Explore " digital hammurabi" with insightful episodes like "The Bible's Ancient Near Eastern Context: Interview with Dr. Eckart Frahm", "Faking It - Provenance, Antiquities, and eBay Interview with Dr. Erin Thompson", "Did MOSES Write the Torah? Interview with Dr. Joel Baden", "The REAL Israelite Religion: Interview with Dr. Francesca Stavrakopoulou" and "We Need Racial Diversity in Ancient Studies!" from podcasts like ""HeBANE", "The Digital Hammurabi Podcast", "HeBANE", "The Digital Hammurabi Podcast" and "The Digital Hammurabi Podcast"" and more!
It's difficult to understand the Hebrew Bible without being aware of the time and place in which it was written - the context - which places it firmly in the tradition of Ancient Near Eastern literature. Dr. Eckart Fram, Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University, has kindly agreed to talk to us about this fascinating subject!
Many people want to own a piece of the past, but eBay really the answer? Definitely not, and Dr. Erin Thompson, the nation's only full-time professor of art-crime, tells us why!
Many people hold firmly to the idea of Mosaic authorship - that Moses wrote the first five books of the Old Testament. But is there any evidence for this belief, and if not - who DID write it?
The Documentary Hypothesis - people often refer to it as "JEDP" - is one of the most well-known explanations for how the Pentateuch was compiled. But what exactly is it, and what alternative theories have academics developed? Dr. Joel Baden, professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale Divinity School, kindly agreed to join Dr. Josh to talk about this fascinating topic!
Dr. Baden’s Book on the Documentary Hypothesis: https://tinyurl.com/ycp7tu4l
Follow Dr. Baden on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoelBaden
Princeton Press: https://press.princeton.edu/our-autho...
Yale Bible Study: https://yalebiblestudy.org/
Dr. Stavrakopoulou is professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion at Exeter University, and star of the BBC's "Bible's Buried Secrets". Hear about her research into what ancient Israelite religion was actually like, and how it's (mis)represented in the Bible!
Dr. Stavrakopoulou on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProfFrancesca
Originally recorded May 23 2020.
Bethany Hucks is a Ph.D. student at the University of Heidelberg, studying the Roman reuse of Egyptian motifs in material culture. Listen in to hear about her Ph.D. research, and about why diversity is so important for the study of the ancient world.
Originally recorded June 7th 2020.
Bethany on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RomanAegyptiaca
White Homework: https://www.toriglass.com/white-homework
https://twitter.com/toriglass
https://www.patreon.com/toriglass
Sportula: https://www.patreon.com/Libertinopatrenatus/posts https://thesportula.wordpress.com/
https://twitter.com/Libertinopatren
Data and resources on police violence:
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/police-shootings-2019/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/08/police-officer-shootings-gun-violence-racial-bias-crime-data/595528/
Apocalypticism is a poorly-understood genre of literature that is found in the Hebrew Bible, and has given rise to countless predictions of the end of the world. Join Megan and Dr. Josh as they talk to Dr. Stephen Cook, professor of Old Testament Language and Literature at Virginia Theological Seminary, to talk about this fascinating genre of text.
Recorded March 21st 2020.
What importance does ancient Egypt hold for modern Egyptians, and what can museums do to recognize and honor this relationship? In this episode, Megan talks to Heba Abd el Gawad, Egyptian Egyptologist, Ph.D. student at Durham University, and postdoctoral researcher on the "Egypt’s dispersed heritage: views from Egypt" project at the University College of London.
Relevant links:
Scattered Finds: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=1004171
Artefacts of Excavation: http://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/
Excavated Egypt on Twitter: @excavatedegypt
Listen to Her!: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2018/sep/listen-her-egypts-women-fight-their-rights
Heba on Twitter: @GawadHeba
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Twitter: @digi_hammurabi and @DJHammurabi1
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For our inaugural podcast episode, we chose to focus on one of the most important technological innovations of the ancient world - the invention of writing! This episode introduces you to cuneiform, the writing system developed during the late 4th millennium BCE, with an interview with Dr. Jennifer Ross of Hood College, and a narration of Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, the Sumerian literary composition that explains how and why writing was invented.
Interview conducted on 2/23/2019.
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