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| Why All Gifts to ASOR Matter |
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By: Rob Oden In a fund raising campaign with an ambitious six- or seven-figure number, do small gifts matter? Why should we all stretch to give what we can even if a stretch gift for some of us is 25, 50, or 100 dollars? Do 25 or 50 dollar gifts to March Fellowship Madness matter? Read more... |
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| March Fellowship Madness is Coming |
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It's almost time for March Fellowship Madness again, when we try to raise as many fellowship dollars as possible in thirty days. March Fellowship Madness is an opportunity for members to support additional fellowships so we can get more players in the field. Last year, almost eighty ASOR members joined the madness and gave over 9,000 dollars, which allowed ASOR to award fellowships to nine additional scholars! Donate Early!!! Read more... |
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| Kinyras: The Divine Lyre |
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By: John C. Franklin Kinyras is the legendary king of Cyprus, generally known only for his incestuous seduction by his daughter Myrrha (Ov. Met. 10.298–502). Yet a large body of scattered references—never completely assembled—ranges from Homer to Byzantine poets and scholars, and even the sixteenth-century Franco-Cypriot historian Étienne de Lusignan. Homer knew Kinyras as a Great King who treated with Agamemnon (Il. 11.19–23). The lost epic Cypria dealt with Kinyras’ faithless promise to join against Troy. Read more... |
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| Lynn Swartz Dodd is New ASOR Secretary |
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ASOR is pleased to announce Dr. Lynn Swartz Dodd of the University of Southern California (USC) as our new Secretary. The ASOR Board of Trustees voted unanimously at its fall meeting on November 18, 2012 to elect Dodd to a three-year term (2013-2015) as ASOR Secretary and member of the Executive Committee. Dodd succeeds Prof. James F. Strange of the University of South Florida who served as Secretary for three terms and more than ten years. Prof. Strange continues his service to ASOR as a member of the board of trustees (Class of 2015). Read more... |
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| The Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (EB) Transition – Investigation of a Weak Link |
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By: Eliot Braun As ceramic finds were extremely poorly preserved and are not a particularly sensitive indicator for differentiating Late Chalcolithic from early phases of Early Bronze I, two scholars have argued that typical Chalcolithic artifacts should actually be identified as EB I. I set out to investigate that claim as it is essential for interpreting the Chalcolithic-EB transition. By marshalling evidence in the literature of artifacts, burial customs and radiocarbon determinations, I believe I have been able to refute such claims, thus obviating a need to re-evaluate the transition and indeed, the entire understanding of what constitutes EB I in the southern Levant. Read more... |
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| Publications Committee Seeks New Editor For BASOR |
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The Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR), a publication of the American Schools for Oriental Research (ASOR), is seeking an editor for a renewable three-year term beginning July 1 2014, for six semi-annual issues. BASOR is a peer-reviewed illustrated publication including technical articles covering the entire Near East and eastern Mediterranean world from the Palaeolithic period through Islamic times. The principal subject areas of the journal include art and archaeology, history, anthropology, bioarchaeology and archaeozoology, archaeometry, geography, philology and epigraphy, and literature. BASOR is published on paper and in the JSTOR Current Scholarship Program. Read more... |
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| The Source of Sin and its Nature as Portrayed in Second Temple Literature |
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By: Miryam T. Brand My fellowship at the Albright this year has enabled me to further develop the topic of my dissertation with the aim of producing a book for academic readers: Evil Within and Without: The Source of Sin and its Nature as Portrayed in Second Temple Literature, to be published in the Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplement series. The aim of my study has been to examine how sin, specifically, the source of sin, is presented in Second Temple literature, including Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Philo and the Dead Sea Scrolls. These texts are examined according to their genre: prayer texts, narratives, wisdom literature, and covenantal texts (introductions to legal rules). Read more... |
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