BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:14993-4ed2ad1550aa263aa4a59a2470f04929@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260608T100220Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T180000 SUMMARY:CAMS Lecture Series: “Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Period, A View fro m Canaan” DESCRIPTION:\nThe 2025 CAMS lecture series Connected Histories of the An cient Mediterranean and Near East continues on March 20!\n\n“Cuneiform C ulture in the Amarna Period\, A View from Canaan”\n\nProfessor Alice Man dell (Johns Hopkins University)\n\nAbstract:\n\nThe Canaanite Amarna Let ters are the largest group of diplomatic letters recovered from Tell el- 'Amarna\, Egypt. The letters are important because they are the earliest diplomatic letters from the southern Levant. They also offer insight in to the political landscape in Canaan in the mid-fourteenth century BCE. Advances in the study of the letters have enabled scholars to identify i ndividual scribes\, and to reconstruct regional scribal communities. Whi le the scribes were initially viewed as "peripheral" scribes\, who were incompetent in Akkadian\, the letters suggest that the scribes used thei r craft in innovative ways to communicate to the pharaoh and his officia ls.\n\nAlice Mandell is an assistant professor and the William Foxwell A lbright Chair of Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopk ins University. Her research focuses on ancient Levantine scripts\, writ ten languages\, and texts\, spanning the second and first millennia BCE. Alice’s book Cuneiform Culture and the Ancestors of Hebrew is forthcomi ng in Seth Sanders’ series for Routledge: The Ancient Word: New Discover ies in Religion and Language from the Biblical and the Near Eastern Worl d. This work analyses scribal practices in the Canaanite Amarna Letters using sociolinguistic theory and the multimodality perspective. She also has several ongoing projects that examine alphabet-based literacy pract ices in the ancient Levant. From 2020 to 2021\, she was awarded a Getty Research Initiative grant for research on the early alphabet. Her second book project\, Alphabetic Word Craft: Levantine Craft Communities and t heir Literacies\, examines the evidence for the literacy practices invol ved in object making in the second and early first millennia BCE. This p roject has won two awards: a Johns Hopkins University Catalyst award and a National Endowment for the Humanities award.\n\nFor more details: htt ps://events.la.psu.edu/event/cams-cuneiform-culture-in-the-amarna-period / X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The 2025 CAMS l ecture series Connected Histories of the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East continues on March 20!

“Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Perio d, A View from Canaan”

Professor Alice Mandell (Johns Hopkins Univ ersity)

Abstract:

The Canaanite Amarna Letters are the large st group of diplomatic letters recovered from Tell el-'Amarna, Egypt. Th e letters are important because they are the earliest diplomatic letters from the southern Levant. They also offer insight into the political la ndscape in Canaan in the mid-fourteenth century BCE. Advances in the stu dy of the letters have enabled scholars to identify individual scribes, and to reconstruct regional scribal communities. While the scribes were initially viewed as "peripheral" scribes, who were incompetent in Akkadi an, the letters suggest that the scribes used their craft in innovative ways to communicate to the pharaoh and his officials.

Alice Mandel l is an assistant professor and the William Foxwell Albright Chair of Bi blical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on ancient Levantine scripts, written languages, and t exts, spanning the second and first millennia BCE. Alice’s book Cune iform Culture and the Ancestors of Hebrew is forthcoming in Seth Sa nders’ series for Routledge: The Ancient Word: New Discoveries in Religi on and Language from the Biblical and the Near Eastern World. This work analyses scribal practices in the Canaanite Amarna Letters using socioli nguistic theory and the multimodality perspective. She also has several ongoing projects that examine alphabet-based literacy practices in the a ncient Levant. From 2020 to 2021, she was awarded a Getty Research Initi ative grant for research on the early alphabet. Her second book project, Alphabetic Word Craft: Levantine Craft Communities and their Litera cies, examines the evidence for the literacy practices involved in object making in the second and early first millennia BCE. This project has won two awards: a Johns Hopkins University Catalyst award and a Nati onal Endowment for the Humanities award.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cams-cuneiform-culture-in-the-am arna-period/

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