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NEW COURSE FOR 2019/20
Learn about the rise of civilizations, cultural interconnections, and power dynamics in the ancient Middle East, Egypt, Greece, and Rome from 10,000 BCE – 300 CE. Learn archaeological methods and interpretation and work with real ancient artifacts in UBC collections. Read More
WOMEN IN THE ROMAN WORLD
Through a critical analysis of the material and visual culture and inscriptional, legal, and literary sources we will explore the realities and ambiguities of Roman women’s lives and also consider the roots of conceptions and perceptions of women in the western world today. Read More
HOW DID CHRISTIANITY BEGIN?
Was Jesus a liberal socialist revolutionary or a conservative tax-protestor? Was Paul Jewish or anti-Jewish? Did early Christianity empower women or marginalize them? Does the Book of Revelation vilify the Roman Empire, Nazi Germany, or contemporary globalization? Read More
THE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY
Themes of war, mortality, fame, family, and heroism in the timeless epic poetry of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, read in translation. Counts for Arts literature requirement. Read More
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Graduate Student Meet and Greet
4th Sep 2019Venue: Buchanan Courtyard.
5th Sep 2019
10th Sep 2019
New and Returning Majors Welcome Reception
16th Sep 2019
Peter Wall Institute Produces Video about Dr. Sara Milstein’s Work
Watch the promotional video about Dr. Sara Milstein’s work on biblical and Near Eastern law produced by the Peter Wall Institute: Dr. Milstein’s is a Wall Scholar (2018-2019) and her project is titled Making a Case: The Emergent Legal Mind in the Ancient Near East. She aims to probe the rich collection of practical legal […]
Dr. Gregg Gardner is awarded the Jody Ellant and Howard Reiter Family Fellowship
Dr. Gregg Gardner has been awarded the Jody Ellant and Howard Reiter Family Fellowship at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He will be in residence at Penn during the Spring 2020 semester and on leave from UBC. The Katz Center’s fellowship program takes roughly twenty scholars […]
Dr. Matt McCarty wins a Dean of Arts Faculty Research Award
Dr. Matthew McCarty has been awarded a Dean of Arts Faculty Research Awards for junior faculty, which will allow him to spend spring term 2020 on research leave finishing his monograph Empire and Child Sacrifice in Roman Africa.
Dr. Michael Griffin is awarded a UBC Killam Teaching Prize
The department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies is pleased to announce that Michael Griffin has been awarded a UBC Killam Teaching Prize, which is an annual prize to faculty nominated by students, colleagues and alumni in recognition of excellence in teaching. A certificate will be awarded to Michael at the May Congregation and […]
Dr. Susanna Braund wins UBC Killam Research Prize
We are pleased to announce that Susanna Braund has won a UBC Killam Research Prize. This prize recognizes outstanding research and scholarly contributions. Winners were selected by UBC’s Faculty Research Award Committee, which spans arts and humanities, business, applied science, science, and medicine. She is in the group of 5 recipients within Arts. For further […]
Thomas Schneider receives ASOR Membership Service Award
Thomas Schneider was awarded a Membership Service Award by the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) at their Annual Meeting in November, in recognition of his seven years as editor of the journal Near Eastern Archaeology, during which the journal secured a place in the top quartile of archaeological and historical journals. This award recognizes […]
Dr. Susanna Braund is elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Professor Susanna Braund has been elected as a Corresponding Fellow to the Australian Academy of the Humanities, which is the highest honor for achievement in the humanities in Australia. She has been recognized for her international leadership on imperial Latin literature and the reception of Roman antiquity. Corresponding Fellows are elected in recognition of their […]
Matthew McCarty receives prize for best article in Phoenix
Dr. Matthew McCarty has be awarded the sixth Mary White Prize for Best Article in Phoenix (2017) for his co-written article, “Connected Communities in Roman Mithraism: Regional Webs from the Apulum Mithraeum III Project (Dacia)”, which will appear in the forthcoming issue of Phoenix. The prize is named for Mary White, who was a Classics professor at the University […]
Another new book by Dr. Keddie
Dr. Anthony Keddie is co-author with L. Michael White of a new book entitled Jewish Fictional Letters from Hellenistic Egypt (SBL Press, 2018). Publication Notice from SBL Press Jewish Fictional Letters from Hellenistic Egypt: The Epistle of Aristeas and Related Literature The first Greek text of the Epistle of Aristeas published in more than a century. The Greek […]
Dr. G. Anthony Keddie has published a new book on apocalypticism in Early Roman Palestine, “Revelations of Ideology.” (Brill, 2018) About In Revelations of Ideology, G. Anthony Keddie proposes a new theory of the social function of Judaean apocalyptic texts produced in Early Roman Palestine (63 BCE–70 CE). In contrast to evaluations of Jewish and […]
Sessional Position 2019 Winter – RELG 209
Sessional Lecturer Position Winter 2019-2020 The Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies is now accepting applications for a Sessional position in Winter 2019-2020. Subject to budgetary and enrolment considerations, the successful candidate will teach the following course: RELG 209 – Eden to Exile: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible – Winter Term 2 (MWF […]
Sessional Lecturer Position Winter 2019-2020 The Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies is now accepting applications for a Sessional position in Winter 2019-2020. Subject to budgetary and enrolment considerations, the successful candidate will teach the following course: RELG 209 – Eden to Exile: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible – Winter Term 2 (MWF […]
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