CONFERENCES AND LECTURES
In addition to Orion
Center Activities, the following events have come to our attention. We want
to provide a complete list of all significant happenings related to the
Dead Sea Scrolls. Please send information on upcoming events to
us at: msdss@mscc.huji.ac.il or fax +972-2-588-3584.
2012
The program for the 2012 North American Conference on Afroasiatic
Linguistics (NACAL) is now posted at
http://www.mandaic.org/nacal/nacal40sched.pdf
Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures
July 26, 2012
For Conference Program and Call for Papers information, please click here.
SEMINAIRE QUMRAN DE PARIS
QUESTIONS ACTUELLES SUR LES MANUSCRITS DE LA MER MORTE
Programme 2011-2012
The Séminaire Qumrâ n de Paris, founded in 2004 by Francis Schmidt, is currently directed by Christophe Batsch. It is sponsored by the Ecole Pratique des Hautres Etudes ( La Sorbonne , Paris) and the Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire des mondes antiques (ANHIMA, UMR 821, CNRS, the French national research fund and organization). Seminars are held in Pierre-Jean Mariette Hall, 2 rue Vivienne 75002 Paris. For the list of presenters and topics, please click the link below.
The Department of Bible, University of Haifa, invites you to a conference on:
Wisdom Literature in the Bible and the Ancient Near East
26 December, 2011
To take place on Monday, 30 Kislev, 5771 (26 December, 2011) in the
Aviva and Sami Ofer Lookout, Eshkol Tower, 30th floor, University of
Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa
Schedule
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:45 Introductory Remarks and Greetings
First Session: Wisdom Literature in the Ancient Near East
Chairman-Alexander Rofé , The Hebrew University
9:45-10:20 Prof. Jacob Klein, Bar-Ilan University
Religion and Morality in the Sumerian Proverbs
10:20-10:55 Prof. Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, Ben-Gurion University
"Better a bereaved bear meet a man": Undesirable Individuals in the
Book of Proverbs and Mesopotamian Writings
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:05 Prof. Ed Greenstein, Bar-Ilan University
Wisdom in Ugaritic Literature
12:05-12:40 Prof. Nili Shupak, University of Haifa
"Instruction to the ignorant so he will know ": The Instructions of
Ptah-hotep and Biblical Wisdom Literature
12:40-14:00 Lunch Break
Second Session: Biblical Wisdom Literature
Chairman-Dr. Shamir Yona, Ben-Gurion University
14:00-14:35 Prof. Michael Fox, University of Wisconsin
The composition and editing of Proverbs 22:17-23:11
14:35-15:10 Dr. Tova Forti, Ben-Gurion University
The Question of Arrangement and Editing in Ecclesiastes - The saying
as a connective link
15:10-15:45vDr. Itamar Kislev, University of Haifa
Qohelet and His Struggle with Death
15:45-16:20 Dr. Ruth Fidler, University of Haifa
Job 4:12-21: The "word" brought stealthfully (to Eliphaz?) and its
place among the ways of "finding" wisdom.
For further information apply to : shupak@research.haifa.ac.il
Celebrating The Dead Sea Scrolls In English
January 23, 2012, Oxford
The 7th edition of Geza Vermes's Dead Sea Scrolls in English is to be published, marking the 50th anniversary of its original publication in 1962.
A celebration will be held on Jan 23, 2012, from 6 to 8 pm, at Wolfson College , Oxford .
The Department of Bible, Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva
3-5 January, 2012
Is pleased to announce that on
Tuesday-Thursday, 3-5 January, 2012 (8-10 Tevet 5772)
We will host a three day conference honoring
Prof. Zipi Talshir on Her 65th Birthday
on the topic
Processes of Composition, Redaction and Transmission of the Hebrew Bible
Preliminary program (full program will be announced later)
Tuesday 3 January, 2012 - 17:30
Festive opening
Chair - Professor Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, Ben-Gurion University of
the Negev, Beer-Sheva
Opening lecture (in Hebrew) - Professor Alexander Rofé , The Hebrew
University, Jerusalem
Wednesday 4 January, 2012
Workshop in three sessions with lectures (in English) by:
Prof. Anneli Aejmelaeus, University of Helsinki
Prof. Ronald Hendel, University of California, Berkeley
Prof. Jan Joosten, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Prof. Olivier Munnich, Sorbonne, Paris
Prof. Julio Trebolle Barrera, University of Madrid
Dr. Noam Mizrahi, Georg-August UniversitSt, Gsoettingen
Dr. Ronnie Goldstein, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Dr. Dalia Amara, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva
Thursday, 5 January, 2012
Lectures (in English)
Prof. Roland Deines, University of Nottingham
Prof. Cana Wermann, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva
Tour of Archaeological Sites in the Vicinity of Beer-Sheva
For the conference program please click here
Lost Texts: A Graduate Student Conference
April 29th, 2012
New York, NY
The Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary
The Graduate School Student Organization at the Jewish Theological
Seminary in NYC will be organizing and hosting a graduate student
conference for this spring. Below is the call for papers. We encourage
any interested graduate students to apply. For more information,
questions, or concerns please email Maria Junttila Carson at
macarson@jtsa.edu
Much of Jewish history can be viewed as a struggle between competing
textual traditions, often motivated by the reintroduction and
reappropriation of lost texts. The redacted texts of the biblical and
rabbinic canons; the revelations of the Genizah and the Dead Sea
Scrolls; the invention and revision of Jewish literary traditions by
the scholars, writers, artists and thinkers of Jewish modernity - each
of these discoveries of lost texts has served to complicate and expand
the borders of Jewish life in the past and in the present.
We invite papers from graduate students that explore lost texts -
broadly defined - as central objects of inquiry in Jewish studies as
well as submissions that reflect on how Jewish Studies itself is a
site where forgotten or marginalized traditions become present through
the mediation of academic discourse. Papers from a wide variety of
methodological approaches and time periods will be considered.
Suggested panel topics:
Biblical Canonization, Interpretation and Reinterpretation
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Diversity of Second Temple Judaism
The Cairo Genizah and the Reevaluation of Medieval Jewish History
From Out of the Margins: Feminist Hermeneutics and Feminist Texts
Jewish Modernity: A Matrix of Lost Texts
Contemporary Theological Responses to Rediscovered Traditions
The Role of Visual Art and Visual Culture in Jewish Communal Practice
and Creativity
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words and a current CV to
macarson@jtsa.edu by October 31st. A travel grant will be awarded to
the most outstanding abstract.
Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniensis 2012
It is now possible to register, and to propose papers, for the 2012
Leuven Colloquium Biblicum on "Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures" (July 26-28, 2012).
For a prospectus on the topic of the Colloquium, the program, and
registration, see http://theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/centres/centr_collbibl/.
