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Panel I. Near East and Egypt
The Development of Monotheism in Ancient Israelite Religion
Abstract: Monotheism is defined as the exclusive worship of a single god and the denial of the existence of other divinities. Nowadays, the Jewish religion, like the rest of the Abrahamic religions (Christianity and Islam), is fully monotheistic. However, with respect to Judaism, biblical and archaeological sources inform us that this was not always the case, since the worship of other gods such as Baal has been found. Therefore, the purpose of this conference will be to address the question of how monotheism developed and triumphed among the Jews.
Speaker: David Villar Vegas (Assistant Professor at University Complutense of Madrid)
Panel II
Emotions in the Funerary Religion of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
Death is a natural event that is experienced differently by each culture. In Ancient Egypt, funerary rites were part of this process of change and acceptance of the loss of an individual from the community. In Ptolemaic and Roman times we find a multicultural society, mainly due to Greek migratory flows. The reception of the Greeks in Egypt as a new economic and political elite due to the rule of the Ptolemies also influences funerary material culture. From then on, a new type of funerary art began to take shape, but also a new funerary identity that reflected deep social changes.
Through this conference, emotion within funerary rituals will be addressed, whether the emotions of mourning change in this historical context and how the group faces the loss of an individual thanks to Egyptian funerary rituals.
Speaker: Alejandra Izquierdo (Major Middle Eyptian Professor at San Dámaso Ecclesiastical University -Madrid- and member of the UCM C2 project)
Organizer: Unai Iriarte Asarta (RCCHU Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University)
Sponsors: RCCHU; Complutense University of Madrid; University of Seville