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New Light on the Egyptian Origin of the Hebrew Alphabet- 01-02/12/2016, Los Angeles (CA, USA)


FECHA/DATE/DATA: 01-02/12/2016


ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: UCLA College of Humanities; Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; Center for Jewish Studies Kershaw; Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies Cotsen Institute

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Evening Public Symposium: Thursday, December 1st,

7:00-8:30 PM (Young Research Library Conference Room 11360) “New Light on the Egyptian Origin of the Hebrew Alphabet —A Context for the New TT99 Ostracon” — Prof. William Schniedewind Respondents: Prof. Ben Haring, Leiden University Prof. Alice Mandell, University of Wisconsin Prof. Seth Sanders, University of California, Davis


Workshops (Young Research Library Conference Room 11360)


Friday, December 2nd

10:00-12:00 Morning Workshop 1

0:00-11:00 Ben Haring, “The New Halḥam Ostracon of the Early New Kingdom: Its Discovery and Interpretation”

11:00-11:30 Thomas Schneider, “The TT99 Ostracon and the Early Alphabet(s) in Egypt”

11:30-12:30 Workshop Discussion


12:30-2:30 LUNCH BREAK


2:30-3:00 Aaron Burke, “Left Behind: The Decoupling of Attached Specialists at the End of the Late Bronze Age”

3:00-3:30 Alice Mandell — “LB to Iron Age: New Scripts and Why They Were Created”

3:30-4:00 Seth Sanders — “The Invention of the Alphabet and Egyptian Writing Systems”

4:00-5:00 Workshop Discussion

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