A SERIES OF LECTURES on "What Archaeology Tells Us About Ancient Israel" begins today at Columbia University:

WILLIAM DEVER, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, FOLLOWS ALAN SEGAL AT SPME-COLUMBIA'S UNDERGROUND ARCHEOLOGY OF ISRAEL LECTURE SERIES ON OCTOBER 15
By • Judith R. Jacobson
October 9, 2007

William Dever, U of Arizona, on "Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel" on October 15 and Aren Maeir, Bar-Ilan University, "The Archaeology of the Philistines: Findings Relevant to Ancient Israel and the Development of Biblical Text" on November 19 and Jodi Magness, Duke University, on Jerusalem in the Time of Herod February 4, 2008

The Columbia chapter of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and LionPAC, a Columbia student organization, present the second in the Underground Lecture Series: What Archaeology Tells Us About Ancient Israel

At Columbia University.

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I think we can assume this is not unrelated to the current tenure controvery concerning Nadia Abu El-Haj.

UPDATE: On the latter, more here (one post up).

UPDATE (19 October): For a brief report on Dever's lecture, see here.