Contact information
Name:
Robert Cohn
Phone:
610-330-5182
Email:
cohnr@lafayette.edu
Categories:
When:
Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Where:
Kirby Hall Auditorium 104
Presenter:
Professor John J. Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament, Yale University
Price:
Free
The Dead Sea Scrolls have provided us with a trove of primary sources for a crucial period in the history of Judaism and Christianity. Some of the claims made about them have been sensational, but they shed important light on the nature of Judaism and on the origins of Christianity, as well as on the history of the Bible.
Sponsored by:
Howard Marblestone Lecture Fund, Departments of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Religious Studies, History; Jewish Studies Program; Friends of Skillman Library; Hillel Society