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Since this is another class without changing powerpoint slides, I’m making this one available as an mp3 podcast as well:

Via Trevin Wax:

Andrew Peterson: Everybody’s got the same ache; everybody’s carrying around the same sense of dissatisfaction with the state of the world. If they claim otherwise, I just don’t believe them. No matter how happy we are, there’s something nagging at us, something troubling at the periphery of our days, like we’re on a date and having a great time, but we can’t shake the feeling that we left the oven on. Something keeps us from perfect peace.

If we slipped out of the suburbs and affluence into a world where things like iPhones and viral videos don’t really amount to a hill of beans, a world where an actual hill of beans can be the difference between life and death, there would be no question that the world is broken. I’ve always sensed it, but the older I get the starker is the evidence. I see it in my own tired, sinful heart. I see it in my sweet children’s embarkation into adolescence and the grief it will bring. I see it in marriages and churches struggling to preserve their sacred unity.

And yet, even with all this darkness, there’s so much beauty. Why would that be? Why would we hunger for light and truth if we weren’t made for it? And if we were made for it, why must we contend with shadows and lies for the length of our days?

Tolkien said that sadness was part of what made the Lord’s symphony so beautiful, and I happen to agree. Joy untouched by sorrow is mere happiness.

There must be some deeper purpose behind this painfully slow redemption of the world, a purpose that turns the devil’s own tools against him – including our sorrow, which, when we don’t despair, only piques our longing. I believe there will be a reckoning, when Jesus will judge the quick and the dead, but as long as He tarries we ache for that day even as we proclaim it, even as we build the kingdom that is somehow coming and yet is already here.

I’ve never heard of this musician, but he’s bang on about the reality of living.  As you enter your 50′s, the emptiness must be overwhelming for those who do not know Jesus.  It’s bad enough anyway.

#PEQJotM

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Announcing the beta availability of service-based access to the morphological engines used by Perseus for Latin and Greek (Morpheus) and Arabic (Buckwalter). This service leverages a standard Morphology Service API and is made available on an instance of the Bamboo Services Platform hosted by University of California, Berkeley at http://services-qa.projectbamboo.org/bsp/morphologyservice .

The Morphological Analysis Service responds to requests for morphological analysis of texts, submits them to the appropriate morphology engine for processing and returns the results in XML adhering to a standard morphology schema.  The Service supports retrieval of texts for analysis from remote repositories as well as user-supplied chunks of text.  URL based and CTS repositories are supported.  Where retrieval from a CTS enabled repository is requested CTS URNs are supported as document identifiers. Where retrieval from a URL based repository is requested, URIs are supported as document identifiers.

Currently available instances of the Bamboo Services Platform are insecure, are operated with no explicit SLA, and should be considered stateless: that is, data may be wiped from persistent stores at any time.

A secure instance of the BSP for which data will be preserved on future upgrades is anticipated in Fall 2012.

Funding for the development of this service was provided by Tufts University, Project Bamboo and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The Virtual Tour of the Acropolis is an interactive website that allows various aspects of the historical site to be explored in a unique way. It consists of high-resolution gigapixel images and panoramas of the four main monuments - the Parthenon, the Propylaia, the Erechtheion and the Temple of Athena Nike - as well as a detailed photographic representation of the inner and outer ancient walls surrounding the hill, all accompanied by historical information and a descriptive map. The images offer a full zoom in towards details of the moments otherwise difficult to reach, an overview of the location of the monument with respect to its surroundings, or even a virtual "walk" through the site. The user is given the opportunity to exploit task-specific applications or create more personalized approaches, being in overall immersed into a virtual visit of the Acropolis. 

As I mentioned previously, in my Sunday school class we have been in chapter 14 of the Book of Revelation for the past two weeks. One of the members of my class, who in fact teaches Sunday school herself, made the interesting suggestion that the celibacy of the 144,000 (Revelation 14:4) might have to do with their priestly status – not in the sense of being Catholic priests and thus celibate, but in the sense of being set apart for priestly service in the Levitical sense. Priests had to abstain from sex prior to their priestly service.

At first glance, the language of “defiling themselves with women” sounds incredibly sexist – and even if it turns out to be less so than first seems to be the case, we will still want to challenge the assumptions about sex embedded in this text, as well as the patriarchal assumptions about priesthood. But it is worth noting that the point may not be a negative one about women, but a way of indicating, through mention of their abstinence from sex, the priestly status of the 144,000 – making them the “firstfruits” to enter the ever-expanding priestly status that will eventually encompass the great multitude.

