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SUMMARY:Searching for Israel's Ancestors in the Genomic Age
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on the presenter’s collaboration with Stanford scientists\, this talk will explore recent use of genetic evidence to uncover the ancient ancestors of the Jews. What has been learned from such evidence about the ancient Israelites\, and why has this kind of research proven so controversial? The talk seeks to address these questions in a way that is accessible to people whatever their scientific background. \nSteven Weitzman serves as the Ella Darivoff Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and as the Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Semitics Languages and Literatures in the department of Religious Studies. Among his publications is The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age (Princeton University Press)\, awarded a National Jewish Book Award. \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”156″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/searching-for-israels-ancestors-in-the-genomic-age/
LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall
CATEGORIES:Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T110000
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SUMMARY:Archaeology and the Kingdom of David and Solomon
DESCRIPTION:Archaeology of Ancient Israel Lecture Series\nThe United Monarchy –  the famed kingdom of David and Solomon – is at the center of a heated debate. While until 25 years ago there was a consensus that David and Solomon were historical figures who ruled over fairly large territories\, it is now questioned by many who believe either that these kings were either petty chiefs controlling a limited territory around Jerusalem or that they did not even exist. Given these doubts\, the archaeological evidence has come to the center of discussion stage. A broad examination of the nature of the Iron I-II transition\, however\, reveals major changes in practically every aspect of life\, from settlement patterns to various aspects of material culture\, including pottery form and decoration\, and architectural developments. While each change could\, in theory\, be a result of a number of causes\, a broad analysis of all the processes and transformations\, and especially their sequencing in time and space\, greatly narrows down the possible options. It is therefore the aim of the present lecture to briefly present the sweeping changes that accompanied the Iron I-II transition\, to reconstruct (temporally and spatially) the processes of growing social complexity that they reflect\, and subsequently to examine the implications of this analysis on the debate over the historicity of the so-called United Monarchy. \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \nAvraham Faust (Bar-Ilan University) \nModerated by:\nDr. Aaron Burke (NELC) \nSponsored by:\nKershaw Chair for Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies \nCo-Sponsored by:\nDepartment of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Cotson Institute of Archaeology\nAlan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”138″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/archaeology-and-the-kingdom-of-david-and-solomon/
LOCATION:Mathematical Sciences 4000A
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Hebrew & Jewish,Israel Studies,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190926T120000
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SUMMARY:Applying for Jobs and Life After the Dissertation
DESCRIPTION:Join NELC faculty Dr. Cate Bonesho\, Dr. Kara Cooney\, and Dr. Bill Schniedewind for a workshop and discussion of applying for jobs and life after the dissertation. \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”137″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/life-after-the-dissertation/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 365
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Arabic,Arabic & Islamic Studies,Armenian,Assyriology,Bilingual Lecture Series,Egyptology,Hebrew & Jewish,Hebrew Bible,Iranian,Israel Studies,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,Levantine,Levantine Studies,Middle Eastern Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC,Pourdavoud Center,Semitics,Turkic,Turkic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T160000
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SUMMARY:Feeding the Gods in Ancient Israel
DESCRIPTION:Bread and other grain-based foods were not only staples in the ancient Israelite diet; they were also staples in the ritual acts that accompanied the worship of several deities in ancient Israel. In addition to the state god YHWH\, who required regular offerings of lechem hapanim (“bread of the presence”) in the Tabernacle and the Jerusalem Temple (Exodus 25:30\, 39:36\, 40:23; Leviticus 24: 5-9; Numbers 4:7; 1 Kings 7:48)\, the Queen of Heaven (Jeremiah 7:18\, 44:17-25) was worshipped by families in Jerusalem and throughout Judah with cakes that were marked with her image. Although the biblical writers did not record the details of these practices\, the remains of ritual activity in a variety of Iron Age (ca. 1200-586 BCE) archaeological contexts are strongly associated with areas where bread and other foods were prepared and consumed. In this presentation\, I will discuss the evidence for feeding the gods in Israelite houses\, the house of YHWH\, and other contexts\, and suggest that the ritual importance of bread in ancient Israel began with women’s food offerings to household deities. \n  \nJennie Ebeling is associate professor of archaeology at the University of Evansville in Indiana and co-director of the Jezreel Expedition. A former Fulbright fellow\, she has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Lady Davis Trust to support research in Israel and Jordan. Her research interests include ancient food and drink technology\, women in Canaan and ancient Israel\, and religion and cult in the Bronze and Iron Age Levant\, and her publications include Women’s Lives in Biblical Times (2010) and the edited volumes The Old Testament in Archaeology and History(2017) with J.E. Wright\, M. Elliott\, and P.V.M. Flesher\, Household Archaeology in Ancient Israel and Beyond (2011) with A. Yasur-Landau and L. Mazow\, and New Approaches to Old Stones: Recent Studies of Ground Stone Artifacts (2008) with Y. Rowan. She produced several films based on her ethnographic research of traditional bread ovens in Jordan; one is on permanent exhibit in the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv. Ebeling served as Vice President (Membership) of ASOR and was an ASOR Trustee for ten years; in 2013 she was awarded the Charles U. Harris Service Award in recognition of her long term service to ASOR. She teaches a variety of courses in Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Evansville and her excellence in undergraduate teaching was recognized with the Dean’s Teaching Award (2011) and Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award (2014). \n  \n  \nPlease RSVP at https://www.cjs.ucla.edu/event/feeding-the-gods-in-ancient-israel/.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/feeding-the-gods-in-ancient-israel/
LOCATION:UCLA Faculty Center
CATEGORIES:Israel Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T160000
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SUMMARY:Israel and the Samaria Highlands: A Nomad Settlement Wave or Urban Expansion during the Early Iron Age?
