| New Technologies Create “Pinpoint Archaeology” |
| Release Date: 9/11/2003 |
| WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — The University of Hartford’s Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies is hosting a three-session conference that will examine the significance of the findings of the University’s archaeological excavations in Israel—at Qumran, Cave of Letters, Bethsaida, Nazareth and Yavne—as well as the role that new technologies are playing in this work. The sessions, – on Sunday, Sept. 7, Tuesday, Sept. 9, and Wednesday, Sept. 10 – will all begin at 7 p.m. and take place on the University campus, 200 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford. All of the sessions are free and open to the public.
The conference is sponsored by the Connecticut Jewish Ledger and the Irving and Millie Bercowetz Judaic Lecture Fund. Harry Jol from the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire and Paul Bauman of Komex International, Inc., Calgary, Canada will discuss the new processes for archaeological excavations that they helped pioneer with the Greenberg Center at its projects at the Cave of Letters, Bethsaida, Qumran, Tel Shalem, Bet Shearim, Nazareth and now at Yavne. Using ground penetrating radar and electrical resistivity tomography allows a full assessment of the substratum of an archaeological mound to allow pin-point excavation. A highlight of the conference will be a talk by renowned historian Jacob Neusner, senior fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology and a full-time professor at Bard College, who has published more than 800 books and unnumbered articles, both scholarly and academic, popular and journalistic, and has been awarded nine honorary degrees and fourteen academic medals. Neusner, son of Samuel Neusner, founder of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger, was president of the American Academy of Religion and a member of the founding committee of the Association for Jewish Studies. He founded the European Association of Jewish Studies and also served, by appointment of President Jimmy Carter, as a member of the National Council on the Humanities and, by appointment of President Ronald Reagan, as a member of the National Council on the Arts. Also speaking at the conference will be world-famous archaeologist Avner Goren, Foundation Stone archaeological consultant, who is the main character of the best seller, Walking the Bible. Goren is famous for supervising the landmark studies of the Sinai desert in the 1970s and 1980s and now he is an onsite coordinator for the Greenberg Center’s excavation at Yavne. International Conference on Archaeology, History and Technology “The Yavne Excavations Project” — Sunday, Sept. 7, 7 p.m., Wilde Auditorium, Harry Jack Gray Center “Introduction to Archaeology, History and Technology Conference” by Richard Freund, director of the University of Hartford’s Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies “The Legacy of Yavne” by Jacob Neuser, professor, Bard College “New Technologies and the Archaeology of Yavne: Season One” by Paul Bauman, Komex International, Inc. “Secrets of Mary’s Well, Nazareth, Bethsaida and Qumran” — Tuesday, Sept. 9, 7 p.m., the Agora, University of Hartford Magnet School “The University of Hartford’s Research Goals at Nazareth, Bethsaida, Qumran and Yavne” by Richard Freund “The Mary’s Well Nazareth Project” by Maha Darawsha, formerly of the Israeli Antiquities Authority and currently a graduate students at the University of Connecticut and University of Hartford in Judaic Studies “Ground Penetrating Radar: Secrets of Mary’s Well, Nazareth and Qumran” by Harry Jol, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire This session will be held on behalf of The Cactus, Mary’s Well & Bathhouse, Nazareth “Yavne and Beyond” — Wednesday, Sept. 10, 7 p.m., Wilde Auditorium, Harry Jack Gray Center “Past History and Future Archaeology of Yavne” by Avner Goren, Foundation Stone archaeological consultant, Tel Yavne onsite coordinator, Albright Institute, Jerusalem, Israel “Ground Penetrating Radar and the Archaeology of Yavne: Season One” by Harry Jol, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire |
For more information contact:
(860) 768-4022 freund@hartford.edu |
University media contact:
(860) 768 - 4330 |
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