NYU has made available full recordings from the Dead Sea Scrolls in Recent Scholarship: A Public Conference, which took place virtually on May 17-20, 2020.
DAY 1: Sunday, May 17
Plenary Session
Chair and Opening Remarks – Alex Jassen, New York University
Welcome- Emily Master, Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority & Joe Uziel, Curator and Head of the Dead Sea Scrolls Unit
Contributions of the Israel Antiquities Authority to the Preservation and Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls – Pnina Shor, Israel Antiquities Authority
Where are We in the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls? – Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University
Chair: Eileen Schuller, McMaster University
Before the Canon – The Role of Extra-biblical Literature in Second Temple Judaism – Armin Lange, University of Vienna
Scribes as Authors in the Dead Sea Scrolls – Molly Zahn, University of Kansas
DAY 2: Monday, May 18
Archaeology, Realia and Science
Chair: Dennis Mizzi, University of Malta
New Archaeological Investigations of Qumran Cave 3Q – