Yeshiva University Dead Sea Scrolls Seminars 2013

Bar Kokhba Coin, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bar_Kokhba_Coin.jpg

The first of the YU Dead Sea Scrolls Seminars for the Fall 2013 semester will take place on Monday, October 14, 2013 at 6:00 PM in Belfer 1214 on the Wilf (uptown) campus of Yeshiva University.  The speaker will be Andrew D. Gross, Assistant Professor of Semitics at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. His topic is “The Place of the Bar Kokhba Documents within both the Aramaic Legal Tradition and the Ancient Near Eastern Legal Tradition,” and the respondent is Shalom E. Holtz, Associate Professor of Bible at Yeshiva University.

HOLD THE DATE: Our second seminar will take place on Wednesday November 20, 2013 at 5:45 PM on the Wilf (uptown) campus of Yeshiva University.  The speaker will be Dr. Michael Segal, Senior Lecturer in Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Editor of the Hebrew University Bible Project. His topic will be “Who is the ‘Son of God’ in 4Q246? An Overlooked Case of Early Biblical Interpretation”.

If you plan on attending, RSVP to Amy Rotheim Sullivan at rotheims@yu.edu. You may also contact Amy if you have any questions.