Past 2010 - 2011
The 10th Mainz International Colloquium on Ancient Hebrew (MICAH)
28th-30th October 2011
Mainz , Germany
The 10th Mainz International Colloquium on Ancient Hebrew (MICAH)
will take place October 2011, friday to sunday 28th-30th,
at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University of Mainz , Germany:
http://www.micah.hebraistik.uni-mainz.de/eng/204.php
Topics cover the Ancient and Classical Hebrew, i. e. Epigraphic and Biblical Hebrew, as well as adjacent languages and epigraphics,
as for instance Phoenician & Punic, Old and Imperial Aramaic, and the ancient Transjordan languages.
The program schedule is online now:
http://www.micah.hebraistik.uni-mainz.de/eng/115.php
For participation, we request a fee of 30 Euro, which is due onsite. This includes the conference binder, abstracts, badge, free WLAN access onsite, and refreshments. We are sorry that because of misuse by certain alien cadgers at the last meetings, these benefits will only granted to those who wear an authentic conference badge.
For proper preparation, we request a simple pre-registration e-mail to micah@uni-mainz.de.
LECTURES: AIAS - Autumn 2011 lectures
THE STEVENSON LECTURE THEATRE
(Clore Education Centre)
In THE BRITISH MUSEUM
ANGLO-ISRAEL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Affiliated to the British Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Reg. Charity 220367
LECTURE PROGRAMME
Autumn 2011
Monday 10th October 2011
DR LUCY WADESON
(University of Oxford)
PETRA AND JERUSALEM: RECONSTRUCTING RITUAL IN THE ROCK-CUT TOMBS
Monday 14th November 2011
DAVID JACOBSON (UCL), NIKOS KOKKINOS (UCL), and TESSA RAJAK ( Oxford)
HEROD THE GREAT AS RULER AND BUILDER
(a panel discussion in memory of Ehud Netzer (13th May 1934-28th
October 2010), organised jointly with the Institute of Jewish Studies,
University College, London)
Monday 5th December 2011
PROFESSOR ALAN MILLARD
(University of Liverpool)
ASSYRIA AND ISRAEL - CONTACT AND CONFLICT
LECTURES COMMENCE AT 6.00 p.m at
ADMISSION FREE WITHOUT TICKET
www.aias.org.uk
November 1-2, 2011
Department of Hebrew, Biblical, and Jewish Studies
Dead Sea Scrolls Conference in Memory of Emeritus Professor Alan Crown
In memory of the late Emeritus Professor Alan Crown, the University of Sydney is convening a conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls to be held November 1-2, 2011. The occasion will also mark the purchase of the facsimile edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Fisher Library, an acquisition that came about at the initiative of Emeritus Professor Crown.
International Symposium
November 4th-5th 2011
Text History of the Hebrew Bible (Nebi’im) Between the 4th and 1st
Centuries BCE: Multiplicity of Text Types and/or
Hierarchy among Them?
University of Fribourg, Mise'ricorde
Room 3120 (nov. 4th) and 3024 (nov. 5th)
Program
Friday, November 4th (Room 3120)
9h00 Coffee
9h30-10h45 Adrian Schenker, Fribourg : Die Tiqqune sopherim im Horizont der
biblischen Textgeschichte in vorchristlicher Zeit
10h45-11h00 Break
11h00-12h15 Armin Lange, Vienna : The Book of Jeremiah in the Greek and Hebrew
Texts of Ben Sira
12h15-14h00 Break - Lunch
14h00-15h15 Yohanan Goldman, Fribourg : La borne de'place'e par les scribes.
Incidence litte'raire de l'e'tude du texte des Douze.
15h15-15h30 Break
15h30-17h00 Thomas Ro"mer, Lausanne / Paris : From Deuteronomistic History to
Nebiim and Torah: Competing Ideologies and their Reconciliation in the
Persian Period
Saturday, November 5th (Room 3024)
9h00-10h15 Jan Joosten, Strasbourg : La place de la vocalisation
tibe'rienne dans une
e'dition critique de la Bible he'brai"que
10h15-10h45 Break
10h45-12h00 Innocent Himbaza, Fribourg : MT and LXX as Witnesses to Malachi 1:1
and 3:22-24. A Literary and Textual Study.
12h00-13h45 Break - Lunch
13h45-15h00 Matthieu Richelle, Vaux-sur-Seine : Des alle'geances
cache'es ? Le traitement des figures royales et des royaumes dans les
e'ditions les plus anciennes de 2 Rois, porte d’entre'e dans les
origines de la multiplicite' textuelle.
15h00-15h15 Break
15h15-16h45 Philippe Hugo, Fribourg : "Drei?ig Jahre war David alt,
als er Ko"nig wurde..." Literarische und textkritische Studie der
Regierungsnotizen in Samuel
Information :
PD. Dr. Innocent Himbaza
+41 26 300 73 89
www.institut-barthelemy.ch
November 16-19, 2011
ASOR annual meeting
San Francisco
· The 2011 Academic Program is now online at
http://www.asor.org./am/documents/academic_program_7.20.11.pdf
· Projects on Parade Poster Session, Saturday, November 19
from 12:45-2:00pm…If you are interested or have questions, please send
an email to Morag Kersel (mkersel@depaul.edu). Poster abstracts must
be submitted online by September 1. For more information:
http://www.asor.org./am/2011/call-5.html .
· Registration and Hotel Reservation
Registration: http://www.asor.org/am/registration.html
We encourage you to make your reservations as the hotel is filling
up fast! Please note the Westin St. Francis Hotel no longer has rooms
available on Monday, November 14 or Tuesday, November 15. Please
contact Kelley at asorad@bu.edu if you need a room on either of these
nights.
Junior Scholar’s Luncheon, Thursday, November 17 from
12:45-2:00pm…Please check the junior scholars page for more
information.
Call for Nominations… Please visit the ASOR Awards page for
information on how to nominate an individual for an award:
http://www.asor.org./am/nominations.shtml .
Annual Meeting Student Scholarships… To apply for a scholarship:
http://www.asor.org./fellowships/annual-meeting/index.html .
Do not hesitate to contact the ASOR office by phone at 617-353-6570 or
at asorad@bu.edu should you have any questions regarding the Annual
Meeting or any other issues. We look forward to seeing you in San
Francisco this November.
International Conference of Biblical Archaeology
Chr. Gastezentrum Wurttemberg (Schonblick) near Stuttgart
November 25-27 (2011)
SCRIBES AND SCRIBAL TRADITIONS IN ANCIENT ISRAEL
with
(main speakers)
Professor Dr Andr? Lemaire
"Writing and Scribal Schools in Monarchic Israel"
"King David and the Tell Dan and Mesha Stelae"
Professor Dr Alan Millard
"Writing and the Origin of the Gospels"
"What Did They Write in Canaan and Israel: From Graffiti to Literature?"
(additional lectures, e.g.)
