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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the inaugural Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewi
 sh Material Culture. Andrea M. Berlin will deliver a series of three lectu
 res entitled “Beyond the Temple: Jewish Households from the Maccabees to t
 he Great Revolt against Rome.” Alex P. Jassen\, Karen B. Stern\, and Azzan
  Yadin-Israel will each respond to one lecture and also offer a correspond
 ing lunchtime talk the following day. Lecture 1: October 10Mediterranean C
 osmopolitans and the MaccabeesResponse: Alex P. JassenLecture. 2: October 
 17Class Divides: Jewish Daily Life in the time of Herod the GreatResponse:
  Karen B. SternLecture 3: October 24The Great Revolt\, and its Jewish Afte
 rlifeResponse: Azzan Yadin-IsraelAdditional support provided by The David 
 Berg Foundation.Beyond the Temple: Jewish Households from the Maccabees to
  the Great Revolt against Rome. When did Jews first begin using material g
 oods to communicate a religious identity? Why did such a practice arise\, 
 and what were its social and political consequences? In these three lectur
 es\, Berlin will couple archaeological remains with historical testimony t
 o address these questions. The story begins in the second century BCE\, wi
 th the rise of the Hasmoneans\, a landed family from rural Judea who lever
 aged military success and political connections to establish themselves as
  both religious and civic leaders. The Jewish-Mediterranean state they cre
 ated lasted just two generations\, but by the time of its demise in the mi
 d-first century BCE it had provided the context and impetus for the full i
 ntegration of Judea into Mediterranean political culture. This gave rise t
 o an elite class beholden more to political than priestly interests and se
 t up a clash between two modes of Jewish self-understanding: one who took 
 its cues from that extreme philo-romaios Herod\; and a second who saw them
 selves as fulfilling a heroic Maccabean vision of a re-conquered Promised 
 Land. In the nexus between these modes\, archaeological remains reveal tha
 t there developed in Judea and Galilee a new materially-inflected lifestyl
 e in which people adopted specific goods and behaviors to reflect a connec
 tion to Jerusalem. This was a commoner’s lifestyle\; it allowed non-elites
  to infuse their homes and day-to-day lives with a Jewish sensibility. Ove
 r the course of the early to mid-first century CE\, we can see how this li
 festyle became implicated in the development of hardened social identities
 \, which in turn contributed to zealotry and\, ultimately\, the Great Revo
 lt against Rome.The Great Revolt\, and its Jewish Afterlife. Galilee\nin t
 he first century CE was a region transformed. For several hundred years\, 
 it\nhad been a place of scattered settlements occupied by different ethnic
  groups\,\nall sharing similar lifestyles and buying the same range of goo
 ds from local\nmarkets. There existed a few small open-air sanctuaries of 
 varying orientation\nbut no evidence for organized religious activity. A v
 isitor here in 100 BCE\nwould not observe separate cultural spheres. But a
  century later\, things had\nchanged dramatically. A sharp line now separa
 tes the two local cultural groups\nof Phoenicians and Jews\, a division re
 flected in a host of material remains. Jews\nlive surrounded by\nspecific 
 markers: Judean-style household pottery\, lamps\, stone vessels\, and mikv
 a’ot. They build synagogues\, which\, in\naddition to their practical func
 tions\, also are a structural advertisement of\ncommunal identity and soli
 darity. By the middle of the first century CE no Jew\nliving in this regio
 n would remember when daily life did not materially reify a\ndistinctive e
 thnic and religious identity. Such a lifestyle would have\ncontributed to 
 a sharply delineated world view\, a sense of separation from\nothers. This
  view\, sense\, and lifestyle contributed in part to the decision in\n66 C
 E to revolt against Rome. Neither the view nor the lifestyle survived\nbey
 ond the Roman victory in the year 70 CE. It could be argued\, however\, th
 at\nthe sense of separation has lived on.Professor Andrea M. Berlin is the
  James R. Wiseman\nChair in Classical Archaeology at Boston University. Sh
 e has been excavating in\nthe eastern Mediterranean for over thirty years\
 , working on projects from Troy\nin Turkey to Coptos in southern Egypt to 
 Paestum\, in Italy. Her specialty is\nthe Near East from the time of Alexa
 nder the Great through the Roman era\, about\nwhich she has written four b
 ooks and over fifty articles. She is especially\ninterested in studying th
 e realities of daily life\, and in exploring the\nintersection of politics
  and cultural change in antiquity. She has been\nappointed as Leon Levy Fo
 undation Professor of Jewish Material Culture at Bard\nGraduate Center for
  the fall 2017 semester.Azzan Yadin-Israel earned his BA from the Hebrew U
 niversity and his PhD from the University of California\, Berkeley and the
  Graduate Theological Union. He has published widely on rabbinic literatur
 e\, Hebrew Bible\, and early Christianity\, including two books on early r
 abbinic midrash: Scripture as Logos: Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midr
 ash (2004) and Scripture and Tradition: Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Mid
 rash (2014)\, both with the University of Pennsylvania Press. A Professor 
 of Jewish Studies and Classics at Rutgers University\, his latest book is 
 The Grace of God and the Grace of Man: The Theologies of Bruce Springsteen
  (Lingua Press\, 2016).
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Beyond the Temple\, Lecture 3
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