Prof. Tawny Holm awarded NEH grant

ARAMAIC WATCH: National humanities group awards grants to four Liberal Arts-affiliated projects. Hemingway Letters Project, Matson Museum, Tawny Holm and Elizabeth Kadetsky to benefit from National Endowment for the Humanities funding (Josh McAuliffe, Penn State).

Congratulations to all the award recipients, but notably to Professor Tawny Holm:

Holm and her colleague, University of Notre Dame faculty member Dan Machiela, received a $50,000 Collaborative Research grant for their project, "The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls at the Crossroads of Empire: Negotiating Jewish Life under Foreign Rule,” which is focused on how the Aramaic texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls interpret and reinterpret Jewish experiences under foreign rule during the first millennium BCE.

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I have noted Professor Holm's work on the ancient Demotic Aramaic-Canaanite Papyrus Amherst 63 here, here, and here.

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