Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology

Get a sneak peak of an upcoming lecture in our New Perspectives on Ancient Nubia lecture series. Dr. Kevin Burrell will present on Cushites in the Hebrew Bible next spring but you can read more about it in ANE Today. http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2020/12/cushites-hebrew-bible

The third lecture in our Ancient Nubia series is next Thursday (Dec 10) at 12pm (PST)! Dr. Aaron de Souza will present "More than Kush: Capturing the Complexity and Diversity of Ancient Nubia! http://bit.ly/arf-channel

Happy Thanksgiving! Feasting in the ancient world could be associated with religious observances and holidays, but could also play a role in more mundane activities. Israelite feasts held more frequently were often smaller and were hosted by individual households whereas larger feasts involved the entire community and were often sponsored by elite households. Check out our Daily Life digital exhibition to find out what kind of food would have been eaten!

In case you missed our lecture last week, the recording is now available! Watch Dr. Walsh's talk on board games at Kerma and look out for our next talk in December! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33HCUd71Fi4

Happy International Archaeology Day!

Tune in tomorrow at 12pm (PST) for the next lecture in our Ancient Nubia series! Dr. Carl Walsh will present on the social role of board games at Kerma! http://bit.ly/arf-channel

Join us at 12pm PST on October 29 for the first lecture in our new series New perspectives on Ancient Nubia hosted by the Badè Museum in partnership with the Archaeological Research Facility (ARF) at UC Berkeley, Dr. Salim Faraji (California State University, Dominguez Hills) will present The Ascendancy of the Kushite Kingdom of Kerma in the Post Middle Kingdom Era: Revisiting the Second Intermediate Period of Ancient Egypt. Watch live or catch up on recorded lectures on the ARF YouTube channel here: http://bit.ly/arf-channel

Ceramic vessels are the most ubiquitous objects found at Tell en-Nasbeh. Many were undecorated and used in daily life to store water, oils, and food; transport materials; and hold precious goods. Read more about the pottery found at Tell en-Nasbeh in our digital exhibition Daily Life in an Ancient Judean Town!

The Badè Museum in partnership with the Archaeological Research Facility (ARF) at UC Berkeley presents our new series New perspectives on Ancient Nubia. The series brings together a diverse group of scholars whose research explores various aspects of the archaeology, art, and history of ancient Nubia, the region of modern-day southern Egypt to central Sudan. Join us for these lectures, which will run from October 2020 through May 2021, starting October 29th at noon PST. Watch live or catch up on recorded lectures on the ARF YouTube channel here: http://bit.ly/arf-channel

What was daily life like in the ancient world? How was it similar and different from life today? These are the questions addressed in our latest exhibit. This virtual exhibition, titled Daily Life in an Ancient Judean Town, features a selection of objects from the museum’s archaeological collection, offering viewers a glimpse into the lifestyles and culture of those living in the land of Israel in the first millennium BCE. https://storymaps.arcgis.com//0d0e88d8968044128021d71b1ef8

Want to know what we've been up to while working from home? Check out our latest Updates from Home video to learn more about our exciting upcoming virtual programming at the Bade Museum! https://youtu.be/6XxF4KwrSu0

The Badè Museum has more than 200 ceramic lamps in its collection! Check out our new video on a Canaanite saucer lamp, which will be featured in our digital exhibition Daily Life in an Ancient Judean Town! This upcoming virtual exhibition features a selection of objects from the museum’s archaeological collection. https://www.youtube.com/watch

Shanah Tovah! #FlashbackFriday to our exhibition "To Everything There Is A Season," which featured Naomi Teplow's beautiful ketubot. Rejoice In Thy Festival illustrates the ever-changing flow of the seasons, as marked by the major holidays of the Jewish year. The Bade Museum wishes everyone a happy Rosh Hashanah! https://www.ketubotbynaomi.com/ketu/rejoice-in-thy-festival

The Bade Museum has some exciting fall programming centered on Nubia that we will be announcing soon! To get ready we'll be checking out NubiaFEST 2020 next week! These talks and events are sponsored by the Nubia Initiative and the Union for Nubian Studies. https://nubiafest.unionfornubianstudies.org/

Check out this New York Times article on the remains of a Phoenician shipwreck! https://www.nytimes.com//archaeology-phoenician-israel-sha

Our quest to digitize our collection and make it accessible to the public is ongoing! We're happy to report that earlier this year we submitted another portion of our collection to Open Context. Open Context aims to publish research data on the web, and we are happy to a part of this open-access project! Check it out and let us know your favorite objects! #BadeMuseum #archives #archaeology #TellEnNasbeh #OpenContext https://opencontext.org//B4345F6A-F926-4062-144E-3FBC175CC

Director Aaron Brody's letter to the editor of ANE Today was recently featured on the ASOR blog. Check it out! http://www.asor.org//20/07/brody-letter-to-anetoday-editor

The original article detailing the strontium isotope analysis of Tell el-Dab'a individuals can be found here! https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article

A study conducted by Tell el-Dab'a team members and published in PLOS ONE, suggests that the Hyksos rise to power was not the result of invasion but rather internal control of power. Strontium isotope analysis, which can tell us about past mobility and the origin of an individual or group, indicates the Hyksos were not from a unified origin place but rather came from a variety of places within the Levant, moved to Egypt during the Middle Kingdom, and gradually rose to power. https://www.sciencemag.org//invasion-ancient-egypt-may-hav

Have you binged (...seen) the new season of Queer Eye yet? Well we have, and we were so excited to see some familiar faces of the Bade featured in the first episode of the season. This new season features the work of the Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries project together with some of the Proclaim members such as Bishop Guy Erwin and Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer. This remarkable group was begun in the early 1990s when two San Francisco congregations extended calls to openly gay and l...esbian pastors, in violation of church policy. Last spring, in partnership with Pacific School of Religion’s Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies, the Bade Museum had the opportunity to co-host an exhibition revolving around the stories of individuals whose seminary training and ordained ministries in the Lutheran tradition have been supported by Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries. The exhibition featured original artwork by Katy Miles-Wallace (Queer Saints Collection), Anna Gordy (42 Layers) and Mark Erson (When Will I Be Loved?). To learn more about this incredible project and the many individuals who have realized their calls through the support of ELM check out their website: https://www.elm.org/. ELM has also created a discussion guide for the QueerEye episode which can be found here: https://www.elm.org/2020/06/04/queereye-discussion-guide/. We look forward to working again with CGLS in the future! Poster based on original artwork by Katy Miles-Wallace. #ExtraordinaryLutheranMinistries @CLGS.org @pacificschoolofreligion @QueerEye