Weekly AGADE Archive February 22- February 28, 2015

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Weekly AGADE Archive February 22- February 28, 2015

February 22
NOTICES: Agade resumption
CALLS FOR PAPERS: SBL Hellenistic Judaism Section, Atlanta 2015
WORKSHOPS: The First Writings of Iran in Their Own Context (Naples, March 10-11)
LECTURES: Missionary Stories and the Formation of the Syriac Churches (Nashville, Feb 24)
JOBS: 2, at the Berliner Antike-Kolleg
KUDOS: For Peter R. Brown and Alessandro Portelli (Dan David Prize)
OPINIONS: Relevance of ‘Oriental studies’
CALLS FOR PAPERS: Bible and Iberian Empire-building (SBL, Argentina)
BOOKS: Song of Songs JPS commentary
NOTICES: February Update from The British Institute for the Study of Iraq
LECTURES: "The New Excavations in the Necropolis of Himera" (NYC, March 12)
WORKSHOPS: Chronography of Julius Africanus
NOTICES: 10th ICAANE
CALLS FOR PAPERS: Reports on Current Excavations (ASOR 2015)
CALLS FOR PAPERS: Biblical Literature and the Hermeneutics of Trauma (SBL 2015)
CONFERENCES: Drink.Prey.Lust- Sexual violence in the Book of Esther (Nashville, Feb 24)
JOURNALS: Rivista di Studi Fenici 41/1-2, 2013
NEWS: Shrine of Ezra
eREVIEWS: Of "The Revolutionary at the Heart of Traditional Judaism "
CALLS FOR AWARDS: BAS Publication Awards 2015
CALLS FOR PAPERS: "Archaeology of Lebanon" at ASOR
CONFERENCES: Homer: Translation, Adaptation, Improvisation (NYC, Feb. 27)
LECTURES: 1177 BC - The Year Civilization Collapsed (Chicago, Feb 25)
NEWS?: Marketing Assyrian god
JOBS: Several, via the EPHE
LECTURES: Archaeology in the Midst of War in Syria (Washington, Feb 27)
CONFERENCES: Archeomusicology: Representations of Musicians in the Coroplastic Art of the Ancient
World (NYC, March 7, 2015)
eREVIEWS: Of "A Sociolinguistic History of the Jews"
LECTURES: The Cave of Anba Hadra at Dayr Anba Hadra (Berlin, March 9):
LECTURES: 3, on Ancient Israel (Rome, March 10-11)
LECTURES: "Second Isaiah - Prophet of Consolation" (Jerusalem, Feb 25]
CONFERENCES: Sharing and Hiding Religious Knowledge (Groningen, April 22-24)
INTERVIEWS: With Carol and Eric Meyers
NEWS: Gold coin cache from Caesarea
NEWS: Bankrolling terror
eREVIEWS: Of "Documents of Judean Exiles and West Semites in Babylonia"
CONFERENCES: Medical Knowledge Transfer and Cultural Exchanges (Lisbon in July]
CALLS FOR PAPERS: ISBL Hellenistic Judaism (ISBL Argentina)-- New Deadline

February 23
CALLS FOR PAPERS: "The Text of Leviticus" (Fribourg, Oct. 8-9)
LECTURES: “Biblical Archaeology: Is It Really the Spade in One Hand and the Bible in the Other?”
(Alexandria, VA; March 21)
SCHOLARSHIPS: At the Qumran Institute (Groningen)
CALLS FOR PAPERS: Analog Life, Digital Image (RAI 2015)
CONFERENCES: "Archaeological Looting: Realities and Possibilities for New Policy Approaches"
(Chicago, Feb 27-28)
CALLS FOR PAPERS: Anthropology, Archaeology and History in Biblical Studies (Córdoba, Spain, 12-15
July)
JOURNALS: “Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie” 7(2014)
LECTURES: "... The Cultural Heritage Crises in Syria and Northern Iraq" (NYC, March 11)
BOOKS: Mari: Capital of Northern Mesopotamia in the Third Millennium
LECTURES: "Sicily in the Age of Archimedes" (Nashville, February 26)
KUDOS: For Mark Weeden
CALLS FOR PAPERS: 9thTranseuphratene Colloquium (Paris, April 7-9, 2016)

