For more information please contact Hayim Lapin (HL49@umail.umd.edu) directly. The Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park (in conjunction with the departments of History and Classics) is pleased to announce the following conference. The conference is free and open to the public. Religious and Ethnic Communities in Later Roman Palestine University of Maryland at College Park Sunday March 10, 1996 Art-Sociology Building, 2203 Keynote Address 10:00-11:00 AM The Greek Moses: Confusion of Ethnic and Cultural Components in Later Roman and Early Byzantine Palestine Glen W. Bowersock Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Session I: Communities and their Boundaries 11:00 AM-12:45 PM Session Chair: Frederick W. Knobloch Jewish Studies Program, University of Maryland at College Park The Samaritans in Roman-Byzantine Palestine: Some Misapprehensions Leah Di Segni Institute for Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Displaced Self-Perceptions: The Deployment of Minim and Romans in Rabbinic Literature Christine E. Hayes Princeton University The Social World of Christian Jews and Jewish Christians Anthony J. Saldarini Boston College Break: 12:45-2:00 PM Session II: The Archaeology of Judaism in Roman Palestine 2:00 -3:45 PM Session Chair: Marie Spiro Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland at College Park Chancel Screens in Late Antique Synagogues in the Land of Israel: A Genizah Source Steven Fine Baltimore Hebrew University Sepphoris in Late Antiquity: Methodological Reflections on the Archaeological Finds from the Domestic Quarter Leonard Victor Rutgers Research Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences Greco-Roman Influences on the Architecture of the Jewish City in Roman Palestine Zeev Weiss Harvard University/Institute for Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Session III: Transitions in Late Antiquity 4:00-5:45 PM Session Chair: Arthur M. Eckstein Department History, University of Maryland at College Park Identity in the Late Antique City: The Case of Caesarea Kenneth G. Holum University of Maryland at College Park Jews and Christians in a Late Roman Cemetery at Beth Guvrin Jodi Magness Tufts University (presenting a project jointly authored with Gideon Avni, Israel Antiquities Authority) The Fate of Pagan Cult Places in Palestine, With Particular Emphasis on the Archaeological Evidence from Bet Shean (Scythopolis) Yoram Tsafrir Institute for Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hayim Lapin Department of History University of Maryland at College Park 2115 Francis Scott Key Hall College Park MD 20742-7315 301 405 4296