The Faculty of Humanities
The Chaim Katzman Archaeology Fund
The Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies
The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology

Tel Aviv Annual Colloquium for the Study of Ancient Israel

Scribal Culture and the Shaping of the Past:
The Bible and the Ancient Near East

Program:

16:00-16:30 Reception

16:30 Greetings

16:30: First Session
Chair: Nadav Na’aman

Karel van der Toorn
Divine Revelation as a Scribal Construct: Babylonian Literature and the Hebrew Bible

Itamar Singer
Knowledge, Justification and Truth in Hittite Historical Memory

Deborah Sweeney
Scribal Tradition and Divine Inspiration in Ancient Egypt

18:00-18:30: Coffee Break

18:30-19:45: Second Session
Chair: Oded Lipschits

Hanspeter Schaudig
Explaining Disaster: Ancient Near Eastern Concepts of History

Margalit Finkelberg
Explaining the End of the Heroic Age in Greek Epic Tradition

Dalit Rom-Shiloni
Theology of Defeat: Prophets and Poets Explaining the Babylonian Destruction of Jerusalem

Thursday, 10.12.2009,
Web Building, Hall 001
Tel Aviv University Campus