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Younker Lecture on Biblical Archaeology in Jordan

brandonw — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:54:10 +0000

The Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Studies, the Program in Mediterranean Archaeology, the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, Tam Institute of Jewish Studies at Emory, and American Schools of Oriental Research present a lecture by Professor Randall Younker of Andrews University: Biblical Archaeology in Jordan: The search for Sihon’s Heshbon, the tribe of Manasseh and other hints of ancient Israel. The lecture will be held on Tuesday, 9 February 2010 at 7:00 pm in the Carlos Museum Reception Hall, Emory University.

Kathleen Kenyon and the Archaeology of the Holy Land (Lecture Announcement)

brandonw — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:24:55 +0000

In my inbox this morning, I found the following lecture announcement and thought I’d pass it along for interested parties:

The Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Studies
The Program in Mediterranean Archaeology
The Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University
Tam Institute of Jewish Studies at Emory
and
American Schools of Oriental Research

present a lecture by

Prof. Miriam C. Davis
Delta State University

Kathleen Kenyon and the Archaeology of the Holy Land

Thursday, 1 October 2009
7:00 pm
Michael C. Carlos Museum Reception Hall
Emory University

Miriam Davis, author of Dame Kathleen Kenyon, Digging Up the Holy Land will discuss the archaeologist’s pioneering work and life. (pdf)

The Acropolis Museum

brandonw — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:37:25 +0000

So the long-awaited Acropolis Museum is set to reopen today, June 20. It looks like quite an extraordinary structure. According to the BBC report, the culture minister Antonis Samaras hopes to convince the British Museum that there is now an appropriate and well-suited location to house Athenian artifacts sold(?) to London in the early nineteenth century. This includes a 75-meter section of frieze, which as a whole stretched 160 meters in length around the inner section of the Parthenon. The frieze is now on display with the missing section replaced by a plaster cast.

The new website for the Acropolis Museum is nicely put together and offers a glimpse of what one should expect to find on their visit. I still have not visited Athens, or any part of Greece for that matter, so this just whets my appetite to visit the sacred patris even more. That’s right, despite having degrees in Classics (with an emphasis on Greek civilization) and biblical studies, I still haven’t been to Greece. But I’m hoping to soon. Anyone want to take me?