Department of Near Eastern Studies

Join us for a museum chat presented by Michael Chapin, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Lucas Freire, graduate student.

Three NES students present their research: Alison Wilkinson, “An Unpublished Letter of Agreement from the Liverpool World Museum: O. LWM 55.82.100” Jay Weimar, “Passover, Bulls, Rabbis, and 1 Esdras: Evidence for Multiple Compositional Layers in 2 Chronicles 35:7–9” Laurel Poolman, “Empires, Sheep, and Shepherds: Animal Subsistence at Three Neo-Assyrian Provincial Centers”

Three NES students present their research: Mason Wilkes, “Houses, Neighborhoods, Complaints: An Emergent Topic in Sumerian Proverb Collection 2.” Jay Weimar, “Slobbering Seer or Sympathetic Rain Magic? Insights on the Biblical NṬP-Prophecy from Ancient South Arabian Texts.” Richard Essam, “The Prisms of House F”

The Near Eastern Studies Department is pleased to welcome Alex de Voogt of Drew University for a department lecture titled ‘The Meroitic Script: Five discussions within the history of writing systems’.