The Minerva Center

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

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),...

Great news from Mohr Siebeck publishers that the proceedings volume of our conference on urbanism from fall 2022 is about to appear! The...

The Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies  and the Minerva RIAB Center  will be conducting a fascinating conference on the...

Check out about the workshop we conducted today: https://gath.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/workshop-on-israelites-phoenicians-and-arameans-in...

On Tuesday and Wednesday, January 14th-15th, 2025, the RIAB Minerva Center will conduct a workshop at Leipzig University on the topic...

On Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, a very interesting workshop will be conducted, jointly organized by the Kinneret Academic College, Ben-Gurion...

Next week, we will be holding a fascinating joint Israeli/German/Swiss/Italian conference on "State Formation and Re-Urbanisation in the...

The recordings of the talks and discussions from at the conference on "Non-Violent Resistance – Multi-disciplinary perspectives from the...

Next week (19-20 of July, 2023), an academic meeting on perspectives on non-violent resistance in the past, present and future will be...

See below the notice on the conference; full details and schedule will appear in the near future!

Please mark in your calendars an academic conference on Non-Violent Resistance, that will take place on July 19-20, 2023, at Bar-Ilan...

Please note that the Minvera RIAB Center workshop scheduled for Monday, May 22nd, 2023 in the late afternoon/evening, on "Fortifications...

On Monday, May 22nd, 2023 in the late afternoon/evening, a RIAB Minerva Center workshop on Fortifications and Symbolism in the Ancient...

On Tuesday, May 16th, at 12:00 noon, Prof. Liz Arnold (GVSU) will give a lecture for the RIAB Minerva Center (in the laboratory of the...

A RIAB Minerva Center lecture/workshop by Dr. Matt Susnow (post-doc at the Hebrew University) entitled: "Ritual, Scripted and Unscripted:...

On April 18th, 2023, a RIAB Minerva Center Meeting dealing with the "History of Mentalities in Ancient Israel" will be held at the...

The Minerva Stiftung has just informed the RIAB Minerva Center co-directors that the center's tenure will be extended for an additional...

A "Minerva School", organized by RIAB Center members Shira Albaz, Laura Gonnermann and Vanessa Workman, entitle "Crafting for the Gods:...