This conference has some papers which look absolutely fascinating, and which are central to the concerns of many students of antique esotericism. Have a browse of the programme below:

The conference will be held on July 19, Wednesday, between 9:00–18:00 at Tel Aviv University (Gilman 496) and will also be broadcast on Zoom. It will deal with ancient science in four sessions: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Judea.

Conference on Ancient Science
July 19, 2023, | 9:00 – 18:00
Gilman 496, Tel Aviv University

Program
9:00 – 9:30 Gathering
Opening | Eshbal Ratzon (Tel Aviv University)

9:30 – 11:00 First session: Egypt | Deborah Sweeney (Tel Aviv University)
Sarah Symons (McMaster University):
Observational Techniques in the Ramesside Star Clock of the Egyptian New Kingdom

Andreas Winkler (Freie Universität Berlin):
Astronomy and Astrology in Demotic Elaborate Horoscopes

Tanja Pommerening (speaker) / Annette Imhausen (Universität Marburg / GoetheUniversität Frankfurt am Main):
New Ways to Think about Egyptian Science

11:00 – 11:30 Break

Greetings | Rachel Gali Cinamon (Dean of Humanities, Tel Aviv University)

11:30 – 13:00 Second session: Mesopotamia | Amir Gilan (Tel Aviv University)
Wayne Horowitz (Hebrew University):
Infinity and Big Numbers in the Ancient Near East

Susanne M. Hoffmann (Universität Jena):
Reconstructing Babylonian Constellations

Yigal Bloch (Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem):
Applied Astronomy, Shifting Geography: Assyrian Court Scholars and Their Practical Interpretation of Babylonian Astronomical Tradition

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 15:30 Third session: Greece | Shaul Katzir (Tel Aviv University)
Barbara Sattler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum):
Apeiron in Zeno, Aristotle and Euclid

Marco Vespa (Hebrew University):
How to Do Things with Words: Etymology as a Heuristic Tool in the Construction of Aristotle’s Anatomical Discourse

Orna Harari (Tel Aviv University):
Finitism and Hero of Alexandria’s Alternative Geometrical Constructions: A Possible Explanation

15:30 – 16:00 Break

16:00 – 18:00 Fourth session: Judea | Dalit Rom-Shiloni (Tel Aviv University)
Noga Ayali-Darshan (Bar Ilan University):
A Polemical Cosmogony: The Doxologies in the Book of Amos and Ancient Near Eastern Cosmogonies

Naomi Hadad (Tel Aviv University):
A New Edition of 4Q319: A Calendrical-Sectarian Scroll

Eshbal Ratzon (Tel Aviv University):
Calendrical Lexicography in Ancient Judaism

Jonathan Ben-Dov (Tel Aviv University):
Sundials from Second Temple Judah and the Jewish Diaspora in their Intellectual Context

Closing | Eshbal Ratzon (Tel Aviv University)

Register:
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To join the conference via Zoom, please click:
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