Ascetical Reading at Mar Behnam Monastery 10 April 2018 3:30 pm Venue: HMML Reading Room Categories: Lecture Tags: Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, HMML, Iraq, resident scholars Resident Scholar Dr. Robert Kitchen will describe how the practice of ‘ascetical reading’ enables readers to experience texts on a deeper level, drawing on his scholarship of the digitized library from Mar Behnam Monastery near Mosul, Iraq.