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
The program for the
Heidelberg Colloquium on the Subject of
Aram and Israel: Cultural Interaction, Political Borders and Construction of Identity
during the Early Iron Age (12 th –8 th Centuries BCE)
IWH Syposium, September 1-4, 2014,
co-organized by CSTT’s Izaak de Hulster, can be found here:
http://www.theologie.uni-heidelberg.de/md/theo/aktuelles/news/aram_and_israel_-_program_-_adjusted.pdf
Host: Centre of Excellence in “Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions”, University of Helsinki
Organisers: Saana Svärd (University of Helsinki) & Agnès
Garcia-Ventura (“Sapienza” Università di Roma)
Where: University of Helsinki (Finland), Main building (Fabianinkatu 33)
When: October 27-28, 2014
Aim: To discuss different methodological approaches to gender within the framework of ancient Near Eastern studies (including archaeology, art history and text studies) and enable a fruitful dialogue between these approaches.
Registration: Registration to attend is now open (there is no
conference fee). To register please send an email before September
15, 2014 to Saana Svärd and/or Agnès Garcia-Ventura. Continue reading Workshop: “Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East”
by Jutta Jokiranta
Several CSTT members participated in the Third Colloquium of the Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME), titled ”Concord, Conflict and Co-existence: Religion and Society in the Middle East and North Africa,” 5–7 June, 2014 in Turku, Finland. Continue reading CSTT Meets Contemporary Studies of the Middle East: FIME Colloquium in Turku
by Hanne von Weissenberg
Thirty members of the Centre of Excellence met for a one-day meeting in Helsinki on the 3rd June 2014. The day was an interesting, inspiring and unique combination of academic papers and discussions concerning academic career and its challenges. Continue reading “Where Excellence and Teamwork Meet” – CSTT Meeting, 3rd June 2014
by Mika S. Pajunen
The Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise 2014 (former John Templeton Award) was granted this year to ten scholars for their dissertations or the first book after it that pertained to the topic of God and Spirituality as broadly understood. This year’s award ceremony and an attached colloquium took place in the picturesque town of Heidelberg in Germany on the 23rd– 26th of May. Continue reading The Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award Ceremony and Colloquium 2014
