Criteria: Submissions must demonstrate graduate level research ability and show familiarity with the appropriate original languages and the modern languages of scholarly research. Special attention will be paid to clarity (the cogency with which the thesis of the paper is structured, articulated, developed, and defended) and originality (the contributions which the thesis makes to scholarship, e.g., by employing new methods, new comparisons and/or new bodies of evidence). Entries may be based upon work already completed at the graduate level and should be suitable for oral delivery at the Annual Meeting of the Society. Papers that have been read at an academic conference or submitted for publication are not eligible.

Selection Process: Entries will be judged by members of the Executive Committee of the Society or their delegates, who reserve the right not to award either or both prizes in any given year. A prize will be awarded only once to any individual.

Submissions: The Canadian Society of Biblical Studies issues a call for papers for these prizes each year. Entries must not be longer than 20 typed pages (excluding notes), typed and double-spaced (12-point font). They should be accompanied by a note from a professor or adminstrator verifying the candidate’s student status. The name of the student should appear only on the title page, which should also include the student's email address. Essays may be in English or French. Students must submit 3 paper copies of their essay (no electronic submissions will be accepted), which must be received by the CSBS Executive Secretary by the deadline (thus, we recommend that papers are sent via courier at least 48 hours prior to the deadline). Students may submit a paper simultaneously to the essay competition AND to the general programme. However, students are restricting to submitting only one paper per year for the competition.

Deadline for receiving submissions for this year is JANUARY 15, 2011

Submissions should be sent to:

Philip Harland
Humanities Division (Religious Studies and Ancient History)
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3

pharland@yorku.ca
514-848-2065

The Jeremias Prize was initiated in 1984 with funds donated anonymously by a member of the CSBS, and named in honor of Joachim Jeremias. An internationally recognized biblical scholar, Jeremias was born in Dresden in 1900 and raised in part in Jerusalem. Jeremias was Professor of New Testament at Greifswald from 1929 to 1935 and held the chair in New Testament at Göttingen from 1935 until 1968. Previous Jeremias Prize Winners.

The Founders Prize was initiated in 1985 after a major fundraising drive for that purpose by the CSBS. It was named in honour of the nine “founding fathers” of the Society: T. J. Meek, W. S. McCullough, Frederick Winnett ( from University College’s Department of Semitics), Richard Davidson, J. H. Michael and John Dow (Emmanuel College), H. V. Pilcher (Wycliffe College), John Lowe (Trinity College) and R. B. Y. Scott (United Theological College in Montreal). These scholars met on March 3, 1933 at Emmanuel College to establish a Canadian biblical studies society. Their efforts led to the first meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies at Victoria University, Toronto on May 2-3, 1933, attended by twenty-three individuals. For further information on the Founders and the early years of the CSBS see John Moir, “The Founding of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies,” Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 11/1 (1982) 9-12; idem, A History of Biblical Studies in Canada: A Sense of Proportion (Society of Biblical Literature Centennial Publications, vol. 7; Chico: Scholars Press, 1982) 66-71. Previous Founders PrizeWinners.

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