The Jewish Star on the YU Dead Sea Scrolls Seminar

The rarified discourse and debate of scholars and researchers will be open for the lay public as well as professionals to listen, observe and learn at a first time seminar on May 19th at Yeshiva University.

A confluence of scholars from different but related fields and a generous grant has brought together the first annual conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls to be held in the Lipschutz-Gutwirth Study Hall (Rubin Shul) of Yeshiva University this Sunday from 1:30 to 4:30 PM.

The goal of the seminar was for students and the lay public to “see actual scholarship in action,” said Lawrence H. Schiffman, Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Judaic Studies, Yeshiva University, and a world renown expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls. The seminar would open it to the “wider public,” he said, “for lay people who are interested in learning about the Dead Sea Scrolls…its an obligation to present it to scholars and the lay public.” He and Moshe J. Bernstein, the David A. and Fannie M. Denenberg Chair in Biblical Studies, Yeshiva University, said that they wanted to do this for along time, to bring scholars together on campus. “We hope professors are lost in the larger audience. If we get 60 or 70 (attendees) we will be very happy.”

Read the rest of the article at The Jewish Star.