JUDAISM  AND  CHRISTIANITY   IN  THE  
GRAECO-ROMAN  WORLD  (JCGRW):

From Second Temple to Late Antiquity

GRADUATE   PROGRAM
The University of Michigan - Department of Near Eastern Studies

4111 Thayer Academic Bldg.   202 S. Thayer Street   Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608  
phone (734) 764-0314   fax (734) 936-2679       


Extra Curricular Activities & Research Opportunities

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The Summer Program Abroad – a biennial, weeklong program on “Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity” at archaeological sites in Europe or the Middle East. Rome 2003, Naples 2005, Jerusalem 2007.

The Michigan Lectures – a series of conferences and seminars at the University of Michigan by international specialists in Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World. Photos.

The Statuary Project – a multi-year project housed at the University of Michigan that studies the sculptural environment of the Roman Near East. Students may be members on the research team that involves collecting and studying sources, both textual and archaeological, creating the database of the project, editing and producing the various volumes of the project (The Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East [Peeters 2008]); organizing and participating in the international conferences associated with the project. (Ann Arbor 2004, [photos], Princeton 2008, London 2009.)

The Enoch Seminar – a biennial summer international conference of specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins (Florence 2001, Venice 2003, Camaldoli 2005, Camaldoli 2007). The Enoch Seminar also organizes a series of biennial meetings for graduate students, known as the Enoch Graduate Seminars (Ann Arbor 2006, Princeton 2008, etc.). JCGRW students are directly involved in the organization of these meeting and in the editing and publication of the proceedings.

The Journal Henoch - an international journal of "Studies in Judaism and Christianity, from Second Temple to Late Antiquity," founded in 1979 and now (since 2005) based in Ann Arbor. Student can be involved in the editing process, write book reviews etc. The Journal Henoch.