Conference at YU: Archaeology and the Rabbis
From YU:
The Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies presents an international conference for Sunday and Monday, March 27-8, 2011, which will take place at Yeshiva University Museum and on our historic Washington Heights campus. The conference is titled: Talmuda de-Eretz Israel: Archaeology and the Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine. In the century since Samuel Krauss’ Talmudische Archaeologie, massive strides have been made toward the integration of archaeology into the study of Rabbinic literature and of Rabbinic literature into the study of classical archaeology. This paradigm shift has altered the ways that we view the Rabbis, their literature, Jewish history and the broader Roman world, resulting in numerous publications, conferences and exhibitions. This conference will focus explicitly upon intersections between Palestinian Rabbis and archaeology from the vantage point of Rabbinic literature. Each participant will be asked explore ways that archaeological discoveries impact our understanding of specific rabbinic texts. The conference and the resulting volume will provide a range of viewpoints on well known, and less-well known rabbinic sources, and the ways that archaeology helps us to better understand them and the world in which they were composed.
On a related note, The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine