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.
2013-2014
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May
Study Day "Josephus and the Judaean War"
Conference Date: May 2nd from 10.30- 4.30
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Location: London - King's Building, Strand, Room K2.40
Website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/trs/eventrecords/2013/studydayjosephusjudaeanwar.aspx
The Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies, King's College London, is
pleased to announce a Study Day on Josephus and the Judaean War, with
Prof. Steve Mason (Aberdeen University)
Workshop: "The Mystery of Existence: The Development of Authority in 4QInstruction"
Workshop Date: Thursday, May 9, 2013, at 4:00 p.m.
Institution: W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research
Location: Benjamin Wold - National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, AIAR
Further Details: albrightprogramcoordinator@gmail.com
International Conference on
CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE IN PENTATEUCHAL THEORY:
BRIDGING THE ACADEMIC CULTURES OF ISRAEL, NORTH AMERICA, AND EUROPE
Conference Date: May 12-13, 2013/ 3-4 Sivan 5773
Istitution: THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM - THE ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES
Location: Feldman Building, Room 115 The Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem
Website: www.as.huji.ac.il/convergence
Yeshiva University Dead Sea Scrolls Seminar "mini-conference"
Conference Date:Sunday, May 19, 2013 from 1:30-4:30 PM
Where:Wilf (uptown) Campus of Yeshiva University New York
Jewish Religion in Light of New Inscriptions and Papyri
Conference Date: May 19th 2013
Location: Beck Auditorium, The Rappaport Faculty of Jewish Studies (building 410); Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Further Details:eshelesti10@gmail.com
The Jeselsohn Epigraphic Center for Jewish History at Bar Ilan
University together with Vienna University’s Institute of Jewish
Studies will conduct an international conference on
" Jewish Religion in Light of New Inscriptions and Papyri"
The Conference is cosponsored by the Austrian Federal Ministry for
Foreign Affairs and the Austrian Cultural Forum, Tel Aviv.
Program
9:00-9:20 Opening greetings
Prof. Haim Taitelbaum, Rector, Bar Ilan University
H.E. Mr. Franz Josef Kuglitsch, Austrian Ambassador
Dr. David Jeselsohn, Founder of the Jeselsohn Center
Sites and Texts from before the Babylonian Exile
Chair: Esther Eshel
9:20-9:50 Shmuel Ahituv: Kuntillet 'Ajrud: A Summary and Conclusions
9:50-10:20 Michael Langlois: Jewish Religion in Light of Unpublished
Inscriptions from the Jeselsohn Collection Sites and Texts from the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods
10:20-11:00 Kathleen Abraham: The Judean Marriage Contract from Al-Yah?du: A New Look at its Cultural Background
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
Chair: Elie Assis
11:30-12:00 Esther Eshel: New Divination Ostraca from Maresha
12:00-12:30 Yigal Levin: The Development of Religious Identity in Idumaea
12:30-13:00 Nili Samet: Qohelet and the Ancient Near Eastern
"Literature of Vanity": A Reassessment
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
Sites and Texts from Hellenistic Times
Chair: Amos Kloner
14:00-14:30 Avner Ecker: The Greek Ostraca from Maresha and the Impact
of Seleucid Rule
14:30-15:00 Dov Gera: The Olympiodoros Stele from Maresha and Hellenization in
the Jerusalem Temple
15:00-15:30 Bernhard Palme: The Heracleopolis Archive
15:30-15:45 Coffee Break
Sites and Texts from Roman Times
Chair: Eyal Regev
16:15-16:45 Ranon Katzoff: Sabbath Observance in Judaean Desert
Documents, Once Again
16:45-17:15 Armin Lange: Jewish Religion in the Danubian Diaspora: The
