Hi Nirit and Nadin, please kindly distribute the following text to your respective lists, including the students, thanks Amir.
We cordially invite you to the lectures of Prof. Dr. Daniel Schwemer, Chair for Ancient Near Eastern Studies (Department of Ancient Cultures), Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
Prof. Dr. Schwemer is a Fellow of the Fund for the Advancement of Humanities and Social Sciences in Israel.
Prof. Schwemer will lecture at the following events:
Conference: Ancient Near Eastern Historiography and Religion, Tel Aviv University
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Gilman Building, Room 220, Tel Aviv University
16:15-18:30
Program of the conference:
Caroline Waerzeggers, Leiden University, fellow of the Nirit and Michael Shaoul Fund for Visiting Scholars and Fellows, The Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies:
Literature of Fact: Reconsidering the Babylonian Chronicles
Livio Warbinek, Tel Aviv University:
A Hittite Ritual for the Primeval Deities CTH 492
Daniel Schwemer, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, fellow of the Fund for the Advancement of Humanities and Social Sciences in Israel:
How the Hittites Learned to Pray: An Akkadian Model of the Kantuzili Prayer
Nathan Wasserman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
Some (Pessimistic) Remarks on Writing Ancient History. Reflections after “The Amorites: Mesopotamia in the Early Second Millennium BCE”
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Seminar of the S.N.Kramer Institute of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Building 410, Room 21, Bar-Ilan University
14:00-16:00:
Prof. Dr. Daniel Schwemer, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, fellow of the Fund for the Advancement of Humanities and Social Sciences in Israel:
“Of Gods and Goats, Witches and Kings: The Scholarly Construction of Ritual Complexity and Effective Communication in the Babylonian Bath House Ceremony Bīt rimki”
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Seminar of the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University, organized by Prof. Oded Lipschits
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Gilman Building, Room 220, Tel Aviv University
14:15-15:45:
Daniel Schwemer, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, fellow of the Fund for the Advancement of Humanities and Social Sciences in Israel and Yoram Cohen, Tel Aviv University:
Provenance Matters – Working with Scientifically Excavated and with “Other” Cuneiform Tablets
Dr. Amir Gilan
Senior Lecturer in Hittite and Anatolian Studies
Dept. of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures
Tel Aviv 69978
Israel