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Indiana Jones: Myth, Reality and 21st Century Archaeology

Indiana Jones: Myth, Reality and 21st Century Archaeology

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October 29th 2014: Life in a Multicultural Society: The Jewish Community at Elephantine

Last week you learned about the ancient Egyptian police force under the Ptolemies. This week, delve back a century before the Ptolemaic Dynasty to the city of Elephantine. There thrived a substantial Jewish population who maintained their own temple and left their own texts in Aramaic. When we think of societies where people of many different backgrounds coexist, often what comes to mind is a modern city like New York. But what would life have been like in an ancient metropolis with a multicultural society? Join our host and special guest Dr. Jitse Dijkstra, who has been involved in the excav

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Dr. Jitse Dijkstra

Jitse Dijkstra's research centers round the question how religion became transformed in Late Antiquity. In order to answer this question, he focuses on the particular regional and local context of religious transformation rather than on the ideological and general story.
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