FRIENDS OF ASOR WEBINARS
Home Sweet Home: Ancient Israelite Households in Context
Friends of ASOR presents the third webinar in our monthly series on October 18, at 7:30pm EDT, featuring Dr. Cynthia Shafer-Elliott. Our recent quarantine experience has renewed interest in the meaning of ‘home’, whether an apartment in the city or a countryside home. Both in the present as well as in the distant past, the home is the stage for daily life. The form and function of a house, and the activities its household members engage in, can inform us about the daily life of the household and the society of which it is a part.
In this lecture, Dr. Cynthia Shafer-Elliott will introduce the concept of “Household Archaeology” and how it can help us understand the behaviors of kinship and social groups that formed ancient Israelite households. The Iron Age houses at Tell Halif, Israel, will serve to illustrate what the average household was like with particular attention given to the activities of the women of the household and food preparation. The webinar will conclude with a live Q&A session.
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott (Ph.D., The University of Sheffield, England) is an Associate Dean of the School of Theology and Leadership and Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible & Archaeology at William Jessup University in Rocklin, California. Dr. Shafer-Elliott specializes in the cultural and social contexts of ancient Israel and Judah, particularly within domestic contexts.
20% discount from Routledge!
Her major publications include: Food in Ancient Judah: Domestic Cooking in the Time of the Hebrew Bible (2013) and editor of The 5 Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant (2016), along with numerous chapters, encyclopedia and dictionary articles, articles, essays, and papers presented on food, households, and gender. She is currently co-editing the T & T Clark Handbook of Food in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel. Dr. Shafer-Elliott is an experienced field archaeologist and is part of the archaeological excavations at Tell Halif and Tell Abel Beth Maacah in Israel.
Thanks to our Silver Sponsor, Routledge, registrants now receive a 20% discount on Prof. Shafer-Elliott’s 2019 book, Food in Ancient Judah. Please email membership@asor.org for the discount code if you have already registered or click the button below to register and receive the code in your confirmation email.
ASOR Sustaining Members: $0 | ASOR Members: $5 | Public: $10
To receive your ASOR member discount, log into the online store. If you are new to ASOR, please click on the “New Visitor Registration” link to enter your email and password for our online store. Then navigate to “Meeting and Event Registration” to register for the webinar and pay the fee. Each paid registrant will receive a confirmation email when you pay for the webinar. If you do not receive this email, then you are not registered. Please e-mail membership@asor.org with any questions or issues with registering.
You will be e-mailed the Zoom Webinar link three times prior to the lecture on October 18, 2020. If you do not receive the link by the Saturday before the webinar, please email membership@asor.org immediately. All webinars are recorded and all paid registrants who cannot attend the webinar will be sent a link to download the recording.
All proceeds from this lecture are used to fund scholarships for members impacted by COVID-19 as well as increasing ASOR’s online resources, which are free to the public.
