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

RIAB Center member, Johny Messo, has kindly recorded himself reciting versions of Psalm 51 (according to the Peshitta Aramaic translation...