Updated on 2024/03/27

 
WATANABE Hiroaki
 
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Affiliation
Institute of Liberal Arts Department of Foreign Languages
Job
Professor
External link

Research Interests

  • Analysis of English conversation

  • Fluency in English

  • E-learning

  • Archaeology

  • Ancient Palestine

  • Ancient Israel

  • Biblical Archaeology

  • English education

Research Areas

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Archaeology

Undergraduate Education

  • 1989.03   Meiji University   Faculty of Literature   Graduated   Japan

Post Graduate Education

  • 2002.05   University of Arizona   Department of Near Eastern Studies   Doctoral Program   Completed   United States

Degree

  • University of Arizona  -  Ph.D.   2002.05

Biography in Kyutech

  • 2017.04
     

    Kyushu Institute of Technology   Institute of Liberal Arts   Department of Foreign Languages   Professor  

  • 2017.04
     

    Kyushu Institute of Technology   Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering   Professor  

  • 2016.04
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    2017.03
     

    Kyushu Institute of Technology   Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering   Associate Professor  

  • 2015.09
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    2017.03
     

    Kyushu Institute of Technology   Education Advancement Promotion Committee   Learning & Teaching Center  

Biography before Kyutech

  • 2015.04 - 2015.08   Baiko Gakuin University   Specially Appointed Professor   Japan

  • 2009.04 - 2015.03   Baiko Gakuin University   Japan

  • 2005.04 - 2009.03   Baiko Gakuin University   Lecturer   Japan

Academic Society Memberships

  • 2003.04   日本オリエント学会   Japan

  • 2003.06   (ASOR) The American Society of Overseas Research (previous name: The American Schools of Oriental Research   United States

  • 2003.04   西アジア考古学会   Japan

  • 2016.03   JALT (The Japan Association For Language Teaching)   Japan

  • 2006.09   日本リメディアル教育学会   Japan

Papers

  • Teacher Recommendations for Writing Programs in Japanese Universities Reviewed International journal

    Robert W. Long III, and Hiroaki Watanabe

    International Journal of Information and Education Technology   13 ( 4 )   650 - 657   2023.04

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    Authorship：Last author,　Corresponding author   Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)

    DOI： 10.18178/ijiet.2023.13.4.1849

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    Other Link： http://www.ijiet.org/vol13/IJIET-V13N4-1849.pdf

  • Adapting e-Learning for Japanese EFL Students Reviewed International journal

    Robert W. Long III and Hiroaki Watanabe

    International Journal of Information and Education Technology   12 ( 4 )   299 - 304   2022.04

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    Authorship：Corresponding author   Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)

    DOI： 10.18178/ijiet.2022.12.4.1618

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    Other Link： http://www.ijiet.org/vol12/1618-ED102.pdf

  • King Solomon "Resurrected": Ancient Israel during 10th and 9th Century B.C.E. Invited

    Hiroaki Watanabe

    Archaeology of Sendanrin II: Feschcrift presented to Kenji Ohtake ( Feschcrift of Kenji Ohtake Publication Society )   589 - 594   2022.12

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    Authorship：Lead author,　Corresponding author   Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (other academic)

  • Back to the Drawing Board: A Longitudinal Study of Fossilized Errors Reviewed International journal

    Robert Long, Hiroaki Watanabe

    The IAFOR International Conference on Education – Hawaii 2021 Official Conference Proceedings ( The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) )   1 - 16   2021.03

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    United States of America   Honolulu, Hawaii   2021.01.06  -  2021.01.10

    The problem of fossilized errors has been a problematic issue with EFL researchers because it shows that traditional methods of instruction are not effective. Fossilized errors were thus examined with university-level first-year Japanese EFL students to better understand the context in which they are occurring and their frequency over the course of an academic year. Data was collected from two corpora, the Monologic and Dialogic Corpus (MDC) 2019, which has 20,368 words, and 42 subjects, and the second corpus MDC2020, which has 16,997 words and 29 participants. Errors in the 2019/2020 corpora were identified and then coded for frequency; results showed the following fossilized errors: articles deletions (92/94), prepositions (39/43) plurals (54/55), subject-verb agreement (85/46), and general wording (60/69). However, in looking at clauses with errors/100 words, there were 5.29 errors in the 2019 corpus, whereas,in the 2020 corpus, there was a slight improvement of 3.35 errors/100 words, indicating that marginal progress was made. These results show many of these errors are interlingual and that students are unaware of their errors that they are making in their spontaneous speech. Alternative methods of instruction are thus needed in EFL education to highlight awareness and self-editing skills.

