News
AMPS First Seminar Meeting | October 25, 2022
25 October, 2022
On October 25, 2022, the AMPS project celebrated its first seminar meeting this year, welcoming three new members that joined our team, and a guest scholar from Japan. One of the new postdoctoral researchers in the team, Dr. Yuval Levavi, presented a lecture on Babylonian Chronicles, followed by a lively discussion. The occasion began with a short introduction of the various team members and affiliated researchers (all together 15 members), accompanied by some refreshments and raising a toast for the new academic year.
Project Meeting with Prof. Tzvi Abusch
22 May, 2022
Project Meeting | Sunday 22.05.22
12:30-14:00
Guest Lecturer : Prof. Tzvi Abusch
Ritual and Landscape A Tour to the Galilee May 12-13
18 May, 2022
The AMPS project seeks to study ritual and scholarship in Mesopotamia both by studying Sumerian and Akkadian texts, as well as by focusing our attention to other societies and regions for comparisons. In our tour to the Galilee we had a comparative look at various ritual issues, both contemporary and ancient.
Tour at the Israel Museum 29.03.22
30 March, 2022
As part of our interest in rituals, and as part of our attempt to combine comparative aspects in our study, the AMPS project had a fascinating tour in the exhibition "Divine Food: Maize, Cacao, and Maguey from Precolumbian to Contemporary Art" in the Israel Museum on March 29, 2022, guided by the curator Yvonne Fleitman.
Tour at the Israel Museum
29 March, 2022
29.03.22 | 17:00-19:00
Exhibition "Maize, Cacao, and Maguey from Precolumbian to Contemporary Art"
Last seminar - January 10, 2022
16 January, 2022
On January 10, 2022, we held our last meeting of this semester's seminar on Sumerian and Akkadian laments. Due to the pandemic situation we unfortunately had to meet through zoom and not in person, but it was great seeing everyone! Our project is interested in ritual and in scholarship. Most of the seminar was dedicated to the former topic: ritual. But in the last meeting we looked at the relationship between the rituals we met so far and ancient scholarship, introducing the topic of our seminar next year which will deal specifically with scholarship.