Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period

Tuesdays, 2.30 to 4.30 pm, in the Oriental Institute
Convenor: Professor Martin Goodman

Week 1: 24 April
Dr Alison Salvesen (Oriental Institute)
“Make it according to the pattern shown you on the mountain”: the Tabernacle in  Exodus and the canonization process in the Second Temple period

Week 2: 1 May
Professor Catherine Hezser (SOAS)
Jewish travel in Graeco-Roman antiquity

 Week 3:  8 May
Dr Hillel Newman (Haifa)
The dating of the Talmud Yerushalmi

 Week 4: 15 May
Dr Katell Berthelot (CNRS, Aix-en-Provence)
Reclaiming the land: Simon’s rhetoric in
1 Maccabees 15, between biblical references and Seleucid discourse

Week 5:  22 May
Dr Jonathan Campbell (Bristol)
Rethinking rewritten Bible

Week 6: 29 May
Dr Danny Syon (Israel Antiquities Authority)
History from coin distribution in Hellenistic-Roman Galilee

Week 8: 12 June
Dr Uzi Leibner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The debate over the dating of ‘Galilean’ type synagogues: new light from the excavations at Kh.Hamam in Eastern Galilee