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
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​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

Click HERE​ for the full program, to register your participation email us HERE.