by Hanna Vanonen
When a new partial or complete manuscript is found, the first scholarly endeavor related to it is usually to produce a reliable edition of the fragment or fragments so that all interested scholars and students can get a trustworthy impression of the material without even seeing it. As regards the Qumran manuscripts, this work began already in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Continue reading Working with Fragmentary Manuscipts
The CSTT invites applications for both doctoral student and post-doctoral researcher positions. For more information, please see
http://www.helsinki.fi/recruitment/index.html?id=94249 and
http://www.helsinki.fi/recruitment/index.html?id=94420 .
*The application deadline has passed*
by Tuukka Kauhanen
I am spending the most part of the academic year 2014–15 in Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Madrid is a major European capital and, for a Finn, a very large city: the surroundings of every Metro station is like a middle-sized Finnish town – only much livelier! There is a large old city centre, including the magnificent Palacio Real. For centuries, Madrid has been the city of the Spanish Kings, now of His Majesty Felipe VI. Continue reading Madrid, the City of Kings
by Hanne von Weissenberg
Forty people, virtually the entire CSTT, met for its very first Annual Meeting in Tallinn, Estonia during the first weekend of October. The topic of the meeting was What is Sacred? Sacred Texts, Traditions, Scrolls, Space, People, Polities. Continue reading How to Talk about the Sacred? The First Annual Meeting of the CSTT in Tallinn, Oct. 3-5 2014
by Katri Antin
Several European universities foster the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and train doctoral students to become experts in the Scrolls. In September 2014, both junior and senior scholars from the universities of Helsinki, KU Leuven, Groningen and Manchester were kindly invited to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen to a workshop titled Dead Sea Scrolls and History — A Reassessment. Continue reading European Qumran Network Met in Göttingen
The CSTT Annual Meeting will take place in Tallinn, Estonia on 3-5 October 2014.
by Tero Alstola
Following an annual tradition, a group of PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and senior scholars of Old Testament studies got together at the annual meeting of the OTSEM network on 12–15 September. Continue reading Learning Together at the OTSEM Meeting in Hamburg
by Juha Pakkala
Five members of the CSTT (Katri Saarelainen, Emilia Tapiola, Izaak de Hulster, Martti Nissinen and Juha Pakkala) participated in a colloquium on Aram and Israel in Heidelberg in September 1–4, 2014. The focus of the colloquium was on cultural interaction, political borders and identity-building concerning the relationship between the Aramean realm and Israel in the 12th to 8th centuries bce. Continue reading Heidelberg Colloquium – Aram and Israel
CSTT:n johtaja Martti Nissinen ja Järki ja uskonnollinen hyväksyminen –huippuyksikön varajohtaja Virpi Mäkinen kävivät keskustelemassa teologisesta huippututkimuksesta YLE Horisontti –ohjelmassa. Lähetys on kuunneltavissa Yle Areenassa osoitteessa http://areena.yle.fi/radio/2325493.
by Hanna Tervanotko
One of the goals of CSTT is to foster dialogue between different disciplines that analyze the texts belonging to the Ancient Mediterranean and ancient Near Eastern cultural contexts. While it has been acknowledged for long that various literary traditions preserved in the Hebrew Bible have their origins in ancient Near Eastern cultures, the legacy between the ancient Jewish literary traditions and Greek traditions has not been inquired as thoroughly. The relatively small numbers of studies focusing on their cross-cultural relationship is surprising, given that for centuries the Mediterranean area belonged to the Hellenistic empire established by Alexander the Great. Hellenistic ideas left their marks in Jewish texts in different ways. Continue reading Hebrew Bible Studies and Classical Studies – Still in the Beginning of a Fruitful Relationship?