    DOI： 10.22492/issn.2189-1036.2021.13

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    Other Link： http://25qt511nswfi49iayd31ch80-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/papers/iicehawaii2021/IICEHawaii2021_59166.pdf

  • The Mirage of Progress? A Longitudinal Study of Japanese Students’ L2 Oral Grammar Reviewed

    Robert Long, Hiroaki Watanabe

    The Language Teacher ( The Japan Association for Language Teaching )   45 ( 2 )   9 - 16   2021.03

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    This study examines the grammatical errors in Japanese university students’ dialogues over an academic year. The L2 interactions of 15 Japanese speakers were taken from the JUSFC2018 corpus (April/May 2018) and the JUSFC2019 corpus (January/February 2019). The corpora were based on a self-introduction monologue and a three-question dialogue; however, this study examines the grammatical accuracy found in the dialogues. Research questions focused on a possible significant difference in grammatical accuracy from the first interview session in 2018 and the second one the following year, specifically regarding errors in clauses per 100 words, the frequency of global errors and local errors, and the five most frequent kinds of errors. Results showed that error-free clauses/100 words decreased slightly from 8.78 clauses to 7.89, while clauses with errors/100 words increased by nearly one clause, from 3.16 to 4.05 clauses. Global errors showed a remarkable decline from 22 to 15, but local errors increased from 76 to 112. A t-test confirmed there was not significant difference between the two speech corpora in regard to global and local errors. The five most frequent errors were (a) lexical phrasing (71), (b) article omissions (41), (c) plural errors (19), (d) preposition omissions (19), and (e) verb usage (9). This data highlights the difficulty in having students self-edit themselves.

    DOI： 10.37546/JALTTLT45.2-2

    Other Link： https://jalt-publications.org/articles/26374-mirage-progress-longitudinal-study-japanese-students%E2%80%99-l2-oral-grammar

  • Is there an Increase in Fluency over Levels of Proficiency? A Study of English L2 Usage of Japanese University Students Reviewed International journal

    Hiroaki Watanabe and RobertW. Long III

    International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences   5 ( 6 )   215 - 223   2019.12

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    Oral fluency is one of the more difficult variables to track and to measure in L2 speech. This paper reports onan empirical study to identify how fluency in both monologues and dialogues changes over three ranges of proficiencyas marked by the TOEIC standardized test. Twenty-seven Japanese students were asked to give a self-introductionmonologue, which was then followed by a three-question dialogue. Based on the TOEIC scores of these participants,three groups were formed, with the first group having scores that ranged from 150 to 370, the second from 371 to 570,and the third from 571 to 770. The interactions were videotaped and transcribed with the transcriptions making up theJapanese University Student Fluency Corpus (JUSFC2018), which has 23,539 words. Research questions focused onsignificant differences among the three groups concerning the variables of monologue speaking time, dialogue speakingtime, total speaking time, articulation rate, speaking rate, and the number of words spoken, and mean length runs.Results showed that for the first two proficiency groups monologue speaking time, speaking rates, and the number ofwords spoken showed significant differences, whereas in comparing the second and third proficiency groups, no signifi-cant differences were found. Furthermore, fluency showed a decrease on all variables with the highest proficiency group.

