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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">You are cordially invited (with apologies for cross posting!) to the last spring lecture in the Center of Excellence in "Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions" (CSTT) Lecture Series, to
be held next <b>Thursday, 12 May</b>, from <b>16:15-18</b> in the Faculty Room of the Faculty of Theology (<b>5th floor</b> of <b>Vuorikatu 3</b>).</p>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span><u>Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme</u></span>, a visiting University Researcher at the University of Helsinki and Professor with special responsibilities at the University of
Copenhagen, will present:</p>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span><u>"Visiting the Dead: Traces of Mortuary Ritual Practices in Roman Palestine"</u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The dead play an important part in the world of the living. Not merely as objects of remembrance and loss, but as social agents around whom practices of care and commemoration are performed. As recent thanatological research shows, this
is true of the dead in contemporary society, but perhaps even more so in the world of the ancient Mediterranean where habitual visits to the tomb of the family dead appear to have been the cultural norm.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This presentation uses selected tombs from the necropolis at Beth Shearim in the Lower Galilee as a case-study for investigating mortuary ritual in late Roman Palestine (2nd-4th centuries CE). The analysis focuses on social interaction
with the dead and on how to interpret ritual practices on the basis of archaeological finds and ancient texts.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The presentation is part of a larger study on the tomb as communicative space in early Judaism and Christianity, which is part of the project Ritual and Early Christian Religion (http://blogs.helsinki.fi/ritual-earlychristianity/).
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. We
welcome all who are interested to attend!</p>
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Helen M. Dixon</p>
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Faculty of Theology, <span style="font-size:12pt">University of Helsinki</span></p>
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