Thanks to Joseph Lauer for passing along notice of this essay which begins enticingly
Two experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls will lecture on their history and preservation at a symposium next weekend. Lawrence Schiffman, chairman of New York University’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Donald Parry, professor of Hebrew Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls at Brigham Young University, will discuss and conduct tours of a traveling exhibit of scroll facsimiles at the Hill Cumorah Visitors Center in Palmyra.
Anyone going? I’d love to hear about it. And does anyone know if Schiffman still holds his Sadducee hypothesis? It’s been a long time since I read his book and nothing from him since then (for which I feel badly, but not horribly, since there’s always Zwingli urging my attention).
James McGrath said,
February 25, 2008 at 1:12 pm
I’ve decided to bestow upon you the highly prestigious ‘E for Excellent’ award. I know you’ll appreciate the value of this prize…
jeremy said,
February 26, 2008 at 6:02 am
I heard Schiffman in Memphis in the spring of 2005. He still held the Sadducee hypothesis then; I’m sure he hasn’t changed.