Dr Viktor Golinets -
"The Khirbet Qeiyafa Ostracon: Different Interpretations"
Dr Martin Heide -
"Schriftradition und Schreibmaterial" (in German only)
Dr Reinhard G. Lehmann -
"Do You Know What You are Reading? Epigraphic Observations on Oral Transmission"
Dr Peter van der Veen -
"Introductory Lecture to Conference Topic"
Professor Dr Wolfgang Zwickel -
"The Origins of the Hebrew and Phoenician Languages"
Conference Fee 40 EUR (Students 20 EUR)
Single and Shared Rooms are available
For prices on accommodation please inquire:
P. G. van der Veen
Reinhardstrasse 31
73614 Schorndorf
Germany
Tel. +49-7181-989118
Email: van_der_Veen@gmx.de
Registration dead-Line is November 15 (2011)
But please register well before as the place is filling up rapidly!!
The Hebrew of the Late Second Temple Period between the Bible and the Mishnah:
A Sixth International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls
and Ben Sira
September 19-21, 2011
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Organised by Research Unit Biblical Studies (Faculty of Theology and
Religious Studies) & Research Unit Near Eastern Studies (Faculty of
Arts)
Presided by Pierre Van Hecke and Eibert Tigchelaar
With the financial support of FWO-Vlaanderen/Research Foundation-Flanders
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
Collegium Veteranorum, Room 02.10
15:30 Registration and Coffee
16:00 Greetings
Opening Lectures
16:30 Moshe Bar-Asher, Hebrew University
The Patterns Pe'ila and Pi''ul in Qumran Hebrew
17:10 Steven Fassberg, Hebrew University
The Nature and Extent of Aramaisms in the Hebrew Dead Sea Scrolls
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
Collegium Veteranorum, Room 02.10
Session I
9:00 Takamitsu Muraoka, Universiteit Leiden
Aspects of the Syntax of the Infinitive in Qumran Hebrew
9:40 Stefan Schorch, Martin-Luther-Universita"t, Halle- Wittenberg
Some Peculiar Usages of the Infinitive in Samaritan Hebrew
10:20 Tamar Zewi, Haifa University (Paper written jointly with Uri Mor)
The Nominal Clause in the Hebrew Legal Documents and Letters from the
Judean Desert
11:00 Coffee Break
Session II
11:30 Gary Rendsburg, Rutgers University
The Nature of Qumran Hebrew as Reflected in 1QpHab
12:10 Mats Eskhult, Uppsala University
The Problem of Dating Job Linguistically
12:50 Lunch Break
Session III
14:30 Wido van Peursen, Universiteit Leiden
Linguistic Observations on the Hebrew Prayer of Manasseh from the Cairo Genizah
15:10 Alexey Yuditsky, The Academy of the Hebrew Language and
Ben-Gurion University (Paper written jointly with Chanan Ariel)
Remarks on the Language of the Pesher Scrolls
15:50 Coffee Break
Session IV
16:20 Jan Joosten, Universite' de Strasbourg
The Tiberian Vocalization of the Hebrew Bible and the Hebrew Language
of the Second Temple Period
17:00 Holger Gzella, Universiteit Leiden
The Spelling of the Third-Person Singular Independent Pronouns in
Qumran Hebrew Revisited
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
Collegium Veteranorum, Room 02.10
Session V
9:30 Francesco Zanella, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universita"t
Some Semantic Notes on the Lexeme mdhb' in the Dead Sea Scrolls
10:10 Pierre Van Hecke, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
The Semantics of nbt. and Related Roots
10:50 Coffee Break
Session VI
11:20 Jacobus A. Naude', University of the Free State
Syntactic Features of kol in the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls
12:00 Jean-Se'bastien Rey, Universite' Paul Verlaine, Metz
The Syntax of 4Q417 2 i 9 // 4Q416 2 i 4
12:40 Lunch Break
Session VII
14:20 Noam Mizrahi, Georg-August-Universita"t Go"ttingen
Priests of Qoreb: Linguistic Enigma and Social Code
15:00 Haim Dihi, Ben-Gurion University
Quotations from Ben Sira in Rabbinic Literature
15:40 Closing and Coffee
Laws of Heaven – Laws of Nature: The Legal Interpretation of Cosmic
Phenomena in the Ancient World
September 5-6, 2011
University of Zurich
There is a widespread conviction in historical research that the
notion of "laws of nature” is of Greek origin. However, this
assumption can be falsified empirically by looking into the traditions
of the ancient Near East and the Bible: The use of legal language to
describe astronomical phenomena has a particularly important
prehistory in Mesopotamian astronomy. Although no explicit and exact
Akkadian or Hebrew counterpart to the term "laws of nature” can be
found, the notion of a legal metaphor for cosmic phenomena is clearly
present. Perhaps the most striking find is the use of the same terms
in the ancient Near Eastern formulation of most omina on the one hand
and legal regulations in law books on the other. As a matter of fact,
there are even some texts in ancient Near Eastern literature that
explicitly present the legal arrangement of the cosmos, notably the
heavenly order.
Mesopotamian astronomy and cosmology were certainly known and
influential in ancient Israel, especially after the Babylonian
Exile—where the deported Judean priestly intelligentsia came into
contact with ancient Mesopotamian science.
The symposium will strive to elucidate the various legal
interpretations of cosmic phenomena in the ancient world and their
subsequent intellectual history. Participants will include scholars
from such disciplines as Assyriology, Hebrew Bible, Classics, History
of Religions, Egyptology, and physics from the US, Europe, and Israel.
September 5, 2011
9:20-9:30 Introduction
9:30-10:30 Der vergessene Orient:
Forschungsgeschichtliche Bestimmungen der antiken Ursprnge von
"Naturgesetzen”
(Konrad Schmid, Zurich)
10:30-11:30 Messende und mathematisierende Astronomie im Altertum
(Jצrg Hfner, Heidelberg)
11:30-12:00 Break
12:00-13:00 Begriffe, Metaphern, Taxonomien:
Kausalitהtsparadigmen in kosmologischen Diskursen
(Christoph Uehlinger, Zurich)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Cuneiform and Biblical Rainbows, the Flood
and the Laws of Nature
(Wayne Horowitz, Jerusalem)
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-17:00 Wie das Oben, so das Unten. – Die babylonische
Suche nach dem Weltengesetz
(Stefan Maul, Heidelberg)
17:00-18:00 Before Nature: Babylonian Legal Metaphors and
Divine Cosmic Order
(Francesca Rochberg, Berkeley)
Dienstag, 6. September 2011
9:30-10:30 Gצttliche Justiz: Religiצse Quellen
zum altהgyptischen Rechtsleben
(Franziska Naether, Leipzig)
10:30-11:30 The Concept of Justice in Early Greek Cosmology
(Christian Wildberg, Princeton)
11:30-12:00 Pause
12:00-13:00 Legal Interpretation of Cosmic Phenomena in
the Hebrew Bible
(Jeffrey Cooley, Boston)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 The Revelation of Law as the Zenith of
Creation in Priestly-Holiness Writings of the Pentateuch
(David P. Wright, Brandeis)
15:30-16:30 "Beobachtet alle Werke am Himmel, wie sie
nicht ihre Wege הndern…" (1. Henoch 2,1) – Naturgesetz und
Gerechtigkeit im antiken Judentum
(Matthias Albani, Moritzburg)
The symposium is funded by the University of Zurich’s Research
Priority Program "Asia and Europe”, the Swiss National Science
Foundation, the Cogito Foundation, the Swiss Society for the Study of
the Ancient Near East and the Zrcher Universitהtsverein. There is no
admission fee, no registration needed.