DESCRIPTION:The Iron I period witnessed a wave of settlements in the highlands of Israel\, mostly in Samaria but also to some extent in the Upper Galilee and Judah. This wave is usually associated with the genesis of Ancient Israel and is interpreted in light of the collapse of Canaanite urban centers at the end of the 12th century BCE. This lecture reconsiders the reasons behind this wave of settlement throughout the Samaria Highlands during the Iron I (1200-1000 BCE) in light of new understanding of the social and economic reality on the coastal plain\, the Jezreel\, Jordan\, and Hula Valleys\, and the regions surrounding the Samaria Highlands. \n  \nProf. Yuval Gadot is the head of the Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel-Aviv University. Since 2013 he is directing Tel-Aviv University excavations at the ‘City of David’ and Co-directing the ‘Lautenschläger Azekah Expedition’. His research in Jerusalem includes excavations of the ancient core together with interdisciplinary study of the rural landscape surrounding the city. Gadot obtained his PhD\, titled: “Continuity and change: the transition between the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age in Israel central coastal plain”\, in 2004 from Tel-Aviv University. The work included the first full publication of the excavations at Tel Aphek and a regional study of trends in the material culture as they understood in relation to historical events. Among Gadot’s publications are: Ramat Rahel III – Final Publication of Yohanan Aharoni’s Excavations at Ramat-Raḥel published in 2016\, The Bronze Age Cemetery at ‘Ara published in 2014\, and the recent co-editing of “Rethinking Israel”: an edited volume published in honor of Prof. Israel Finkelstein. \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”89″ title=”false” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/archaeology-of-ancient-israel-fall-2018-lecture/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall A51 (Basement Level)\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Israel Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170130T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170130T183000
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SUMMARY:The Politics of Inequality in Israel: New Insights from the Social Justice Protest of 2011
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE TALK\nIn Israel in the summer of 2011 at least one in five adult citizens participated in a wave of street protests\, critiquing rising inequality and demanding increased government intervention. This represented an exceptional departure from normal welfare state politics in Israel\, which lies outside the left/right division and is dominated by parties and pressure groups representing specific sectors of society. \nTo the extent that the social protest succeeded in breaking down barriers defined by class\, culture and politics\, what made this possible? The protest was dominated by affluent\, left-leaning secular Jews. Haredim (ultra-Orthodox) and Arabs\, sympathetic to some of the protest’s messages but alienated from its messengers\, generally refrained. However\, new evidence documents and helps explain exceptions.\nIt reveals a de facto alliance between traditionally dominant Ashkenazi (European) Jews and upwardly mobile segments of the historically marginalized Mizrachi (Middle Eastern) population. These findings have implications for both the political sociology of protest and the study of Israeli society and politics. \n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nMichael Shalev is Visiting Israel Institute Professor of Political Science at UC-Berkeley. He is Emeritus Professor from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who served as chair of the Departments of Sociology and Political Science. Shalev’s primary interests are (1) the comparative political economy of rich democracies\, including studies of labor relations\, welfare states and gender inequality; and (2) electoral politics\, political economy and the welfare state in Israel. \nHe is co-editor with Asa Maron of Neoliberalism as a state project: Changing the political economy of Israel (forthcoming from Oxford University Press). His recent research is on the wave of mass protests in Israel and Southern Europe in 2011. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology &\nDepartment of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/politics-inequality-israel-new-insights-social-justice-protest-2011/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Israel Studies,Jewish Studies,Middle Eastern Studies,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161006T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161006T193000
DTSTAMP:20161006T221429Z
CREATED:20160929T164606Z
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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:20160125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160125T133000
DTSTAMP:20160708T182941Z
CREATED:20160708T161612Z
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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:20151026T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151026T140000
DTSTAMP:20160708T190453Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T190453Z
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SUMMARY:Egypt and Israel
DESCRIPTION:This talk will survey the many interconnections between Egypt and Israel during the biblical period\, with a special focus on the manner in which Egyptian literary\, religious\, and magical texts inform the biblical narratives of Joseph (Genesis 37-50) and Moses (Exodus 1-15). To mention just two examples here: just as Isis hides baby Horus amongst the papyrus reeds\, so does Moses’s mother hide her baby in similar fashion; and just as Isis suckles Horus\, as depicted in various statuettes\, so must Moses’s mother become the wet-nurse of her child.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/egypt-and-israel/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Egyptology,Israel Studies
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