{"id":14709,"date":"2024-03-25T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T18:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/?page_id=14709"},"modified":"2024-06-21T13:25:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T17:25:20","slug":"2016-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/research\/maccabees\/2016-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"2016-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>In 2016-17, The Maccabees Project held two hybrid (in-person\/zoom) discussions at Boston University\u2019s Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, and three dialogues, at Boston University and Boston College.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">HYBRID DISCUSSIONS<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>New Discoveries from Khirbet el-Eika, in Galilee<\/em><\/h3>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Read more<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sept. 28th, 2016<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Speakers: Uzi Leibner (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Yoav Farhi (Tel Aviv University), Deby Re\u2019em-Sandhaus (Tel Aviv University), and Gerald Finkielsztejn (Israel Antiquites Authority)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Professor Leibner and colleagues present results from the excavations at Khirbet el-Eika, a strategic fortified site in Israel\u2019s lower Galilee that\u2014like several other sites throughout the land\u2014was destroyed and abandoned suddenly around 144\/143 BCE.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New Discoveries from Khirbet el-Eika Video Conference\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eQho9hlCU-I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>New Discoveries from Mazor<\/em><\/h3>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Read more<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Oct. 26th, 2016<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Speakers: Yehiel Zelinger (Israel Antiquities Authority), Donald Ariel (Israel Antiquities Authority), and Gerald Finkielsztejn (Israel Antiquites Authority)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>IAA archaeologist Yehiel Zelinger and colleagues present results from the excavations at Mazor, a wealthy rural estate in the hills north of Mode\u2019in that\u2014like several other sites throughout the land\u2014was destroyed and abandoned suddenly around 144\/143 BCE.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New Discoveries from Mazor\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1NonloMthg4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">DIALOGUES<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Revolutions in Time: The Invention of Era-Counting in the Seleucid Empire<\/em><\/h3>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Read more<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Dec. 1, 2016<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> Boston College<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Speakers: John Collins (Yale University) and Paul Kosmin (Harvard University)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Professors Collins and Kosmin discuss the clash between Seleucid imperial time-keeping and \u201cJewish\u201d time, its possible relationship to the social and political conflicts that arose in Judea in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> c. BCE, as well as to other seemingly disparate contemporary developments, such as the rise of Jewish apocalyptic attitudes and writings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Revolutions in Time: Seleucid Innovations in Temporal Mapping\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/omtFrS7Y_WM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Debating 1 Maccabees: Archaeology vs. Literature vs. History<\/em><\/h3>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Read more<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>April 5, 2017<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><strong>Hillel House, Boston University<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Speakers: Andrea Berlin (Boston University), Steven Weitzman (University of Pennsylvania), and Benedikt Eckhardt (University of Bremen)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Professor Berlin discusses the implications of new archaeological evidence from northern Israel for an historical reading of 1 Maccabees chapters 9-12; Professors Weitzman and Eckhardt respond with their own ideas of how to relate the material remains to the ancient written accounts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Maccabean Fictions: Archaeology vs. Literature vs. History\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rsWBenlq4lM?start=14&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Imagining the Maccabees<\/em><\/h3>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Read more<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>April 6, 2017<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><strong>Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Boston University<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Speakers: Steven Weitzman (University of Pennsylvania) and Benedikt Eckhardt (University of Bremen)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Professors Weitzman and Eckhardt discuss the methods and consequences of bringing a modern literary approach to the text of 1 Maccabees, and consider how such an approach invites reflection on the fictive dimensions of our modern scholarly reconstructions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Maccabean Fictions: Scholarly Colloquium\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jEzoyye8JNg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016-17, The Maccabees Project held two hybrid (in-person\/zoom) discussions at Boston University\u2019s Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, and three dialogues, at Boston University and Boston College. 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