University of Zurich, Faculty of Theology
Kirchgasse 9
CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland
Room 200
Who do you think you are?
Gender and the transmission of identity in the Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls and other related literature
Oxford - 13 July 2011
What is it? A three-day conference on the Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls and other related literature (Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, rabbinic writings, and other post-biblical literature)...
Where is it? ...to be held at the Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE...
When is it? ...from Monday 11 July to Wednesday 13 July 2011.
Who will be there? Main speakers will include:
Professor Ida Frצhlich, Professor of Hebrew Studies and Ancient Near Eastern History, Pבzmבny Pé ter Catholic University, Budapest; producer of the first ever Hungarian translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Dr Susanne Scholz, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas; author of Introducing the Women’s Hebrew Bible and Rape Plots: A Feminist Cultural Study of Genesis 34.
Dr Deborah Rooke, Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent’s Park College, Oxford; editor of and contributor to A Question of Sex? and Embroidered Garments, the collected papers from two previous gender conferences held at King’s College London.
Will you be there? Register now! Registration details and programme available from www.rpc.ox.ac.uk, under ‘Centre for Christianity and Culture’ and then ‘Conferences’. Deadline 10 June 2011.
Queries? Contact deborah.rooke@theology.ox.ac.uk
10-13. July 2011- Budapest
"Rewritten Bible” after 50 years: Texts, Terms, or Technics?
International Conference on the phenomenon of "Rewritten Bible”
at the Theological Faculty of the Caspar Karoli Reformed University
(Raday u. 28. 1092 Budapest)
50 years have passed since Geza Vermes invented the term "Rewritten Bible," To mark this occasion the Caspar Karoli Reformed University and the Society of Hungarian Hebraists have organized an international conference.
For the program click here.
27 June - 1 July 2011
Palermo - Italy
Family and Kinship in the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature
The Conference Languages are Italian, French and English. An English
translation of texts in Italian and French will be provided.
For more information please click here.
June 27-28, 2011
International Conference
"Les targums à la lumière des traditions du Second Temple"/
"The Targums in light of Traditions of the Second Temple Period”
Organized by Thierry LEGRAND and Jan JOOSTEN
Faculté de thé ologie de Strasbourg
Université de Strabourg
MONDAY, JUNE 27
9h: Accueil
9h30: Ouverture du colloque
10h: Ingo KOTTSIEPER, « The History of Aramaic and Its Impact on the
Evolution of the Targumin »
11h15: Ursula SCHATTNER–RIESER, « Le Mystère, raz (??), dans les
targums, en aramé en biblique et dans les manuscrits hé breux de Qumrân
»
14h : Christophe BONNARD, « Targums samaritains et traditions
aggadiques juives »
14h45: Beate EGO, « Retelling the Story of Esther in the LXX and inTargum Sheni – Some Main Outlines »
16h: Jan JOOSTEN, « Des targumismes dans la Septante ? »
TUESDAY, JUNE 28
9h: Willem SMELIK, « From Moses to Moses, Tanakh to Targum »
9h45: Claude TASSIN, « Zabulon et Nephtali dans le targum de Genèse 49
et de Deuté ronome 33. Un é clairage de Matthieu 4,15-16 ? »
11h: Robert HAYWARD, « God as Father in the Aramaic Translations of
the Pentateuch »
11h45: Innocent HIMBAZA, « Le Targum Pseudo-Jonathan puise dans des
pratiques sacrificielles de l’é poque du deuxième temple »
14h30: Michael LANGLOIS, « Les targums et la litté rature apocryphe
juive du Second Temple »
15h15: Thierry LEGRAND, « Miracles, é vé nements spectaculaires dans la
litté rature targumique »
16h: Clôture du colloque
Place: The symposium held at the « Palais universitaire » (9 place de
l’Université , Strasbourg - France)
Contact :
Th. Legrand (thierry.legrand@unistra.fr)
J. Joosten (joosten@unistra.fr)
Information :
http://www.premiumorange.com/theologie.protestante/coltarg/
June 14-16
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Pauline Literature
International Colloquium
Metz
Organizing Committee: http://www.qumran.fr/comitee.html
Topic http://www.qumran.fr/topic.html
Program: http://www.qumran.fr/program.html
Registration: http://www.qumran.fr/registration.html
Practical Informations:http://www.qumran.fr/practical.html
Université Paul Verlaine Metz - Centre Ecritures
Universitä t Zurich - Lehrstuhl fur Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft mit
Schwerpunkt Antikes Judentum und Hermeneutik
April 27th, 2011
Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, Jerusalem, will be hosting an international
conference entitled:
"The Mikveh (Jewish Ritual Bath) – from Eretz-Israel to Germany (Ashkenaz)
A German-Israeli Seminar”
For more information please click here
May 15th
Revelations of the Dead Sea Scrolls
A Window into the Historical Dictionary Project of the Academy of the Hebrew Language
Location: University of Haifa
For more information please click here
April 4
Ancient Jewish Science and the History of Knowledge
New York
Organizers: Jonathan Ben-Dov (University of Haifa and ISAW) and Seth Sanders (Trinity College and ISAW)
Location:
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
15 East 84th st. New York .
2nd floor lecture Hall
Date: April 4, 2011
Time: 9:00 a.m.
For more information please click here
March 29 - 30
The Body of God and the Body of Humans an Ancient Judaism and Christianity
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
For more informations please click here
March 27-28
Talmuda de-Eretz Israel: Archaeology and the Rabbis in Late Antiquity
New York City
An International Conference Organized by the Yeshiva University Center
for Israel Studies
Co-sponsored by the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies
and YU Museum
Speakers include:
Eric Meyers, Daniel Sperber, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Burton L. Visotzky,
Alexei Sivertsev, Laura S. Lieber, Shawn Zelig Aster, Jonathan
Milgram, Uzi Leibner, Sacha Stern, Steven D. Fraade, Rachel Neis,
Yonatan Adler, Lawrence H. Schiffman, and more.
Day 1: Sunday March 27, 1:00 – 5:30.
Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
Day 2: Monday March 28, 10:00-6:00.
Furst Hall 501, Wilf Campus
185th and Amsterdam Avenue, Washington Heights
March 17th
Forthcoming Palestine Exploration Fund Lectures
(see website for abstracts)
The British Museum, London
4pm, Thursday 17th March 2011: Joint PEF/AIAS lecture
Hero Granger-Taylor, Palestine Exploration Fund
"The Textiles at Masada - an insight into the material culture of
Classical Antiquity"
Lectures are held in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education
Centre, The British Museum, London.
