Jona Lendering
Jona Lendering read history at Leiden University (MA 1993), specialized in Mediterranean culture at the Amsterdam Free University (MA 1996), and worked at excavations in Holland (Riethoven) and Greece (Halos). After teaching historical theory and ancient history at the Free University for several years, he was one of the founders of a school for history teaching, Livius Onderwijs. Born in Amsterdam, it has now spread to auxiliary locations in Bussum, Dronten, Gouda, Haarlem, Hoorn, Schagen, Zaanstad, and Zoetermeer. As of 2013, Livius Onderwijs has eight teachers, about 500-600 students a year, and offers tours to countries like Italy, Turkey, Iran, and Lebanon. The field trips help to etch into the students' minds some of what they've learned at the school.
Because history is for a large part telling a story, something you do best in your own language, Lendering prefers to publish in Dutch journals. However, he has contributed to the Bryn Mawr Classical Review and Ancient Warfare, while he is the founder of Ancient History Magazine. He is also the publisher and editor of the on-line publication of the Babylonian Chronicles of the Hellenistic Period, a set of important cuneiform sources for the history of the Seleucid and Parthian Near East, transcribed, translated and commented on by Bert van der Spek of the Free University Amsterdam and Irving Finkel of the British Museum. A publication as book is in preparation.
Lendering has written several books and maintains a blog in Dutch. He is the author of several books, including Edge of Empire and Consensus and Crises. For the Livius website, which has received several awards, he collaborates closely with Bill Thayer of LacusCurtius. Lendering is also the webmaster of two daily blogs, the MainzerBeobachter.com and Grondslagen.net.
There are 9380 items in Jona Lendering:
Yemen, Relief of a bird eating grapes |
Yemenite relief of a woman and a man, seated on dromedaries, meeting at a well |
Tombstone of Iglum, son of Sa'adillat |
Yemen, Woman's head |
Yerevan, Matenadaran
Museum with ancient Armenian manuscripts, mostly Medieval. There are 4 items in Yerevan, Matenadaran: …Yerevan, Museum of Erebuni
Small, nice museum with finds from various archaeological excavations in modern Yerevan. There are 13 items in Yerevan, Museum of Erebuni: …Yerevan, Shengavit Exhibition Room
One-room exhibition of various finds from the Shengavit excavations (Chalcolithic and Bronze Age). There are 2 items in Yerevan, Shengavit Exhibition Room: …Yerevan, State Museum of Armenian History
Situated in center of Yerevan, Armenia's national historical museum has a very large collection, documenting Prehistory, Bronze Age, Iron Age (Urartu), the Hellenistic Age (a/o Artaxata), the brief Roman occupation, and the Armenian kingdoms (e.g., Ani). …
Yerevan, Urartian idol |
Yerevan, Urartian Mortar and Pestle |
Yerevan, Urartian Pottery |
Yohanan ben Zakkai
Yohanan ben Zakkai (second half first century CE): rabbi, one of the founders of rabbinical Judaism. Modern reconstruction of an ancient…