The Minerva Center

On Monday, 12th January, 2026, a workshop entitlted "Cult and Identity in Aramean Contexts" will be held at Bar-Ilan University, in Room 312 in the building of the Faculty of Jewish Studies (Building 410). The workshop is jointly organized by the RIAB Center and S. N. Kramer Institute of Assyriology of Bar-Ilan University. See below the schedule of the workshop, which will include three very interesting lectures relating to archaeological, textual and historical aspects conne

A very interesting conference on Persian Period cult that will be held at BIU on January 26 to 29, 2026. The conference is organized by Prof. Tova Ganzel, and the Minerva RIAB Center  is a co-organizer. The conference, "Temple Life in the Persian Empire", will include lectures on a diverse range of topics relating to, inter alia, cult, religion, temple praxis, religious identity, texts and archaeology, covering various regions within the Achaemenid Empire. I will also be pres

Yesterday, we conducted an excellent workshop on Eric Cline's books "1177" and "After 1177" (as previously mentioned here ). The event,...

Happy to announce a conference " Jerusalem through the Ages: New Perspectives ", which will be held at Schloss Beuggen, Rheinfelden,...

Happy to announce the following workshop: The Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times (RIAB),...