    DOI： 10.20469/ijhss.5.20001-6

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    Other Link： https://kkgpublications.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ijhss.5.20001-6.pdf

  • A Longitudinal Study of Japanese Students' L2 Oral Grammar. Reviewed International journal

    The Asian Conference of Liberal Arts 2019 Official Conference Proceedings (ACLA2019)   17 - 26   2019.11

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    Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings)

    Hong Kong   2019.11.08  -  2019.11.10

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  • A Cold War Between the Genders: Investigating Attitudes of Japanese University Students Reviewed International journal

    Robert W. Long and Hiroaki Watanabe

    Conference of the International Journal of Arts & Sciences   11 ( 02 )   1 - 16   2018.12

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    Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings)

    Hungary   Budapest   2018.07.24  -  2018.07.27

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    Other Link： http://universitypublications.net/proceedings/1102/pdf/B8T107.pdf

  • The conflicts of civilizations in ancient Palestine in light of Biblical Archaeology Invited Reviewed

    Hiroaki Watanabe

    Civilization Studies in Kyushu   12   47 - 55   2018.08

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  • General Systems Theory in Archaeology: A Retrospect

    Hiroaki Watanabe

    Baiko Studies in Language and Culture   ( 6 )   107 - 121   2015.03

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  • The Collapse of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Period And Lime Plaster Production

    ( 5 )   76 - 84   2014.03

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  • Cypriot Pottery in Shimonoseki City Art Museum Invited

    Hiroaki Watanabe

    Bulletin of Shimonoseki City Art Museum ( Shimonoseki City Art Museum )   ( 14 )   1 - 13   2013.12

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  • The Neo-Assyrian Empire: Its Military and Political Policies against Ancient Palestine

    Hiroaki Watanabe

    Baiko Studies in Language and Culture   ( 4 )   67 - 85   2013.03

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  • Evaluating Competing Hypotheses with Bayes' Theorem: Qumran as a Case Study

    Hiroaki Watanabe

    Bulletin of Baiko Gakuin University ( Baiko Gakuin University )   ( 46 )   39 - 63   2013.01

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  • Unresolved Issue of Archaeology: Can there be Secure Knowledge of the Past?

    Hiroaki Watanabe

    Baiko Studies in Language and Culture   ( 3 )   72 - 82   2012.03

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  • Destruction of Jerusalem 70 C.E.

    ( 45 )   35 - 50   2012.01

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  • Egyptian Residency Remains at Gezer Invited

    Hiroaki Watanabe

    Archaeology of Sendanrin ( Sanshudo )   739 - 746   2011.08

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  • Excavations at Samaria

    Hiroaki Watanabe

    ( 2 )   70 - 78   2011.03

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  • The Emergence of Israel in Canaan

    Hiroaki Watanabe

    Bulletin of Baiko Gakuin University ( Baiko Gakuin University )   ( 44 )   36 - 48   2011.01

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  • Rehoboam and His Fortified Cities Invited

    Hiroaki Watanabe

    Baiko Studies in Language and Culture ( The Society for the Study of International Languages and Cultures of Baiko Gakuin University )   ( 1 )   77 - 91   2010.03

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  • Research Design: The Impact of the New Archaeology on Palestinian Archaeology

    Hiroaki Watanabe

    Bulletin of Baiko Gakuin University ( Baiko Gakuin University )   ( 43 )   20 - 31   2010.01

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  • Burial Customs during Chalcolithic Palestine

    Hiroaki Watanabe

    Bulletin of Baiko Gakuin University   ( 42 )   90 - 102   2009.01

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  • Radiocarbon Dating and Egyptian Chronology: Can C-14 Dating Contribute to the Chronology? Invited

    Hiroaki Watanabe

    Bulletin of Baiko Gakuin University ( Baiko Gakuin University )   ( 41 )   60 - 66   2008.01

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  • Qumran: What was the Nature of the Settlement?

