CONFERENCE PROGRAM AND ITINERARY
ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies:
fifty First International Conference
The Decapolis: History & Archaeology
Programme
MONDAY, JULY 25, 2022
(Venue: The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane)
Chairperson: Dr. John D. Wineland (University of the Cumberlands)
09:00-09:45 Dr. Bernhard Lucke (FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg)
“The seven seals of Apocalypse. Landscape change in the Decapolis region at the end of Antiquity.”
09:45-10.30 Dr. Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom (Germany)
“On Function and Meaning of «λεοντάρια» (leontaria) in the Decapolis.”
10:30-11:00 Tea/coffee
11:00-11:45 Prof. Chaim Ben David (Kinneret College)
“All the roads are leading to Scythopolis – The six Roman roads leading to Scythopolis.”
11:45-12:30 Dr. Nahum Ben-Yehuda (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
“The linen industries of Scytopolis and Jerash – Manufacture and trade. Information from Rabbinical and imperial literature, and archaeological finds. Some new questions and proposed answers.”
12:30-13:15 Dr. Stephanie Becht (Universistät Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany)
“The temple of Zeus in Jerash.”
13:15-15:30 Lunch (in the City Centre)
15:30-16:00 Tea/coffee (at the Oriental Institute)
Chairperson: Dr. Michael Eisenberg (University of Haifa, Israel)
16:00-16:45 Prof. Zeev Weiss (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
“The Synagogue-Church at Gerasa Revisited.”
16:45-17:30 Dr. David D. Boyer (The University of Western Australia)
“Gerasa’s Nymphaeum: A reappraisal of its history and function.”
17:30-18:15 Dr. Stefana Cristea (National Museum of Banat Timişoara)
“Lucius Aemilius and the gods he inherited from Gerasa.”
18:15-19:00 Dr. Viktor Humennyi (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv)
“Associations of Gerasa in the 1-3rd centuries CE: social, political and religious context.”
TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2022
(Venue: The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane)
Hippos and its Territorium
Chairperson: Dr. Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom (Germany)
09:00-09:45 Dr. Adam Pažout (The Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Israel, and the Centre for Urban Network Evolutions, Aarhus University, Denmark)
“Rural fortifications and settlement patterns in the southern Golan: A Geospatial approach to reconstruct the Territory of Antiochia-Hippos.”
09:45-10:30 Dr. Mechael Osband (Kinneret Academic College on the Sea of Galilee and the University of Haifa)
“Rural life in the hinterland of Hippos-Sussita of the Decapolis in the Roman period, the evidence from the village of Majduliyya.”
10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00-11:45 Dr. Michael Eisenberg (The Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Israel, and the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology)
“The Extra-Muros Compound and the Saddle Necropolis at Antiochia Hippos.”
11:45-12:30 Prof. Mark Schuler (Concordia University, Saint Paul) and Mr. Patrick Scott Geyer (University of San Diego)
“The Materia Medica of monastic health care at Hippos Palaistinēs.”
12:30-13:15 Ms. Jessica Rentz (PhD Candidate, Catholic University of America)
“The Martyrion of Theodoros at the ‘Burnt Church’ in Hippos.”
13:15-15:30 Lunch (in the City Centre)
15:30-16:00 Tea/coffee (at the Oriental Institute)
Chairperson: Dr. Bernhard Lucke (FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg)
16:00-16:45 Dr. Arleta Kowalewska (The Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa)
“Roman and Byzantine Bathhouses in the Region of the Decapolis.”
16:45-17:30 Dr.-Ing. Claudia Bührig (German Archaeological Institute) and Dr. Heike Möller (German Archaeological Institute)
“Settlment dynamics in and around Gadara.”
17:30-18:15 Mrs. Friederike Schöpf (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University, Frankfurt a. Main)
“A Jewish settlement in the Chora of Gadara? The case of Tall Zirāʽa during the late Hellenistic settlement in the Chora of Gadara.”
18:15-19:00 Mrs. Brita Jansen (University of Bremen, Hamburg)
“Hellenistic Gadara in the mirror of its fortifications.”
19:00-22:00: Banquet
WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2022
(Venue: The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane)
Chairperson: Prof. Mark Schuler (Concordia University, Saint Paul)
09:00-09:45 Dr. Naḥum Ben-Yehuda (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
“The linen industries of Scytopolis and Jerash – manufacture and trade. Information from rabbinical and Imperial literature, and archaeological finds. Some new questions and proposed answers.”
09:45-10:30 Prof. Lihi Habas (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
“THE Menas Ampula from Road 3, Israel – Evidence of the pilgrim traffic from Egypt to the Holy Land.”
10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00-11:45 Dr Gabriel Mazor (Israel Antiquity Authority)
“Monasticism at Nysa Scythopolis – a Greek City of Coele Syria.”
11:45-12:30 Ms. Nora Voß (PhD candidate, University of Vienna)
“Imported Cooking and Fine Ware from the Decapolis Region.
A comparative study.”
12:30-13:15 Dr. Yael Epstein (University of Bar-Ilan, Israel)
“Decapolis and Medicine: Beth Shean as a Case Study.”
13:15-15:30 Lunch (in the City Centre)
15:30-16:00 Tea/coffee (at the Oriental Institute)
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16:00-16:45 Prof. Lihi Habas (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) & Mrs. Annette Landes-Nagar (Bar-Ilan University and Israel Antiquity Authority)
“A ROMAN MARBLE SCULPTURE BASE FROM THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM..”
16:45-17:30 Prof. Tziona Grossmark (Tel Hai College)
“The encounter between Jews and Gentiles in the city of Nysa-Scythopolis during the Roman and Byzantine periods.”
17:30-18:15 Dr. Andrew Oddy (United Kingdom)
“DID THE DECAPOLIS SURVIVE THE ARAB CONQUEST OF GREATER SYRIA? A NUMISMATIC PERSPECTIVE.”
18:15-19:00 Dr. Robert W. Smith (Mid-Atlantic Christian University)
“Loyalty to Roman Emperors at Abila of the Decapolis.”
19:00 Conference ends
ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies:
Fifty First International Conference
THE DECAPOLIS:
HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY
The Oriental Institute
Oxford University
25-27 July 2022