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