Our guest speaker on Thursday, April 7, 2011 beginning at 5:30 pm in the Liberal Arts Building, room 4110, will be Dr. Theodore J. Lewis. Dr Lewis holds the Blum-Iwry Professorship in Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University and serves as Chair of the Department. He is a Semitist, a Hebrew Bible scholar, and a historian of religion.
Dr. Lewis? research focuses on the religions of ancient Israel and Syria, and he concentrates his work on two core issues: (a) understanding the Hebrew Bible as an ancient Near Eastern Text, and (b) studying Israelite and Syrian religion through both text and archaeology. His recent research has found him writing on a variety of topics ranging from Assyrian war crimes to Zerubbabel?s failed bid to be the messiah of Israel, not to mention family religion, royal icons of power and persuasion, blood rituals in ancient treaties, the iconography of the gods, and incantations thought by the ancients to ward off evil.
Co-sponsors are the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Towson University Baltimore Hebrew Institute
For more information, contact Michelle Taylor at {mtaylor@towson.edu}
