Συνέδριο για την Ιερουσαλήμ

Από το ιστολόγιο Bible Places Blog πληροφορούμαστε ότι στις 13 Νοεμβρίου 2008 θα λάβει χώρα το 14ο ετήσιο συνέδριο του The Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies με θέμα: "NEW STUDIES ON JERUSALEM"
Το συνέδριο οργανώνεται από κοινού από τους εξής φορείς: Ingeborg Rennert Center, The Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology και Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University.

To πρόγραμμα του συνεδρίου
Session 1 – 9:00- 10:30
Chair: Aaron Demsky
Eilat Mazar
The Stepped Stone Structure in the City of David in Light of the New Excavations in Area G
Moshe Garsiel
The Elah Valley's Battle, the Duel of David's and Goliath and Why Goliath's Head and Weapons End Up in Jerusalem
Avraham Faust
Sennacherib's Campaign to the Judean Highlands and Jerusalem: A New Perspective
Tsvika Tsuk
"And Brought the Water to the City" (2 Kings 20, 20): Water Consumption in Jerusalem in the Biblical Period

Special Discussion- 10:50-11:40
Shlomo Bunimovits & Avraham Faust
The Archaeology of the Biblical Period in the Twenty-First Century: Towards a New Dialogue between Archaeology and the Bible

Session 2 – 12:00- 13:50
Chair: Ben-Zion Rozenfeld
Joseph Patrich
On the Chamber Called House of Stone (beth even), Which was Facing the Northeast Corner of the Temple Building (birah) (Mishnah, Parah 3:1)
Michael Ben-Ari
Recollections of the Temple: Between Yavne and Lod and Between the Ideal and the Real
Ehud Netzer
How to Handle the Different Reconstructions of the Temple and its Surrounding Courts
Joshua Schwartz
The Temple Cult Without the Sages: Prolegomena on the Description of the Second Temple Period Cult according to Sources of the Second Temple Period
Yehoshua Peleg
The Pre-Herodian Sanctified Temple Area and Outer Court.

Session 3 – 14:50-17:00
Chair: Hanan Eshel
Eyal Baruch
The Palatial Mansion in Jerusalem: Class and Ideology
Yuval Shahar
The Concept of the Temple Mount in the Second Temple Period
Ram Bouchnick, Nimrod Marom & Guy Bar-Oz
"Rams from Moab and Ewes from Hebron": Herd Maintenance Strategies in the Late Second Temple Period in Jerusalem
Zachi Zweig
New Information from Various Temple Mount Excavations from the Last Hundred Years
Yair Talmor
Between the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Nea Church - The Religious Space of Byzantine Jerusalem

Session 4 - 17:20- 19:10
Chair: Yvonne Friedman
Peretz Reuven
"A Female Slave from the Harem Who Became the Mother of the Caliph": a Suggestion to Connect an Unknown inscription from the Al-Aqsa Mosque to the Mother of the Abbasid Caliph Al- Muqtadir."
Nissim Dana
The Prophet Mohammad's Night Ascent to Heaven: A Review of the Passage in the Qur'an and in Other Islamic Sources
Shelomo Lotan
The Symbolism of Jerusalem and the House of King David in the Teutonic Military Order Medieval Heritage
Josef Drory
The Contribution of Franciscan Documents for Esteem of the Local Minorities' Rights in Mamluk Jerusalem
Oded Shay
The Beginning of Historical Documentation and Modern Archives of the General Population in Jerusalem at the End of the Ottoman Period