"Life in Exile" with Peter Zilberg

Al-Yahudu Tablets
March 18, 2025
5:45 pm - 7:00 pm
Hagerty Hall 159

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2025-03-18 17:45:00 2025-03-18 19:00:00 "Life in Exile" with Peter Zilberg Insights into the early origins of Judeans in BabyloniaSpeaker: Peter Zilberg is a Historian of the Ancient Near East focusing on Assyriology and Iranian studies. His work focuses on the social history of exiled and displaced groups in the ANE, especially during the Achaemenid period. Peter is also interested in the study of the rural hinterland of empires, and the relationship between center and periphery in antiquity. His new co-authored book on the city of Shatir, deals with social relations between West-Semites, Iranians and Babylonians, in the rural hinterland of Uruk. Peter is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the The Kramer Institute of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Bar-Ilan University.    Hagerty Hall 159 America/New_York public

Insights into the early origins of Judeans in Babylonia

Speaker: Peter Zilberg is a Historian of the Ancient Near East focusing on Assyriology and Iranian studies. His work focuses on the social history of exiled and displaced groups in the ANE, especially during the Achaemenid period. Peter is also interested in the study of the rural hinterland of empires, and the relationship between center and periphery in antiquity. His new co-authored book on the city of Shatir, deals with social relations between West-Semites, Iranians and Babylonians, in the rural hinterland of Uruk. Peter is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the The Kramer Institute of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Bar-Ilan University