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SUMMARY:I Can Hear The Barbarians
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URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/can-hear-barbarians/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities \, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Arabic,Arabic & Islamic Studies,Armenian,Assyriology,Egyptology,Hebrew & Jewish,Hebrew Bible,Israel Studies,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,Levantine,Levantine Studies,Middle Eastern Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC,Semitics,Turkic,Turkic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160425T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160425T152000
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SUMMARY:Kitāb al-Ḥayda and Early Ḥanbalī Creeds
DESCRIPTION:Among Islamic groups\, Sunnī traditionalists\, especially Ḥanbalīs\, were strongly opposed to kalām (dialectical theology). Their condemnation of kalām was such that it became an established article of their creeds. Notwithstanding this official condemnation\, there is evidence in their writings that they practiced kalām. For example\, Ḥanbalī practices of kalām have been examined in the work of Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328)\, as have their influences on the disputational legal writings (jadal al-fiqh) of Ibn ʿAqīl (d. 513/1119). This talk investigates the role of kalām\, specifically apologetic kalām\, in fourth/tenth-century Ḥanbalī works through the lens of a pseudepigraphon. By examining the genesis of this pseudepigraphon — known in its later recensions under the title Kitāb al-Ḥayda (Book of evasion) — in al-Ibāna al-kubrā (The major creed) of Ibn Baṭṭa al-ʿUkbarī (d. 387/997)\, the presentation will highlight compelling textual evidence not only of the role of apologetic kalām but also of the transmission of pseudepigraphic narratives in the formation of Ḥanbalī creeds. \nRacha El Omari is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at University of California-Santa Barbara. Her research interests are in the areas of Islamic Theology\, Islamic Intellectual History\, and Arabic-Islamic Historiography. She received her PhD from Yale University (NELC). Her works include The Theology of Abū al-Qāsim al-Balkhī/al-Kaʿbī (d. 319/931) (Brill\, forthcoming)\, and “Accomodation and Resistance: Classical Muʿtazilites on Ḥadīth.” Published in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/kitab-al-%e1%b8%a5ayda-early-%e1%b8%a5anbali-creeds/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Arabic & Islamic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160419T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160419T133000
DTSTAMP:20160708T185047Z
CREATED:20160708T170240Z
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SUMMARY:Painters and Painting Practices in the Theban Necropolis During the 18th Dynasty
DESCRIPTION:The lecture will outline some of the main results of a project funded by a Research Incentive Grant of the National Foundation for Scientific Research of Belgium (F.R.S. – FNRS) and devoted to the study of the painters responsible for the decoration of private tombs in the Theban Necropolis during the 18th dynasty\, their techniques\, practices\, work organisation\, employability and relations to their patrons. It will start by addressing the often skirted issue of art and artists in Ancient Egypt\, before analysing the various Egyptological data as well as new methodological strategies that allow us to study and track down those artists in their social but also individual identities.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/painters-painting-practices-theban-necropolis-18th-dynasty/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160418T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160418T180000
DTSTAMP:20160708T184955Z
CREATED:20160708T170111Z
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UID:2368-1460998800-1461002400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Lucille Ball in Ancient Egypt? The Business Dealings of Lady Tsenhor in Persian Egypt
DESCRIPTION:If Tsenhor were alive today\, she would be wearing jeans\, drive a pick-up and enjoy a beer with the boys. Instead she was born c. 2500 years ago\, leaving behind an archive of Demotic papyri now kept in various European museums. These papyri allow us to reconstruct her life (in a way)\, showing that apart from being a housewife she worked as a funerary priest\, bought her own slaves\, owned land and did construction work with her second husband. A woman of many talents indeed. \n  \nKoen Donker van Heel is University Lecturer at the Papyrological Institute of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He is a specialist in abnormal hieratic and early Demotic documents (8th to 4th c. BCE.). His research deals with legal and socio-economic history of Egypt in the Nubian to Persian Periods.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/lucille-ball-ancient-egypt-business-dealings-lady-tsenhor-persian-egypt/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,Near Eastern Archaeology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T203000
DTSTAMP:20160721T214659Z
CREATED:20160708T165051Z
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UID:2365-1460662200-1460665800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Cities that Built the Bible
