Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

Qumran Forum : The Dead Sea Scrolls after Sixty Years

Convener: Professor Geza Vermes

Tuesdays at 2.15 pm, Oriental Institute

Week 1: 9 October

Professor Hanan Eshel (Bar-Ilan)
Are there two historical layers in the Pesher Habakkuk?

Week 2: 16 October

Professor Philip S Alexander (Manchester)
The observance of the Ninth of Av in the Second Temple period in the light of the Dead Sea Qinnot

Week 3: 23 October

Professor George J Brooke (Manchester)
Rethinking canonical processes in the light of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Week 4: 30 October

—NO MEETING —

Week 5: 6 November

Dr Charlotte Hempel (Birmingham)
The Sons of Aaron in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Week 6: 13 November

Professor Geza Vermes (Oxford)
Fifty-nine years with the Dead Sea Scrolls

Week 7: 20 November

Dennis Mizzi (Wolfson College)
The glassware from Khirbet Qumran: What does it tell us on the Qumran Community?

Week 7: 27 November

Dr Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan)
The relationship between the Genesis Apocryphon and Jubilees

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