What do others think? Is Revelation 14:4 a reflection of the negative view of women and sex that would dominate much of later Christianity? Or does it stand closer to roots in Jewish, and more specifically Levitical, views of priesthood? Or is it both?

This also makes an important point about the chronology (or lack thereof) of the Book of Revelation. Presumably the priestly status of the 144,000 in ch.14 is logically prior to the great multitude taking that status in ch.5. But as Christian Shephard said on LOST, it seems that also in heaven as envisaged by the author of Revelation, “there is no ‘now’ here.”

Post-Revolution, looting in Egypt continues in a systemic way

..reports have started to come in of sophisticated and systematic looting occurring across major Egyptian archaeological sites, according to Egyptian and U.S. officials involved in the repatriation of antiquities.

The number of illegal excavations and thefts has worsened to the point that groups are organizing heavy machinery to carry out extensive digs.

“This wasn’t just someone taking their shovels and digging holes in the sand,” said Deborah Lehr, chairman of the Capitol Archaeological Institute at George Washington University, who has been charged with helping the Egyptian government protect its antiquities. “These were bulldozers, and gangs of men over a period of time.”

Illegal digs have long been a problem for Egypt, where 5,000 years of history lie buried: but since the start of the uprising against Mr. Mubarak in early 2011, the number has ballooned. The collapse of security has emboldened criminals to target landmark areas without fear of reprisals. Illegal digging has taken place near the Great Pyramids in Giza and the grand temples of the southern city of Luxor.

Satellite images from before and after the revolution show a marked increase in looter holes: in fact, parts of the landscape are starting to look like “Swiss cheese,” Ms. Lehr said.

Photo via Derek Fincham: Human Remains Exposed to the Elements at El Hibeh

Read more at the NYT.

Christine Walde (dir.), The Reception of Classical Literature, Leyde, 2012.

Éditeur : Brill
Collection : Brill's New Pauly - Supplements
xix, 596 pages
ISBN : 9789004218932
195 €

This new Supplement to Brill's New Pauly gives an overview of the reception and influence of ancient literary works on the literature, art and music from antiquity to the present. Ordered by the names of around 90 authors, detailed and clearly-structured encyclopedic articles discuss the post-classical reception history and interpretation by historical period of the most important works from ancient Greece and Rome. Each article is accompanied by a comprehensive bibliography for further study. This volume will be a welcome addition to scholarship not only for classical and modern literary studies, but also for many other disciplines.

Source : Brill

Timothy Saunders, Charles Martindale, Ralph Pite, et Mathilde Skoie (dir.), Romans and Romantics, Oxford, 2012.

Éditeur : Oxford University Press
Collection : Classical Presences
xxii, 431 pages
ISBN : 9780199588541
85 £

The first extensive and wide-ranging discussion on the relationship between Romanticism and Roman antiquity
Includes 18 contributions from an international team of scholars working in various disciplines
Considers literature, music, sculpture, film, history, politics, and scholarship
Discusses both well-known and lesser-known literary figures from across Europe and the US, who lived before, during, and after the Romantic period
Includes an Afterword by Glenn W. Most

This volume provides, for the first time, an extensive and wide-ranging discussion of the relationship between Romanticism and Roman antiquity. Encompassing literature, music, sculpture, film, history, politics, and scholarship from across Europe and the US, it assesses the influence ancient Roman culture has had upon Romanticism, and the influence Romanticism has in turn had upon our understanding of the ancient Romans.

Arranged in three sections - Romanticisms, Romantics, and Reception - the 20 contributions in this volume assess various shared themes and motifs, case studies from the Romantic Period, and the way in which the reception of Romanticism shaped and was shaped by the reception of Roman antiquity. By highlighting the key role that the Romans played in the creation and development of Romanticism, and the role Romanticism has since played in conceptions of the Romans, Romans and Romantics initiates not only a reassessment of the relationship between its two protagonists, but develops a new understanding of each of them individually.

Figures discussed within the volume include Byron, Emerson, Foscolo, Goethe, Hardy, Hawthorne, Keats, Maggi, Mozart, Niebuhr, Pastrone, Pater, Jean Paul, Poe, Pushkin, Mary and Percy Shelley, the Schlegel brothers, Charlotte Smith, Madame de Staël, Thoreau, Vosmaer, Wergeland, and Wordsworth.

