A letter was sent to student members of the Society of Biblical Literature, and it is getting a lot of circulation and discussion around the blogs and on Facebook. Among other things, it requires those not holding a PhD to submit the full paper and not merely an abstract with their proposal. Perhaps the most significant blog post on the subject that I’ve read thus far came from Deane Galbraithe, who suggests that the policy change actually infringes on the membership agreement of student members, who are promised the same rights as full members at their reduced membership rate. Unfortunately his post seems to have gone missing, but the gist of his point has also been made in the Facebook group.
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