Aren Maeir is lecturing several times this week in Texas:
Tues, 4/21 evening: Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Wed, 4/22 noon: Baylor University
Thurs, 4/23 7pm: Houston Graduate School of Theology
For more details, contact the institutions.
I mentioned this conference before, but now I have received a detailed schedule. The conference is hosted by Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, and the cost is a very reasonable $50 for professionals (non-students), $25 for spouses of registered guests, and $25 for students, and that includes snacks and a banquet meal. A DVD of the conference is available for $39.95 (with free shipping). For more information, see the MABTS website. The line-up represents many of the most important scholars on the Dead Sea Scrolls today.
Thursday April 23, 2009
2:00-2:10 p.m. – Prayer, Welcome, and Instructions
2:10-2:15 p.m. – A Review of the Speakers
2:15-2:45 p.m. Steven L. Cox, Ph.D. Professor of Greek and New Testament, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, Cordova, TN.
“Qumran and its Inhabitants: 170 B.C. – A.D. 70”
2:50-3:30 p.m. Peter Flint, Canada Research Chair of the Dead Sea Scrolls; Director, Dead Sea Scrolls Institute; Professor of Religious Studies, Trinity Western University
“The Three Favorite Books at Qumran. The Accuracy of our Biblical Text and Readings from the Scrolls Adopted by Various English Bible Translations”
3:30-4:00 p.m. Refreshment Break
4:00-4:40 p.m. James VanderKam, Ph.D. John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
“Eschatology in the Dead Sea Scrolls”
4:40-5:20 p.m. R. Kirk Kilpatrick, Ph.D. Dean of the Masters and Associates Programs, Professor, Department of Old Testament and Hebrew, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, Cordova, TN
“The Messiah and the Dead Sea Scrolls”
5:30-6:45 p.m. Banquet Dinner The Betty Howard Room
7:00-7:45 p.m. Lawrence H. Schiffman, Ph.D. Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University, New York
“Purity as Separation: Comparing Rabbinic Literature and the New Testament”
7:50-8:30 p.m. Emanuel Tov, Ph.D. Department of Bible, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
“The Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls”
8:35-8:55 p.m. A Panel Discussion with Speakers on Select Topics
Friday, April 24, 2009
8:30-9:10 a.m. Michael R. Spradlin, Ph.D. President, Chairman of the Faculty; Chairman and Professor, Department of Evangelism; Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew, Practical Theology, and Church History, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, Cordova, TN
“The Isaiah Scroll of Qumran: Current Analysis, Opinion, and Implications”
9:15-9:55 a.m. Steven M. Ortiz, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Archaeology and Biblical Backgrounds, Director of the Charles C. Tandy Archaeology Museum, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas
“Myth, Media Hype, and Multivocality: Storytelling and Qumran Archaeology”
10:00-10:40 a.m. Lawrence H. Schiffman, Ph.D. Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University, New York
“Israel, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Jewish History”
10:40-11:15 a.m. Refreshment Break
11:15-11:55 a.m. James VanderKam, Ph.D. John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
“High Priests in the Dead Sea Scrolls”
12:00-12:40 p.m. Emanuel Tov, Department of Bible, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
“The Scribes of Qumran”
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is hosting a conference on “The Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian Origins” on March 12-14, 2009.
A tentative schedule (pdf) gives the lectures:
“A Dialogue on the Gospel of Thomas,” Craig A. Evans, Acadia Divinity College; Stephen J. Patterson, Eden Theological Seminary
“The Scrolls and the Hebrew Bible,” Peter W. Flint, Trinity Western University
“The Scrolls and the New Testament,” Craig A. Evans, Acadia Divinity College
“The Scrolls and the Dead Sea Community,” John J. Collins, Yale University
“The Scrolls and Interpretation of Scripture,” George J. Brooke, University of Manchester
“The Scrolls and the Scribes,” Terry L. Wilder, B&H Academic Publishers
“The Scrolls and the Messiah,” William M. Schniedewind, University of California, Los Angeles
“‘Dark Secrets’ of the DSS?,” R. Philip Roberts, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
You can also download a poster (pdf) promoting the conference.
Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary is hosting a conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls with an impressive line-up of speakers. More information is on the school’s website, but unfortunately no list of lecture titles is given.
Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls and Biblical Interpretation Conference
This conference will include world class archaeologists, authors, and researchers as well as Old and
New Testament scholars. The speakers will include:
The registration cost is $25 for students, $30.00 for alumni, and $50 for others. Registration includes snacks and a banquet meal. Meal selections will be either beef, chicken or kosher.
The conference and banquet will be held on the MABTS campus.
On April 23, the conference runs from 2:00 p.m. through 9:30 p.m. (the banquet will be from 5:45 through 6:45 p.m.) and on April 24, the conference runs from 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
For a registration form, click here.
To register and pay online, click here.
The Tyndale House blog notes that DVDs of the conference will be for sale for $39.95.
HT: Joe Lauer
The California Museum of Ancient Art has announced its Winter 2009 lecture series, “Digging into the Ancient World of the Bible.”
March 4, 7:30 p.m., Ronny Reich, “New Discoveries from the City of David.”
March 30, 7:30 p.m., Aaron Burke, “Egyptians and Greeks in Jaffa: A New Look at the Ancient Mediterranean Port.”
Both lectures will be held at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. The cost for adults is $15 (students $12) per lecture.