Inscriptions from Carnuntum
Responses and Concluding Discussion
Chair: Armin Lange
17:15-18:00 Konrad Schmid: Jewish Religion in Light of New Texts from
Pre-Exilic and Persian Times
Daniel R. Schwartz: Jewish Religion in Light of New Texts from
Hellenistic and Roman Times
Conference Committee:
Prof. Esther Eshel, Prof. Armin Lange, Dr. Yigal Levin
Hekhal: the Irish Society for the Study of the Ancient Near East
Conference Subject:"Pilgrimage, Travel, and Cult"
Conference Date: 24 - 26 May 2013
Where:Dublin, Ireland
Website: For more info please click here
June
ANGLO-ISRAEL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
"THE UTOPIAN TEMPLE PLAN OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS"
Conference Date: MONDAY 3rd JUNE 2013 (AGM Lecture) 6.00 pm
Location: Lecture Theatre G6, Ground Floor, Institute of Archaeology,
University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H OPY
Website: www.aias.org.uk
PROFESSOR LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN (VICE PROVOST FOR UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, USA)
(AGM commences at 5.15 pm)
Organised jointly with the Institute of Archaeology, University
College, London
ADMISSION FREE WITHOUT TICKET
July
ISDCL-International-Conference 2013
The Metaphorical Use of Language in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature
Conference Date: 01-05/07/2013
Institution: International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature (ICDCL 2013)
Location: Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Haus, Ziegelstr. 30,10117 Berlin , Germany
Website: http://zope.theologie.hu-berlin.de/
Programm ISDCL 2013 in Berlin
Registration Form ISDCL 2013 Berlin
SBL 2013 International Meeting - St. Andrews
Digital Humanities in Biblical, Early Jewish, and Christian Studies
Conference Date: 7-11 July 2013
Location: St-Andrews - Scotland (UK),
Website: http://www.sbl-site.org
Description: This section is dedicated to the study of all aspects of
Judaism related to Hellenistic times. The Hellenistic period includes
its chronological, cultural, and linguistic dimensions.
Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies, Early Jewish and Christian Studies
Conference Date:30 July- 2 August 2013
Location: EABS (European Association of Biblical Studies) meeting, Leipzig
Website: http://www.sbl-site.org
August
XXI Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT)
Conference Date:from 4th to 9th of August, 2013
Location:Munich , Germany
Website: http://www.en.iosot2013.evtheol.uni-muenchen.de/index.html
8th meeting of the IOSOT (2013)
Institution: University of Munich
Conference Date: Aug 2013
Where: Munich
Website: For more info please click here
September
October
Antiquities Under Attack: Cultural Heritage in Times of War Conference
Conference Date: October 23-26, 2013
Institution: Lebanese American University
Location: Byblos, Lebanon
Website: http://www.lau.edu.lb/news-events/conferences/antiquities/
This is a multidisciplinary, international conference on the
protection of cultural heritage under threat of warfare to be held at
the Lebanese American University in Beirut/Byblos from October 23rdto
26th 2013.
The Twenty-Sixth Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium
"Wealth and Poverty in Jewish Tradition"
Conference Date: October 27-28, 2013
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Website: http://www.creighton.edu/ccas/klutznick/
November
The 11th Mainz International Colloquium on Ancient Hebrew (11. MICAH)
Conference Date: from Friday, 1st to Sunday 3rd November 2013
Location: Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
Website: http://www.micah.hebraistik.uni-mainz.de/204.php
ASOR's 2013 Annual Meeting
Conference Date:November 20-23.
