This event is hosted by the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins (CSCO) at the School of Divinity.
For those concerned with understanding Jewish society at the start of the first millennium CE, inscriptions provide an invaluable source of evidence. They can (and do) provide information of a type hardly ever found in literary texts from the period.
Thanks to the proliferation of Jewish epigraphic corpora in recent decades and the emergence of epigraphically oriented web sites, we are now in a better position than ever before to access this type of evidence. Exploiting it responsibly, with skill and to the full, however, are different matters altogether.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide help in these areas. Our main focus will be on Jewish inscriptions from the Early Christian period - both those from Judaea and those from key Diaspora communities.
The workshop will be followed by a sandwich lunch in the Senate Room. Dr Williams is also offering to take any interested students to the National Museum of Scotland in the afternoon to look at inscriptions.
