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<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dear colleagues - </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
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<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You are cordially invited (with apologies for cross-posting!) to the next lecture in the Centre of Excellence in "Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions" (CSTT) Lecture Series, to be held next week, Thursday, 23 March,
from 16:15 - 18:00 in the 5th floor faculty room (524) of Vuorikatu 3:</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>"Becoming and Being a Priest: Reflections on Exodus 29, Leviticus 8 and other Ancient Near Eastern Initiation Rites"</b></span><br style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>Jonathan Stökl</b>, Lecturer in Hebrew Bible / Old Testament, King's College London (Visiting Researcher with the CSTT)</span><br style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">How did one become a priest in the ancient Near East? What were the preconditions proposed by different societies and what are their commonalities and differences?
Answers to these questions will require reflection upon the comparative method(s), the use of (modern) ritual theory in the study of ancient texts and (perhaps) some more or less pretty images.</span><br style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The purpose of the CSTT lecture series is to provide a forum for individual members and guests of the CSTT to communicate their research to one another, as well as
to the larger community of ancient scholars at the University of Helsinki. Coffee and tea will be served. All who are interested are welcome to attend!</span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Helen M. Dixon</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Faculty of Theology, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">University of Helsinki</span></p>
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