March 15–25, 2020 Following the FootstepsIndia of St. Paul along the Turkish Coast aboard the MS Serenissima Paul Freedman Chester D. Tripp Professor of HistoryStephen Davis Chair, History of Science,Professor History of Religious of Medicine Studies and of History Dear Yale Traveler, It is sometimes said that if there were no St. Paul there would have been no Christianity. Through his three missionary journeys, from around A.D. 44 to 60, the Christian message was spread to the classical world and some of the earliest Christian churches were founded.

Travel with Yale starting in Cyprus to follow Paul’s footsteps along the coast of Turkey to Istanbul. Cruise for eight days and visit stunning ancient sites along the way reflecting not only Paul’s legacy but also elements of Greek, Fado guitar Roman, and Byzantine civilizations. Disembark in Istanbul, Trojan Horse at the gem of the Byzantine and Ottoman world, and either Troy ARCHAEOLOGY Site return to the U.S. or participate in a two-night extension of old stone road in Xanthos this incredible city.

Stephen Davis, Yale Professor of Religious Studies and of History will offer lectures related to Paul and the geography we will be traversing. Topics will be an introductory lecture on his life, travels and writing followed by topical lectures related to the sites visited.

Home for this delightful voyage will be the M.S. Serenissima, a ship that accommodates only 95 travelers. Yale will share this program with travelers from the Archeology Institute of America who will have as their lecturer, Professor Michael Hoff.

To hold your space, please call 203-432-1952 or Pergamon register at www.yaleedtravel.org/turkey20.

All the best from Yale,

Lauren Summers Senior Director Lifelong Learning & Travel

yaleedtravel.org/turkey20 Yale Study Leader Highlights Visit the UNESCO Stephen Davis is Professor of Religious Studies, Neolithic settlement of specializing in the history of ancient and medieval Choirokoitia, inhabited Christianity, with a focus on the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. Since 2013 he has from the 9th millennium served as Head of Pierson College, and from 2015 to B.C., and one of the most 2018 he also served as Chair of the Council of Heads important prehistoric of College (CHC). His areas of teaching and research sites in the eastern include the study of women and gender, pilgrimage Mediterranean. and the cult of the saints, the history of biblical interpretation and canon formation, Egyptian Christianity, Arabic Walk through the narrow Christianity and its relation to Islam, early Christian art and material culture, and the application of archaeological, anthropological, streets of Tarsus, birthplace sociological, and literary methods in the study of historical texts. of St. Paul, and visit the fantastic Tarsus Museum, In addition to a number of academic articles, he has authored (or co- boasting a wealth of authored) the following books and monographs: relics from the Gözlükule • Monasticism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2018); excavations. • Christ Child: Cultural Memories of a Young Jesus (Yale UP, 2014); Spend the day at the • A Disputation over a Fragment of the Cross: A Medieval Arabic Text from the History of Christian-Jewish-Muslim Relations in Egypt Greek island of Patmos, (co-authored and edited with B. Orfali and S. Noble; sacred to Christians as the Dar al-Machreq, 2012); site where St. John received • The Arabic Life of St. John the Little (published as a his revelation, and climb to monograph in the journal Coptica, vol. 7, 2008); the Monastery of St. John. • Coptic Christology in Practice: Incarnation and Divine Participation in Late Antique and Medieval Egypt (Oxford UP, 2008); Ascend by cable car to • The Early Coptic Papacy: The Egyptian Church and Its Leadership the Pergamon Acropolis, in Late Antiquity (American University in Cairo Press, 2004); one of Turkey’s finest • Be Thou There: The Holy Family’s Journey in Egypt archaeological sites, and (co-authored with W. Lyster and C. Hulsman; explore the remains of the American University in Cairo Press, 2001); citadel, the Zeus Altar, • The Cult of St. Thecla: A Tradition of Women's Piety in Late and the Royal Palace. Antiquity (Oxford UP, 2001).

