Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Prof. Candida Moss draws from her research in her recent book, God’s Ghostwriters, to reveal how enslaved scribes, copyists, and curators were essential to the production, preservation, and dissemination of the texts we now regard as sacred or canonical.

Published 08/14/2025 — filed under: library-event Located in Events

Dr. Leah Mascia presents on the ways in which funerary customs of Roman Egypt adapted to a changing multicultural landscape while remaining firmly embedded in the Pharaonic tradition.

Published 06/03/2025 — filed under: library-event Located in Events

Prof. Candida Moss spoke about her research into enslaved labor and the creation, transmission, and preservation of biblical literature over the Roman period to a packed room at ISAW on Oct. 7, 2025.

Published 10/08/2025 — filed under: library-event Located in Library ISAW Library Blog

This lecture is the second in the ISAW Libraries events series for the 2024-2025 academic year. It will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Sabine Huebner shares some of her recent work on the ancient environment, exploring how the Nile's floods shaped Egypt’s agriculture, society, and political stability, highlighting the incredible adaptability of the Egyptian people to environmental changes over centuries. She will reveal how a blend of climate change, particularly in the Nile flooding, and political choices shaped agricultural output, tax policies, and overall economy of Egypt under Roman rule.

Published 08/19/2024 — filed under: library-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2024-2025

Maria Doerfler (Yale University; ISAW Visiting Research Scholar 2014-15) returns to ISAW to discuss wealth and death in late antique Syria, part of her forthcoming monograph from the Cambridge University Press, Death and Afterlife in Syriac Christianity: Social Identity and Emotional Communities.

Published 03/12/2025 — filed under: library-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2024-2025

The ISAW Library publishes new interactive, map-based visualization of its collection based on a newly redesigned database of bibliographic items tagged with Pleiades IDs, linked open data URIs for ancient places. In addition to the new visualization, the ISAW Library is also publishing the underlying data set, which now comprises over 4,000 curated bibliographic records in ancient studies, as well as the machine-learning algorithm that programmatically performs the initial assignment of Pleiades IDs to raw bibliographic records.

Published 03/02/2021 — filed under: policy, website, library-event Located in Library ISAW Library Blog

The ISAW Library and ISAW Digital Programs will host second annual LAWDNY Digital Antiquity Research Workshop at ISAW on Dec. 2, 2016.

Published 11/18/2016 — filed under: library-event Located in ISAW News Blog

This lecture is the third in the ISAW Libraries events series for the 2024-2025 academic year. It will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Sarah Bond will share some of her research from her recently published book Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire (Yale University Press), exploring how Roman workers used strikes, boycotts, riots, and rebellion to get their voices—and their labor—acknowledged.

Published 09/12/2024 — filed under: library-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2024-2025

The Digital Programs team of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World is pleased to announce another LAWDNY (Linked Ancient World Data Initiative New York) event: the Digital Antiquity Research Workshop 2016, an opportunity for scholars and scholars-in-training to present work in progress concerning digital approaches to the study of antiquity.

Published 12/12/2016 — filed under: library-event Located in Library Library Events

The Library and the Digital Programs team of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World continue the work of the Linked Ancient World Data Initiative (LAWDI) by organizing an informal coffee house for New York metro area scholars and scholars-in-training with an interest in digital approaches to the study of antiquity. Click on the event link to read more about the program and speakers.

Published 09/04/2015 — filed under: library-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2015-2016

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