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Carol L. Meyers

Carol L. Meyers

Mary Grace Wilson Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religion in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
Religious Studies
carol@duke.edu
Box 90964, Durham, NC 27708-0964
227 Gray Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances

“Holy Land Archaeology: Where the Past Meets the Present" - Archaeology Research Center and School of Religion · February 11, 2015 Invited Talk University of Southern California, Los Angeles,California
“Holy Land Archaeology: Where the Past Meets the Present" - Cotsen Institue of Archaeology · February 11, 2015 Invited Talk UCLA, Los Angeles,California
“Was Ancient Israel a Patriarchal Society?” - Bible and Its Interpreters seminar series · February 10, 2015 Invited Talk UCLA Center for Judaic Studies and UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, Los Angeles,California
“Biblical Women: Examples of Household and Community Power” · October 29, 2014 Invited Talk Universidad Anáhuac, Huixquilucan, Mexico City, Mexico
“Holy Land Archaeology: Where Past Meets Present” (La arqueologia de la Tierra Santa: donde el pasado encunetra el presente”) (with Eric Meyers - tópicos selectos de la historia anigua de Israel. · October 29, 2014 Invited Talk Universidad Hebraica, Mexico City, Mexico
“The Invisible Religious Culture of Israelite Women” (“La cultura religiosa invisible de las mujeres israeltas”) - topicos selectos de la historia anigua de Israel · October 28, 2014 Invited Talk Universidad Hebraica, Mexico City, Mexico
“Women in Ancient Israel: Household Life and Community Roles” (“Mujeres in Antigo Israel: La vida de los hogares y roles communitarios”) - topicos selectos de la historia anigua de Israel · October 28, 2014 Invited Talk Universidad Hebraica, Mexico City, Mexico
“Arcqueología Biblia y el Pueblo Judío”: “Mosaics and Multiculturalism: Discoveries at Ancient Sepphoris” (with Eric Meyers) - Communidad Bet-El de México · October 26, 2014 Lecture Mexico City, Mexico,
“Was Ancient Israel Patriarchal?” - Intoridction to Old Testmanet Interpretationn · October 9, 2014 Lecture Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina
“Holy Land Archaeology: Where the Past Meets the Present” (with E. Meyers) - Petrie Oration, Australian Institute of Archaeology · March 28, 2014 Invited Talk Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
“Mosaics and Multiculturalism: Discoveries at Ancient Sepphoris” (with E. Meyers) - Department of Archaeology and Ancient History · March 28, 2014 Invited Talk Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
“Was Ancient Israel Patriarchal?” - Fellowship of Biblical Studies, Queens College · March 27, 2014 Invited Talk University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
“Mosaics and Multiculturalism: Discoveries at Ancient Sepphoris - Classical Association of Victoria; Australian Institute of Archaeology · March 25, 2014 Invited Talk University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
“Mosaics and Multiculturalism: Discoveries at Ancient Sepphoris" - School of Humanities and the Armidale Chapter of the University of New England Alumni Association · March 20, 2014 Invited Talk University of New England, Armidale, Australia
Archaeology and the Hidden Religious Culture of Israelite Women” - Department of Ancient History, Ancient history Research Seminar Series · March 19, 2014 Invited Talk MacQuarrie University, Sydney, Australia
“Archaeology and the Hidden Religious Culture of Israelite Women” - Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia · March 17, 2014 Invited Talk University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
“Holy Land Archaeology: Where the Past Meets the Present” - Theology Programme · March 6, 2014 Invited Talk University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
‘Mosaics and Multiculturalism: Discoveries at Ancient Sepphoris” (with E. Meyers) - department of theology · March 5, 2014 Invited Talk University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ
“Holy Land Archaeology: Where Past Meets the Present” (with E. Meyers) - department of theology · March 4, 2014 Invited Talk University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ
“Eve, Again: Women in Ancient Israel” - Women in Judaism course · February 18, 2014 Lecture Amherst College, Amherst, MASS
“Holy Land Archaeology: Where the Past Meets the Present. - Willis D. Wood lecture · February 17, 2014 Invited Talk Amherst College, Amherst, MASS
“Was Ancient Israel a Patriarchal Society?” - presidential address · November 23, 2013 Invited Talk Society of Biblical Literaure, Baltimore
“Women in SBL (Society of Biblical Literature)—Then and Now.” - Student Networking Session of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession · November 23, 2013 Invited Talk Society of Biblical Literature, Baltimore
“Eve—A Makeover” - Rethinking the Role of Women in Biblical Israel, part of a special exhibit on “The Dead Sea Scrolls: Life in Ancient Times" · October 2, 2013 Invited Talk Museum of Science, Boston
“Holy Land Archaeology: Where the Past Meets the Present.” - Second Annual Rabbi Marcus Breger Memorial Lecture · February 4, 2013 Invited Talk University of Arizona, Tucson
“Women in Near Eastern Archaeology.” Panel presentation for an Open Forum at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research · November 15, 2012 Lecture Chicago
“Was Ancient Israel Patriarchal?” Guest speaker for Introduction to Old Testament Interpretation · October 31, 2012 Lecture Duke Divinity School, Durham, NC
“Archaeology and the Hidden Religious Culture of Israelite Women.” Presentation at American Schools of Oriental Research/ Biblical Archaeology Society Seminar on Biblical Archaeology · October 31, 2012 Lecture Durham, NC
"Holy Land Archaeology: Where the Past Meets the Present" - Plenary Address · October 5, 2012 Lecture American Schools of Oriental Research/ Biblical Archaeology Society Seminar on Biblical Archaeology, Durham, NC

