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Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem an international scholarly conference on presents Living the Lunar Calendar: Time, Text, Tradition 30 th January - 1 st February 2010 at the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem with a guided tour of Qumran.
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Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem an international scholarly conference onpresents Living the Lunar Calendar: Time, Text, Tradition 30th January - 1st February 2010 at the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem with a guided tour of Qumran The Living the Lunar CalendarConference – held under the full moon of the Jewish festival of the New Year for Trees – will investigate the place of calendar reckoning in human society and culture. Focusing on the moon as a marker of the passage of time, the conference will address a wide variety of issues regarding the application and calendrical rules to everyday life, and beyond to the shaping of cultural identity. Saturday 30th January 19:30-22:45 Reception and registration Welcome by Amanda Weiss, Director, BLMJ Introductory Lectures Gallery Tours of the Bible Lands Museum Sunday 31st January 08:30-09:00 Additional registration and coffee 09:00-11:00 Session I:Mesopotamia and Egypt 11:30-13:00 Session II:Qumran and Rabbinic Judaism 13:15 Depart to Qumran 14:30-21:30 Guided tour of Qumran, dinner, lectures and viewing of the night sky from the Judean Desert Monday 1st February 09:00-09:30 Coffee 09:30-11:15 Session III: Classics and the Ancient Mediterranean 11:45-13:15 Session IV: Judaism and Christianity 13:15-14:30 Lunch in the Museum and Poster Sessions 14:30-16:00 Session V: The Americas 16:30-17:30 Session VI:The Far East and Beyond Partial list of participants includes: Jonathan Ben-Dov, University of Haifa, Israel Lis Brack-Bernsen, Regensburg University, Germany Leo Depuydt, Brown University, USA Robert Hannah, University of Otago, New Zealand Wayne Horowitz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Tsevi Mazeh, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University, USA John Steele, Brown University, USA Sacha Stern, University College London, England Conducted in English Advanced registration required For further details please contact: Conference Administration at: curatorial@blmj.org or 02-5611066 Program Subject to Change Fee includes: admission to the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, all lectures, coffee breaks, Saturday evening reception, a lunch box on Sunday and buffet lunch on Monday. Plus, a fully guided tour to Qumran: transport to and from Jerusalem/Qumran, admission and a guided tour of the site, dinner, lectures and guided star gazing. Fees: 550 NIS/499 NIS (Museum members, students and senior citizens) The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies The Faculty of Humanities The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Qumran National Park Israel Nature and Parks Authority Haifa Forum for the History of Science Department of Bible University of Haifa The CAENO Foundation BIBLE LANDS MUSEUM JERUSALEM, Museum Row, 25 Granot Street, Jerusalem – www.blmj.org