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Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies Twelfth Colloquium Series The Botany of Death in Ancient Rome, a lecture by John Bodel (Brown University) Thursday, January 19, 2017 – 5:30pm to 7:00pm Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Central European University Gellner Room, Nador utca 9, Budapest, Hungary, 1051 https://cems.ceu.edu/events/2017-01-19/botany-death-ancient-rome Human mortality in the ancient Mediterranean…

The International Catacomb Society congratulates Shohet Scholars Steven Fine and Jodi Magness on the global impact of their pioneering and innovative work on Jewish archaeology and history: An article by the Times of Israel highlights Fine’s research on the Menorah, “the Western world’s oldest continuously used religious symbol”: http://www.timesofisrael.com/7-facts-about-menorahs-the-most-enduring-symbol-of-the-jewish-people/. LIve Science has listed the…

International Catacomb Society directors, advisors, and current members are presenting at and moderating many sessions of the 2016 SBL/AAR Conference.  Co-hosted by the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion, this event will be held November 19-22, 2016 in San Antonio, TX. The 2016 conference program is online:  https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/AnnualMeeting.aspx,  Below are…

ICS warmly congratulates one of the 2015 Shohet Scholars, Prof. Steven Fine, upon the publication of his latest book with Harvard University Press, entitled The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel (Cambridge, MA, 2016). In this work, Fine, the Dean Pinkhos Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, analyzes the appearance of the…

Honoring the eve of Rosh Hashanah the Jewish New Year, also known as the Feast of Trumpets, “a day of shouting/blasting” (יוֹם תְּרוּעָה).  May it be sweet and joyous.  May you be written and sealed for a good year.

Documentality: New Approaches to Written Documents in Imperial Life and Literature Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2016 Stanford Humanitites Center, Boardroom 424 Santa Teresa Street Stanford, California 94305 Program (pdf). For questions or to register for the conference as a guest, contact: documentality2016@gmail.com. Documentality is sponsored by the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and the Stanford…

Beyond the Book Speakers Series at the University of Michigan presents: “East-West, No Bible is Best”:  A new picture of ancient Mediterranean Judaism in which the Bible was not the center of Jewish religious life. Thursday, September 22nd, 2016: 11:30am-1:30pm. Location: Institute for the Humanities Common Room, Room 1022 South Thayer Building, 202 S Thayer (University…

The ICS seasonal update, Luminaria, has been sent to members.  If you have not received your copy, please contact membership@catacombsociety.org.

Karen Audette’s award-winning documentary, The Nike Chariot Earring”, relates a crime story stranger than fiction, and with a happy ending!  All thanks to Florence Z. Wolsky, International Catacomb Society co-founder and longtime staff member of the Department of the Art of the Ancient World at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, who would never let…