International Conference: Living the Lunar Calendar – Time, Text and Tradition

The Bible Lands Museum presents an International Conference: Living the Lunar Calendar — Time, Text and Tradition

The Living the Lunar Calendar Conference – held under the full moon of the Jewish festival of the New Year for Trees (Tu B’Shvat) will investigate the place of calendar reckoning in human society and culture. Focusing on the moon as a marker of the passage of time, the conference will address a wide variety of issues regarding the application of calendrical rules to everyday life, and beyond to the shaping of cultural identity.

Partial list of speakers includes:Jonathan Ben-Dov, University of Haifa, IsraelLis Brack-Bernsen, Regensburg University, GermanyLeo Depuydt, Brown University, USARobert Hannah, University of Otago, New ZealandWayne Horowitz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelStanislaw Iwaniszewski, National School of Anthropology and History, MexicoTsevi Mazeh, Tel-Aviv University, IsraelLawrence H. Schiffman, New York University, USAJohn Steele, Brown University, USASacha Stern, University College London, England

The program will be conducted in English.

Advanced reservations required. For further information and registration: [email protected]

This conference is made possible by the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, in collaboration with the CAENO Foundation; Department of Bible, University of Haifa; The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, The Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Haifa Forum for the History of Science; and Qumran National Park – Israel Nature and Parks Authority.