The Minerva Center

Headsup for a very interesting upcoming event of the RIAB Minerva Center in collaboration with the University of Augsburg. Here is the schedule, and the abstracts of the lectures, of an upcoming workshop that will be held in Leipzig on October 28-29, 2026. The title of the workshop is: How to Make Religious Spaces? Performativity and Religious Spaces in the Southern Levant from Archaeological and Biblical Perspectives The workshop will deal with various issues relating to the

Happy to announce a conference, organized by Dr. J. Filitz, "How to Make Religious Spaces? Performativity and Religious Spaces in the Southern Levant from Archaeological and Biblical Perspectives." The conference will take place in Leipzig on October 28, 2026. See the schedule below and details how to register for on-site and online participation:

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