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DESCRIPTION:Encounters of Text and Material Culture in Ancient Judea is a t
 hree-evening lecture series that engages with Judean and later Jewish mate
 rial culture during the first millennium BCE\, mostly at the latter third 
 of this millennium during the Hellenistic-Roman period. This is not an arc
 heological study surveying pottery assemblages and architectural plans. In
 stead\, Jonathan Ben-Dov focuses on particular types of material objects t
 hat lend themselves to interaction with texts. The surveyed materials are 
 widely variegated: from monumental rock reliefs that straddle the borders 
 of nature and culture to handheld devices for time measurement. Special at
 tention is dedicated to scrolls\, which posit the text-and-matter encounte
 r in a particularly poignant way\, and where new paths are trodden today\,
  in the digital age.Lecture 1 (June 4): Time Machines in Text and MatterLe
 cture 3 (June 6): Scrolls as Material ArtifactsBard Graduate Center is gra
 teful for the generous support of the Leon Levy Foundation.Jonathan Ben-Do
 v is professor at the Department of Biblical Studies\, Tel Aviv University
 . His fields of interest are biblical literature and the Ancient Near East
 \, Dead Sea Scrolls and apocalyptic literature\, ancient astronomy and cal
 endars\, time and temporality\, history of the biblical text\, and more. H
 e has been a member of the Israeli Young Academy\, and a fellow at New Yor
 k University\, University of Zurich\, Durham University\, and the Israel I
 nstitute of Advanced Studies. He is codirector of the German-Israeli proje
 ct Scripta Qumranica Electronica\, which aims to enhance the study of Dead
  Sea Scrolls using digital humanities methods. His recent books are a coau
 thored monograph\, Material and Digital Reconstruction of Fragmentary Dead
  Sea Scrolls (Brill\, 2022)\, and a coedited book\, Afterlives of Ancient 
 Near Eastern Monuments (Brill\, 2021). He serves as an editor and board me
 mber for various journals and book series.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: The Material of Apocalypses: Rock Reliefs and
  the Literary Imagination
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