February 24
LECTURES: "Tel Kedesh and the Maccabees" (Tel Aviv, March 10)
eREVIEWS: Of "Individuals and Society in Mycenaean Pylos"
BOOKS: Tetragrammaton: Western Christians and the Hebrew Name of God
BOOKS: Prophecy and Covenant (OBO 271)
NEWS: Oldest city in the world
CONFERENCES: "Terracottas in the Mediterranean through Time" (Haifa, March 23-26)
eREVIEWS: Of "Les dialogues Adversus Iudaeos...."
INTERVIEWS: With Moulie Vidas
REPORTS: On the Kurdestan Region project
TIDBITS?: The Gruesome and Excruciating Practice of Mummifying Your Own Body
NEWS: Burning books in the Mosul library
eREVIEWS: Of "The Hasmoneans: Ideology, Archaeology, Identity"
FEATURES: Indo-European origins
CALLS FOR PAPERS: “The Crazy Genius of Herod the Great” (Dublin, 29-31 May)
eREVIEWS: Of "Re-presenting the Past: Archaeology through Text and Image"

February 25
NEWS: Blame game
REQUESTS: For information on an Assyriologist
LECTURES: "The Old Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls" (Cambridge, March 4)
NEWS: Possible Ancient Judean Administrative Center
eTEXTS & WEBS: Critical Catalogue of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals
NEWS: Sekhmet bust from Luxor
eNOTES: Reaching for the Historical David
NEWS: Laser technology and archaeology at Jezreel
NEWS: Secret chamber in Sidon
CONFERENCES: Romanization of Sardinia (Cuglieri, Sardinia, 26-28)
PRIZES: For Iraq dissertations, 2013-2015
NEWS: Hyksos period pharaoh killed in battle

February 26
CONFERENCES: “The Colors of Imperial Rome: The Richmond Statue of Caligula & the Arch of Titus in
Rome” (Los Angeles, March 11)
BOOKS: The Commentators' Bible: Deuteronomy
CALLS FOR PAPERS: Senses and Culture in the Biblical World (SBL 2015)
BOOKS & KUDOS: From Gilead to Edom. Studies ... in Honor of Denyse Homès-Fredericq ....
eAUDIOS: The Eunuch in the ancient Middle East, China and classical antiquity
REPORTS: New Italian Archaeological Project at Tell Surghul/Nigin
NEWS: Jack-hammering artefacts in Mosul
NOTICES: Change of deadline for IAA prize and subsidies
BOOKS: Cuneiform Texts in the Collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, I
KUDOS: For Shmuel Ahituv

February 27
eREVIEWS: Of "Antiochus the Great"
FEATURES: Sitting at the gate
NEWS: More on the Israel Prize
eVIDEOS & INTERVIEWS: With Zainab Bahrani
eREVIEWS: Of "Slandering the Jew: Sexuality and Difference in Early Christian Texts"
SCHOLARSHIPS: 2, MA Program in Maritime Civilizations (University of Haifa)
[agade] KUDOS: For Ilya Arkhipov

February 28
CONFERENCES: HB sessions at SECSOR (Nashville, March 6-8)
LECTURES: "...The gates of Azatiwataya" (NYC, March 6)
NEWS: More on the violent death of a pharaoh
BOOKS: Iranische Personennamen in der Hebräischen Bibel
NEWS: Amateur archaeology
eNOTES: Idumaean in Judaea court
NEWS: 2, on the damage at the Mosul Museum
WORKSHOPS: Ethiopic Manuscripts and the Preservation of Ancient Jewish Material (Haifa, March 26)
NEWS: Unearthing the Arabian Peninsula’s Past

Feb 22

NOTICES: Agade resumption
You are about to be flooded by Agade postings, for which I apologize. When useful, I have set the date
when a specific item was received.

I have not posted several notices referring to activities (mostly lectures) that have taken place by now: a
good cue that such postings need to have reached me earlier.

(Vacation was splendid; with lots of opportunity to admire Shamash.)

CALLS FOR PAPERS: SBL Hellenistic Judaism Section, Atlanta 2015
Received Feb 16

From Lutz Doering [mailto:[email protected]]:
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The SBL Hellenistic Judaism section is inviting submissions for an open session at the Annual Meeting,
Atlanta 2015, on

"Alexandria and the Jews in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods."

