TOPICS IN BIBLICAL ARC: DEATH & MEMORY

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1 Syllabus TOPICS IN BIBLICAL ARC: DEATH & MEMORY Last update HU Credits: 4 Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master) Responsible Department: Archaeology Academic year: 1 Semester: Yearly Teaching Languages: Hebrew Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Ilan תSharon Tallay Ornan Coordinator sharon@huji.ac.il Coordinator Office Hours: Monday 11:00-12:00 Teaching Staff: Prof Tallay Ornan Prof Ilan Sharon page 1 / 6

2 Course/Module description: The seminar will deal with aspects of the archaeology of memory. We will be introduced to modern theories about memory which distinguish between the memory of the individual and the historical, collective and communicative memory(ies). We will discuss the ancient Near Eastern perceptions on the beyond and their projections on the ancient traditions and practices concerning memory and will examine modern theories and reflections about memory vis-א-vis the archaeological records. As individuals whose occupation and interests are invested in the study of past societies we archaeologists - deal with memory in our everyday professional life. Therefore we will ask how our own perceptions of memory shape our work: as individuals, as members in a given society, and as mediators whose role is to shed light and reconstruct the past. Course/Module aims: The purpose of the graduate seminar is to acquaint the student with high-grade state-of-the art archaeological research with strong theoretical components. Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: To engage with high-register archaeological discourse. To present a topic to a professional audience. To write a professional-journal-level essay. Attendance requirements(%): 80 Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: A combination of guest-lectures (by archaeologists and by scholars of other disciples) with presentations by the students, and essay-writing. Course/Module Content: First semester 1. Opening lecture 2. Prof. Yoram Bilu: The psychology of memory 3. Prof. Tamar El Or: Memory and material things 4. Dr. Manuela Consoni: A history of memorycollective memory 5. Prof. Amazia Baram: Memories of the Ancient Near East (1): Archaeology and page 2 / 6

3 nation building in Iraq 6. Mr. Guy Rak: Memories of the Ancient Near East (2): Mustafa Kemal Atatrks mausoleum 7. Dr. Arlette David: Private memory and the ruler's demands in the tombs of El Amarna 8. Prof. Nahman Ben-Yehuda: Memories of the Ancient Near East (3): Archaeology and Ideology in Israel 9. Dr. Shirley Gertz: "Memories of the past--primary sources or literary production? 10. Dr. Uri Gabai: Death, destruction and memory in ancient Mesopotamia 11. Dr. Dalit Rom-Shiloni: Historical memory and afterlife in the Bible 12. Prof. Nathan Wassermann: Personal memory, historical memory and political ideology in ancient Mesopotamia 13. TBA 14. Prof. Edna Lomsky-Feder: Memory and ritual Second Semester The program for this semester has not been finalized. At least part of this semester will be devoted to student presentations. At this point, three guest lectures have been arranged 15. Prof. Ilan Sharon: The application of research memory in the interpretation of archaeological excavation 16. Dr. Sharon Zuckerman: What happened in Area A (Hazor) after its destruction? 17. Prof. Rafi Greenberg: TBA Required Reading: א' תיאוריה וספרות כללית.1 Theory bibliography general and בילו י', 2000, ממילה למלה: ניתוח פסיכו-תרבותי של הבניית זהות גברית בטקסי ילדות בחברה החרדית, אלפיים , ברעם א', 2008, ארכאולוגיה וזהות לאומית בעיראק , בתוך מ' פייגה וצ' שילוני (עורכים), קרדום לחפור בו: ארכיאולוגיה וזהות לאומית בארץ ישראל (מכון בן-גוריון לחקר ישראל והציונות), ירושלים, גרינברג ר', 2012, יצרני העבר, אודיסיאה גיליון , לומסקי-פדר ע', תשס"ה ((2005, מטקס הירואי לפולחן של אבל: קולות שונים בטקסי יום הזיכרון בבית הספר, בתוך ח' גור (עורכת), מיליטריזם בחינוך: מבט ביקורתי, תל אביב, רום-שילוני ד', תשס"ח, גולים ונשארים: אסטרטגיות של בדלנות פנימית בראשית המאה השישית לפנה"ס, בתוך מ' בר-אשר, נ' ואזנה, ע' טוב, ד' רום-שילוני (עורכים), ש"י לשרה יפת: מחקרים במקרא בפרשנותו ובלשונו, ירושלים, Assmann J. 2006, Religion and Cultural Memory, Ten Studies (translated by R. Livingstone), Stanford. Assmann J. 2008, Communicative and Cultural Memory, in A. Erll & A. Nnning eds., Cultural Memory Studies, An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook, Berlin & New York, page 3 / 6

4 Connerton P. 1989, How Societies Remember, Cambridge. El Or T. 2012, The Soul of the Biblical Sandal: On Anthropology and Style, American Anthropologist 114(3), Halbwachs M. 1992, On Collective Memory (L. A. Coser ed., translated from French with introduction). Chicago. Jones A. 2007, Memory and Material Culture. Cambridge. Nora P. 1989, Between Memory and History, Representations 26 (special issue), zdoan M. 1998, Ideology and Archaeology in Turkey, in L. Meskell ed., Archaeology Under Fire: Nationalism, Politics and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, London, Dalit Rom-Shiloni D. 2011, From Ezekiel to Ezra-Nehemiah: Shifts of Group-Identities within Babylonian Exilic Ideology, in G. Knoppers, O. Lipschitz & M. Oeming eds., Judeans in the Achaemenid Age: Negotiating Identity in an International Context, Winona Lake, IN, Williams H. 2003, Introduction: the Archaeology of Death, Memory and Material Culture, in H. Williams ed., Archaeologies of Remembrance, New York, Wilson C.S. 2009, Representing National Identity and Memory in the Mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatrk, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 68(2), ב' המזרח התיכון הקדום.2 The East Near ancient Archi A. 2007, The Cult of the Royal Ancestors at Hattusa and the Syrian Practices, in M. Alparslan, M. Dogan-Alparslan, H. Peker eds., Vita :Festschrift in Honor of Belkis Dinחol & Ali Dinחol, Istanbul, Baines J. and Lacovara P. 2002, Burial and the dead in ancient Egyptian Society: Respect, Formalism, Neglect, Journal of Social Archaeology 2(1), Charpin D. 1998, L'evocation du יpass dans les lettres de Mari, in J. Prosecky ed. in J. Prosecky ed., Intellectual Life of the Ancient Near East, 43rd Rencontre assyriologique internationale, Prague, July 1-5, 1996, Haas V. 1995, Death and Afterlife in Hittite Thought, in J. M. Sasson ed., Civilizations of the Ancient Near East III, New York, Jonker G. 1995, The Topography of Remembrance, The Dead, Tradition and Collective Memory in Mesopotamia, Leiden, New York & Kצln. Katz D. 2003, The Image of the Nether World in the Sumerian Sources, Bethesda. Lewis T.J. 1989, Cults of the Dead in Ancient Israel and Ugarit, Atlanta. Laneri N ed., Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean, Chicago. Meskell L. 2003, Memorys Materiality: Ancestral presence, Commemorative Practice and Disjunctive Locales, in R.M. van Dyke and S.E. Alcock eds., Archaeologies of Memory, Malden MA, Michalowski P Memory and Deed, The Historiography of the Political Expansion of the Akkad State. Akkad, in M. Liverani ed., The First World Empire. page 4 / 6

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