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Shrines and Worship in Iron Age Israel

12 December 2019, 6:00 pm–7:00 pm

The Israelite sanctuary within the Iron Age fort at Tel Arad, south of Jerusalem. © Ian Scott (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License)

The UCL Institute of Archaeology and Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society will jointly host a lecture by Deborah Rooke (Regent’s Park College, Oxford) on 12 December.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Dr Rachael Sparks

Location

Denys Holland Lecture Theatre
Bentham House
4-8 Endsleigh Gardens
London
WC1H 0EG
United Kingdom

This lecture will examine the archaeological evidence for places and practices of worship in ancient Israel during the First Millennium BC, and consider recent interpretations and theories.

The presentation will finish at approximately 7:00 pm; everyone is welcome, and admission is free without a ticket. Note that the lecture venue is a short (1-2 minute) walk from the Institute of Archaeology -  see the map at https://goo.gl/maps/E8UD9fnBrSr4dpfc6

Further details

Image: The Israelite sanctuary within the Iron Age fort at Tel Arad, south of Jerusalem. © Ian Scott (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_of_Holies_in_the_Israelite_Sanctuary_at_Tel_Arad_2_(19474305708).jpg

About the Speaker

Deborah Rooke is Visiting Tutor in Old Testament at St Stephen's House, Oxford, and Associate  in Old Testament Hermeneutics at Regent's Park College, Oxford. She is also a Senior Associate of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, where she teaches a course on the religion of Israel. She has held posts in Old Testament at the University of Wales Lampeter and King's College London. She is an expert on cult and ritual in ancient Israel; gender and sexuality in the Hebrew Bible; and the use of biblical material in music, especially the oratorios of Handel, and is the author of Zadok’s Heirs: the Role and Development of the High Priesthood in Ancient Israel.