Exhibit Tickets
All exhibit ticketing will be handled by the Museum of Science. For more information about admission to the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit, see Exhibit Tickets.
Upcoming Events
artifacts on display in the Mandel Center for the Humanities
The Eunice M. L. Cohen Classical Studies Artifact Research Collection (CLARC) Exhibits
Ongoing
Brandeis University, Mandel Center for the Humanities and Goldfarb Library
Brandeis owns more than 800 artifacts dating from 1500 BCE to the Byzantine period. Two selections of objects from the time period of the Dead Sea Scrolls are on display in two locations: 1) the second floor of the Mandel Center for the Humanities (which includes a chemical analysis of some objects by Alison Crandall ‘13) and 2) the main floor of the Goldfarb Library.
Four Brandeis undergraduate CLARC interns (Hilary Cheney ‘13, Ben Federlin ‘14, Keith Frankston ‘13, and Snaedis Valsdottir ‘14) curated the exhibits under the direction of Professor Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow. The Mandel exhibit focuses on daily life (food and religion) and the Goldfarb exhibit focuses on women, health, and beauty in the time of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Dead Sea Scrolls:
Music of Eric Chasalow, Performed by Soprano Tony Arnold
Saturday, Oct. 5, 8 p.m. (pre-concert talk at 7:30 p.m.)
Brandeis University, Slosberg Music Center
The Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble will perform with soprano Tony Arnold. The concert will include the premiere of "Where it Finds Nothing But the Wind," for soprano, flute, guitar, percussion and electronics, by Eric Chasalow. Text from the Dead Sea Scrolls was assembled with the assistance of Professor Marc Brettler. Ticket information will be available soon.
The premiere of "Where it Finds Nothing But the Wind" is sponsored by the Office of the Provost in conjunction with the Dead Sea Scrolls: Life in Ancient Times exhibition hosted by the Museum of Science, with Brandeis University as its educational partner. For more information on this, and other highlights of the fall concert season at Brandeis, visit BrandeisNOW.
Dead Sea Scrolls:
Life in Ancient Times Graduate Symposium
Sunday, Oct. 6
Brandeis University, Mandel Center for the Humanities
Graduate students from throughout the Northeast present on Dead Sea Scrolls, archaeology and ancient Israel. Undergraduate submissions of papers or posters welcome. For more information, please visit the symposium website.
Science Cafe: Imaging and Conservation of Cultural Heritage
Monday, Oct. 7, 6p.m.
Elephant Walk Restaurant
Greg Bearman, MA ’75, PhD ‘76, shares his pioneering work in the use of spectral imaging to study some of the world's most important artifacts, including Dead Sea Scrolls, Machu Picchu and Mona Lisa.
Physics Department Colloquium
Tuesday, Oct. 8, 4 p.m.
Brandeis University, Abelson Building, Room 131
Greg Bearman, MA ’75, PhD ‘76, will speak about the application of electronic and spectral imaging to archaeology, particularly the Dead Sea Scrolls.
"Holy Botany: Plants in the Bible"
Wednesday, Oct. 9, 1 p.m., Lown 315
An exploration of the Eastern Mediterranean agro-ecosystem. Learn how a botanist tries to identify which plant Jesus is referring to in the Parable of the Mustard Seed; discover the role of hulled durum wheat in agriculture in the biblical world---and more.
Professor Musselman is author of A Dictionary of Bible Plants (2011) and Figs, Dates, Laurel, and Myrrh: Plants of the Bible and the Quran (2007). For questions or additional information: brooten@brandeis.edu