Events & Calendars "Holy Land Archaeology: Where the Past Meets the Present"

Professor Carol Meyers will speak on “Holy Land Archaeology: Where the Past Meets the Present” on Monday, Feb. 17, at 4:30 p.m. in the Pruyne Lecture Room (115 Fayerweather Hall).

Meyers is the Mary Grace Wilson Professor in the Religious Studies Department at Duke University and is a specialist in biblical studies and archaeology and a prominent scholar in the study of women in the biblical world. Professor Meyers has authored or co-authored 11 books and has edited or co-edited five others. Her book, "Discovering Eve," is a landmark study of women in ancient Israel, and her reference book, "Women in Scripture," is the most comprehensive study ever made of women in Jewish and Christian scriptures. In collaboration with Dr. Eric Meyers, she has written "Haggai-Zechariah 1-8" and "Zechariah 9-14." Also with Dr. E. Meyers, she has published three major archaeological reports and is working on several more.

The lecture is sponsored by the Religion Department and the Willis D. Wood Fund and is free and open to the public.