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  • From: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Conference: Epigraphy and Daily Life - in memeory of Hanan Eshel
  • Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:31:08 +0200



Dear All,



Please excuse the cross-posting, but I'm sure that this will be of interest
to many on the list.







Yigal Levin





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"See, I will bring a scroll recounting what befell me" (Ps 40:8)

The Second International Conference of the Jeselsohn Epigraphic Center of
Jewish History:

Epigraphy and Daily Life - From the Bible to the Talmud

Dedicated to the memory of Professor Hanan Eshel

Sunday, 2 January, 2011, The Nanotechnology Building (no. 206)

Bar-Ilan University

Program

09:15 - 09:45 Reception

09:45 - 10:30 Greetings

Chair: Dr. Esther Eshel, Acting Head of the Jeselsohn Center, Bar-Ilan
University



Prof. Moshe Kaveh, President, Bar-Ilan University

Prof. Eliezer Tauber, Dean of the Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan
University

Prof. Avraham Faust, Chair, The Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel
Studies and Archeology, Bar-Ilan University

10:30 - 12:00 Session 1: The First Temple Period

Chair: Dr. Ze'ev Meshel, Tel-Aviv University

Prof. Shmuel Ahituv, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

The Kuntillet Ajrud Inscriptions: Language and Religion

Prof. Amihai Mazar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Comments on 10-9th Centuries BCE Inscriptions from the Land of Israel and
their Research

Prof. Aaron Demsky, Bar-Ilan University

Researching Literacy in Ancient Israel - Recent Approaches

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:30 Session 2: The Second Temple Period

Chair: Prof. Amos Kloner, Bar-Ilan University

Prof. Lester L. Grabbe (University of Hull, UK)

Scribes, Writing, and Epigraphy in the Second Temple Period

Dr. Ada Yardeni, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Unprovenanced Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea

Prof. Uriel Rappaport, University of Haifa

Historical Aspects of the Jewish Coin Inscriptions

14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 - 16:30 Session 3: The Mishnaic and Talmudic Periods

Chair: Prof. Albert Baumgarten, Bar-Ilan University

Dr. Uzi Leibner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Inscriptions from the Synagogue of Khirbet Wadi Hamam

Dr. David Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority

Jewish Stamps for Bread, Wine and Olive Oil

Prof. Gideon Bohak, Tel-Aviv University

Amulets in the Daily Lives of Jews in Antiquity

16:30 - 17:15 Coffee Break

17:15 - 18:15 Special Session in Memory of Hanan Eshel

Chair: Dr. David Jeselsohn, Founder of the Jeselsohn Epigraphic Center of
Jewish History

Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University

Hanan Eshel's Contribution to the Study of the Dead Sea Scorlls



Conference Committee: Dr. Esther Eshel, Prof. Aaron Demsky, Dr.Yigal Levin,
Prof. Eyal Regev, Orit Kandel

For Details: Orit Kandel - kandel.orit AT gmail.com






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