From Roman to Early Christian Cyprus: A Conference on Religion and Archaeology, Harvard Divinity School, October 2–3, 2015
From Roman to Early Christian Cyprus: A Conference on Religion and Archaeology is being co-organized by Prof. Laura Nasrallah (Harvard University, The Divinity School), Prof. AnneMarie Luijendijk (Princeton University), and Dr. Charalambos Bakirtzis (Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis, Cyprus).
Cyprus was an important island and an important hub of commerce and thought in the Roman and early Christian periods and beyond. This conference is an interdisciplinary venture, bringing together Greek archaeologists and scholars of Cyprus with scholars of the New Testament, Early Christianity, and the religions of antiquity. It will include a photographic exhibit of archaeological evidence. Our conference on archaeology and religion in Cyprus is part of a longstanding tradition of bringing together the study of history, literature, and material remains in order to understand the interplay between society, politics, economics, theology, philosophy, and practice in the ancient world. Volumes treating Ephesos, Pergamon, and Thessalonikē have already been produced, and we plan for the new data and new interpretations presented in the papers at this meeting to result in a conference volume.
Sponsored by Harvard Divinity School, A. G. Leventis Foundation, Princeton University, and Battelle Memorial Institute