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Wednesday, February 1, 2006
2005-2006/032
USC professor to give UIUC Spring
Lecture in Religion February 9
URBANA—Bruce Zuckerman, Professor of the School of Religion, the University of Southern California (USC), will give a lecture entitled, “Reclaiming the Bible, Letter by Letter: Newly Discovered Ancient Inscriptions and Their Impact on Biblical Studies," on Thursday, February 9, at 7:30 p.m., in 103 Mumford Hall on the University of Illinois campus.
The lecture is the first Annual Spring Lecture for the U. of I.'s Program for the Study of Religion and is free and open to the public.
The talk will be an illustrated survey of inscriptions found in the Middle East that have played an important role in reconstructing the biblical world, including the recently discovered Wadi el-Hol texts, the earliest known alphabetic inscriptions, the Tell Zeitah inscription from the tenth century BCE discovered last summer, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Zuckerman will discuss how advanced imaging and data-basing technologies have revolutionized the study of these ancient texts as scholars try to reconstruct the biblical past, letter-by-letter.
Zuckerman received his Ph.D. in Ancient Near Eastern Languages from Yale University and is a specialist in Northwest Semitic languages and biblical studies. He teaches courses in the Hebrew Bible, the Bible in Western Literature, the Ancient Near East, and Archaeology.
Besides his teaching responsibilities, he directs the USC Archaeological Research Collection and both the West Semitic Research and InscriptiFact Projects. He was also recently appointed director of the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life.
Zuckerman is the author of “Job the Silent: A Study in Biblical Counterpoint” (1991) and, co-authored with Zev Garber, “Double Takes; Thinking and Rethinking Issues of Modern Judaism in Ancient Contexts” (2004).
He is currently leading an effort to disseminate electronic images of ancient texts through the West Semitic Research and InscriptiFact Projects:
www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp
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