New Studies in Late Antique and Medieval Religion
Graduate-Students' Research Workshop
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz & The Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
5.6.23 Monday, Dekel Room, Building 70, Marcus Campus, Be'er Sheba
10:00-10:30 Gathering and Greetings
· Dr. Peter Lehnardt, CSoC Steering Committee Member and Department of Hebrew Literature, BGU
· Prof. Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Deputy Dean and Department of the Arts, BGU
10:30-11:45 First Session
Chair: Prof. Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, CSoC Steering Committee Member and Department of Jewish History, BGU
· Marco Büttner, Justice as a Conceptual Resource of Legitimation in the Propaganda of the Crusades
· Benyamin Storchan, The Archeology of Suspended Ostrich Eggs in the Holy Land
11:45-12:15 Break
12:15-13:30 Second Session
Chair: Dr. Yana Tchekhanovets, CSoC Steering Committee Member and Department of Bible Studies, Archeology and the Ancient Near East
· Samira Fischer, Churches in fortified hilltop settlements in the Dioecesis Daciae (6th century)
· Marganit (Niti) Cassapu, Crossing perspectives: The use of Iconographical Ambiguity in the analysis of the high cross of Gosforth, Cumbria
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:45 Third Session
Chair: Dr. Uri Shachar, CSoC Steering Committee Member and Department of General History, BGU
· Goldie Nagy, Cult and Ritual in Connection with Roman Cavalry and Equines
· Chaggai Raviv, Early Midrashic Sources in the Seder Eliyahu
15:45-16:00 Closing Remarks
Prof. Cana Werman, CSoC Steering Committee Member and Head of Jewish History Department, BGU
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