Mar 28 Public Lecture: David Schloen (Chicago)

Date: 

Monday, March 28, 2016, 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

William James Hall 105, 33 Kirkland Street

David Schloen Associate Professor, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

presents a lecture:

Kings and Their Cities in the Iron Age Levant

 Monday, March 28th, 4:00 p.m.

William James Hall 105
33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge

 Many kingdoms of the Iron Age Levant, including Israel and Judah, featured well-fortified royal cities that were centers of administration and religious ritual, but had few inhabitants and were not centers of economic production. This lecture will discuss these cities and what they tell us about the political and economic organization of Iron Age kingdoms, with reference to archaeological and textual evidence from the Aramean kingdom of Sam’al, in the northern Levant, and from the contemporary Israelite kingdoms in the south.

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We hope to see you there!

 Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University