Research news
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Growing number of Muslim pilgrims in Europe
June 15, 2018 4:21 PM
Pilgrimages have become more popular all over the world in recent years. New pilgrimage sites are emerging and in Europe Muslims and Christians are visiting each other’s pilgrimage sites.
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Small coin, big politics
Dec. 21, 2016 2:59 PM
Situated on the coast of present-day Lebanon, the ancient Phoenician city-state of Sidon was in the middle of the crossfire between the Persians, Greeks and Egyptians. A small lump of metal became an important part of their political and economic balancing act.
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The Nag Hammadi Codices were made by monks
Jan. 12, 2016 12:37 PM
The provenance of the Nag Hammadi Codices has been a point of contention among scholars ever since they were discovered in Upper Egypt in 1945. A new book strongly supports the hypothesis that they were manufactured and read by Christian monks in the fourth and fifth centuries.
Research events
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Trial lecture Paula Jean Tutty
Oct. 11, 2019 10:15 AM
Title to be announced
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Public defence: Paula Jean Tutty
Oct. 11, 2019 12:00 PM
Paula Jean Tutty will defend her doctoral dissertation: "The Monks of the Nag Hammadi Codices: Contextualising a Fourth Century Monastic Community" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD) at the Faculty of Theology.
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"Digital Humanities and Textual Scholarship"
Oct. 28, 2019 9:00 AM
A seminar for PhD students within the fields of the Humanities, Law and Theology. The seminar is free of charge, and travel expenses, will be covered.