Celebration for the Publication of Outside the Bible

Yeshiva University & The Jewish Publication Society invite you to a special Hanukkah event celebrating the publication of a major work of Jewish scholarship

Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture

Edited by Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel and Lawrence H. Schiffman

A monumental three-volume anthology of Second Temple literature by seventy scholars.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013, 5:30pm

Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History

15 West 16th St. (between 5th and 6th Avenues), New York City

Welcome: Richard M. Joel, President, Yeshiva University

Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz, Director, JPS

Keynote: Dr. Lawrence H. Schiffman with Dr. Alex P. Jassen

Remarks: Dr. Louis H. Feldman

The program will be preceded by a brief Hanukkah reception and followed by a book signing and curator’s tour of the Yeshiva University Museum exhibition, Threshold to the Sacred: The Ark Door of Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue.

Admission is free.

RSVP to Amy Rotheim Sullivan at enrollment@yu.edu or call 347-266-4666.