Lecture; Plenary address at American Schools of Oriental Research/Biblical Archaeology Society Seminar on Biblical Archaeology
“All About Eve: The Latest Word on the First Lady” - Tenth Annual Women and Religion Lecture, for Women’s History Month · March 26, 2012 Invited Talk Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska
Renewing the New: Details and Data in Archaeological Recording and Reporting · November 19, 2011 Lecture San Francisco: American Schools of Oriental Rresearch Annual Meeting
“Sustenance and Sacrality: Household Foodways in Ancient Israel” · November 20, 2010 Lecture New Unit Planning Session on Meals in Ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA
Ground Stone Tools and Gender: The Evidence from Sepphoris · November 19, 2010 Lecture Session on Sepphoris in Recent Research. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA
“Pluralism, Past and Present.” Multicultural Alliance · October 27, 2010 Lecture Fort Worth, Texas
“Holy Land Archaeology: Past Meets Present.” Thirteenth Annual Gates of Chai Lectureship · October 26, 2010 Lecture Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, Texas
Research Interests and Current Projects. Guest Scholar Program at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research · July 1, 2010 Lecture Jerusalem
Food Isn’t Just for Eating: Women’s Work and Family Feasts in Israelite Households. Plenary lecture, for the American Schools of Oriental Research/American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Com · March 6, 2010 Lecture Atlanta
The Function of Festivals: Socio-Political Aspects of Religious Events. Social Theory and the Study of Israelite Religion: Retrospect and Prospect; Moskow Symposium · March 1, 2010 Lecture Program in Judaic Studies.Brown University,Providence, R.I.
Archaeological Diggings and National Identity in Israel.Torch Club Speakers Series · February 17, 2010 Lecture Chapel Hill, NC
“Words of Remembrance for a Master of Words.” University of California San Diego Symposium in Memory of David Noel Freedman (1922-2008). UCSD Judaic Studies Program · November 26, 2009 Lecture University of California, San Diego,CA
“Exodus: History (??), Memory, and Community Identity” · November 15, 2009 Lecture South Orange, NJ
“Jews, Romans, and Christians: Discoveries at Ancient Sepphoris.” Qualley Lecture · October 15, 2009 Lecture Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
David Roberts and the Holy Land.” Gallery talk (with E. Meyers) · September 3, 2009 Lecture Nasher Museum of art, Duke University, Durham, NC
“The Material Culture of Late Hellenistic-Early Roman Palestinian Judaism: Novi Testamentum. Neues Testament und Hellenisticsche-Jüdische It Can Tell Us about Earliest Christianity and the New Testament” (with E. Meyers). 3. Internationales Symposium · May 21, 2009 Lecture Leipzig, Germany
“Women Writing/Women/s Writings: The Evidence from Ancient Israel.” Symposium (III) on Muslim and Other Women as Purveyors and Transmitters of Abrahamic Scripture, Forensic Scriptures Conference · May 16, 2009 Lecture Riverside Church. New York City
“History and Memory in the Book of Exodus.” Presentation in conjunction with the performance of George Frederic Handel’s oratorio “Israel in Egypt” · March 26, 2009 Lecture Duke University. Durham, NC
“Gender Issues in the Archaeology of the Levant.” Session on Archaeology and the Ancient World; Theme: Six Decades of Archeology of the Levant: 1964-Present, Preent-2034 · March 14, 2009 Lecture Southeast Commission for the Study of Religion southeastern regional meeting, Greensboro, NC
“The Past as Present: Exodus in Community Memory and as a Paradigm of Identity.” Five Books, Five Scholars lecture series · January 9, 2009 Lecture Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. New York City
The Future of Education in Biblical Studies. Panelist for roundtable discussion in Academic Teaching and Biblical Studies group, Society of Biblical Literature · November 23, 2008 Lecture
“Mediterranean Diet at the Time of the Dead Sea Scrolls.” Dead Sea Scrolls dinner in conjunction with exhibit at North Carolina Museum of Natural Science · November 18, 2008 Lecture Raleigh, NC
“Dead Sea Scrolls.” Gallery talk at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences · November 2, 2008 Lecture Raleigh, NC
“Words of Remembrance for a Master of Words.” University of California San Diego Symposium in Memory of David Noel Freedman (1922-2008). · October 26, 2008 Lecture UCSD Judaic Studies Program. La Jolla, CA
“Was Ancient Israel Patriarchal?” Mowinckel Seminar, University of Oslo, Faculty of Theology and Centre for Gender Research · October 13, 2008 Lecture Oslo, Norway
“In the Household and Beyond: The Social World of Israelite Women.” Eighteenth Biennial Mowinckel Lecture · October 13, 2008 Lecture Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway
“All About Eve: The Latest Word on the First Lady.” Keynote speaker, Jewish Women’s Organizations of Greensboro Opening Event · September 3, 2008 Lecture Greensboro, NC
“Comments on Cultural Memory in Biblical Exegesis.” Panel discussion at European Association of Biblical Studies · August 6, 2008 Lecture University of Lisbon, Portugal
“Comments on ‘The Bible’s Buried Secrets.” Panel presentation at Television Critics Association summer PBS Press Tour · July 13, 2008 Lecture Beverly Hills, CA
“Was Ancient Israel Patriarchal?” Guest lecture for OT12, Introduction to Old Testament Interpretation · February 14, 2008 Lecture Duke Divinity School, Durham, NC
“Barely Visible But Very Real: Women’s Religious Culture in Ancient Israel.” Ninth Annual Paul J. Landa Memorial Lecture on Faith and Learning · February 9, 2008 Lecture La Sierra University, School of Religion, Riverside, CA

