2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
Affiliation & Project Titles
- Todd Berzon
Bowdoin College
Holy Tongues: The Materiality of Language in the Religious World of Late Antiquity
- Rick Bonnie
University of Helsinki
Material Religion in Hasmonean-Roman Judaea: The Role of the Senses, Space, and Climate in Determining the Use of Synagogues and Miqva'ot
- Sean Burrus
Metropolitan Museum
Image and Empire: Jewish Identities and Visual Arts under Rome
- C. Mike Chin
University of California at Davis
Life: The Natural History of an Early Christian Universe
- Deborah Forger
University of Michigan
God's Embodiment in Jewish Antiquity
- Chaya Halberstam
King's University College at the University of Western Ontario
Justice and Mercy Revisited: A Religious-Legal History of Judicial Impartiality
- Rachel Neis
University of Michigan
The Reproduction of Species: Humans and Other Materials in Ancient Rabbinic "Biology"
- Megan Nutzman
Old Dominion University
Asclepius and Elijah: Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine
- Daniel Picus
Brown University
Ink Sea, Parchment Sky: Reading Practices of Late Ancient Rabbis
- Michael Swartz
Ohio State University
The Economics of Ritual in Judaism in Late Antiquity
- Juan Tebes
Catholic University of Argentina
Fluid Cultural Boundaries in Idumaea and the Formation of Jewish and Idumaean Identities
