20th April 2025
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The Fellowship for Biblical Studies in partnership with the Australian Catholic University Ancient Israel Program are delighted to invite you to attend the public lecture:
to be delivered by:
Professor Wayne Horowitz
Professor of Assyriology in the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The prophet Ezekiel speaks of visiting the Babylonian Judean exilic community by the Chebar at Tel-Aviv on the Chebar Canal in Babylonia. We will visit this same community vicariously through day to day written documents in cuneiform script from the Al-Yahudu region (Judahtown) from the 6th and 5th centuries BCE, and see how the first generations of the Babylonian exile maintained their Jewish identity despite the traumas of the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah and the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, while following the words of the Prophet Jeremiah in their everyday lives.
Date
Wednesday 21 May 2025
Refreshments from 5:00pm. Lecture from 5:30pm-7:00pm AEST.
Venue
Centre for Theology and Ministry, 29 College Crescent, Parkville
RSVP
RSVP and Zoom link: barbara.deutschmann206@gmail.com
Banner image credit: Bendemann, Eduard. “Jews Mourning the Exile in Babylon.” World History Encyclopedia. Last modified February 21, 2022. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/15280/jews-mourning-the-exile-in-babylon/.