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What Are We Learning from the Dead Sea Scrolls Today?
7 p.m. Tuesday April 13, 2010
It is now over sixty years since the finding of what has been described as "the greatest manuscript discovery of modern times," the Dead Sea Scrolls.
These ancient Jewish manuscripts have generated immense interest both from scholars and from the general public. They
contain the earliest copies of the books of the Hebrew Bible, plus many previously unknown texts from Judaism at the turn of the common era.
Today, all of the nine hundred scrolls -- many of them preserved only in fragments -- have been published and are available for study. However,
there are still many unanswered questions about who wrote these materials, about the site of Qumran where they were found, and about what
they can tell us about early Judaism and early Christianity.
In this lecture, Dr. Machiela and Dr. Schuller will discuss some of the specific texts and new questions that are central to their ongoing research.
Tuesday April 13, 2010
The Hamilton Spectator Auditorium (Map)
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Lecture begins at 7 p.m.
To reserve your seat:
e-mail sciencecity@mcmaster.ca
Or by phone 905-525-9140, extension 24934
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ABOUT THE LECTURERS
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Eileen Schuller has taught in the Department of Religious Studies since 1990. She did her studies at University of Alberta, University of Toronto and Harvard University. She has been involved in the publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls since 1982 and has published the first editions of a number of manuscripts of prayer and psalm texts. Recently (2009) she prepared a re-edition of the large scroll of Thanksgiving Psalms from Cave 1. She has also written extensively on texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls that speak about women.
Daniel Machiela completed his Ph.D. in the Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity program at the University of Notre Dame in 2007, where he studied early Jewish history and the Dead Sea Scrolls. He is now an assistant professor of religious studies at McMaster University. His recent research has focused on the the Aramaic literature from the Scrolls, particularly a scroll called the Genesis Apocryphon (1Q20), of which he recently published a new edition.
Read The Hamilton Spectator Interview with Professor Dan Machiela |
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