    Hiroaki Watanabe

    Bulletin of Baiko Gakuin University   ( 40 )   51 - 63   2007.01

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  • Women in Renaissance Itary : Their Social Situation and Patronage (jointly worked)

    Watanabe Hiroaki, Watanabe Yuko

    Bulletin of Baiko Gakuin University   40   1 - 15   2007.01

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  • The Syro-Ephraimite War and its Implications

    Hiroaki Watanabe

    Bulletin of Baiko Gakuin University, Baiko Gakuin Women's Junior College   ( 39 )   37 - 46   2006.01

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  • The Ethnicity of Philistines in Biblical Archaeology Invited

    Hiroaki Watanabe

    Archaeology in the New Century   1047 - 1054   2003.05

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  • Current State of Palestinian Archaeology Invited Reviewed

    Hiroaki Watanabe

    The Archaeological Journal   ( 418 )   43 - 47   1997.06

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    Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)

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Publications (Books)

  • From the Hall of Tyrannus: All Asia Heard

    Hiroaki Watanabe（Sole translator）

    2008.04  （ ISBN:978-4-9252-0508-5 ）

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    Language：Japanese

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Bible

    Hiroaki Watanabe（Sole translator）

    2004.11  （ ISBN:978-4-8934-6876-5 ）

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    Language：Japanese

Conference Prsentations (Oral, Poster)

  • Teacher Recommendations for Writing Programs in Japanese Universities

    2022 3rd Asia Education Technology Symposium (AETS 2022)  2022.09 

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    Event date： 2022.09.03 - 2022.09.05   Language：English   Country：Japan  

    Other Link： http://www.aets.net/index.html

  • An Innovative Method of Teaching Grammar and its Impact on Standardized Test Scores

    5th International Conference on Teaching, Learning, and Education (ICTLE) July 8-10, 2022  2022.07 

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    Event date： 2022.07.08 - 2022.07.10   Language：English   Country：Switzerland  

    Other Link： https://www.ictle.com/past-speakers/

  • Adapting E-Learning for Japanese EFL Students

    Robert W. Long III, Hiroaki Watanabe

    2021 5th International Conference on Education and Distance Learning (ICEDL 2021)  International Journal of Learning and Teaching

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    Event date： 2021.07.21 - 2021.07.23   Language：English  

  • Back to the Drawing Board: A Longitudinal Study of Fossilized Errors.

    Robert Long, Hiroaki Watanabe

    The 6th IAFOR International Conference on Education - Hawaii (IICE Hawaii2021)  2021 IAFOR Hawaii

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    Event date： 2021.01.06 - 2021.01.10   Language：English  

  • A Longitudinal Study Japanese Students' L2 Oral Grammar. Invited

    The Asian Conference on the Liberal Arts 2019 (ACLA2019) 

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    Event date： 2019.11.08 - 2019.11.10   Language：English  

  • Gains and Losses in Fluency Over an Academic Year: A Longitudinal Study of Japanese Students’ L2 Invited

    Robert Long, Hiroaki Watanabe

    21st ICTEL2019 International conference on Teaching, Education & Learning (Prague, The Czech Republic)  Eurasia Research Organization

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    Event date： 2019.10   Language：English  

    As teachers we often assume that our students are making progress, if not tremendous progress from our instruction and materials; this longitudinal study examines the reality of how students’ L2 fluency changes over an academic year. In
    April and May 2018, 23 Japanese students gave a self-introduction monologue that was followed with a three-question dialogue, which was repeated again in early 2019. L2 interactions by Japanese speakers were based on the JUSFC2018 corpus and the JUSFC2019 corpus. Fluency variables involved monologue and dialogue speaking time, total speaking time, articulation rate, and speaking rates. Acoustic dysfluency variables were micropauses, crosstalk pausing, monologue silence, dialogue silence, percentage of silence, and the length of pauses. Lexical fluency had three variables: mispronounced words, word fragments, and use of L1. Syntactical dysfluency had 6 variables: abandoned sentences, retracing, repetition, mean length runs, number of words, and meaningless syllables. Research questions related to significant differences in fluency and dsyfluency variables, and which variable showed the most and least progress. Descriptive statistics showed mixed results showed with fluency variables showing more cases of increased dysfluency (52 over 49). Acoustic dysfluency also worsened over the year with (61 cases over 40) while lexical and syntactical dysfluency showed marginal improvements. T-tests showed no significance for all variables except for the length of pausing. This data highlights the difficulty of L2 teachers of bringing about significant progress in conversational competency and fluency.

