Spring Schedule

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Tuesday, April 1st at 5pm in Swift 400A
“THE DEAD AND THEIR STORIES: TOWARD A HISTORIOGRAPHY OF BONES”
Dr. Matthew Suriano, University of Maryland, Classics Associate Professor, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies
Thursday, April 10th at 5pm in Swift 200
“Polis Religion and Carthage: Recontextualizing the Punic Tariff Inscriptions”
Han Yang, PhD Student at the University of Chicago
Cosponsored with the Ancient Societies Workshop!
Thursday, April 24th at 5pm in Swift 200
“The Anatolian Illuyanka tale as a carnivalesque myth of reversal”

Dr. Petra Goedegebuure, Associate Professor of Hittitology and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Late May Meeting TBA

Winter Schedule

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January 16 (Week 2)
“The Promise After the Flood and the Priestly Covenants”
Dr. Jeffrey Stackert, Professor of Hebrew Bible in the University of Chicago Divinity School
January 30 (Week 4)
“The Noun שְׁפָטִים in the Priestly Exodus (Ex. 6:6; 7:4; 12:12): A Diachronic And Comparative Reading”
Tommaso Bacci, PhD Student in the University of Chicago Divinity School
February 6 (Week 5)
Brainstorming the Dissertation Proposal: Reassessing Transjordan in the Pentateuchal Literary Tradition
Jaeseok Heo, PhD Student in the University of Chicago Department of Middle Eastern Studies
February 20 (Week 7)
Demonic or Divine?: The Survival and Role of Mot in Ancient Israel
Dr. Aren Wilson-Wright, Assistant Instructional Professor in the University of Chicago Department of Middle Eastern Studies
February 27 (Week 8)
“Numbers 31 as Predictive and Prescriptive: Foreshadowing the Conquest and Legislating Warfare”
Dr. Matthew C. Lambert, O.S.B., postdoctorate scholar at the University of Notre Dame