Davis’ current research projects demonstrate his interdisciplinary interests in archaeology, textual studies, and social history. Since 2006, he has Upcoming Trips served as executive director of the Yale Monastic Archaeology Project Japan: Bashoˉ’s Road (YMAP), conducting field work and training graduate students primarily to the North at three sites in Egypt: the Monastery of John the Little in the north; the October 11–23, 2019 White Monastery and its federated women’s monastery at Atripe in the Edward Kamens ’74, ’82 PhD south. (For more information, see the Yale in Egypt website at http:// Japanese Studies egyptology.yale.edu). Davis is also engaged in projects involving the cataloguing, editing, and translation of ancient and medieval texts. He Cruising the Mekong River is founder and editor of the series Christian Arabic Texts in Translation aboard the 12-cabin Mekong Princess (CATT) published by Fordham University Press, and in 2013 he initiated a November 4–17, 2019 project to catalogue the collection of Coptic and Arabic manuscripts at the Prof. James Salzman ‘85 Monastery of the Syrians in Wadi al-Natrun, Egypt. The multi-volume Environmental Law catalogue will be published in the Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Subsidia series, by Peeters Press. Elbe River Cruise aboard Elbe Princesse II Yale Educational Travel • Yale Alumni Association March 31–April 11, 2020 Box 209010, New Haven, CT 06520-9010 James Hepokoski Reservations: (203) 432-1952 [email protected] Music Itinerary place of pilgrimage for admirers of this ISTANBUL March 15–25, 2020 disciple of St. Paul. CANNAKALE Rendezvous with the TROY Welcome phone call ship at Ta ucu and PERGAMON Friday, February 28 Aegean TURKEY enjoy dinner aboard Sea (tentative) as we follow the EPHESUS Join Professor Davis and the ANTALYA KUSADASI sunset toward the PERGE TARSUS group at 4pm Eastern for a pre- PATMOS Turquoise Coast. FETHIYE ASPENDOS trip welcome call to learn more MERSIN MS Serenissima (BLD) XANTHOS about what to expect and ask any GREECE PATARA questions you may have. Antalya Thursday, CYPRUS

Mediterranean Sea yaleedtravel.org/turkey20 Depart U.S. / March 19 LARNACA Larnaca, Cyprus Arrive in bustling Sunday & Monday, Antalya and join one of two March 15 & 16, 2020 excursions: (1) A full-day tour Xanthos, Letoon, and Patara (where Depart home on international to the ruins of ancient Perge, Paul stopped in A.D. 60), including overnight flights to Larnaca, a settlement dating back to at lunch at a local restaurant. (2) Visit Cyprus, transferring to our hotel least the Bronze Age (visited at Xanthos and Patara in the morning upon arrival on Monday. Enjoy a least twice by St. Paul and his and return to the ship for lunch. (3) restful evening at leisure. companion St. Barnabas), and Wander the streets of Kayaköy, a city Ciao Stelio Deluxe Hotel Aspendos, whose 2nd-century with ancient roots but abandoned theater is one of the best-preserved after World War I, among hundreds Larnaca in the Mediterranean. (2) A short of still-standing 18th-century stone Tuesday, March 17 morning hike through the pines dwellings and churches. After a morning orientation to the ancient mountaintop city of MS Serenissima (BLD) and lecture, drive to the nearby Termessos, mentioned in the Iliad, UNESCO-listed Neolithic and legendarily difficult to defeat Patmos, Greece settlement of Choirokoitia, (Alexander the Great never could, Saturday, March 21 inhabited from at least the 9th though Bellerophon managed it by Spend the morning at sea before millennium B.C., and considered dropping boulders from Pegasus!), arriving at Patmos. Of all the Greek one of the earliest examples of followed by a free afternoon in islands, Patmos is the most sacred organized society. Ruins of circular Antalya. MS Serenissima (BLD) to Christians both Orthodox and mudbrick and stone dwellings Western; it was here that St. John remain, along with collectively is said to have received the vision constructed fortifications and The theater at that led to the Book of Revelation. planned open spaces. After lunch, Visit the Cave of the Apocalypse, choose to join either a food tour Aspendos was built where John lived in exile, had his through downtown Larnaca or in the 2nd century revelation, and wrote the last book a trek to the Troodos mountains and is one of the of the Christian Bible. Continue for winetasting. Board the MS to the village of Chora, known Serenissima this evening and enjoy best-preserved in the for its glittering white houses and the Captain’s welcome reception Mediterranean. narrow stone streets, and climb to and dinner. MS Serenissima (BLRD) the Monastery of St. John, looming fortress-like over the village. Enjoy Mersin, Turkey Fethiye an evening at leisure to explore the Wednesday, March 18 Friday, March 20 picturesque town of Skala or enjoy a Call at Mersin, Turkey, a short drive From our berth at Fethiye we travel swim at a nearby beach. from Tarsus, birthplace of St. Paul. southeast to discover the rich Lycian MS Serenissima (BLD) th Walk the narrow 16 -century streets towns of Xanthos (built on a great and Roman roads, see the artifact- cliff overlooking the river), Letoon Ku adasi / Ephesus rich Tarsus Museum, and visit the (sanctuary of Leto, and one of the Sunday, March 22 decorative Grand Mosque. Proceed most important religious centers of Call at the bustling port city of overland to Silifke, stopping along its time), Patara (amidst sand dunes Ku adasi for the short drive to the way at the resort town of by the beach), and the ghost village Ephesus. An important port city and Kizkalesi (Maiden’s Castle). Visit of Kayaköy. 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