Lectures: ANE at University of Texas, Austin - February 15
February 15, 2pm, MEZ 1.210. Uri Mor (Ben-Gurion University) "The
Language of the Hebrew Documents from Judaea"
ABSTRACT: The talk will deal with the corpus of the epigraphic Hebrew
documents from the Judaean desert that were composed between the first
and the second Jewish revolts (66-135 CE). The linguistic nature of
the corpus will be examined from three aspects: its uniformity, its
dialectal affiliation, and its grammar. Based on a thorough study of
the documents, it will be argued that the language of this corpus is
homogenous, relatively closer to Mishnaic Hebrew and reflects a living
dialect of Hebrew, rather than a mix of Aramaic and Hebrew
February 17th, 2011 - Tel-Aviv University
The Annual Symposium in Memory of Prof. Yohanan Aharoni
Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology
Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures
Friends of the Institute of Archaeology
The Annual Symposium in Memory of Prof. Yohanan Aharoni
Thursday, February 17th, 2011, Gilman Building
Tel-Aviv University Campus
Biblical Archaeology and the Pursuit of Certainty: The Role of Science
and Technology
13:30 Reception
14:00 Greetings and Awarding of Institute Grants
Chair: Ze'ev Herzog
Part I: Science, Technology and Archaeology: Research Perspectives
Chair: Yuval Gadot (Tel-Aviv University)
14:30 Bronze Age Radiocarbon Dating: An "Opsimistic” View
Ezra Marcus (University of Haifa)
15:00 A New Frontier in Ceramic Studies: 3D Imaging in the Study of
Typological Microvariation
Talia Neuman (Hebrew University)
15:30 Beyond the Lab: Trends and Developments in Archaeo-metallurgical Research
Naama Yahalom-Mack (Tel Aviv University and Weizmann Institute of Science)
16:00 Matter and Spirit: Teaching Ancient Technologies to Students of
Archaeology
Yuval Goren (Tel Aviv University)
16:30 Coffee Break
Part II: Debating the Future of Biblical Archaeology: Do Science and
Technology Show the Way?
Chair: Raphael Greenberg (Tel Aviv University)
17:15 Gematria’s Ghost: Quantification, Digitization, and the Mirage
of Historical Certainty
Neil A. Silberman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
18:00 Discussants
Steve Weiner (Weizmann Institute of Science), Aren Maeir (Bar-Ilan
University), Yuval Yekutieli (Ben-Gurion University).
18:45 Response
Neil Silberman
2010 - 2011 - Palestine Exploration Fund Winter Lectures
Forthcoming Palestine Exploration Fund Lectures (see website for abstracts)
Lectures are held in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education
Centre, The British Museum, London.
Please note: from March 2011, the regular time of PEF lectures will
change from 6pm to 4pm.
6pm, Thursday 9th December 2010
John Bartlett, Trinity College Dublin and Chairman of the Palestine
Exploration Fund
Evans Memorial Lecture: "From Burchard to Burckhardt - Views of Jordan"
6pm, Thursday 13th January 2011: Joint PEF/CBRL/SAS lecture
David Wengrow, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
"Cosmology and commerce in the Ancient Near East"
4pm, Thursday 17th March 2011: Joint PEF/AIAS lecture
Hero Granger-Taylor, Palestine Exploration Fund
"The Textiles at Masada - an insight into the material culture of
Classical Antiquity"
Conference in Memory of Hanan Eshel
January 2, 2011 - Bar-Ilan University
Hebrew Flayer, English Flayer
November 14-16, 2010 - Princeton University
Hekhalot Literature in Context: From Byzantium to Babylonia
Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
For the Program, click Here: http://www.marquette.edu/maqom/hekhalotprogram.pdf
November 11th,Columbia University
Seminar on Jewish Demography in Antiquity
Thursday, November 11th, 2pm-6pm in the 5th floor conference room of
the Italian Academy
2:00-2:25: Seth Schwartz (Columbia), "Posing the Problem"
2:25-2:50: Nathan Schumer (Columbia), "The Demography of High Imperial
Sepphoris"
2:50-3:35: Hayim Lapin (Maryland), "Where Did All the Diaspora Jews Come from?"
3:35-3:55: questions and discussion
3:55-4:15: refreshments
4:15-5:00: Uzi Leibner (Hebrew University), "Settlement and Demography
in Late Antique
Galilee: Implications for Rabbinic Culture"
5:00-5:20: Walter Scheidel (Stanford), "Response"
5:20-6:00: general discussion
6:00-7:00: reception
November 15-16, 2010
4th N.i.Ke.-Workshop "Archaeometry of the Dead Sea Scrolls"
will take place on November 15-16, 2010 in the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing , Berlin , Germany .
You are kindly requested to e-mail your registration to E-mail: karin.pachaly@bam.de before October 15, 2010.
Please click here for the workshop program
For uptades please click here http://www.nike.bam.de/de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/index.htm
November 19-21, 2010 - Atlanta, Georgia
Announcing the 13th annual Bible and Archaeology Fest
Twenty leading scholars will convene from around the world to share
their research with the public in a dynamic seminar series designed
specifically for the interested lay person. Concurrent sessions over
the three-day period will address the latest developments in the
fields of early Christianity, Gnostic scholarship, the Hebrew Bible,
the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient Israel and Biblical archaeology. For
thirteen years, the Biblical Archaeology Society is proud to be the
only organization to bring current Biblical research to the general
public straight from the scholars who are at the forefront of their
fields.
Open to the public, this 3-day Bible and Archaeology Fest program will
feature 20 of the most distinguished scholars from around the world
covering topics from the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the
latest archaeological discoveries. They will address such issues as:
Can a true history of Israel really be written? How do Biblical
traditions align with archaeological reality? How did the ancient
Israelites make the transition from paganism to monotheism? The
answers to these questions and many more will be presented at the
Biblical Archaeology Society's 13th annual Bible and Archaeology Fest.
Renowned speakers such at James Charlesworth of Princeton Theological
Seminary, Bart Ehrman of the University of North Carolina, Mark
Goodacre of Duke University, Craig Evans of Acadia Divinity College,
Ben Witherington III of Asbury Theological Seminary and many more will
be presenting participants with their latest research.
The Bible and Archaeology Fest program also includes a plenary
session, during which eminent scholar Amihai Mazar of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem will present Beth Shean: Biblical Traditions
and Archaeological Reality. The final evening will feature a banquet
and question-and-answer session with Hershel Shanks, founder of the Biblical
Archaeology Society and editor of Biblical Archaeology Review, scholar
Sidnie White Crawford of the University of Nebraska and Jodi Magness
of the University of North Carolina.
Included in the Bible and Archaeology Fest program fee are all
lectures, the plenary session, continental breakfasts, refreshment
breaks, a final banquet and Continuing Education units.
Full details of the conference and the scheduled lectures, which are
to be held at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, can be viewed at
http://www.bib-arch.org/travel-study/bible-fest-2010.asp
Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, 2010
Atlanta, Georgia
November 20-23
For the Program, click Here: https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/AnnualMeeting.aspx
SBL Event Remembering Prof. Hanan Eshel (1958-2010):
The Qumran Section of the Annual SBL Meeting in Atlanta is hosting a session to celebrate the life of Prof. Hanan Eshel on Monday 22nd November 2010, 6-7 pm in International 8 – Marriott Marquis.