Readership: For students and scholars interested in classical studies, reception studies, literature, and Romanticism.

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Preface
List of illustrations
Introduction Ralph Pite:
Part One: Romanticisms
1: Jonathan Sachs: Republicanism: Ancient Rome and Literary Modernity in British Romanticism
2: Helge Jordheim: The Struggle with Time: The Temporalization and Politicization of Roman Antiquity in the Works of the German Romantics
3: Timothy Saunders: Originality
4: Mathilde Skoie: Romantic scholars and classical scholarship: German readings of Sulpicia
5: Genevieve Liveley: On Love
Part Two: Romantics
6: Stuart Gillespie: Literary History and Critical Historicism: Reading Wordsworth's Juvenal
7: Bruce Graver: Wordsworth and the Stoics
8: Juan Christian Pellicer: Virgil s Eclogues and Georgics in Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head
9: Catharine Edwards: The return to Rome: desire and loss in Staël's Corinne
10: Timothy Webb: Haunted City: the Shelleys, Byron, and Ancient Rome
11: Jostein Børtnes: Pushkin's Ovid
12: Jørgen Sejersted: Republicanism, Stoicism and Narcissism in Henrik Wergeland's The Creation, Man and Messiah
13: Carl J. Richard: The Romans and the American Romantics
Part Three: Receptions
14: Elizabeth Prettejohn: Seeing and Making Art in Rome: Carel Vosmaer's The Amazon
15: Stefano Evangelista: Rome and the Romantic Heritage in Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean
16: Ralph Pite: Thomas Hardy and 'the reach of perished Rome'
17: Erling Sandmo: Rulers, Ghosts, and Prophets: Romans in Romantic Opera
18: Piero Garofalo: Ancient Rome and Romanticism in Italian Cinema
Afterword
Glenn W. Most: English Bards and German Professors
Bibliography
Index

Source : Oxford University Press

Alessandro Pagliara, Retorica, filosofia e politica in Giuliano Cesare, Alessandria, 2012.

Éditeur : Edizioni dell'Orso
Collection : Hellenica
VIII-176 pages
ISBN : 978-88-6274-377-8
18 €

L'indagine sul rapporto tra Flavio Claudio Giuliano e la retorica ha la sua ragion d'essere nell'imbarazzo che attraversa gli studi giulianei in epoca moderna a motivo dell'attività panegiristica del periodo del cesarato: con la parziale eccezione di quello per Eusebia, i due encomi dedicati dal giovane Giuliano a Costanzo II sono stati avvertiti come non confacenti all'austera figura del monarca filosofo, come azione da giustificare; considerati, insomma, in quanto all'atto che essi rappresentano, non già, prima di tutto, quali testi da valutare in sé. E atto di opportunismo politico, più che di adesione del Cesare al modello di un genere letterario, le cui “leggi” erano parte della sua formazione culturale, non meno che della più generale prassi di comunicazione politica della sua epoca. La ne-gativa percezione del bagaglio retorico di larga parte della produzione letteraria tardoantica è ormai tramontata, sia per l'interesse crescente suscitato dalla letteratura “sofistica” d'epoca imperiale, sia come conseguenza peculiare della più generale “esplosione di tardoantico” che ha caratterizzato gli indirizzi della ricerca storica sull'antichità negli ultimi decenni. Tale nuovo approccio ha condotto all'esigenza di una revisione del giudizio critico leopardiano sul «tempo di Giuliano [...] tutto sofistico»: retorica, filosofia e politica – questo studio intende mostrarlo – rappresentano infatti aspetti complementari della complessa e, per molti versanti, eccezionale personalità di Giuliano, che nella cosciente contrapposizione a Costantino segnò col suo breve regno l'altro polo della storia del IV sec.

Source : Edizioni dell'Orso

Open Access Article- Transition to Agriculture in Central Europe: Body Size and Body Shape amongst the First Farmers

http://www.iansa.eu/index.html

The marshes of southern Iraq constitute a unique environment, and are of considerable environmental, cultural and economic importance. They have existed for hundreds of thousands of years and have, in the past, covered a significant area of southern Iraq. Their presence has brought numerous benefits to region, including cooling the local climate, providing irrigation and improving the fertility of the land. They have been a haven for plant and animal life.

