London Centre for the Ancient Near East Seminar Series
Current lecture series: Jewish Babylonia
Location: SOAS, Russell Square WC1H 0XG. Brunei Gallery, Room B104
Time: Mondays at 6:15 pm
For other events in London see the latest issue of the London Diary for the Ancient Near East
2012
January
16/01/12
- Thousand gods and thousand names in the Hittite empire
Ilya Yakubovich (Oxford University)
February
06/02/12
- Salinisation in Mesopotamia from a social-environmental perspective
Mark Altaweel (UCL Institute of Archaeology)
20/02/12
- Contact, conflict and Identity in Bronze Age northern Anatolia
Claudia Glatz (Glasgow University)
March
05/03/12
- Banquet in fableland: Real and imagined worlds in glyptic iconography
Birger Helgestad (British Museum)
19/03/12
- Karkamish revisited
David Hawkins (SOAS)
October
08/10/12
- The Aramaic incantation type in the Jewish transmission: chronology and contents
Christa Müller-Kessler (Jena)
Lecture series on Jewish Babylonia
22/10/12
- Judeans in Babylonian exile and their obligations towards the crown according to cuneiform sources
Cornelia Wunsch (SOAS)
Lecture series on Jewish Babylonia
November
12/11/12
- The Babylonian exile and the formation of Judaism
Irving Finkel (British Museum)
Lecture series on Jewish Babylonia
26/11/12
- Babylon in the Talmud, the Talmud in Babylon
Willem Smelik (UCL)
Lecture series on Jewish Babylonia
December
10/12/12
- Building provincial elites in the Old Kingdom: strategies of power, self-presentation and relations with the royal palace
Juan-Carlos Garcia Moreno (Paris)
Lecture series on Jewish Babylonia