Location:Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland
Website: Website Link
December
2014
OXFORD SEMINAR IN ADVANCED JEWISH STUDIES
Seminar Subject:"The Reception of Josephus in the Early Modern Period"
Seminar Date: January to June 2014
Seminar Leaders: Professor Martin Goodman and Dr Joanna Weinberg
Website: For more information please click here
INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN APOCRYPHAL LITERATURES
THE LIFE OF ADAM AND EVE AND ADAMIC TRADITIONS
Conference Date:January 7th-10th, 2014
Location:Universite de Lausanne
Website: http://www.aelac.org/aelacnet/collacVAEe.htm
Past 2013
January 2013
LECTURES & WORKSHOPS: At the Oriental Institute (Chicago)
Conference Date: January 7-18, 2013
Conference Location: Oriental Institute and the Department of Near
Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Matthew NEUJAHR (Marquette University), Lecture Mon. Jan. 7 3:30 PM Breasted Hall
"Recontextualizing Qumran Commentaries: the Pesharim as Data in the
History of Hellenistic/Roman Mantic Practices"
A great deal of scholarly effort has been expended on attempts to
reconstruct the history of the Qumran sectarians based on clues in the
pesharim; as works that comment on biblical texts, the pesharim have
likewise loomed large in studies of ancient Jewish interpretive
traditions. Considerably less attention has been paid to the fact that
the pesharim are themselves artifacts of mantic practice. This paper
situates several of the pesharim within their larger West Asian /
Mediterranean milieu as evidence of literary mantic practices in the
Hellenistic-Roman world. In particular, drawing on comparative
materials from other Near Eastern cultures, the paper argues that
these Dead Sea Scrolls contribute significantly to our knowledge of
the practice of bibliomancy in the ancient world
2013 AIA Annual Meeting
Conference Date: January 6-9, 2013
Conference Location: Seattle, Washington at the Washington State Convention Center and the Sheraton Seattle Hotel
Website Program: www.archaeological.org/annualmeeting
February
Halle-Tel Aviv Research Seminar in Ancient Hebrew Language and Literature
Early Samaritan, Jewish, and Christian Liturgical Texts
Conference Date: 3-7 February 2013
Location: Halle (Saale)
Website:http://schorch.at/html/seminar_english.html
Primary Language: Hebrew
March
Forging Linguistic Identities
Conference Date: March 14-16, 2013
Location: Department of Foreign Languages, Towson University, Towson, Maryland 21252
For more information: gmccool@towson.edu
For more information: gmccool@towson.edu
EABS Graduate Symposium
Conference Date: March 22-24, 2013
Location: Whirlow Grange, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Website: http://www.eabs.net/site/student-zone/
TWELFTH ANNUAL SEAN W. DEVER MEMORIAL PRIZE 2013
Conference Date: March 9, 2013
Location: Albright Institute of Archaeological Research
April
Deichmann annual lecture series
The Parting of the Ways According to Second Century Christian Writings
Conference Date: April 9-10, 2013
Location: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
For the program schedule: http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/Pages/events/deichmann_2013.aspx.
The Annual Haifa Workshop on the Dead Sea Scrolls
Conference Date: April 25, 2013
Location:University of Haifa , Eshkol Tower
For the program schedule: please press here.
All lectures will be held in Hebrew. A minibus will leave from Jerusalem to Haifa at 7:30 AM. To reserve a place, please contact jonbendov@gmail.com.
Demons and Evil Angels in Early Judaism
Conference Date: Monday, April 22, 2013 5:00 PM
Location: AVAYA Auditorium (ACES 2.402) 24th and Speedway, UT Campus
A lecture by Carol A. Newsom, Emory University
Although classical Israelite religion has very little to say about
demons and other evil forces, but popular religion took it for granted
that evil demons existed, haunting desert ruins and sometimes preying
on people. In the late Persian and Hellenistic periods (4th-2nd
centuries BCE) speculation about these types of figures proliferates.
Incantations against demons, protective amulets, and practices of
exorcism are all attested. Mythic accounts of the origin of evil
spirits are developed, and the names and occasionally even the
appearance of the demons are described.
This talk will examine the origins and functions of speculation on
demonic forces in early Judaism, a worldview with profound and lasting
cultural effects. Although rabbinic Judaism largely rejected it, this
worldview strongly shaped Christian religious beliefs. And while
modernist Christians do not take the mythology of evil spirits
literally, variations on these beliefs remain common among
conservative evangelical and Pentecostal Christians throughout the
world.
Carol A. Newsom is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament
at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. She has written
seven books and scores of articles, book chapters, translations,
encyclopedia articles, and reviews. She has received several
prestigious research fellowships, including grants from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the Henry Luce Foundation, and has
won several awards for excellence in teaching and mentoring. She
recently served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature and
is a senior fellow at Emory University's Center for the Study of Law
and Religion.
Sponsored by: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of
Religious Studies, and the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies.
Yeshiva University Dead Sea Scrolls Seminars
Conference Date: 5:45 PM on Tuesday April 23, 2013
Institution: Yeshiva University - Wilf campus
Location: New York City
Website:
Mail:rotheims@yu.edu
The date for the end-of-year conference has not been
finalized, but it will most likely take place in May 2013.
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