hekhal

HEKHAL was created by a group of four(*) people who wish to promote research in the fields of ancient near eastern history and historiography, biblical studies, and archaeology with the long-term aim of increasing both academic and public understanding of the Biblical and ancient Near Eastern world and its texts.

HEKHAL aims to do this through the organisation of events including conferences, seminars, lectures, workshops, web resources and the publication of annual conference proceedings.  Although we are “The Irish Society for the Study of the Ancient Near East”, we are by no means restricting our membership or participation in the society to those residing in Ireland.  If you’re out there and interested, you’re more than welcome to join us and participate in all events.

All upcoming events shall be announced on this website.

(*Hekhal has acquired a fifth founder since parthenogenesis.)

CONFERENCE NEWS

We’re only a few days away from the conference now, and the session schedules and abstracts are posted on this website. Please check the schedule carefully.  While we will do our best to avoid the possibility, there may have to be some further minor tweaks to the sessions during or just before the weekend of the conference.

Dublin Accommodation

For people who have not yet booked their accommodation – there are still rooms available at the conference location, to which there is a link on the “CONFERENCE” page, right down at the bottom.  There are already quite a few conference attendees booked to stay there, including myself (Lidia Matassa).  Should be fun!