Because of all this, the marshes have been home to a people—the Marsh Arabs. They are a people whose roots go back to the beginning of civilization. The AMAR International Charitable Foundation's heritage project has been working to help those people whose families left the marshes under the previous regime to reacquaint themselves with their home, history, culture and way of life. Furthermore, the project has sought to establish knowledge of, and respect for, the Marsh Arab people in the wider world. This book forms part of that latter endeavour.

This website is divided into four sections: History, Geography, Sociology and Economics; each written by a different Iraqi specialist.

• Home
• The Heritage Project
• Downloads
• Return to the Marshes
• About AMAR

Mathal/Mashal: Journal of Islamic and Judaic Multidisciplinary Studies (ISSN 2168-538X) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to scholarly discussion of topics present in the Islamic and Jewish traditions, cultures, and practices especially in the area where thematic and doctrinal aspects are common.

The journal approaches these complex issues through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary lenses. There are many topics that lend themselves to comparative studies but we will publish papers that deal with any of the topics in either of the traditions. Topics that can be discussed include Islamic and Jewish law, socio-economic and political history of the Islamic and Jewish communities, social and religious institutions, Tafsir and Rabbinic traditions, Midrash and/or Islamic and Jewish mysticism.

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Volume 2, Issue 1 (2012)

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Islam and Qur'anic figures in Africa: Prophets, Sages and Disciples
Abdin Chande

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Religion, Ideology and Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Majlis-e-Hussain
Snobra Rizwan

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Hacer patria de David Blaustein: Reconstrucción colectiva e historia judeo-argentina reciente
Daniela Goldfine

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• Majallat majma' al-lugha al-'arabiyya al-urdunnî
• Magallat Majma' al-lugha al-'arabiyya bil-Qâhira
• Majallat al-Minhâj
• Majallat ash-shu'arâ'
• Majallat al-'ulûm al-insâniyya ad-dawliyya
• Majallat 'ulûm insâniyya - Journal of Human Sciences
• al-Majdal
• Mamluk Studies Review
• Manuscripta orientalia : international journal for Oriental manuscript research
• Marburg Journal of Religion
• Marmara Üniversitesi Ilahiyat Fak. Dergisi
• Marsh Bulletin
• Mathal/Mashal: Journal of Islamic and Judaic Multidisciplinary Studies
• McGill journal of Middle East studies
• Medieval Jewish Studies
• Medina Magazine: Architecture, Interiors, Fine Arts
• The Mediterranean World
• Méditerranée - Revue géographique des pays méditerranéens = Journal of Mediteranean geography
• Mediterranes
• MELA Notes - The Journal of the Middle East Librarians Association
• Melto
• MERIA Journal
• “The Messenger for Children”
• Middle East Bulletin
• Middle East Economic Association: Newsletters
• Middle East Media Educator
• Middle East News Brief
• Middle East Quarterly
• Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
• Middle East Studies Online Journal
• MIFS Newsletter (French Interdisciplinary Mission in Sindh)
• Milel ve Nihal: İnanç, Kültür ve Mitoloji Araştırmaları Dergisi
• Mimar: Architecture in Development
• Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online
• Minbar al-islâm
• Minority Rights Group International Reports
• Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos. Sección Árabe-Islam
• Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos: Sección de Hebreo
• Al-Monitor
• Monthly Ishrâq
• Muftah
• Al- mukhatabat المخاطبات | Revue Philosophique de Logique et d’Epistémologie مجلّة فلسفية في المنطق و الإبستمولوجيا Philosophical Journal For Logic and Epistemology
• Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World
• Music & Anthropology: Journal of Musical Anthropology of the Mediterranean
• Müze Çalışmaları ve Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu Yayınları
• The Muslim Thinker
• Nehardea: Journal of the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center
• Nafas Art Magazine: Contemporary Art from the Maghreb to the Middle East, from Central Asia to SE Asia
• An-Najah University Journal for Research - Humanities
• Al Nakhlah: The Fletcher School's online journal on Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization
• Nāmah-'i Farhangistān = Name-ye Farhangestan = نامه فرهنگستان : quarterly journal of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature.
• Al-Nashra
• Near and Middle Eastern Journal of Research in Education
• New Horizons. Commentaries on the Modern Middle East
• New Middle Eastern Studies
• Newsletter of the Aga Khan Programs for Islamic Architecture
• Nida Dergisi
• Nizwa
• Novitas-ROYAL, Research on youth and language
• Nüsha. Şarkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi - A Journal of Oriental Studies
• Nusûs 'irâqiyya
• Oasis
• Occident & Orient
• Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
• ONE magazine
• Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet
• Online Journal of Baha'i Studies
• Oral Tradition
• The Orient
• Orient: A Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations Student Union Publication (formerly Journal of Near & Middle Eastern Studies)
• Orient Bulletin: History, Society and Culture in Asia, the Middle East and Africa
• Orient : report of the society for Near Eastern studies in Japan
• The oriental annual: containing a series of tales, legends, & historical romances
• Orientalia Suecana
• OTAM - Journal of the Center for Ottoman Studies, Ankara University
• Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies
• Pakistan Journal of Library & Information Science
• Palestine-Israel : journal of politics, economics, and culture
• The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) Newsletter
• Palestinian annual strategic report
• Parole de l'Orient
• PASSIA Bulletins
• Perspectives (Woolf Institute)
• Perspectives Middle East (Heinrich Böll Stiftung)
• Perspectives in International Librarianship
• PHAROS: The Newsletter of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
• Proche-Orient Chrétien
• Qalam - Sufismo de Oriente y de Occidente
• Al-Qanṭara: Reviste de Estudios Árabes
• Al Qantir: Monografías y documentos sobre la historia de Tarifa
• Quaderns de la Mediterránia
• Rahavard Persian Journal: A Persian Journal of Iranian Studies
• Al-Raida
• Al Rawi: Egypt's Heritage Review
• Renaissance: A Monthly Islamic Journal
• REORIENT 
• Report on Israeli settlement in the occupied territories 
  
