Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

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Yigal Levin

 

 

 

 

Bar-Ilan University

The Faculty of Jewish Studies

The Department of Jewish History

 

Are pleased to invite the public to an international conference on  

: Tribalism, Nationhood and Religion

 

On Thursday, June 26, 2008, The Feldman Congress Center, Bar-Ilan University 

The conference is part of a series on Jewish identity through the ages, held 
by the Department of Jewish History 

 

8:30-9:00 - Gathering and Light Refreshments

 

9:00-10:30 Session 1: Questions of Identity in Biblical Literature

Chair: Prof. Meir Bar-Ilan, Bar-Ilan University

Opening remarks: Prof. Benzion Rozenfeld, Chair, Department of Jewish History

Dr. Amnon Shapira, Ariel University Center of Samaria: Israelite Identity in 
the Biblical Tribal Period: "Primitive Democracy"

Dr. Yigal Levin, Bar-Ilan University and Ariel University Center of Samaria: 
The Idea of Nationhood in the Book of Judges 

Prof. Gershon Galil, University of Haifa: Judean Identity at the Beginning of 
the Monarchic Age

 

11:00-13:00 Session 2: Ethnic and Religious Identity in the Archaeological 
Record

11:00: Greetings: Prof. Moshe Kaveh, President, Bar-Ilan University

                             Prof. Moises Orfali, Dean, Faculty of Jewish 
Studies

Chair: Dr. Hayah Katz, The Open University of Israel

Prof. Avraham Faust, Bar-Ilan University: Ceramics and Boundary Maintenance 
in Iron Age I Israel

Prof. Adam Zertal, University of Haifa and Kinneret College: The Marked 
Pottery of the Iron Age I -Archaeological Evidence and Ethnic Identity

Dr. Alexander Zukerman, The W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological 
Research and Dr. Itzhaq Shai, Bar-Ilan University: Defining the Political 
Affiliation of Gath and the Ethnicity of Its Inhabitants in the 8th Century 
BCE

Mr. Ram Bouchnick and Dr. Guy Bar-Oz, University of Haifa, and Prof. Haskel 
Greenfield, University of Manitoba: Jewish Religious Dietary Practices and 
the Formation of Jewish Identity: Animal Bone Remains from the Late Second 
Temple Period 

 

13:00-14:00 - Lunch Break

 

14:00-15:30 Session 3: The Formation of Jewish Identity in the Second Temple 
Period

Chair: Prof. Sarah Japhet, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem

Dr. Jacob L. Wright, Emory University: Cultic Community or Nation: 
Observations on the Identity of Judah in the Persian Period (English)

Prof. Joseph Fleishman, Bar-Ilan University: The Struggle for Jewish Identity 
in the Days of Nehemiah

Dr. Eyal Ben Eliyahu, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Oxford 
University: Jewish Identity Versus Israelite Identity in the books of Judith 
and First Maccabees

Dr. Avishag Ayali-Weinberg, Kinneret College: The Search for the Boundary 
Between Isael and the Nations According to Three Stories in the Mishnah

 

15:45-17:15 Session 4: Jewish Identity in the Diaspora

Chair: Prof. Isaac Kalimi, The W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological 
Research

Dr. Lisbeth S. Fried, University of Michigan: Who Was a Jew? Perceptions of 
Ethnic Identity at Elephantine (English)

Dr. Ari Belenkiy, Bar-Ilan University: The Septuagint Story: The Hundred 
Years that Paved the Road to Hellenization

Ms. Giordana Moscati Mascetti, Bar-Ilan University: The "Other(s)" in 
Josephus's Contra Apionem

Prof. Aryeh Kasher, Tel-Aviv University: The Ethnic Designation "Judaios" in 
Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt

 

17:30-19:00 Session 5: Sects and Schisms in the Second Temple Period

Chair: Prof. Amos Kloner, Bar-Ilan University

Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University: Who is a Jew in the Dead 
Sea Scrolls?

Dr. Avner Roei, Kibbutz Sa'ad: Jewish Nazarites in the Second Temple Period: 
Between Sectarianism and Social Solidarity

Prof. Hanan Eshel, Bar-Ilan University: Samaritans in the First Century CE: 
Between Jews and Gentiles

Dr. Rivka Nir, The Open University of Israel: The Image of John the Baptist 
Between Judaism and Christianity

Closing Remarks: Prof. Aaron Demsky, Bar-Ilan University

 

Most of the proceedings will be in Hebrew. The public is welcome. 

For details contact Dr. Yigal Levin, Leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il.
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Sorry, a typo.


> I just looked up "sabbath" in the Byzantine tradition of NT, and it is
> often, if not always except where Greek grammar changed "t" to "s", spelled
> as "sabbot". Where did the "th" come from?
>
>
>> Yigal Levin
>>
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
>

Should be "spelled as "sabbat"" not "sabbot". Sorry.

Karl W. Randolph.