Recent discoveries of copies of a letter from King Seleucus IV to his minister Heliodorus and of a dedication by Legio X Fretensis to the Emperor Hadrian on Jerusalem’s Third Wall, have caused scholars to… Read more
Since antiquity Jerusalem has served as a center for writers, theologians, poets, and thinkers. However, it has also endured a great number of wars that relinquished its libraries and manuscripts. Against all odds, hundreds of… Read more
Professor Keys will give an overview of her forthcoming book Pride, Politics, and Humility in Augustine’s City of God (Cambridge; expected in June 2022). Augustine reveres Jerusalem as an image of the perfection of the… Read more
First of Four Lectures in Series: Souls and Sounds of the City Every fifth child in Israel goes to a Haredi (Jewish Ultra-Orthodox) school. Given its rapid growth, the Haredi sector has an increasing impact… Read more
Dr. Tania Notarius and Lecturer Henri Gourinard of the Polis Institute are preparing the program for a new Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Souls and Sounds of the City, which aims to be a shared ground for researchers,… Read more
