

Roberta Sabbath, University of Nevada – Las Vegas: “The Laugh of Abraham and the Invention of Metoynymy”

Sunday, April 18, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Breakout Room #1

William Slaymaker, Wayne State College of Nebraska: “God is Great; God is Green: The Ecopoetics of the Abrahamic Texts”

Christine Dykgraaf, University of Arizona: “The Mesopotamian Flood Epic and Its Representation in the Bible, the Quran and other Middle Eastern Literatures”

Ruth Tsoffar, University of Michigan: “The Trajectory of Hunger: Appropriation and Prophecy in the Book of Ruth”

Aisha Geissinger, University of Toronto: “Mary in the Qur’an: Rereading Subversive Births”