Friends and colleagues of Hanan are warmly invited to contribute to this informal session and share their memories of a much missed colleague and friend. Details will appear in the online Program Book but not in the Printed Version.
Biblical Archaeology lectures at the Center for Jewish Studies, Queens College, NY
Fall 2010 - Spring 2011
For more information, please click here http://qcpages.qc.edu/jewish_studies/specialevents.html
October 21, 2010 - Amsterdam
The John Templeton Foundation and the YU Center for Israel Studies
invites you to a lecture by:
Dr. Alex Jassen
McKnight Land-Grant Assistant Professor of Early Judaism
Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
University of Minnesota
From Ezra to the Rabbis: Toward a History of Jewish Law and Legal Interpretation
Thursday, October 21, 2010 6:45 PM
311 Furst Hall, Amsterdam Avenue at 184th Street
For more information, please contact Joseph Angel
jangel@yu.edu.
October 21-22
The Jewish War against Rome (66-70/74):
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Groningen
A symposium at the Qumran Institute of the University of Groningen
More information
For the Program, Please click here
October 21
The John Templeton Foundation and the YU Center for Israel Studies
invites you to a lecture by
Dr. Alex Jassen
McKnight Land-Grant Assistant Professor of Early Judaism
Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
University of Minnesota
From Ezra to the Rabbis: Toward a History of Jewish Law and Legal Interpretation
Thursday, October 21, 2010 6:45 PM
311 Furst Hall, Amsterdam Avenue at 184th Street
October 26-27, 2010 - Salerno Italy
SCRITTURA E HALAKHAH
Formazione, codificazione e ricezione del diritto ebraico fra gli
Asmonei e la Minah (II sec. a.C.-III sec. d.C.)
Seminario Internazionale di Studi, Napoli – Salerno, 26-27 ottobre 2010
Martedi 26, ore 9.30-13, Università "L’Orientale”, Napoli, Palazzo
Corigliano, Aula Mura Greche
Saluti: Amneris Roselli, Preside della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
dell’Universita "L’Orientale”
Sessione I. Presiede: Carlo Zaccagnini (Universita di Napoli "L’Orientale”)
Shalom Bahbout (Touro University of Rome): La halakhah nel periodo degli Asmonei
Miriam Pucci Ben Zeev (Ben Gurion University of the Negev): Halakhah,
Custom and Hellenistic Influences in Hasmonean Days
Giancarlo Lacerenza (Università di Napoli "L’Orientale”): La scrittura
ebraica antica fra prassi e halakhah
ore 11 Pausa
Sessione II. Presiede: Riccardo Contini, Presidente del Centro di
Studi Ebraici dell’Università "L’Orientale”
Pierpaolo Punturello (Comunità Ebraica di Napoli): Minah di Qidduin:
inizio del diritto matrimoniale ebraico
Francesco Lucrezi (Università di Salerno): La halakhah nel De vita
Moysis di Filone
Luigi Cirillo (Università di Napoli "L’Orientale”): La questione
halakhica alle origini del cristianesimo
ore 15-18.30, Associazione "Oltre il Chiostro”, Napoli, Complesso
Santa Maria la Nova
Saluti: Giovanni Vitolo, Direttore del Dipartimento di Discipline
Storiche dell’Università di Napoli "Federico II"
Sessione I. Presiede: Marcello Del Verme (Università di Napoli "Federico II”)
Lucio Troiani (Università di Pavia): Flavio Giuseppe e il diritto ebraico
Luca Arcari (Università di Napoli "Federico II”): I matrimoni misti
nel giudaismo del Secondo Tempio: le testimonianze di Qumran e degli
Pseudoepigrafi
Dorota Hartman (Università di Napoli "L’Orientale”): Il diritto
ebraico nell’Archivio di Babatha
ore 16,30 Pausa
Sessione II. Presiede: Lucio Troiani (Università di Pavia)
Michele Ciccarelli (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose,
Avellino): Il peccato di apostasia nell’Epistola agli Ebrei e nella
Minah
Pasquale Giustiniani (Pontificia Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia
Meridionale): Legge ebraica e legge cristiana in Agostino
Luciano Tagliacozzo (Comunità Ebraica di Napoli): Il trattato Eduyoth
della Minah
Mercoledל 27, ore 9.30-13, Università di Salerno, Fisciano, Aula 2
della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza
Saluti: Raimondo Pasquino, Rettore dell’Università degli Studi di Salerno
Enzo Maria Marenghi, Preside della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza
dell’Università di Salerno
Sessione I. Presiede: Massimo Panebianco (Università di Salerno)
Bernard Jackson (Liverpool Hope University): "Scrittura” and Halakhah
in the Biblical and Rabbinic Periods
Daniela Piattelli (Università di Roma "Tor Vergata”): Tradizioni
giuridiche d’Israele nel periodo intertestamentario
Marcello Del Verme (Università di Napoli "Federico II”): Nuovo
Testamento e legislazione ebraica: decime e altri tributi
ore 11 Pausa
Sessione II. Presiede: Luigi Rossi, Preside della Facoltà di Scienze
Politiche dell’Università di Salerno
Antonio Pitta (Pontificia Università Lateranense, Roma): Paolo di
Tarso e le tradizioni orali della Legge
Giuseppe Reale (Università di Salerno): La legge ebraica nei Vangeli
Alfredo Mordechai Rabello (Zefat Academic College): La Minah di Rabbi
Yehudah ha-Nasi
"Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem —Fall 2010"
October – New Discoveries In Archaeology
6.10.10 – From a Canaanite Kingdom to an Israelite City – The Renewed Excavations at Tel-Hazor, Dr. Sharon Zuckerman, Hebrew Univ.,
Hebrew
13.10.10 – A Temple, an Earthquake and Other Finds: New Biblical (and other) Insights From Tell es-Safi/Gath, Prof. Aren Meir, Bar Ilan Univ., Hebrew
20.10.10 – Above and Beneath the Ground – New Discoveries in the Jaffa Gate Plaza, Dr. Offer Sion and Pony Shahar, IAA, Hebrew
27.10.10 – Knights, Horses and Bishops – New Discoveries in Jaffa (Yafo), Amit Re'em, IAA, Hebrew
November & December – Biblical Figures and Others
3.11.10 – From Praising Elijah to the Praise of the Baal Shem Tov, Rabbi Avia Hacohen, Hebrew
10.11.10 – About Eve – from "Mother of All" to "Femme Fatale", David Ibgi, Researcher, Curator and Lecturer of Art, Hebrew
17.11.10 – Joseph, His Brothers and His Dreams, Dr. Lea Mazor, Hebrew Univ., Hebrew
24.11.10 – Antiochus the Man and his Character, Prof. Daniel Schwartz, Hebrew Univ., Hebrew
8.12.10 – God and Other Literary Characters in the Bible, Prof. Yaakov Malkin, Tel Aviv Univ., Hebrew
15.12.10 – Abraham – The Blessing of Contrast, Prof. Uriel Simon, Bar-Ilan Univ., Hebrew
22.12.10 – Biblical Figures and their Transformation in Islam, Prof. Moshe Sharon, Hebrew Univ., Hebrew
For the Courses list please click here.
