Weekly AGADE Archive February 22- February 28, 2015
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Weekly AGADE Archive February 22- February 28, 2015 February 22 NOTICES: Agade resumption CALLS FOR PAPERS: SBL Hellenistic Judaism Section, Atlanta 2015 WORKSHOPS: The First Writings of Iran in Their Own Context (Naples, March 10-11) LECTURES: Missionary Stories and the Formation of the Syriac Churches (Nashville, Feb 24) JOBS: 2, at the Berliner Antike-Kolleg KUDOS: For Peter R. Brown and Alessandro Portelli (Dan David Prize) OPINIONS: Relevance of ‘Oriental studies’ CALLS FOR PAPERS: Bible and Iberian Empire-building (SBL, Argentina) BOOKS: Song of Songs JPS commentary NOTICES: February Update from The British Institute for the Study of Iraq LECTURES: "The New Excavations in the Necropolis of Himera" (NYC, March 12) WORKSHOPS: Chronography of Julius Africanus NOTICES: 10th ICAANE CALLS FOR PAPERS: Reports on Current Excavations (ASOR 2015) CALLS FOR PAPERS: Biblical Literature and the Hermeneutics of Trauma (SBL 2015) CONFERENCES: Drink.Prey.Lust- Sexual violence in the Book of Esther (Nashville, Feb 24) JOURNALS: Rivista di Studi Fenici 41/1-2, 2013 NEWS: Shrine of Ezra eREVIEWS: Of "The Revolutionary at the Heart of Traditional Judaism " CALLS FOR AWARDS: BAS Publication Awards 2015 CALLS FOR PAPERS: "Archaeology of Lebanon" at ASOR CONFERENCES: Homer: Translation, Adaptation, Improvisation (NYC, Feb. 27) LECTURES: 1177 BC - The Year Civilization Collapsed (Chicago, Feb 25) NEWS?: Marketing Assyrian god JOBS: Several, via the EPHE LECTURES: Archaeology in the Midst of War in Syria (Washington, Feb 27) CONFERENCES: Archeomusicology: Representations of Musicians in the Coroplastic Art of the Ancient World (NYC, March 7, 2015) eREVIEWS: Of "A Sociolinguistic History of the Jews" LECTURES: The Cave of Anba Hadra at Dayr Anba Hadra (Berlin, March 9): LECTURES: 3, on Ancient Israel (Rome, March 10-11) LECTURES: "Second Isaiah - Prophet of Consolation" (Jerusalem, Feb 25] CONFERENCES: Sharing and Hiding Religious Knowledge (Groningen, April 22-24) INTERVIEWS: With Carol and Eric Meyers NEWS: Gold coin cache from Caesarea NEWS: Bankrolling terror eREVIEWS: Of "Documents of Judean Exiles and West Semites in Babylonia" CONFERENCES: Medical Knowledge Transfer and Cultural Exchanges (Lisbon in July] CALLS FOR PAPERS: ISBL Hellenistic Judaism (ISBL Argentina)-- New Deadline February 23 CALLS FOR PAPERS: "The Text of Leviticus" (Fribourg, Oct. 8-9) LECTURES: “Biblical Archaeology: Is It Really the Spade in One Hand and the Bible in the Other?” (Alexandria, VA; March 21) SCHOLARSHIPS: At the Qumran Institute (Groningen) CALLS FOR PAPERS: Analog Life, Digital Image (RAI 2015) CONFERENCES: "Archaeological Looting: Realities and Possibilities for New Policy Approaches" (Chicago, Feb 27-28) CALLS FOR PAPERS: Anthropology, Archaeology and History in Biblical Studies (Córdoba, Spain, 12-15 July) JOURNALS: “Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie” 7(2014) LECTURES: "... The Cultural Heritage Crises in Syria and Northern Iraq" (NYC, March 11) BOOKS: Mari: Capital of Northern Mesopotamia in the Third Millennium LECTURES: "Sicily in the Age of Archimedes" (Nashville, February 26) KUDOS: For Mark Weeden CALLS FOR PAPERS: 9thTranseuphratene Colloquium (Paris, April 7-9, 2016) February 24 LECTURES: "Tel Kedesh and the Maccabees" (Tel Aviv, March 10) eREVIEWS: Of "Individuals and Society in Mycenaean Pylos" BOOKS: Tetragrammaton: Western Christians and the Hebrew Name of God BOOKS: Prophecy and Covenant (OBO 271) NEWS: Oldest city in the world CONFERENCES: "Terracottas in the Mediterranean through Time" (Haifa, March 23-26) eREVIEWS: Of "Les dialogues Adversus Iudaeos...." INTERVIEWS: With Moulie Vidas REPORTS: On the Kurdestan Region project TIDBITS?: The Gruesome and Excruciating Practice of Mummifying Your Own Body NEWS: Burning books in the Mosul library eREVIEWS: Of "The Hasmoneans: Ideology, Archaeology, Identity" FEATURES: Indo-European origins CALLS FOR PAPERS: “The Crazy Genius of Herod the Great” (Dublin, 29-31 May) eREVIEWS: Of "Re-presenting the Past: Archaeology through Text and Image" February 25 NEWS: Blame game REQUESTS: For information on an Assyriologist LECTURES: "The Old Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls" (Cambridge, March 4) NEWS: Possible Ancient Judean Administrative Center eTEXTS & WEBS: Critical Catalogue of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals NEWS: Sekhmet bust from Luxor eNOTES: Reaching for the Historical David NEWS: Laser technology and archaeology at Jezreel NEWS: Secret chamber in Sidon CONFERENCES: Romanization of Sardinia (Cuglieri, Sardinia, 26-28) PRIZES: For Iraq dissertations, 2013-2015 NEWS: Hyksos period pharaoh killed in battle February 26 CONFERENCES: “The Colors of Imperial Rome: The Richmond Statue of Caligula & the Arch of Titus in Rome” (Los Angeles, March 