• Research Unit Intellectual History of the Islamicate World e-Newsletter
• Review of ARMENIAN STUDIES: A Quarterly Journal Of History, Politics and International Relations
• Revista de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos (REIM)
• Revue Africaine (Société historique algérienne)
• Revue annales du patrimoine / Majallat hawliyyât at-turâth
• Revue archeologique syrienne
• Revue des Lettres et de Traduction (USEK)
• Revue de l'Orient Chrétien
• Revue de l'Orient latin
• Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (REMMM)
• Revue du monde musulman
• La Revue de Téhéran: Mensuel culturel iraniennes en langue française
• Revue Numismatique
• Revue Théologique de Kaslik (USEK)
• Revue Tunisienne
• Sada (formerly the Arab Reform Bulletin)
• Samandal
• Samokov News 
• Saudi Aramco World
• The Scribe - Journal of Babylonian Jewry
• Sefarad: Estudios hebraicos, sefardíes y de Oriente Próximo
• Shahadat
• Sharq al-Andalus
• Shi'a Studies
• Shingetsu Electronic Journal of Japanese-Islamic Relations (SEJJIR)
• Shingetsu Institute Newsletter
• Shu'un Tanmawiyyeh
• as-Sikka السكة The Online Journal of The Islamic Coins Group
• SOAS Literary Review
• Sociology of Islam & Muslim Societies Newsletter
• Souffles: Revue Culturelle Arabe du Maghreb
• The status of human rights in Palestine : annual report
• Studia graeco-arabica
• Studia Islamica: New Series
• Studies in Contemporary Islam
• Studies in Islam and the Middle East
• Sudan notes and records
• Sudan Studies Association Newsletter
• Suhayl. International Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation
• Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
• Synergies Algérie
• Synergies Monde Arabe
• Synergies Monde Méditerranéen
• Synergies Turquie
• Syrian Studies Association Newsletter
• TAARII Newsletter: The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq
• Tarih: Graduate History Journal,
•  التسامح = al-Tasamoh = al-Tasāmuḥ
• Tasavvuf: İlmî ve Akademik Araştırma Dergisi
• Tassmeem
• Tavoos Art Magazine
• Al-Tawhid: A Quarterly Journal of Islamic Thought & Culture
• T. E. Lawrence Studies
• Têgeyştinî Rastî [1918-1919]
• Tidsskrift for Islamforskning
• Tiraz : Língua, Literatura e Cultura Árabe
• Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies
• Transcendent philosophy: an international journal for comparative philosophy and mysticism.
• Transeuropéennes: International Journal of Critical Thought
• Transoxiana: Journal Libre de Estudios Orientales
• Türk Arkeoloji Dergisi (1933-1997)
• Türk Arkeoloji ve Etnografya Dergisi
• Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi
• Türk Etnografya Dergisi (1956-1997)
• Türk Kütüphaneciliği - Turkish Librarianship - [continuing Türk Kütüphaneciler Derneği Bülteni]
• Türkçe Edebiyat Kültür Eğitim Dergisi
• Turkic Languages
• Türkiye Jeoloji Bülteni - Geological Bulletin of Turkey
• The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
• Turkish Studies: International Periodical for the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic
• Turkish Yearbook of International Relations
• Turkologischer Anzeiger / Turkology Annual(TA)
• Tulaytula: Revista de la Asociación de Amigos del Toledo Islámico
• UAE Yearbook
• Uluslararası Kazı, Araştırma ve Arkeometri Sempozyumu Yayınları
• V&A Online Journal
• Vaseteh - Journal of the European Society for Iranian Studies
• Verde islam
• Villes et territoires du Moyen Orient
• Waly Center Journal
• Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
• The Washington Review of Turkish & Eurasian Affairs
• Web Journal on Cultural Patrimony (WJCP)
• Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal
• Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) Newsletters
• Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) Dossiers
• Yemen Update On-line: bulletin of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies
• Yükseköğretim ve Bilim Dergisi - Journal of Higher Education and Science
• Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG)
• Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete
• Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete
• Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken - Journal of World Turks
• Zeitschrift für Indologie und Iranistik
• Zeitschrift für Islamische Studien
• Zeitschrift für die Religionslehre des Islam (ZRLI)
• zenith BusinessReport

