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SUMMARY:At the Origins of Monotheism: A Socio-economic Confrontation in Ancient Syro Mesoptamia
DESCRIPTION:  \nWhat is known as monotheism may be seen\, in it earliest manifestation\, in the light of an epistemic confrontation of the biblical tradition with the system of knowledge that had developed in the great cities of Mesopotamia. The paper presents a view that is at variance with the communis opinio\, both in terms of the nature of the confrontation and of its historical setting.  \nAs for the nature of the confrontation\, I consider the notion of fate as being more central to Syro-Mesopotamian religion than normally acknowledged. Polytheism was a major intellectual feat in its attempt at breaking down the absolute into component parts\, i.e.\, the deities that represent diverse elements of the world of nature. Fate had remained untouched by this process\, and in this regard it may be seen as a form of monotheism ante litteram. \nAs for the historical setting\, I consider the patriarchal tradition as encasing the epic memory of a Syro-Mesopotamian splinter group that detached itself from the land of the four banks at a time of de-urbanization in the middle Euphrates\, and in the process lost its contacts with the organized systems of cult and divination and brought new life to the notion of fate now seen as a living absolute. \nThis presentation comes at a point in the course when one looks at the founding figures\, and in particular Abraham. My approach puts the biblical patriarchal tradition in a different and very unconventional light\, drawing not only on the biblical text and on historical records\, but also on archaeology and ethnography. \n  \n\nGiorgio Buccellati is a Research Professor in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA\, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and in the Department of History at UCLA. He founded the Institute of Archaeology at UCLA\, of which he served as first director from 1973 until 1983 and where he is now Director of the Mesopotamian Lab. He is currently Director of IIMAS – The International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies and of AVASA – Associazione per la Valorizzazione dell’Archeologia e della Storia Antica.  \nHis research interests include the ancient languages\, the literature\, the religion\, the archaeology and the history of Mesopotamia\, as well as the theory of archaeology. His publications include site reports\, text editions\, linguistic and literary studies as well as on archaeological theory\, historical monographs and essays on philosophy and spirituality. In his field work\, he has developed new approaches to the preservation and presentation of archaeological sites and to community archaeology. With his wife Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati\, he has worked for many years in the Near East\, especially in Syria\, Iraq and Turkey. They are at present co-directors of the archaeological expedition to Tell Mozan/Urkesh in North-Eastern Syria. \n  \n[gravityform id=”142″ title=”false” description=”true”]\nPresented by: Giorgio Buccellati\, UCLA
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/at-the-origins-of-monotheism-a-socio-economic-confrontation-in-ancient-syro-mesoptamia-2/
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SUMMARY:Grupo Madera: 20th Century Afro-Venezuelan Religiosity\, Rhythms\, and Resistance
DESCRIPTION:  \nGrupo Madera (Wood Group) was founded in 1977 in San Agustín del Sur – an Afro-Venezuelan working-class barrio – by Afro-Venezuelan youth committed to Third World liberation struggles\, global Pan-Africanism\, and Black consciousness. As a traditional Afro-Venezuelan musical ensemble and community organization\, Grupo Madera responded to the people’s calls for economic justice and political participation during an era of U.S. backed government repression in Venezuela. On August 15\, 1980\, while en route to an event with Indigenous communities in the Amazonas region\, 11 of the founding members drowned in the Orinoco River. Survivors and social movements consider the tragedy one of the most egregious and vile acts of state violence against Afro-Venezuelan popular masses in contemporary history. In the aftermath of their death\, several remaining members of Grupo Madera (1977 – 1980)\, along with other artists\, activists\, relatives\, and communities\, swore an oath to continue the founders’ legacy and have done so for 42 years. Join us to learn more about Grupo Madera and the role of culture\, religion\, and arts in people’s struggles in 20th century Venezuela. \n  \n\n\n\nJeanette Charles is a proud daughter of the Haitian Diaspora raised by working-class Black and Brown Los Angeles. She is pursuing her PhD in History at the University of California\, Los Angeles (MA ‘19). Her research focuses on Black Radicalism\, popular religiosity\, and political economy in Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to this\, she studied at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela\, with the Cátedra Libre África\, a research institute focused on Afro-Venezuelan\, African diasporic\, and African continental histories. She is also a long-time international solidarity organizer\, language interpreter\, and independent journalist. \n\n[gravityform id=”141″ title=”false” description=”true”]\nPresented by: Jeanette Charles\, UCLA
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/grupo-madera-20th-century-afro-venezuelan-religiosity-rhythms-and-resistance/
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SUMMARY:A Royal Osirian Funerary Rite? The Awakening of Osiris Ritual in Tutankhamun’s Tomb
DESCRIPTION:  \nOver 100 years after its discovery\, the tomb of Tutankhamun continues to be the focus of numerous Egyptological studies and scholarly research. Due to Howard Carter’s meticulous documentation of the tomb\, it’s possible to continue to “excavate” the tomb and make new discoveries about ancient Egyptian religious beliefs\, kingship ideology\, and funerary practices\, including a new interpretation of the layout of the Burial Chamber as related to the Awakening of Osiris Ritual. \nThe earliest depiction of the Awakening of Osiris Ritual comes from the 19th Dynasty\, which represents the reanimation of Osiris by his son Horus in the presence of various deities connected to the Osirian myth. In the scene\, the mummiform figure of Osiris lays prone and enshrined upon a lion bed\, surrounded by various crowns\, weapons\, clothing\, and other emblems. It is here argued that Tutankhamun’s Burial Chamber is a physical manifestation of this ritual\, which is not only represented in image and text\, but also by objects and even the body of Tutankhamun himself. The author proposes a number of hypotheses for why this ritual physically manifested itself within Tutankhamun’s burial\, and how this analysis provides us with more information on royal funerary practice during the New Kingdom. \n  \nNick Brown is an American Egyptologist who has worked as an archaeologist in Egypt since 2011. He received his MA degree in Egyptology from the American University in Cairo in 2016\, and currently is an Egyptology PhD candidate at the UCLA. Currently he lives between Los Angeles\, CA and Cairo\, Egypt. His excavation experience includes working with archaeological sites in Aswan (at Elephantine Island and Wadi el-Hudi)\, as well as funerary sites in Luxor\, Amarna and the Sudan. In 2016\, Nicholas spent the summer working at the MFA\, Boston as the Terrace Curatorial Research Associate in Egyptology. He returned to the MFA over the summer of 2019 to conduct archival research for the Egyptian Art Department’s exhibit “Ancient Nubia Now.” Nicholas’s research interests include funerary material culture from the New Kingdom\, as well as the use and perception of ancient Egypt within modern contexts. \n[gravityform id=”136″ title=”false” description=”true”] Presented by: Nick Brown (NELC UCLA)
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/a-royal-osirian-funerary-rite-the-awakening-of-osiris-ritual-in-tutankhamuns-tomb/
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SUMMARY:“Abba has begun to make money from the beer business”:  Beer\, Business\, and Halakhah in Rabbinic Literature (Bible and the Ancient World series)
DESCRIPTION:[gravityform id=”138″ title=”false” description=”true”]\nPresented by: Professor Jordan D. Rosenblum of the University of Wisconsin-Madison \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/abba-has-begun-to-make-money-from-the-beer-business-beer-business-and-halakhah-in-rabbinic-literature/
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