Ancient Near Eastern Seminar for the 2010-11 - October-April
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Prof. Dan Bahat, Bar Ilan University (retired) and University of Toronto
The Creation of the Herodian Temple Mount in Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a historic city of more than 5,000 years, and its Old
City is a religious center for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The
Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem is the holiest site in
Jewish life, originally built 3,000 years ago by King Solomon. The
temple was rebuilt subsequent to the fall of the Israelite kingdoms
2,500 years ago, and King Herod expanded the site 500 years later into
a structure that was finally destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70.
Standing currently on Herod’s expanded platform are two of Islam’s
holiest mosques. The temple built by Herod is considered to be the
Second Temple in historical narratives, but it is in fact the fourth,
as it succeeded three previous temples on the site. The lecture will
describe these previous temples and how we know about them.
The meeting will be held at the Columbia University Faculty House. We
begin gathering at 5:00 PM in the first floor lounge, and the lecture
will begin at 5:30 PM on the second floor, followed by optional dinner
with the speaker at 7:00 PM at the restaurant just outside the seminar
room. If you wish to make dinner reservations and join us (we will
need to report the number of guests), please contact our seminar
rapporteur, Trkan Pilavci [tap2114@columbia.edu], and for those
without internet access, a phone call to me will be fine [(718)
817-3854]. The buffet dinner costs about $24. Please do not wait until
the last moment to let us know.
The seminar schedule for the rest of the academic year is as follows:
November, 2010- TBA
December, 2010-TBA
January 25, 2011 (Tuesday)- Bryan K. Hanks, University of Pittsburgh
February 1, 2011 (Tuesday) - Tim Harrison, University of Toronto
February 14, 2011 (Monday) - Aslihan Yener, Koח University and University of Chicago
March 21, 2011 (Monday) - Karen Sonik, University of Pennsylvania and ISAW
April 4, 2011 (Monday) - Mara Horowitz, Koח University and Alalakh Expedition
Saturday 4th September 2010
"Digitising Cultural Heritage"
British Museum: Stevenson Lecture Theatre,
FREE EVENT: everyone welcome
Digital technology is transforming cultural heritage management. The
power to store, organise and distribute vast quantities of complex
data makes it possible now to do things that only 20 years ago were
dreams. This study day brings together a selection of projects that
embrace the potential of the digital world to broaden and enrich
access to the world's shared cultural heritage.
See http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/september_2010/digitising_cultural_heritage.aspx
for more details.
September 20-21
Fixing, Transmitting and Preserving: Early Jewish and Rabbinic Literature in the History of Hebrew Bible
Madrid
International symposium held at the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS) in Madrid ( Spain )
More information
September 22-24
Conflict and Convergence: Jewish and Christian Approaches to the Psalms
Worcester College , Oxford , England
An international conference highlighting the diverse ways of studying the Psalms. The conference is associated with the Theology Faculty at the University of Oxford and the Society for Old Testament Study and is convened by Dr Susan Gillingham and Professor John Barton.
The location will be at Worcester College , Oxford , England .
More information
August 29 – 31, 2010
Ramat Rahel: Concluding six years of excavations
Heidelberg, Germany
June 30-July 2, 2010
THE SAMARITANS AND THE BIBLE
University of Zurich,
Theological Seminar
Kirshwasser 9 Room 2000
For program, click here: http://www.theologie.uzh.ch/faecher/neues-testament/joerg-frey/20100429_Flyer.pdf
July - August 2010 - Helsinki
7/29-7/31The 14th Congress of International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS) will be held in Helsinki , Finland together with the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT)1-6 August 2010).
More information
8/1-8/6The 20th Congress of IOSOT (International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament) will be held in Helsinki , Finland .
There will be 15 main speakers and two panel sessions. Call for papers
Joint Congresses are International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS) 29-31 July, International Organization for Masoretic Studies (IOMS) on 2 August, International Organization for Qumran Studies (IOQS) 2-4 August and International Organization for Targumic Studies (IOTS) 4-6 August.
More information
8/2Twenty-Third Congress of the International Organization for Masoretic Studies (IOMS), will be held in conjunction with the Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) in Helsinki .
More information
July 26-25, 2010
Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense LVIV The book of Joshua and the land of Israel
University of Leuven - Belgium
More information
July 08-10, 2010
Themes in Biblical Narrative: The Day of Atonement – International Conference at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz , Germany .Organizers: Thomas Hieke ( Mainz ), Tobias Nicklas (Regensburg ).
See conference web page for more information.
Preliminary Program link: http://www.at.kath.theologie.uni-mainz.de/331.php
The conference, "The Samaritans in biblical traditions", will take place from the 30th June to 2nd July 2010 in Zurich.
For internet posting of the program, with many links, go to http://www.agenda.uzh.ch/index.php?reihe=671
The Israel Academy of Sciences and Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi invite you to an evening program in celebration of the publication of The Dead sea Scrolls: The Hebrew Writings, Vol. 1, by Prof. Elisha Qimron.
June 17, 2010
5:00 pm
Israel Academy of Sciences
43 Rehov Jabotinski
For the program (in Hebrew) please click here
The Cairo Genizah and its Computerization
A Workshop Organized by The University of Haifa and the Friedberg Genizah Project
For the program (in Hebrew) please click here
"After Qurman, Old and New Editions of Biblical Texts: The Historical Books"
May 31st-June 2nd 2010
The Symposium will be celebrated at Universidad de Alcala de Henares and organized by the Universities of Alcala, Complutense de Madrid, and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
For the Program please click here
Colloque international « Aux origines des messianismes juifs »
8 et 9 juin 2010 – Maison de la Recherche (Paris-Sorbonne)
In order to read the program , please click here.
Outdoor Qumran and the Dead Sea
Its impact on the Bio- and Material Cultures at Qumran and the Judean Desert manuscripts
The Third Congress On Qumran Science
25-26 May 2010 at Beit Belgia, Givat Ram.
For more info please click here
Prof. Albert Baumgarten, Universite de Bar-Ilan, Israel
Lundi 15 mars 17-19h
« Calendriers et identité s: Qumran et les Karaites »
Salle Duby
Maison Mediterrané enne des Sciences de l’Homme
Aix en Provence, FRANCE
Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem
Wednesday evening lecture at 19:30
24.2.10 - Biblical Hebrew and Mishnaic Hebrew in The Book of Esther
Dr. Keren Dubnov, The Academy of the Hebrew Language & Hebrew University
In Hebrew.
Conference at the University of Halle (Germany), 14-18 March 2010
"Biblical Exegesis and Hebrew Lexicography: Gesenius' Hebrew
Dictionary as Resource and Mirror of Old Testament Scholarship,
throughout 200 Years since its first Publication"
Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1842), professor for Biblical studies at the
University of Halle, was the founder of modern Hebrew lexicography and
grammar. His numerous works on Hebrew and on further Semitic languages
were most influential, especially his "Hebraeisch-deutsches
Handwoerterbuch" and the "Thesaurus philologicus criticus linguae
Hebraeae et Chaldaeae Veteris Testamenti".
