Seminar - Historical and Archaeological Evidence for the Jewish Diaspora After 722 B.C.
The Lanier Theological Library is inviting scholars and patrons to a free seminar on Friday, January 16, 2015 from 2:00 - 5:00 p.m., in our chapel. This seminar precedes and ties in well with the library's lecture on the next day by Rabbi Benjamin Scolnic, “The Book of Daniel and the Nature of Biblical Truth.”
This 3-hour session features the six presenters and presentations below.
K. Lawson Younger (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School)
“Israelites and Judahites in Assyria and Babylon in Cuneiform Sources”
James K. Hoffmeier (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School)
“Judeans in Egypt after the Fall of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.”
Richard Hawes (Archaeology Forum, Tyndale House Cambridge)
“Did Edom Annex Parts of Southern Judah Following the Fall of Jerusalem in 567/8 B.C.”
Benjamin Scolnic (Southern Connecticut State University)
“The Book of Daniel and Modern Theories about the Persecution that led to the Story of Hanukkah”
Gary Rendsburg (Rutgers University)
“Septuagint, Synagogue, and Symbiosis: The Jews of Hellenistic Egypt”
Thomas W. Davis (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary)
“Jews in Cyprus in Hellenistic Times”