Adath Shalom Congregation Adult Education event on ZOOM> The Temple Mount / Noble Sanctuary has a complicated and contentious history. This Jerusalem site sacred to both Jews and Muslims has long been a flashpoint for ongoing wars. Professor Shawna Dolansky will review its religious and political history in order to better understand its centrality as a rallying cry in Jerusalem's fraught landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries.
An Associate Professor at Cerleton University, Shawna specializes in Biblical Studies, with a focus on the history and religions of Israel and the ancient Near East and the development of the Hebrew Bible. Her research incorporates the tools of literary criticism, comparative religion, historical study, anthropology, archaeology, political science and classics in order to understand the worlds of the original authors and audiences of the biblical texts, and the subsequent development of Judaism and Christianity out of ancient Israelite religious beliefs and practices.
The recipient of numerous teaching and research awards, Professor Dolansky is currently working with SSHRC support on a large-scale website called Women of the Ancient World (WOAWhistory.com). She is on the editorial board for Near Eastern Archaeology, and in addition to books and journal articles is a public scholar with a variety of accessible published articles .