11) BOOKS: The Commentators' Bible: Deuteronomy CALLS FOR PAPERS: Senses and Culture in the Biblical World (SBL 2015) BOOKS & KUDOS: From Gilead to Edom. Studies ... in Honor of Denyse Homès-Fredericq .... eAUDIOS: The Eunuch in the ancient Middle East, China and classical antiquity REPORTS: New Italian Archaeological Project at Tell Surghul/Nigin NEWS: Jack-hammering artefacts in Mosul NOTICES: Change of deadline for IAA prize and subsidies BOOKS: Cuneiform Texts in the Collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, I KUDOS: For Shmuel Ahituv February 27 eREVIEWS: Of "Antiochus the Great" FEATURES: Sitting at the gate NEWS: More on the Israel Prize eVIDEOS & INTERVIEWS: With Zainab Bahrani eREVIEWS: Of "Slandering the Jew: Sexuality and Difference in Early Christian Texts" SCHOLARSHIPS: 2, MA Program in Maritime Civilizations (University of Haifa) [agade] KUDOS: For Ilya Arkhipov February 28 CONFERENCES: HB sessions at SECSOR (Nashville, March 6-8) LECTURES: "...The gates of Azatiwataya" (NYC, March 6) NEWS: More on the violent death of a pharaoh BOOKS: Iranische Personennamen in der Hebräischen Bibel NEWS: Amateur archaeology eNOTES: Idumaean in Judaea court NEWS: 2, on the damage at the Mosul Museum WORKSHOPS: Ethiopic Manuscripts and the Preservation of Ancient Jewish Material (Haifa, March 26) NEWS: Unearthing the Arabian Peninsula’s Past Feb 22 NOTICES: Agade resumption You are about to be flooded by Agade postings, for which I apologize. When useful, I have set the date when a specific item was received. I have not posted several notices referring to activities (mostly lectures) that have taken place by now: a good cue that such postings need to have reached me earlier. (Vacation was splendid; with lots of opportunity to admire Shamash.) CALLS FOR PAPERS: SBL Hellenistic Judaism Section, Atlanta 2015 Received Feb 16 From Lutz Doering [mailto:[email protected]]: =================================================== The SBL Hellenistic Judaism section is inviting submissions for an open session at the Annual Meeting, Atlanta 2015, on "Alexandria and the Jews in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods." For this session we invite papers on any aspect relating to the topic, but we are especially interested in submissions focusing on one of the two following issues: (a) "A growing intellectual hub: Alexandria and the Greek Torah as an Alexandrian book." The early Ptolemies claimed for Alexandria an intellectual role which would challenge that of Athens. The Jews arrived in the city when this project was in the first stages of its development; the translation into Greek of their book, the Torah, occurred at the same time as the formation of the library. Was the Greek Torah a Jewish book or an Alexandrian book? We invite submissions elaborating on the accessibility and knowledge of the Greek Torah outside Jewish circles in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. (b) "Where were the Jews in Alexandria?" The presence of the Jews in Alexandria is certainly historically documented, but archaeology has as of yet been of little help to substantiate the claim of the written sources. We invite submissions discussing the archaeological evidence of Alexandria in relation to the presence of a consistent and growing Jewish community on its territory. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is Mar 4, 2015. This year's Annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature will take place in Atlanta, GA, on November 21-24; information on the meeting and the link to submit the abstracts are to be found here: http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/AnnualMeeting.aspx. Lutz Doering and Sandra Gambetti, program co-chairs WORKSHOPS: The First Writings of Iran in Their Own Context (Naples, March 10-11) Received Feb 17 From Gian Pietro BASELLO [mailto:[email protected]]: ================================== CONFERENCES: First Writings of Iran at Naples From: http://www.elamit.net/elam/20150310-11desset.pdf The First Writings of Iran in Their Own Context An intensive class held by FRANÇOIS DESSET (University of Tehran) Naples, "L'Orientale" University Tuesday 10th March 2015, Palazzo Du Mesnil 15:00-17:30 PE (Proto-Elamite) Writing Wednesday 11th March 2015, Palazzo Du Mesnil 10:30-12:30 LE (Linear Elamite) and Jiroft Writings 14:30-16:30 The context: South-Eastern Iran in the 3rd Millennium BCE FRANÇOIS DESSET received his PhD from the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne with a dissertation entitled "Éléments d’archéologie du plateau iranien de la 2ème moitié du 4ème au début du 2ème millénaire av. J.-C." (2011) and has published the monograph "Premières écritures iraniennes" (Series Minor 76, Napoli: “L’Orientale”, 2012). He is currently researching in Iran. The class is organized in the framework of the National Research Project “Sedi del potere, comunicazione politica