Blog about the Eastern Roman Empire or the Christian Byzantine Empire. Also about the archaeologist and historian Dr. Bernard Mulholland. Bernard is author of the novel Nazareth Quest, which is an intense thriller set in Israel. He has also published Ratio Analysis of Financial KPI in the Higher Education Sector, The Early Byzantine Christian Church, Early Byzantine Ireland, and Navan Fort Ireland. He is also author of The Man From MENSA, which is a history of this iconic high-IQ society.
Travel Grants Available – The 2023 call for applications to the Diamond Jubilee Travel Grant from the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society
We are a small cultural and non-political charity, embracing all peoples and religions. Our mission is to make accessible the rich and fascinating archaeology of Israel and the Levant in all periods and in its historical geographical, religious and intellectual context. We focus especially on supporting, promoting and raising awareness of recent research and discovery through lectures and other events, and through our academic journal Strata.
To mark the society’s Diamond Jubilee, we are offering a number of studentships worth £3,000 each to support a student’s participation for four weeks (16 July – 11 August 2023) on the excavation of Tel Azekah : https://azekah.org. The excavation is directed by Professor Oded Lipschits (Tel Aviv University), Professor Manfred Oeming (Heidelberg University) and Professor Sabine Kleinman (Tübingen University).
The studentship will cover travel to Israel, board and lodging, including all costs associated with registration for the excavation. Students will have the opportunity to work on the dig and attend lectures on archaeology while staying on Kibbutz Netiv Ha-Lamed-He close to the site, as well as free time at the weekends to travel within Israel or to stay in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv.
Applications are welcome from undergraduate and postgraduate students, including PhD students, in the fields of archaeology, ancient history, theology and religious studies and other relevant disciplines.
I should be very grateful if you could encourage suitable students to consider these grants and also if you would pass on the information and the attached flier to other colleagues.
Dr. Bernard Mulholland is a Byzantinist, archaeologist, historian and Patristics scholar with a Ph.D. in history (QUB, 2012).
Bernard's publications include:
Fiction:
Bernard Mulholland, Nazareth Quest (2022).
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=NfWkEAAAQBAJ&pli=1
https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6445327630
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B92V9VYF
Non-fiction:
Bernard Mulholland, The man from MENSA - 1 of 600: Mensa research (2016).
https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6445329346
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=gfWkEAAAQBAJ
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1535307269
---, The man from MENSA - 1 of the 600: Politics 1990-1995 (2016).
https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6445329553
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=j_WkEAAAQBAJ
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1535324376
---, Ratio analysis of financial KPI in the Higher Education sector: a case study (2018).
https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6445320705
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=YfWkEAAAQBAJ
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MB99NWP
---, Early Byzantine Ireland: a survey of the archaeological evidence (2021).
https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6445354716
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=ChilEAAAQBAJ
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MG1YZ8W
---, Navan Fort, Ireland: archaeological and palaeoecological analysis (2021).
https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6445397300
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=PhilEAAAQBAJ
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MYXX9GM
---, The Early Byzantine Christian Church (Oxford, 2014).
https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-early-byzantine-christian-church/id1023114473
---, 'Identification of Early Byzantine Constantinopolitan, Syrian, and Roman church plans in the Levant and some possible consequences', Patristic Studies in the twenty-first century: proceedings of an international conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the International Association of Patristic Studies, ed. Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Theodore de Bruyn and Carol Harrison (Turnhout, 2015), 597-633.
https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/J.BAIEP.5.107536
Mulholland, B. (2021). 'Can archaeology inform the climate change debate?' Academia Letters, Article4385. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL4385
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The Man From MENSA 