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
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 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 →
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