The Minerva Center

The 5th Annual Conference of the RIAB Minerva Center will be held in Leipzig and Berlin on June 8th to 11th, 2020. The title of the...

The 4th Annual Meeting of the RIAB Minerva Center will take place on May 27-29, 2019. This year’s meeting will be held in Israel, at...

Interim list of planned events for the 2018/2019 academic year of the RIAB Minerva Center: * RIAB Minerva Center workshop on the subject...

Below is the final program of the international conference “Biblical Exegesis through the Ages”, held under the auspices of the Faculty...

Here’s a reminder of a upcoming workshop of the RIAB Center that we notified about a few months ago: The RIAB center is happy to be an...

Prof. Michael Sokoloff of the Dept. of Hebrew and Semitic Languages at BIU, is without a doubt, the premier lexicographer of ancient...

The RIAB center is happy to be an organizer of the following workshop: Five Seasons of Excavation at Tel Abel Beth Maacah: An Interim...

Please note that the following volume has been published, the first book associated with the RIAB Center’s activities: Berlejung, A.,...

On November 14th, 2017, the RIAB Center will conduct a research colloquium at Leipzig University on “(Re)Constructing Identities in the...

Last call: PhD Stipends from the Minerva Center for Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times (RIAB) The Minerva Center for...

Bar-Ilan University is offering 4 year PhD stipends (“President’s Grants”) to students who excelled in their undergraduate and graduate...

The RIAB Minerva Center is offering 2-3 stipends for the coming years for PhD students dealing with topics relating to the center’s...

See below a list of the planned activities of the RIAB Center for the next year and a half: 1)  Monday, June 12th 2017 (at 14:00), a...

The 2nd Annual Meeting of the RIAB Minerva Center will be held at Bar-Ilan University and Hebrew University on March 1-3, 2017. The...

Please note that the first volume directly relating to the RIAB Minerva Center is now officially in press – and appears on the...

Dr. Omer Sergi, RIAB center member, and his colleagues M. Oeming and I. de Hulster, have just published a very important volume – “In...

Please reserve the date for an upcoming workshop (for researchers and graduate students in the field), the first of the RIAB Minerva...

A very important volume on Aramean political history has just appeared – that should be a major resource for many years to come. The...

A new study by Prof. Angelika Berlejung, co-director of the RIAB center has appeared. In this study, the “Ashdodite” language mentioned...

Dr. Leeor Gottlieb (BIU), who is a member of the RIAB Center, has informed me that he has been awarded a 4 year grant from the Israel...