アダ・タガー・コーヘン教授(同志社大)による古代史セミナー報告
開催を延期されていたアダ・タガー・コーエン教授の古代史セミナーですが、以下の日程で行われることが決定いたしました。(唐橋教授受け入れ)
日程: 12月11日(土)15:10~16:40
場所: 西洋史共同研究室
講師: Ada Taggar-Cohen アダ・タガー・コーエン同志社大学大学院神学研究科教授
テーマ:Biblical studies and Hittite studies:
The state of research within Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Doshisha University Faculty of Theology
Professor Ada Taggar-Cohen
Abstract:
The study of the Ancient Near Eastern cultures has widened and deepened our understanding of biblical ideas, concepts and beliefs, as well as of social and economic institutions described in the biblical texts.
The Hittite culture became available to biblical scholars relatively late, during the1950’s, and therefore was not used in comparative studies as much as materials from the rest of the ANE. Even today Hittite texts and artifacts are used less frequently in biblical studies than texts from Mesopotamia or Egypt.
tThis lecture will raise the question of the relevancy of Hittite research to biblical studies, and will focus on the following main points:
1. The discovery of the Hittites and their culture.
2. The first attempts that were made by scholars to correlate between the Hittites and the biblical texts, and the grounds for the rejection of such comparison by many scholars during the 1990’s.
3. The relevancy of Hittite studies to biblical scholarship today, exploring the ancient Israelite concept of covenant, in light of the appearance of the monotheistic thought in the later second millennium, and its relevance to biblical monotheism.