For this session we invite papers on any aspect relating to the topic, but we are especially interested in
submissions focusing on one of the two following issues: (a) "A growing intellectual hub: Alexandria and
the Greek Torah as an Alexandrian book." The early Ptolemies claimed for Alexandria an intellectual role
which would challenge that of Athens. The Jews arrived in the city when this project was in the first
stages of its development; the translation into Greek of their book, the Torah, occurred at the same time
as the formation of the library. Was the Greek Torah a Jewish book or an Alexandrian book? We invite
submissions elaborating on the accessibility and knowledge of the Greek Torah outside Jewish circles in
the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. (b) "Where were the Jews in Alexandria?" The presence of the Jews
in Alexandria is certainly historically documented, but archaeology has as of yet been of little help to
substantiate the claim of the written sources. We invite submissions discussing the archaeological
evidence of Alexandria in relation to the presence of a consistent and growing Jewish community on its
territory.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is Mar 4, 2015.

This year's Annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature will take place in Atlanta, GA,
on November 21-24; information on the meeting and the link to submit the abstracts are to be found
here: http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/AnnualMeeting.aspx.

Lutz Doering and Sandra Gambetti, program co-chairs

WORKSHOPS: The First Writings of Iran in Their Own Context (Naples, March 10-11)
Received Feb 17

From Gian Pietro BASELLO [mailto:[email protected]]:
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CONFERENCES: First Writings of Iran at Naples

From: http://www.elamit.net/elam/20150310-11desset.pdf

The First Writings of Iran in Their Own Context

An intensive class held by FRANÇOIS DESSET (University of Tehran)

Naples, "L'Orientale" University

Tuesday 10th March 2015, Palazzo Du Mesnil
15:00-17:30 PE (Proto-Elamite) Writing

Wednesday 11th March 2015, Palazzo Du Mesnil
10:30-12:30 LE (Linear Elamite) and Jiroft Writings
14:30-16:30 The context: South-Eastern Iran in the 3rd Millennium BCE

FRANÇOIS DESSET received his PhD from the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne with a dissertation
entitled "Éléments d’archéologie du plateau iranien de la 2ème moitié du 4ème au début du 2ème
millénaire av. J.-C." (2011) and has published the monograph "Premières écritures iraniennes" (Series
Minor 76, Napoli: “L’Orientale”, 2012). He is currently researching in Iran.
The class is organized in the framework of the National Research Project “Sedi del potere,
comunicazione politica e società nell’Iran achemenide” (PRIN 2009JHSEE7) directed by prof. Adriano V.
Rossi.

Dottorato Asia Africa Mediterraneo
Dottorato Turchia Iran Asia Centrale
Dottorato Vicino Oriente Antico

Write to Gian Pietro Basello [email protected] for further details.
LECTURES: Missionary Stories and the Formation of the Syriac Churches (Nashville, Feb 24)
Received Feb 17

From David Michelson < [email protected]>:
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The Warren Center Late Antiquity Seminar will meet on Tuesday, Feb 24, 12:10-1:00 pm, at the Warren
Center. Lunch will be provided.

We will be have the opportunity to meet with Prof. Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Assistant
Professor of Theology, Marquette University, who will discuss "Hagiographical Portraits of Jacob
Baradaeus," a chapter from her forthcoming book Missionary Stories and the Formation of the Syriac
Churches (http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520284968).

Prof. Mellon Saint-Laurent is a scholar of Syriac Studies and Early Christianity, with special interests in
hagiography and sacred narrative. She is also Assistant Director of Syriaca.org, The Syriac Reference
Portal.

An advance copy of Prof. Mellon's paper is available to those who plan on attending. Please contact
Mark Ellison to RSVP and get a copy of the paper: [email protected]

JOBS: 2, at the Berliner Antike-Kolleg
Received Feb 18

From Winny Henkel [mailto:[email protected]]:
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The Berliner Antike-Kolleg is offering two jobs for research assistant. Both positions are part-time and
time-limited until 31.12.2015. A two-year extension is, subject to eligibility by the third-party funding,
possible.

Deadline for application is March 9th, 2015 and applications should be send via e-mail to
<[email protected]>.
The job starts on April 1st, 2015. Place of employment is Berlin, Germany.

The posts and links to descriptions is at < http://berliner-antike-kolleg.org/news/stellenausschreibung/>.

Find more information about the Berliner Antike-Kolleg on our website <http://berliner-antike-
kolleg.org/> or visit us at Facebook www.facebook.com/berlinerantikekolleg.

KUDOS: For Peter R. Brown and Alessandro Portelli (Dan David Prize)
Received Feb. 18
From <http://www.dandavidprize.org/>:
[Go there for prizes in the Present and in the Future]
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The Dan David Prize is an international prize which annually awards three prizes of US$ 1 million each
for outstanding scientific, technological, cultural, and social achievements having an impact on our
world. Each year fields are chosen within the three Time Dimensions - Past, Present and Future.

