Scholars for Peace in the Middle East presents
The Underground Lecture Series: What Archaeology Tells Us About Ancient Israel
I. What Biblical Archaeology Tells Us About the First Temple Period
Speaker: Alan F. Segal, PhD
Professor of Religion and Ingeborg Rennert Professor of Jewish Studies
Barnard College
Location: 304 Barnard Hall
Date: Monday, September 17, 2007
Time: 7:00 pm
Professor Segal has degrees from Amherst College (B.A. 1967), Brandeis
University (M. A. 1969), Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of
Religion (B. H. L. 1971) and Yale University (M. A. 1971, M. Phil. 1973,
Ph. D. 1975). His studies included English Literature, Psychology,
Anthropology, Comparative Religion, Judaica, Christian Origins, and
Rabbinics.
Professor Segal’s publications include Jews and Arabs: A Teaching Guide
(UAHC Press), Two Powers in Heaven (Brill), Deus Ex Machina: Computers
in the Humanities (Penn University Bulletin Board), Rebecca’s Children:
Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World (Harvard University Press),
The Other Judaisms of Late Antiquity (Scholars Press), and Life After
Death: The Afterlife in Western Religions (Doubleday).