Spring Bible & Archaeology Fest 2025
Registration Closed
ONLINE | April 5-6, 2025
2-Day Online Seminar
Lectures and Q&A by 12 Renowned experts
Plenary with Yonatan Adler, Ariel University
Join us online for a weekend of talks about Bible and archaeology.
Immerse yourself in the latest biblical archaeology, presented by scholars: veteran authors from the pages of Biblical Archaeology Review, as well as new, rising voices.
A dozen talks on different aspects of Bible and archaeology will provide fresh perspectives and much to think about and discover.
Speakers
Yonatan Adler
Plenary Speaker
Ariel University
The Origins of Judaism: When Did Jews Begin to Keep the Torah?
Andrew Danielson
Harvard University
Edom Abroad: Cross-Cultural Interaction and the Extension of Influence in the late Iron Age Southern Levant
Jamie Fraser
W F Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in East Jerusalem
The Visible Dead: dolmens in the southern Levant in the 4th Millennium B.C.
Rachel Hallote
Purchase College SUNY
Bible Lands Archaeology? Biblical Archaeology? What’s the Difference? The History of the Discipline and Why Terminology Matters
Michael Hasel
Southern Adventist University
The Ivory Comb Inscription: Lice and Literacy at Lachish
Jonathan Klawans
Boston University
Between Genuine and Fake: Grading Suspicious Objects on an Authenticity Scale
Oded Lipschits
Tel Aviv University
Judah under the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian Empires – New Insights from Archaeology on "The Age of Empires"
Alexandra Ratzlaff
Brandeis University
Military, Trade, and Transformation: Unveiling Economic and Administrative Dynamics in the Roman and Byzantine Negev
Itinerary
*Lecture times are based on Eastern Standard Time (USA)
Saturday April 5, 2025
10-11 am | Rachel Hallote
Bible Lands Archaeology? Biblical Archaeology? What's the Difference? The History of the Discipline and Why Terminology Matters
11:15 am -12:15 pm | Jamie Fraser
The Visible Dead: Dolmens in the Southern Levant in the 4th Millennium B.C.
1-2 pm | Susan Hylen
Women in the World of the New Testament
2:15 - 3:15 pm | Andrew Danielson
Edom Abroad: Cross-Cultural Interaction and the Extension of Influence in the late Iron Age Southern Levant
3:30 - 4:30 pm | Michael Hasel
The Ivory Comb Inscription: Lice and Literacy at lachish
4:45 - 5:45 pm | Alex Ratzlaff
Military, Trade and Transformation: Unveiling Economic and Administrative Dynamics in the Roman and Byzantine Negev
Sunday April 6, 2025
10-11 am | Yonatan Adler Plenary Speaker
The Origins of Judaism: When did Jews begin to keep the Torah?
11:15 am -12:15 pm | Oded Lipschits
Judah Under the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian Empires: New Insights from the Age of Empires
1-2 pm | Jonathan Klawans
Between Genuine and Fake : Grading Suspicious Objects on an Authenticity Scale
2:15 - 3:15 pm | Lawrence Schiffman
Caeserea and the Great Revolt against Rome
3:30 - 4:30 pm | Jacob Wright
The Bible as a Response to Collective Trauma
4:45 - 5:45 pm | Jocelyn Burney
Ancient Synagogue Coin Deposits in Context
Price
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Regular Rate $169
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All-Access Member Rate $149
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Registration Deadline April 3, 2025 at 9pm ET
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Contact
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