Third Yeshiva University Dead Sea Scrolls Seminar

The third YU Dead Sea Scrolls seminar for the Fall 2013 semester will take place on Thursday December 19, 2013 at 6:00 PM in Belfer 1214 on the Wilf (uptown) campus of Yeshiva University.  The speaker will be Dr. Yaakov Elman, Professor of Judaic Studies and Herbert S. and Naomi Denenberg Chair in Talmudic Studies, Yeshiva University. His topic will be “Some Thoughts on Qumran Halakhah: Biblical or ‘Neo-Biblical’?” The respondent will be Dr. Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, Skirball Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at New York University.

Please feel free to share this invitation with colleagues and students who are interested in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

If you plan on attending, we would appreciate if you could let us know ahead of time by responding to Amy Rotheim Sullivan at rotheims@yu.edu. You may also contact Amy if you have any questions.