The conference, celebrating 200 years since the first edition of the
"Handwoerterbuch" was published in 1810, will deal with different
aspects of the lexicographical and exegetical work of Wilhelm
Gesenius, its basis and its influence, its different editions, its
re-worked editions, and its translations. The central question will be
how Biblical exegesis influenced the dictionary and its development
during its different editions, on the one hand, and how the dictionary
influenced the critical exegesis of the Hebrew Bible, on the other.
Program:
http://www.schorch.at/html/aktuelles.html and
http://www.schorch.at/html/gesenius-programm.html
15th February 2010
THE ANGLO-ISRAEL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
2nd floor, Supreme House, 300 Regent’s Park Road, London N3 2JX Tel:
020 8 349 5754 www.aias.org.uk
Affiliated to the Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
THE JOY OF STUDYING ARAMAIC OSTRACA
Lecture to be given by Professor Bezalel Porten
Bezalel Porten is professor emeritus in the department of Jewish
history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has written widely
on the Aramaic papyri and ostraca stemming from the Jewish community
of Elephantine, Egypt from the fifth century B.C.E.
In the last two decades there have come to light some 1700 Aramaic
ostraca, spanning the years 362 to 302 and believed to have come from
the vicinity of Hebron, situated in what was ancient Idumea (Biblical Edom). They made their appearance on the antiquities market and were
grabbed up by eager collectors, who made them available to
enthusiastic scholars, who published them in record time. Three major publications have already appeared and a fourth is on the way. The
editors of one of these books never saw the actual ostraca and worked
only from photographs. Today, their black and white pictures are no
longer considered adequate. All photos must be digital. Each piece is
shot twice, dry and wetted, and also a third enhanced print is
produced. Aided by these three prints, each piece is hand-copied at
source. Deciphering a piece is often like solving a puzzle. Initial
readings that don't make sense need be challenged. Thus the letter qof
in the incomprehensible name Shaqaniqos could be broken into the two
letters ayin and a dalet, yielding the hitherto unknown but
comprehensible name Saadaniqos, "Qos has helped me." This reading was
validated in two other ostraca, each from a different collection. A
daring reading in a third ostracon produced the name Rabsaadani, "The
Great One helped me." Most unexpected is a land description text which
opens with mention of "the ruin of the temple of YHW" and closes with
reference to two private tombs. Three ostraca for O?aggu/Oagagu b.
Baalsamak clarify the historical question of when Antigonus replaced
Alexander IV. Four ostraca demonstrate the agricultural work detail of
the major clans and two illustrate a 6+ month run of a single scribe
recording 17 chits for wheat flour. Finally, we survey the many
different logos by which scribes sealed their documents and view two
that were both unique and colorful.
Monday, 15th February 2010 at 6.00 p.m.
At the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre
in The British Museum
All welcome. Admission free. No ticket required.
Enquiries: 020 8349 5754 Website: www.aias.org.uk
February 4, 2010
Ecole biblique et archeologique
You are cordially invited to a lecture, entitled "How Father de Vaux Saved the Qumran Cave 11 Scrolls,” to be presented by Dr. Weston W. Fields, Executive Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation, at the Ecole biblique et archeologique, 6 Nablus Road, Jerusalem, on February 4, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.
30th January-1st February 2010
Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem
presents
"Living the Lunar Calendar: Time, Text and Tradition”
At the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem and Qumran
The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, in collaboration with the CAENO Foundation; the Department of Bible, University of Haifa; the Orion Center ; the Haifa Forum for the History of Science; and the Qumran National Park – Israel Nature and Parks Authority.
For More information please click here
For the Conference poster click here
15th January 2010
workshop on "Jewish ‘Material’ Otherness? Ethnic, Religious and
Cultural Boundaries in Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Times in the
Southern Levant” will take place on Friday at the
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
The workshop is part of a research project at the International
Consortium for Research in the Humanities
(http://ikgf-server.vm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/) in Bochum.
Programme
9.00 Introduction
Christian Frevel, Bochum
9.15 Phoenician and Hellenistic influences on clay figurines in the
late Persian period
Izak Cornelius, Stellenbosch/ Bochum
10.50 The Coinage Imagery of Samaria and Judah in the Late Persian
and Early Hellenistic periods: Two Iconographic Profiles in
Comparison
Patrick Wyssmann, Bern
13.30 Glyptic iconography of Persian-period Palestine. The case of
Wadi Daliyeh
Othmar Keel, Fribourg
14.55 New insights into Greek pottery imports and their impact on
"identity discourses”
Astrid Nunn, Gottingen/ Wurzburg
16.00 Religious and cultural boundaries from the Neo-Babylonian to
the early Greek period in historical perspective
Lester L. Grabbe, Hull
17.00 Panel discussion: Jewish identity and cultural assignment in
the late Persian Period
17.30 Closing comments
Organisers: Izak Cornelius and Christian Frevel
If you wish to attend the workshop please register by emailing to jan.clauss@rub.de.
February 18, 2010
Annual Symposium in Memory of Prof. Yohanan Aharoni
Tel Aviv University
Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities
Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology
Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures
Friends of the Institute of Archaeology
The Symposium Will be held on Thursday, February 18, 2010, 13:30-19:00 Hall 223, Gilman Building, Tel Aviv University
Subject: "Town and Administration in Classical Periods Palestine"
13.30 Welcome reception
14.00 Chair: Ze'ev Herzog (Tel Aviv University)
Greetings and Awarding of Institute and Department Grants
Part I: Public Buildings
14:15 Chair and Introductory Remarks: Aharon Oppenheimer (Tel Aviv University)
14:30 Guest Lecturer: Andrea M. Berlin (University of Minnesota),
"The Persian-Hellenistic Administrative Building at Kedesh"
15:30 "Temple and Community at Roman Kedesh," Moshe Fischer (Tel Aviv
University)
16:00 "Herod's Administration in Light of His Building Projects," Ehud
Netzer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
16:30 Coffee Break
Part II: Town and Administration
Chair: Oren Tal (Tel Aviv University)
17:00 "Economy and Society in Gamla in Light of the Finds," Danny Syon
(Israel Antiquities Authority)
17:30 "Town and Administration in Roman Eleutheropolis (Beth Guvrin),"
Amos Kloner (Bar Ilan University)
18:00 "Administration of Iudaea / Palaestina in the Roman and
ByzantinePeriods in Light of the Excavations at Caesarea Maritima,"
Joseph Patrich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
18:30 "City Administration in Roman and Byzantine Palestine," Leah Di
Segni (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
19:00 Closing
February 13 and 14, 2010.-
38th meeting of the North American
Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, which will be held at the
University of Texas – Austin
Please go the the NACAL website http://www.mandaic.org/nacal/ for additional information.
For the program, please click here
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