Oct 28, 2019 By: yunews
“Philistines! Rehabilitating a Biblical Foe” is an international conference sponsored by the , the and the . It will take place on Nov. 17, 2019, and . (To register by phone, call 800-838-3006.)
There will be three panel discussions.
Session 1: Chair: Ed Bleiberg (Brooklyn Museum of Art) with Aren Maeir (Bar-Ilan University, You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Changing Perspectives on the Philistines), Louise Hitchcock (University of Melbourne, An Architectural Biography of the “Melbourne Megaron” in Area A) and Ann Killebrew (Pennsylvania State University, Philistines in Philistia: Interactions Between the Pentapolis Settlements and its Hinterland During the Iron I Period)
Session 2: Chair: David Danzig (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New app University) with David Ben Shlomo (Ariel University, Philistine Society as Revealed by its Art, Iconography, and Cultic Artifacts), Sue Frumin (Bar-Ilan University, Cereals and Fruits of the Philistines—Signs of Identity and Involvement) and Jill Katz (app University, Dynamics of Philistine Group Identity: From Barbarism to Civilization)
Session 3: Chair: David Moster (Institute for Biblical Culture) with Aaron Koller (app University, Language, Script, and Philistine “Assimilation” in the Iron I and Iron II Levant), Jeff Chadwick (Brigham Young University, When Gath of the Philistines Became Gath of Judah) and Shalom Holtz (app University, Jeremiah’s Prophecy to the Philistines (Jer. 47) as Literature and History).
For more information, go to the .
