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  • Ice Cream Social

    NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Come and learn about the different majors and minors offered by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Meet other students in the majors and minors and current faculty.

  • Egypt and Israel

    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...

  • Philosophy in Context: Arabic and Syriac Manuscript Transmissions in the Mediterranean

    NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    This European funded project aims at understanding the conditions of the reception and transmission of philosophy of Greek tradition in the Arabic and Syriac languages in the geographical frame of the Mediterranean World, and describing the vast amount of philosophical works preserved in libraries around the Mediterranean in a systematic way. The codicological description is...

  • Secret Knowledge and Doubtful Priests in Ancient Egyptian Literature

    NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities , Los Angeles, CA, United States

    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...

  • A Better Story Tyrian Resistance, Hasmonean Valor, and the Authority of Narrative

    NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    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,...

  • Turkish Conversation Hours

    Kaufman Room 136 10833 Le Conte Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Come and join us speak Turkish in an informal environment. All students of Turkish and native speakers are welcome to attend!   Pastries and coffee will be provided.

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