Thursday, October 6, 2016
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM (ET)
PALMTN Davis Auditorium
Event Type
Lecture
Contact
518-580-5590
Department
Special Programs
Link
http://ems.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=14691
Yuval Yekutieli is a senior lecturer at the Department of Bible, Archaeology and the Ancient Near East of Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He will present this free public lecture about an archaeological survey in the Judean Desert in the early 1960s, in which skeletons of 21 people were found in three caves located on a cliff towering above the canyon of Nahal Mishmar. The forensic report indicated that these ancient people suffered brutal blows before dying. The lecture will attempt to solve the riddle of their tragic death, locating it within a broader context of a theological upheaval shrouded in an even greater mystery.