  • Is there an Increase in Fluency over Levels of Proficiency? A Study of English L2 Usage of Japanese University Students Invited

    International Conference on Social Science Innovation, Economics, Education and Culture Studies 

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    Event date： 2019.02.23 - 2019.02.24   Language：English  

  • A Cold War Between the Genders: Investigating Attitudes of Japanese University Students Invited

    Conference of the International Journal of Arts & Sciences 

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    Event date： 2018.07.24 - 2018.07.27   Language：English  

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Lectures

  • 文明の出会い―聖書考古学が解き明かすペリシテ人

    比較文明学会九州部会第60回研究会  2017.03  比較文明学会九州支部

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    Event date： 2017.03.25   Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Special lecture   Venue：西南学院大学　百年館  

    紀元前13～12世紀の古代エジプト文明は、ミケーネ文明に起源をもつ「海の民」ペリシテ人と遭遇した。この時代の古代エジプトの資料と聖書資料、さらに考古資料を精査すると、ペリシテ人の文明は古代イスラエルとも遭遇していたことが明らかになった。

  • 聖書の遺跡を掘る―テル・ゲゼルの発掘―

    梅光学院大学地域文化研究所　第61回研究例会  2007.06 

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    Event date： 2007.06   Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Invited lecture  

Other Research Activities

  • Abstract writing

    2016.01

  • 学術雑誌の査読担当

    2015.09
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    2015.12

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    日本オリエント学会、学会誌『オリエント』の投稿論文を査読

  • Excavation at Tell Qarqur, Syria

    1993.07

  • Excavation at Idalion, Cyprus

    1992.07

  • Excavation at Tel Gezer, Israel

    1990.07

Award for Educational Activities

  • School of Engineering First-Year English Speech Contest 2nd place

    Institute of Liberal Arts   2023.02.17

  • 2021年度工学部1年生英語スピーチコンテスト 3位

    教養教育院   2022.02.14

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    指導学生2名が同点3位となった。

  • 2016年度工学部1年生英語スピーチコンテスト 準優勝

    学習教育センター   2017.02.15

Social activity outside the university

  • 100点アップを目指すTOEIC講座

    Role(s)：Lecturer

    2019.03.23 - 2020.03.22

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    Audience： General

    Type：Seminar, workshop

    十字屋カルチャーセンター（イオンモール八幡東）にてTOEIC対策講座を担当。合計13回実施。

  • 梅光学院生涯学習センター講演　「ラキシュ遺跡（古代イスラエル）の発掘」

    Role(s)：Lecturer

    2010.09

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    Audience： College students,　Graduate students,　Teachers,　General

    Type：Seminar, workshop

  • アヴァンティ・セミナー（北九州）「音読とシャドーイングでTOEIC600点を突破しよう」

    Role(s)：Lecturer

    2010.07

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    Audience： College students,　General

    Type：Visiting lecture

    アヴァンティ社に招かれ、TOEICの出前講義を行った。
    http://www.e-avanti.com/kita/semi/item/17410

  • 梅光学院国際交流セミナー公開講演「古代の国際交流―青銅器時代のパレスチナ―」

    Role(s)：Lecturer

    2010.04

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    Audience： College students,　Teachers,　General

    Type：Seminar, workshop

  • 梅光学院生涯学習センター小倉公開講座講演　「Asherah―古代イスラエル・パレスチナの宗教―」

    Role(s)：Lecturer

    2009.11

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    Audience： General

    Type：Visiting lecture

  • 梅光学院生涯学習センター講演　「聖書に親しむ―聖書考古学から―」

    Role(s)：Lecturer

    2009.09

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    Audience： General

    Type：Seminar, workshop

  • 梅光学院生涯学習講座講師　「聖書に親しむ」などを担当

    Role(s)：Lecturer

    2009.05 - 2013.02

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    Audience： General

    Type：Seminar, workshop

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