Service to the Profession

Steering committee, Wisdom of the Elders, Society of Bibical Literature program unit · 2012 Other
Consultant and member of Advisory Board : Bible Park USA · December 15, 2011 Other
Duke reviewer of applications for Faculty Fellows Program : American Council of Learneed Societies · December 15, 2011 Other
Advisory Board : Journal of Ancient Judaism, supplements · December 15, 2011 Editorial Activities
Editorial Board : Bible Odyssey--web project of the Society of Biblical Literature · 2011 Editorial Activities
planning committee (with E. Meyers, S. Goldman, M. Chancey) : The Bible in the Public Square · 2011 - 2012 Event/Organization Administration Duke University
Vice-President/President Elect : Society of Biblical Literature · 2011 - 2012 Other
Board of Directors; Executive Comittee : Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina · 2011 - November 28, 2012 Other
Consulting Reader, Semitic Philology position (lectureship),Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · November 17, 2010 Other
Steering Committee, Consultation on Meals in the Ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Society of Biblical Literature · 2010 Other
Chair : Sub-committee on Israel/West Bank affiliation proposal reviews, Committee on Archaeological Policy, American Schools of Oriental Research · November 25, 2009 Other
Strategic Planning Task Force, American Schools of Oriental Research · 2009 - 2010 Other
Media Committee, American Schools of Oriental Research · 2009 Other
Editorial Board : Journal for Ancient Judaism · 2009 Editorial Activities
Advisory Committee, American Schools of Oriental Research Archiving Initiative, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities · 2009 Other
Sub-committee for Archaeological Standards, Committee on Archaeological Policy, American Schools of Oriental Research · 2009 - 2010 Other
Fellowship Committee, Albright Institute of Archaeological Research · 2008 - 2009 Other
Executive Committee : Forensic Scriptures: A Riverside Conference on What the Qur'an Reveals about the Bible · 2008 - 2009 Event/Organization Administration New York City
planning committee (with E. Meyers) : Archaeology, Politics, and the Media · 2008 - 2009 Event/Organization Administration Duke University
Editorial Advisory Board : World of the Bible web project, Society of Biblical Literature and National Endowment for the Humanities · 2008 - 2011 Editorial Activities
Advisory Board, Museum of Biblical Archaeology · 2008 Other