From: owner-anenews-digest@ (ANEnews Digest) To: anenews-digest Subject: ANEnews Digest V1998 #52 Reply-To: Sender: owner-anenews-digest@ Errors-To: owner-anenews-digest@ Precedence: bulk ANEnews Digest Tuesday, March 24 1998 Volume 1998 : Number 052 anenews The Egyptian Society of South Africa anenews Glanville Lecture anenews Egyptology position filled at Penn State anenews Michael Weitzman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:04:56 -0600 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews The Egyptian Society of South Africa Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: Keith Grenville The Egyptian Society of South Africa (1) aims to foster an appreciation of the history and culture of Ancient Egypt in particular, also its neighbouring societies and civilizations, and modern Egypt. (2) To promote and encourage the work of the South African Cultural History Museum with regard to the Egyptian collection.] (3) To promote dialogue and co-operation with other societies and institutions with similar interests. (4) To organize no less than 10 meetings annually comprising lectures, video presentations, films, visits to relevant places. A quarterly newsletter SHEMU is distributed to members. The next meeting of THE EGYPTIAN SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA is on Tuesday 24th March 1998 at 19.30 Lecture Theatre - St. George's Grammar School, Richmond Road, Mowbray, Cape Town Illustrated lecture by Angus McBride "Further Hieroglyphs" - -- Keith Grenville The Egyptian Society of South Africa PO Box 232, Plumstead, Cape Town, 7801 Telephone/Fax 27 (021) 72 9471 Cell Phone 083 441 0003 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 10:23:58 -0600 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews Glanville Lecture Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reply-To: "Dr P. Wilson" The Fitzwilliam Museum announces that the Stephen Glanville Memorial Lecture this year will be given by Dr Mark Lehner, entitled 'The Lost City of the Pyramids: Excavations at Giza'. It will be held on Saturday, May 9th, in Mill Lane lecture theatre 3, Cambridge (England), at 2.30pm. Admission is free, but by ticket which can be obtained by sending a stamped addressed envelope to: Dr Eleni Vassilika, Department of Antiquities, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge CB2 1RB (UK). We look forward to meeting you and the Fitzwilliam Museum is open all day on Saturdays and on Sunday afternoon if you want to make a weekend of it ! Dr Penny Wilson Department of Antiquities, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge CB2 1RB Cambridge 01223 332900 pw10004@cam.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 12:09:26 -0600 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews Egyptology position filled at Penn State Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: Linda B. Bregstein The Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Penn State University is very pleased to announce that Dr. Donald B. Redford will join our department in fall, 1998, as Professor of Egyptology (with a joint appointment in History). ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 14:55:17 -0600 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews Michael Weitzman From Matthew Morgenstern (via Jack Sasson) comes the following sad news. ================================================================ I am sorry to report the unexpected and untimely death of Dr. Michael Weitzman, lecturer in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University College, London, at the age of 51. Dr. Weitzman was an expert in the Syriac Bible, and had recently completed an introduction to the Peshitta that is to be published in the summer by Cambridge University Press. At the University, he taught Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac and Ugaritic, and was also well acquainted with classical languages and Akkadian. An extremely modest man, he exuded an almost child-like enthusiasm for his subject, and suffered from no academic pretensions, even at the cost of his own promotion. His death is a tragic loss to the teaching of Semitic studies in London, and, even more so, to the family and friends who loved him. ------------------------------ End of ANEnews Digest V1998 #52 ******************************* Back issues are available on the Oriental Institute World-Wide Web (WWW) site at: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/ANE/OI_ANE.html