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The Bible in Its Ancient Iranian Context

306 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles

March 13-14, 2025 | 306 & 314 Royce Hall UCLA An International Conference Convened by: M. Rahim Shayegan, UCLA William Schniedewind, UCLA Catherine Bonesho, UCLA Co-sponsored by: The Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World The Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Zoom Webinar Link Download the Conference Program Although 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...

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Cases and Scale in Historiography

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles

Conference organized by Michael Osman and Cristóbal Amunátegui (University of California, Los Angeles) In the last few decades, debates stemming from the science and history “wars” have called attention to the ways in which cases are constructed and proven across disciplines. “Cases and Scale in Historiography” will explore the relationship between the case and one of its constitutive elements: scale. Among many other things, cases are a way of managing distance: between the past and the present, the far away and the near, norms and exceptions, ideation and reality. Thus defined, cases are inevitably bound to the shifting measures and temporalities of scale, something...