BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UCLA Humanities - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:UCLA Humanities X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for UCLA Humanities REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250313 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250315 DTSTAMP:20260419T140431 CREATED:20241219T040254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T093259Z UID:2189308-1741824000-1741996799@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:The Bible in Its Ancient Iranian Context DESCRIPTION:March 13-14\, 2025 | 306 & 314 Royce Hall\nUCLA \nAn International Conference Convened by:\nM. Rahim Shayegan\, UCLA\nWilliam Schniedewind\, UCLA\nCatherine Bonesho\, UCLA \nCo-sponsored by:\nThe Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World\nThe Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies \nZoom Webinar Link \nDownload the Conference Program \nAlthough there has been renewed interest in the Persian period in biblical scholarship\, the profound impact of the ancient Iranian world on the biblical books of Esther and Daniel has often been taken for granted. From their dynamic portraits of foreign kings and Jewish communities in the imperial court to their use of Iranian institutions and literary traditions\, it is impossible to disentangle the books of Esther and Daniel from their ancient Iranian contexts. This conference foregrounds the influence of the ancient Iranian world on Esther and Daniel and its lasting impact on ancient Jewish communities. \nIn organizing this conference\, we hope to offer a truly interdisciplinary analysis of Esther\, Daniel and ancient Iranian Studies by inviting speakers specializing in subjects related to Second Temple Judaism\, Hebrew Bible\, and the Achaemenid Empire. Topics explored at the conference include Jewish constructions of the diaspora and Persian court\, Achaemenid religions\, Aramaic scribalism\, and imperial ideology and hybridity. \nRegister\nvar gform;gform||(document.addEventListener(“gform_main_scripts_loaded”\,function(){gform.scriptsLoaded=!0})\,document.addEventListener(“gform/theme/scripts_loaded”\,function(){gform.themeScriptsLoaded=!0})\,window.addEventListener(“DOMContentLoaded”\,function(){gform.domLoaded=!0})\,gform={domLoaded:!1\,scriptsLoaded:!1\,themeScriptsLoaded:!1\,isFormEditor:()=>”function”==typeof InitializeEditor\,callIfLoaded:function(o){return!(!gform.domLoaded||!gform.scriptsLoaded||!gform.themeScriptsLoaded&&!gform.isFormEditor()||(gform.isFormEditor()&&console.warn(“The use of gform.initializeOnLoaded() is deprecated in the form editor context and will be removed in Gravity Forms 3.1.”)\,o()\,0))}\,initializeOnLoaded:function(o){gform.callIfLoaded(o)||(document.addEventListener(“gform_main_scripts_loaded”\,()=>{gform.scriptsLoaded=!0\,gform.callIfLoaded(o)})\,document.addEventListener(“gform/theme/scripts_loaded”\,()=>{gform.themeScriptsLoaded=!0\,gform.callIfLoaded(o)})\,window.addEventListener(“DOMContentLoaded”\,()=>{gform.domLoaded=!0\,gform.callIfLoaded(o)}))}\,hooks:{action:{}\,filter:{}}\,addAction:function(o\,r\,e\,t){gform.addHook(“action”\,o\,r\,e\,t)}\,addFilter:function(o\,r\,e\,t){gform.addHook(“filter”\,o\,r\,e\,t)}\,doAction:function(o){gform.doHook(“action”\,o\,arguments)}\,applyFilters:function(o){return gform.doHook(“filter”\,o\,arguments)}\,removeAction:function(o\,r){gform.removeHook(“action”\,o\,r)}\,removeFilter:function(o\,r\,e){gform.removeHook(“filter”\,o\,r\,e)}\,addHook:function(o\,r\,e\,t\,n){null==gform.hooks[o][r]&&(gform.hooks[o][r]=[]);var d=gform.hooks[o][r];null==n&&(n=r+”_”+d.length)\,gform.hooks[o][r].push({tag:n\,callable:e\,priority:t=null==t?10:t})}\,doHook:function(r\,o\,e){var t;if(e=Array.prototype.slice.call(e\,1)\,null!=gform.hooks[r][o]&&((o=gform.hooks[r][o]).sort(function(o\,r){return o.priority-r.priority})\,o.forEach(function(o){“function”!=typeof(t=o.callable)&&(t=window[t])\,”action”==r?t.apply(null\,e):e[0]=t.apply(null\,e)}))\,”filter”==r)return e[0]}\,removeHook:function(o\,r\,t\,n){var e;null!=gform.hooks[o][r]&&(e=(e=gform.hooks[o][r]).filter(function(o\,r\,e){return!!(null!=n&&n!=o.tag||null!=t&&t!=o.priority)})\,gform.hooks[o][r]=e)}}); \n\n\nThis RSVP form is for both conference days. 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