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SUMMARY:Turkish Conversation Hours
DESCRIPTION:Come and join us speak Turkish in an informal environment. All students of Turkish and native speakers are welcome to attend! \n  \nPastries and coffee will be provided.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/turkish-conversation-hours/
LOCATION:Kaufman Room 136\, 10833 Le Conte Ave\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Turkic Studies
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151109T133000
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SUMMARY:Philosophy in Context: Arabic and Syriac Manuscript Transmissions in the Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe codicological description is integrated in a database that will be open to the scholarly community.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/philosophy-context-arabic-syriac-manuscript-transmissions-mediterranean/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arabic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151026T130000
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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/
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CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Egyptology,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151015T160000
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SUMMARY:Ice Cream Social
DESCRIPTION:Come and learn about the different majors and minors offered by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.\nMeet other students in the majors and minors and current faculty.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ice-cream-social/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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