THE INTERNATIONAL DAN DAVID PRIZE ANNOUNCES 2015 LAUREATES Prof. Joseph Klafter, President of
Tel Aviv University and Chairman of the Dan David Prize Board of Directors and Prof. Itamar Rabinovich,
Chairman of the Dan David Foundation, announced the 2015 Dan David Prize laureates.

The 2015 Dan David Prize Laureates in the Three Time Dimensions are:

2015 Past - Retrieving the Past: Historians and Their Sources

1.
PROF. PETER R. BROWN
Peter R. Brown is the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, Professor Emeritus, the Department
of History, Princeton University. Prof. Brown is one of the world’s most renowned humanists.

His early work (Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (1967) and Religion and Society in the Age of Saint
Augustine (1971) and especially World of Late Antiquity (1971) created an entire new field. “Late
antiquity” – the period between the second and the eighth centuries, which had long been a historical
gap separating the decline of the Roman Empire from the Middle Ages – came into being as a dynamic
and complex period of human history. No longer the Dark Ages, these centuries were recreated by
Brown as a time of creativity, struggle, innovation, and emergence of new historical actors, from
charismatic holy men to neurotic bishops. His subsequent works on the Christianization of the Roman
Empire, the rise of the cult of

Saints, and more recently on understandings of poverty, leadership, and the shifting attitudes to
wealthy in the waning centuries of Roman hegemony speak powerfully to readers about the tensions
between power, privilege and redemption.

Peter Brown unearthed a unique range of source material in order to depict a “world” between the
Iranian plateau and the Bay of Biscay at a time between great empires. The linguistic breadth ranges
from expected sources in English, French, Italian, German to those in Syriac, ancient Greek, Latin,
Hebrew, Old Norse and more and the types of sources range from classical texts to archaeology. There
are few scholars in the world with the skills to tap such a range of sources, and fewer still who can
exploit them with such singular and prolific imagination.

Professor Brown has received honorary degrees from numerous universities, including the University of
Chicago (1978), Trinity College, Dublin (1990), Wesleyan University (1993), Columbia University (2001),
Harvard University (2002), and Kings College London (2008). He has been the recipient of a MacArthur
Fellowship (1982), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1989), and the Mellon Foundation’s Distinguished
Achievement Award (2001). In 2008, he won the Kluge Prize of the Library of Congress and in 2011, the
Balzan Prize.

2.
PROF. ALESSANDRO PORTELLI
Prof. Alessandro Portelli is Professor Emeritus, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”. Prof. Portelli is the
world’s leading practitioner of oral history.

His imaginative work demonstrates the value of an ethnographic approach to the modern past. The
Death of Luigi Trastulli (1991) begins with the case of the 1949 killing of a trade union protestor as an as
an opportunity to compare and juxtapose perspectives; it presents a conflicting collage of print reports
to remind us that print is not more immune to falsehood than oral sources. In 1999, he published
L’ordine e stato eseguito (the Order Has Been Carried Out) about the massacre of 355 Jewish and non-
Jewish civilians by Nazis in a suburb of Rome in 1944. It is a legendary event in Italian collective memory.
Portelli examined numerous oral accounts to reconstruct the horrific events and their political uses in
subsequent decades. What made the book so striking was not just the myth-shattering story, but the
fact that many of the witnesses got the facts wrong; memories and facts were so clearly at odds. Yet,
instead of discarding their accounts, Portelli made the witnesses into what he called the “narrators” –
re-shapers of the past whose “creative” recollection enriches our understanding of the way the past
continues to live long after events have taken place. The book became one of the most influential
models of oral history for historians everywhere. Guided by Portelli’s books and methodological essays,
they began to deploy oral history as a powerful tool with which to recreate the past. In 2010, Portelli
published They Say in Harlan County, a portrait of an American coal mining district in decline, a living
chronicle of a fading provincial world coping with deindustrialization and globalization. Portelli broadens
historical knowledge by offering a fresh and original look at hitherto neglected sources.

To Portelli, the slips, associations, and downright mistakes of witness and ethnographic accounts tell us
more about the meaning of an event than simply what happened. No one has written more thoughtful,
insightful, methodological reflections on the promise and perils of oral history. In our “age of memory”
as some have called it, Portelli makes sense of its living sources as no other historian has done. He has
highlighted the intimate link between oral histories and collective memories. For in oral history, people
are sources and sources are people.

Prof. Portelli was awarded the Viareggio Prize as well as an Oral History Association award.

OPINIONS: Relevance of ‘Oriental studies’