DESCRIPTION:The Cities That Built the Bible is a magnificent tour through fourteen cities: the cities of Tyre\, Sidon\, and Byblos\, Ugarit\, Nineveh\, Babylon\, Megiddo\, Athens\, Alexandria\, Jerusalem\, Qumran\, Bethlehem\, Nazareth\, and Rome. Along the way\, Cargill includes photos of artifacts\, dig sites\, ruins\, and relics\, taking readers on a far-reaching journey from the Grotto of the Nativity to the battlegrounds of Megiddo\, from the towering Acropolis of Athens to the caves in Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/cities-built-bible/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 314\, 340 Royce Dr b100\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160331T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160331T133000
DTSTAMP:20160721T214754Z
CREATED:20160708T163351Z
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SUMMARY:Lesser Syrtis (Tunisia) in Antiquity
DESCRIPTION:The Lesser Syrtis\, or Mediterranean littoral of southeastern Tunisia\, is a pivotal region in North African history and archaeology. With the Gulf of Gabes as a natural harbor complex opposite the island of Jerba (associated with Calypso of the Lotus-Eaters)\, ancient populations of the area found themselves in an enviable strategic position with access to both the western Maghreb\, as well as the major cities of the eastern Mediterranean. The region was deemed important enough to be mentioned in the historical sources\, including Strabo\, and was considered a zone of emporia. Archaeological findings from survey and excavations over the past decades have highlighted the extent to which the region was a cultural crossroads\, with abundant Greek\, Roman\, Berber and Carthaginian material culture and inscriptions. Like the urban Tripoli to the east—with the “three cities” of Leptis Magna\, Oea and Sabratha—the Lesser Syrtis has its own urban triangle\, with the three centers of Gigthis\, Meninx and Zita. \nDr. Ali Drine is a Senior Archaeological Researcher and Director of Archaeological Mapping at the Institut National du Patrimoine in Tunisia\, where he oversees the excavations of the major archaeological sites in southern Tunisia. From 1997-2001 he co-directed the Jerba Project\, along with colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania. During this project\, he performed the archaeological survey of the island\, resulting in the publication of An Island Through Time: Jerba Studies\, Volume I\, The Punic and Roman Periods (2009)\, edited by Ali Drine\, Elizabeth Fentress and Renata Holod. Si Ali is currently co-directing the Zita Project\, together with scholars from UCLA and Brown University. He is a specialist of the Roman archaeology of Tunisia\, a topic on which he has published widely.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/lesser-syrtis-tunisia-antiquity/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Near Eastern Archaeology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160226T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160226T133000
DTSTAMP:20160721T215220Z
CREATED:20160708T162815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160721T215220Z
UID:2359-1456488000-1456493400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Tracing the Skill of Fresco Painting in Tell El-Dabca
DESCRIPTION:Around 1500 B.C.E. a palatial district has been constructed at the site of Tell el-Dabca\, directly above the Pelusiac branch of the Nile. There\, below the ramps of the entrances of both main buildings about 20 000 fragments of wall paintings have been discovered since 1992. These paintings are rather unusual in context of the Egyptian material culture: they display a rather strangely appearing ‘minoanizing’ iconography\, they are painted on lime plaster instead of the more widespread gypsum plaster and also not the usual tempera-\, but the fresco technique is extensively used. The latter aspect if of particular importance when we want to better understand the kind of transmediterranean relations during this period. Hence the seminar will discuss the different techniques traceable at the site\, try to approach the different necessary skills for their execution and how these might be spread in the Eastern Mediterranean.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/tracing-skill-fresco-painting-tell-el-dabca/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,Near Eastern Archaeology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160212T133000
DTSTAMP:20160708T183535Z
CREATED:20160708T162453Z
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SUMMARY:Settlement and Urban Development in the Bronze Age Southern Levant
DESCRIPTION:Scholarship describes both the Early Bronze Age and the Middle Bronze Age in the southern Levant as “urban” eras\, yet\, beyond broad superficial similarities\, the pattern of settlement and subsequent urban character of each period differs widely. Rather than assume that this precludes examining the two eras together\, however\, these differences instead raise questions about the variables and factors that influenced and affected settlement in the Bronze Age and the subsequent development of “urban” society in each era. Urban development affects all aspects of a society\, and is revealed through the organization\, size\, and distribution of settlement throughout a region; consequently\, the subsequent growth and sustainability of any urban society then hinges on the strength and stability of that settlement. Broad-scale and long-term examination of settlement patterns in the southern Levant reveals important differences between the Early and Middle Bronze Ages that have significant ramifications regarding the nature of urban society in each era. This paper will present data and analysis of settlement patterns in both the Early and Middle Bronze Age southern Levant and address how these patterns reflect the strength\, organization\, and stability of urban development in each era.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/settlement-urban-development-bronze-age-southern-levant/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Near Eastern Archaeology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160204T020000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160204T150000
