PANEL: Mikva'ot, Ritual Purification, and Climate Change in Israel during the Roman Period (2nd BCE-2nd CE)
20/05/2024 09:45 - 16:30
HALL: STERI - SALA DELLE CAPRIATE

Proponent: Hamidovic D.

Chair: Hamidovic D., Scarso T.

Speaker: Avants S., Aviam M., Gordon B.D., Hamidovic D., Scarso T.

The panel aims to evaluate the potential impact of climate change of the ritual function of mikva'ot, i.e. purification basins with o'sar or not, their merging, and their disappearance. The conversion of basins in mikva'ot and the abandon of ritual function of mikva'ot according to archaeological and textual data need to be investigated.

001104.1
Life and Death of the Mikva'ot in Khirbet Qumran

Hamidovic D.

University of Lausanne
001104.2
Miqvaoth and Climate in the Land of Israel: Connection or Randomness?

Scarso T.

University of Lausanne
001104.3
The Decline of Miqvaot in the Land of Israel

Aviam M.

Kinneret Institute for Galilean Archaeology Land of Israel Studies, Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee
001104.4
Public Bathing and the Demise of the Private Judean Mikveh

Gordon B.D.

Associate Professor and Rosenberg-Perlow Fellow, Department of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
001104.5
Can Architecture Help Us Understand Fluctuations in Mikveh Use? A Case Study of Unit II in Zippori

Avants S.

Duke University