Aaron Burke is Assistant Professor of Archaeology of Ancient Israel and the Levant at UCLA and he began excavations in Jaffa in 2007 or 2008. Ronny Reich is well known to readers of this blog as the excavator of numerous important sites in Jerusalem.
More information about the lecture series is available at the museum website (pdf file here).
HT: George Grena
The Departments of Archaeology and Biblical Studies at the University of Haifa would like to invite you to attend a conference on the subject:
“Egypt, Canaan and Israel: History, Imperialism and Ideology from the third to the first millennium BCE,” to be held at the University of Haifa, May 3-7, 2009.
The conference aims at discussing the political, military, cultural, economic, literary and administrative relations between Egypt, Canaan and Israel along the Millennia in the ideological level and in everyday life, according to literary and non-literary texts, plastic art, and archaeology.
Lectures:
Mrs. Ben Dor S.
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Shishak’s Karnak Relief, in Comparison to Triumphal Reliefs of the NK in Karnak and
Medinet Habu
Dr. Ben Tor D.
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Egyptian-Canaanite Relations in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages as Reflected by Scarabs
Dr. Binder S.
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
The Egyptian Background to the Investiture of Joseph
Prof. Dr. Fischer-Elfert H. W.
University of Leipzig, Germany
A Fresh look at Palestine and Syria in Pap. Anastasi I: Toponyms, Archaeology and Literature
Dr. Gee J.
Brigham Young University, USA
The Export of the Egyptian Scribe
Dr. Gnirs A. M.
University of Basel, Switzerland
Narrativity in History: The Egyptian Brave Hero
Prof. Hasel M. G.
Southern Adventist University, USA
To be announced
Prof. Hoffmeier J.
Trinity International University, USA
Did Seti I Reestablish Egyptian Hegemony in Canaan?
Dr. Kahn D.
University of Haifa, Israel
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Egypt and Mitanni during the Amarna Age
Mr. Kraim Z.
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Logistical units and supply in the Egyptian army in New Kingdom
Dr. Ladynin I.
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
‘Neos Sesonchosis Kosmokrator’: The Theme of Lost and Restored World Domination and the
Egyptian Propaganda Before and Under Alexander the Great
Dr. Lehmann G.
Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
An Egyptian Interlude: Egyptian Imperialism in the Levant between the Assyrian and the Neo-
Babylonian Empire according to the Archaeological Evidence
Prof. Mazar A.
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
The Egyptian Garrison Town at Beth Shean in Light of the New Excavations (1989-1996)
Dr. Mizrachi Y.
University of Haifa, Israel
Hatschepsut – Founder of an Egyptian Emporium?
Dr. Morenz L.
University of Leipzig, Germany
Cultural Misunderstandings due to the Differences in the Egyptian versus the Canaanite
Cultural Code
Dr. Muhlestein K.
Brigham Young University, USA
The Footprint of Levantine Influence in the Shipwrecked Sailor
Dr. Müller M.
Roemer-und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim, Germany
A View to a Kill: Egypt’s Grand Strategy in her Northern Empire
Prof. Noegel S.
University of Washington, USA
The Ark of the Covenant and Egyptian Solar Boats: A Comparative Study
Prof. Ockinga B.
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
The Names of Emmanuel in Isaiah 9:5
Prof. Oren E.
Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
Egyptian administration on the Ways of Horus and Canaan during the reign of Seti II
Dr. Von Recklinghausen D.
University of Tübingen, Germany
To be announced
Prof. Dr. Schipper B. U.
University of Bremen, Germany
Egypt and the Kingdom of Judah in the 26th dynasty
Prof. Dr. Schneider T.
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
“The Assyrian conquest in disguise: rewriting Egyptian history in the “Struggle for the
Benefice of Amun”
Dr. Shirley JJ
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
What’s in a Name? Military and Civil Officials in the 18th Dynasty Military Sphere
Prof. Shupak N.
University of Haifa, Israel
To be announced
Dr. Sweeney D.
Tel Aviv University, Israel
A Long Way from Home: Women from the Levant in Ancient Egypt
Prof. Tower Hollis S.
Empire State College, USA
Two Hymns as Praise Poems, Royal Ideology, and History in Ancient Israel and Ancient Egypt: A Comparative Reflection
Dr. Vogel C.
University of Mainz, Germany
This Far and Not a Step Further! The Ideological Concept of Ancient Egyptian Boundary
Stelae
Prof. Warburton D. A.
Université Lumière Lyon, France
Dr. Raedler C.
University of Mainz, Germany
The End of the Egyptian Presence in the Bronze Age
Prof. Zertal A.
University of Haifa, Israel
El-Ahwat, a New Discovery on the Shardana and Egypt in the 12th century
The Sandal-shaped Enclosures in the Jordan Valley and their Egyptian and Biblical
Connections
Tours:
Tuesday, May 5, 0700: “In the Footsteps of Thutmosis III”: Excursion to Wadi ‘Arah and Megiddo.
Wednesday, May 6, 1730: Visit to the Hecht Archaeological Museum in Haifa.
Optional Tour: Thursday, May 7, 0700: Departure to Jordan Valley excursion.
Conference price for non-lecturers: $250 per person for the entire conference (places must be booked
in advance with the organizing Committee, pending availability).
Additional information can be found at the conference website.
HT: Joe Lauer