We have had a successful October here, with a great range of posts on cultural heritage projects, the idea of heritage itself, and current problems in the field. If you haven’t read them all already make sure you do. Check out the list of posts below with brief summaries of each.

November 14-17 will be ASOR’s Annual Meeting in Chicago, and we will have some updates from the meeting, so be sure to check in for those! Also we will be focusing on the archaeology of Cyrpus this month, with posts from leading scholars on different periods of Cyprus’ history.

Additionally, La Sierra University is hosting, and ASOR is co-sponsoring, an archaeology weekend focusing on the archaeology of Cyrpus, November 10-11. Check out their program and stop by if you have a chance.

Protecting Archaeological Sites in Conflict Zones: What Is to be Done in Syria? By Lawrence Rothfield looks at the growing looting problem in Syria and proposes actions that heritage advocates should push for to help combat the illicit trade.

Protecting, Preserving, and Presenting Cultural Heritage in Petra: The Temple of the Winged Lions Cultural Resource Management Initiative by Christopher Tuttle discusses the project’s efforts to build a sustainable cultural resource management project that gives back to the local community while protecting a site as important as Petra.

WikiLoot, crowdsourcing against the illicit antiquities trade, a Q&A with LA Times reporter, co-author of Chasing Aphrodite, and founder of WikiLoot about the project, and how he hopes it will help fight the illicit antiquities trade.

Archaeology and Community: Experiences in the Azraq Oasis by Alison Damick and Ahmad Lash discusses the development of the Azraq Community Archaeology Program, the process of including local communities in the archaeological process and overcoming misconceptions about archaeology.

From Destruction to Archaeology: the significance of “Operation Anchor” for the Cultural Heritage of Jaffa by Martin Peilstöcker looks at British destruction of  historic areas of Jaffa in the early 20^th century and its effect on modern preservation in the city.

A builders’ heritage at Umm el-Jimal by Bert de Vries and Muaffaq Hazza looks at the Umm el-Jimal Projects’s preservation efforts and how they benefited from collaboration with local builders.

The Future of Our Past: New Technologies for New Audiences by Catherine Foster and Brian Brown introduces the Ancient Middle East Education and Research Institute (AMEERI) and plans to increase the study of the Ancient Near East in public education and media.

Outrage and the Plight of Cultural Heritage: an Outsider’s Perspective by Elena Corbett is a trenchant critique of colonialism in modern Western concerns about the cultural heritage of the Middle East.

Contested Heritage and the New Museum(s) in Diyarbakır by Laurent Dissard looks at two museums in the southeastern Turkish city Diyarbakır, one a new, modern archaeology museum under development and the second a museum for dengbêjs, Kurdish storytellers, where living cultural heritage is preserved.

The Terms of Heritage by Kathryn McDonnell gives us an overview of some terms and concepts commonly used in discussions of cultural heritage, bringing up questions about the terms we use and how we use them.

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