9:30 Greetings
Rivka Tuval-Mashiach, Vice President for International Affairs and the Third Mission
Michael Avioz, Dean, Faculty of Jewish Studies
Arnon Atzmon, Head of the Multidisciplinary Department of Jewish Studies
10:30-12:40 Temple Life in the Prophecies of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi
CHAIR: Dalit Rom-Shiloni
Collaborators or Competitors? Differences and Similarities Regarding Temple Worship in Haggai and Zechariah 1–8
Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
Recovering the Past in a New Imperial Present: Temple Life in Malachi
Jeffrey Stackert
A Tale of Two Houses: From Haggai’s ‘This House’ to Ezra’s ‘First House'
Hillel Mali
12:45-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:15 Jerusalem: A Temple City in Archaeology and Text
Persian Period Jerusalem in Light of Recent Excavations at Giv‘ati Parking Lot
Yuval Gadot and Yiftah Shalev
The Role of Ordinary Priests in Nehemiah’s Reform
Eyal Regev
15:30-17:45 Temple and Ideology
Changes in Attitudes to the Jerusalem Temple in Isaiah 40–66
Shawn-Zelig Aster
Aramaic influence in Isaiah 40–48
Robert Holmstedt
Did the Jerusalem Temple Follow a 364-day Calendar in the Persian Period?
Jonathan Ben-Dov
What Did the Chronicler Do to Solomon’s Temple?
Yigal Levin