The Minerva Center

Happy to announce a conference " Jerusalem through the Ages: New Perspectives ", which will be held at Schloss Beuggen, Rheinfelden,...

Happy to announce the following workshop: The Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times (RIAB),...

The Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies  and the Minerva RIAB Center  will be conducting a fascinating conference on the...

Check out about the workshop we conducted today: https://gath.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/workshop-on-israelites-phoenicians-and-arameans-in...

On Tuesday and Wednesday, January 14th-15th, 2025, the RIAB Minerva Center will conduct a workshop at Leipzig University on the topic...

On Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, a very interesting workshop will be conducted, jointly organized by the Kinneret Academic College, Ben-Gurion...

Next week, we will be holding a fascinating joint Israeli/German/Swiss/Italian conference on "State Formation and Re-Urbanisation in the...

Next week (19-20 of July, 2023), an academic meeting on perspectives on non-violent resistance in the past, present and future will be...

See below the notice on the conference; full details and schedule will appear in the near future!

Please note that the Minvera RIAB Center workshop scheduled for Monday, May 22nd, 2023 in the late afternoon/evening, on "Fortifications...

On Monday, May 22nd, 2023 in the late afternoon/evening, a RIAB Minerva Center workshop on Fortifications and Symbolism in the Ancient...

On Tuesday, May 16th, at 12:00 noon, Prof. Liz Arnold (GVSU) will give a lecture for the RIAB Minerva Center (in the laboratory of the...

A RIAB Minerva Center lecture/workshop by Dr. Matt Susnow (post-doc at the Hebrew University) entitled: "Ritual, Scripted and Unscripted:...

On April 18th, 2023, a RIAB Minerva Center Meeting dealing with the "History of Mentalities in Ancient Israel" will be held at the...

We are happy to inform that a new volume in the RIAB Series has appeared: David T. Sugimoto (ed.). 2022. Tel 'En Gev: Report of the Keio...

Angelika Berlejung, RIAB Center co-director recently published (as co-editor) a comprehensive volume dealing with archaeological evidence...

RIAB Center Member Dr. Assaf Kleiman (BGU) has just published a book in the RIAB Series. The book is: Kleiman, A. 2022. Beyond Israel and...

The Minerva Stiftung has just informed the RIAB Minerva Center co-directors that the center's tenure will be extended for an additional...

A "Minerva School", organized by RIAB Center members Shira Albaz, Laura Gonnermann and Vanessa Workman, entitle "Crafting for the Gods:...

As part of the RIAB Center's public outreach, we have decided to put up a "Mini-MOOC" (=mini Massive Open Online Course) in which short...