DTSTAMP:20160721T215324Z
CREATED:20160708T162257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160721T215324Z
UID:2357-1454551200-1454598000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Adoption of the "Adoption" Formula in Biblical Literature
DESCRIPTION:The metaphor of adoption saturates biblical literature\, yet there is no discrete adoption law in the Hebrew Bible. This metaphor did not draw upon one particular source or ancient Near Eastern legal tradition\, but had a wide range of associations rooted in familial and political life. The performative and ritual nature of adoption in the ancient Near East\, too\, is central to understanding the evolution of this metaphor and why it is so pervasive in biblical literature.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/adoption-adoption-formula-biblical-literaturet/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Hebrew Bible
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160125T133000
DTSTAMP:20160708T182941Z
CREATED:20160708T161612Z
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UID:2353-1453723200-1453728600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:A Better Story Tyrian Resistance\, Hasmonean Valor\, and the Authority of Narrative
DESCRIPTION:New archaeological discoveries from two sites in Israel’s Upper Galilee illuminate the territory and autonomy of the Phoenician city-state of Tyre from the early years of Achaemenid rule until c. 140 BCE – with implications for both the historicity of 1 Maccabees and the literary impetus of its author. The first site is Mizpe Yammim\, a Tyrian border shrine and watchtower. The second site is Tel Kedesh\, where c. 500 BCE the Tyrian royal house built a huge compound for the collection of agricultural goods; the compound was remodeled and used by the Ptolemies of Egypt and the Seleucids of Syria. The evidence shows that the Achaemenids gave the Tyrian royal house control of the Upper Galilee and its agricultural bounty\, but that this disappeared under the Ptolemies and Seleucids\, who reduced scions of elite families to provincial functionaries. \n  \nShortly after the middle of the second century\, the compound at Kedesh was abandoned in haste and never returned to administrative use. Within a year or two the building’s archive was deliberately polluted by an infant burial; a few years later squatters occupied portions of the building. The author of 1 Maccabees describes a battle c. 143 BCE in which Jonathan chased Seleucid forces to Kedesh – but the juxtaposition of text and archaeological evidence suggest a very different scenario. The building’s abandonment marks the effective end of imperial authority here\, while the burial in the archive room suggests that Tyrian administrators took advantage of imperial weakness for their own political liberation. The author of 1 Maccabees\, writing at least a generation later\, then “borrowed” an episode that properly belonged to Tyrian history in order to create a heroic persona for Jonathan and to support then-current Hasmonean interests in the Upper Galilee\, a territory considered to be Israelite by divine right. In overwriting an episode of Tyrian resistance as Judean military victory\, he transformed felt geographic destiny into history.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/better-story-tyrian-resistance-hasmonean-valor-authority-narrative/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Israel Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160121T130000
DTSTAMP:20160708T182244Z
CREATED:20160708T180933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T182244Z
UID:2387-1453377600-1453381200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Secret Knowledge and Doubtful Priests in Ancient Egyptian Literature
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will discuss two themes of my ongoing book project “Cult Practice in Ancient Egyptian Literature”. First\, Egyptian literary texts (narratives\, wisdom texts and discourses) often make reference to “secret knowledge.” What does this mean? Second\, doubt is an important motif in several of these texts\, that is\, doubts about the claims of certain priests\, doubts about the efficacy of magic and offerings\, and even priestly self-doubt. What role does this motif play in these texts? \n  \nFranziska Naether is assistant professor of Egyptology at the Egyptological Institute and Egyptian Museum “Georg Steindorff” at the University of Leipzig. Her dissertation “Sortes Astrampsychi” focused on a complex Greek lot oracle from Roman Egypt and other divinatory methods and their legacy. Naether’s research interests include ancient Egyptian literature\, religion and its material culture\, representation and communication of rulers\, papyrology and digital humanities. From 2005 to 2008\, she was collaborator of the initial phase of the “Trismegistos” database and is now working for the “Demotistische Literaturübersicht\,” a review project for demotic studies featured in the journal “Enchoria” and in Trismegistos. Naether is a Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in New York for the 2015-16 academic year and currently for a short leave at the Getty Research Institute.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/secret-knowledge-doubtful-priests-ancient-egyptian-literature-2/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities \, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,Near Eastern Archaeology
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