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Near Eastern Archaeology
Secret Knowledge and Doubtful Priests in Ancient Egyptian Literature
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities , Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThis 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...
A Better Story Tyrian Resistance, Hasmonean Valor, and the Authority of Narrative
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesNew 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,...