Annual Conference of the Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times
POSTPONED – The Aramean network: Interdependencies and interactions in the Eastern Mediterranean
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/newsdetail/artikel/postponed-the-aramean-network-interdependencies-and-interactions-in-the-eastern-mediterranean-202/
The scope of the conference is the discussion of the presence and reception of the Aramaic language or/and of the Arameans in the frame of regional and over-regional networks of the Eastern Mediterranean, which developed during the period of the Iron-Age until the Hellenistic periods.
- Postponed to 2021. New date will be anounced shortly.
Preliminary Schedule
Day 1, 8 June 2020: Bibliotheca Albertina, Leipzig
- 9.00am
Welcome by the rector / dean Leipzig, greetings from BIU and Aren Maeir - 9.15am-12.45pm
1st Session: Archaeological Aspects (Chair: Angelika Berlejung)
9.15am-10am
Shuichi Hasegawa: Geshur Revisited
10am-10.45am
Omer Sergi, Tel Aviv: Damascus, Tyre and Israel in the 9th century BCE: A View from the Jezreel Valley
10.45am-11am
Coffee Break
11.00am-11.45am
Shlomit Bechar: Changes in stable isotopes analysis in sheep from 9th and 8th centuries BCE
11.45am-12.30pm
Assaf Kleiman, Leipzig: Decoration Techniques of Iron Age Vessels at the Eastern Shore of the Sea of Galilee and their Social Significance
12.30pm-1.15pm
Stefan Münger (Bern)
Tracing “Aramean” Iconography in the Glyptic Assemblages of Jordan and (Northern) Israel
1.15pm-2.30pm
Lunch in the Albertina (Cafe Alibi) - 2.30pm-6.45pm
2nd Session Syria and Egypt (Chair: Michael Streck)
2.30pm-3.15pm
Gunnar Lehmann Beersheva: Al Mina, An Aramean Harbor as an interface between Arameans and the Mediterranean'?
3.15pm-4pm
Nibal Muhesen, Damaskus: Cultural interaction in Syria during the Aramaic period through the study of material culture and textual evidences
4pm-4.45pm
Giulia Grassi. Göttingen, Arameans in Achaemenid Egypt
4.45pm-5.15pm
Coffee Break
5.15pm-6pm
Katrin Sonnevelt, Leiden, The Social Contexts of Aramaic within Cuneiform Archives.
6pm-6.45pm
Sarka Velharticka, Prag/Ankara, “The Excavations and Finds from Sheikh Sa´ad and Tell Rifaat in the 1920s based on the Excavation Documentation.”
7.30pm
Dinner Max Enk
Day 2, 9 June 2020, Bibliotheca Albertina, Leipzig
- 9am-11.15am
3rd Session: Biblical Aspects (Chair: Omer Sergi)
9.00am--9.45am
Anne de Hemmer Gudme, Oslo, Memory and Materiality: Yahwistic god concepts in the Hellenistic Period in the context of religion in the Southern Levant
9.45am-10.30am
Louis Jonker, Stellenbosch, “The Aramaeans in the Context of Post-exilic Literary Formations of the Hebrew Bible: An Overview of Their Attributed Images”
10.30am-11.15am
Raik Heckl, Leipzig, "Herodotus' view of the Aramaeans and Israel's place in the Levant according to the concept of the Pentateuch"
11.15am-11.45am
Coffee Break
11.45am-12.30pm
Emanuel Pfoh, National University of La Plata, Shifting Alliances, Shifting Identities: Political Networks and Ethnicity in the Iron Age II Southern Levant
12.30pm-1.15pm
Hannes Bezzel, Jena, Aram in the Prophetic Literature
1:15pm-2:15pm
Lunch in the Albertina (Cafe Alibi) - 2:15pm-7pm
4th Session: Later Periods (chair: Harald Samuel)
2.15pm-3.00pm
Stefan Schorch, Halle, The poetical form of early Samaritan Aramaic prayers"
3pm-3:45pm
Viktor Golinets (Heidelberg), Greek Transcriptions of Aramaic in Comparison with Greek Transcriptions of Hebrew."
3.45pm-4.15pm
Coffee Break
4.15pm-5pm
Leeor Gottlieb (Bar Ilan University): Targum Software Presentation
5pm-5.45pm
Wido van Peursen: “Navigating through the Aramaic Bible translations with the Targums WordMap”.
5.45pm-6.30pm
Eleonora Cussini (Bologna), Palmyrene Aramaic
6.30pm-7.15pm
Willem Smelik, London, Targum and Zohar
7.15pm-8pm
Public Lecture: Claudia E. Suter: Luxurious Ivory Objects in the Iron Age Levant: Stylistic Variation and Sociocultural Identities. (chair: Aren Maeir)
8.15pm
Dinner Max Enk
Day 3, 10 June 2020, Freie Universität, Berlin
„Style Complexity and Style Diversity in the Aramaean Kingdoms of the Northern Levant“
- 7.30am
Departure to Berlin - 9am
Arrival at the FU Berlin coffee and gathering - 9.30am-1pm
5th Session (Chair: N. N. )
9.30am-10.15am
Dominik Bonatz (FU Berlin): “The Relevance of Cognitive Styles in Aramaean, Luwian and Neo-Assyrian Societies”
10.15am-11pm
Alessandra Gilibert (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia): “Bending, breaking and blending images: visual creativity in the Aramaean kingdoms of the Northern Levant”
11am-11.30am
Coffee break
11.30am-12.15pm
Federico Manuelli (FU Berlin): “Arslantepe and the Upper Euphrates in the Context of the Luwian-Aramaean Interaction. A North-South Network of Extra-Regional Contacts?"
12.15pm-1pm
Stefania Mazzoni (Università degli Studi die Firence): "Discussing ivories in the light of the Aramaean kingdoms"
1pm-2.30pm
Lunch and Check in Hotels - 14:30-17:30
6th session (Chair: N. N.)
2.30pm-3:15pm
Lorenzo Nigro (Roma La Sapienza): “The Phoenicians in the West and their interaction with Arameans: the case of Motya in Sicily”
3.15pm-4pm
Mirko Novàk (Univ. Bern): “Diffusion or Common Roots? Hilani and Temple-in-antis as architectural features of Luwians and Aramaeans in the Iron Age"
4pm-4:45pm
Marina Pucci (Universität Florenz): “Public Space and Sense of Community: architectural styles in the Aramean kingdoms of Northern Levant”
4.45pm-5.15pm
Coffee Break
5.15pm-6pm
Helene Sader (AUB Beirut): “In Search of an Aramaean Identity”
6pm-6.45pm
Erhan Tamur (Columbia University New York): “Style, Materiality, and Collective Identities: The Case of Northern Levantine Orthostat Reliefs"
6.45pm-7.30pm
Rana Zaher (AUB Beirut): “Investigating Patterns of Differentiation in Syro-Anatolian Sculptural Design and Technology: The Case of Portal Lions”
7.30pm
Reception
11 June 2020, Archäologisches Zentrum, Berlin
VAM and Storage Facilities
- 9am
Meeting in the Archäologisches Zentrum - 9.15am-12.30pm
Pergamon Museum Collection - 12.30pm
Departure to Friedrichshagen - 1.30pm-3pm
Lunch at the Lake - 3pm-5.30pm
Storage Facilities
5.30pm-6pm
Coffee break - 6pm
Final Greeting Words and Informations about Publication (Aren Maeir) - 6.30pm
Return to Berlin (Arrival ca. 8.30pm)
Transfer to the Airport or to Leipzig
Erstellt von: Angelika Berlejung