Συνέδριο Βιβλικής Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας

Στο διάστημα 21-23 Νοεμβρίου θα λάβει χώρα το συνέδριο της Βιβλικής Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας στην Boston MA.

To πρόγραμμα του συνεδρίου έχει ως εξής:
BIBLE AND ARCHAEOLOGY FEST XI
Radisson Hotel Boston; Boston, Massachusetts

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2008
9:00 - 10:15 AM
Bart Ehrman, “Is the New Testament Forged?”
Leonard Greenspoon, “Text in the City: How the Septuagint, the First Bible Translation, Adapted the Bible for an Urban Audience”

10:45 - NOON
David Vanderhooft, “Ezekiel in Babylonia: Cultural Borrowings of a Learned Deportee”
Jodi Magness, “Archaeology 101: How We Dig, How We Date What We Dig Up, and Much More”

2:00 - 3:15 PM
Lawson Younger, “The Arameans and the Bible”
Leen Ritmeyer, “Reading Josephus: What His Record of theSequence of the Destruction of Jerusalem Tells Us about theLayout of the Temple Mount”'

3:45 – 5:00 PM
Alan Millard, “Authors and Books in Biblical Times”
Gary Rendsburg, “Leviticus - Structure and Meaning in the Least-Read Book of the Torah”

7:00 - 8:30 PM PLENARY SESSION
James Charlesworth, “Was Jesus Influenced by the Dead Sea Scrolls?”

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22
9:00 - 10:15 AM
Peter Flint, “The Priestly Benediction from Numbers 6 in the Silver Hinnom Amulet, the Hebrew Bible, and the Septuagint”
Amihai Mazar, “The City of Rehov in Northern Israel: Ten Years of Discoveries”

10:45 am – NOON
Richard Newman, “What Science Can and Cannot Tell Us about the James Ossuary”
Sharon Zuckerman, “The Rise and Fall of a CanaaniteKingdom: A View from Hazor”

2:00 - 3:15 PM
James Hoffmeier, “Israel and Egypt–Friends and Foe: From Solomon to 586 B.C.”
Michael Coogan, “Jonathan Loved David: Same-sex Relationships in the Bible”

3:45 - 5:00 PM
Amy-Jill Levine, “Violence on the Jerusalem-Jericho Road: How Biblical Scholarship Reads, and Misreads, the Parable of the Good Samaritan.”
John Huehnergard, “Silver from the Souk:Semitic Loanwords in English”

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23
9:00 - 10:15 AM
Mark Goodacre, “When Were the Gospels Written?”
Mary Joan Leith, “War in the Bible: What’s Really Going On?”

10:45 - NOON
James Tabor, “Excavating Mt. Zion: Past, Present, and Future”
Ryan Byrne, “The Archaeology of David and Solomon: Ancient Politics and Modern Controversies”