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International Conference

The 11th CISMOR Conference on Jewish Studies (CJS11)

“Pilgrimage in the Ancient Near East: The Hittites and the Hebrew Bible”

Date: 2022/03/27 16:00-17:30
Place: Online (Zoom Platform)
Speaker:
  • Prof. Ada Taggar Cohen, Doshisha University
Summary:
Pilgrimage in the Ancient Near East shares its religious, political, and economic components with any later historical and cultural pilgrimages. This lecture will offer a detailed description of the Hittite royal pilgrimages in relation to their Capital Ḫattuša (16th-12th centuries BCE), and will compare it with the status of Jerusalem the Capital of Judea, as a pilgrimage objective in the 9th to the 7th centuries BCE.
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