CREOR Lunch Lecture Series Women in the Ancient World
Women in the Ancient World
CREOR Lunch Lecture Series 2018-2019
This Thursday lunch lecture series focuses on women in the ancient world. How did women live 1500-3000 ago, what did they feel, think and believe in, what did they produce and achieve? Recent research has uncovered many hidden treasures about the world in which women lived and were part of, from ancient Egypt and Babylonia to ancient Israel and Early Judaism, from the Greco-Roman world and Early Christianity to Byzantium and early Islam, of which much is now accessible through ancient writings, art and archeology. Join our lecture series with informative and exciting presentations, images never seen before, and a light lunch and fellowship with graduate students and faculty. Topics will include women in the Ancient Near East, Women in Ancient Israel, women in Early Judaism, women in the Greco-Roman World, women in early Christianity, women in Rabbinic Judaism, and women in Byzantium.
This lecture series is organized by McGill’s Centre for Research on Religion, the Montreal Biblical Colloquium, the School of Religious Studies and the Department of History and Classics.
Audience: Members of the McGill Center for Research on Religion, students and faculty of the School of Religious Studies, the Department of History and Classical Studies, the Montreal School of Theology, MORSL, interested lay people.
Date & Location
Birks Heritage Chapel and Senior Common Room, 3520 University Street, Montreal
Thursdays from 11:30-13:00, 2018-2019
January 31, 2019: Gerbern S. Oegema (McGill University) “Female Jewish Authorship in Antiquity”
GERBERN OEGEMA is Professor of Biblical Studies at McGill University. He has been working in the field of Religious Studies for over 30 years, in the Netherlands, Germany, Israel, the United States and now in Canada. Apart from being a professor of religion at McGill University, he is the founder and first director of the McGill Center for Research on Religion (CREOR) as well as the founder and first chair of the Council of theological Education in Montreal. His research focuses on Second Temple Judaism, apocalypticism, the Pseudepigrapha, and Christian origins. He is the author and co-editor of more than twenty books, the editor of the Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha, as well as the co-editor of several book series.
