Richard Freund, the director of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford, is slated to be the keynote speaker for Bible by the Bay in Contra Costa on Sunday, November 14. The event runs from 1:30-6 p.m. at Temple Isaiah in Lafayette (3800 Mt. Diablo Boulevard).
Freund has directed six archaeological projects in Israel and three in Europe on behalf of the university. He has also appeared in 15 television documentaries on Biblical archaeology, including for the History Channel and CNN. Additionally, he is the author or co-author of eight books, including most recently, Digging through the Bible: Ancient Archaeology and the Modern Bible.
Freund will deliver the opening and closing addresses for the conference. The opening address is titled: Digging through the Bible: Modern Archaeology and the Ancient Bible – The Back Story. Freund will conclude with a talk titled: Digging Deeper: Where is the “Real” Mount Sinai?
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Thank you to everyone who attended Bible by the Bay at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto on May 5. There was a big turnout to hear keynote speaker James Kugel, the director of the Institute for the History of the Jewish Bible at Bar Ilan University in Israel, and a collection of top scholars and rabbis in the Bay Area.
Attendees also enjoyed attending workshops by Kugel (pictured upper and lower left above), Professor Robert C. Gregg (pictured lower right above), Rabbi Melanie Aron, Professor Steven Weitzman, Professor Vered Shemtov, Adam Berman, Professor Deena Aranoff (pictured upper right above), Nechama Tamler, and Professor Naomi Janowitz.
Bible by the Bay will move to Contra Costa for the first time in November 2010 at Temple Isaiah in Lafayette. An exact date will be announced soon.
Thank you to the Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation, The Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund and the Koret Foundation for being generous sponsors of Bible by the Bay in Palo Alto. A special thank you also goes out to our host, the Oshman Family JCC.
