The Levantini Podcast

Life and Death in the Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant

September 15, 2020 Foreigncy / David Ilan Episode 36
The Levantini Podcast
Life and Death in the Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant
Show Notes

Professor David Ilan has come back to discuss the Chalcolithic age in the Southern Levant (4500 - 3700 BC) and specifically theories concerning religious beliefs about death and reincarnation. Professor Ilan serves as the Director of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology at the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem and the Director of the Tel Dan excavations. You can read a paper that he co-authored with Professor Yorke Rowan of the University of Chicago, "Deconstructing and Recomposing the Narrative of Spiritual Life in the Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant" here.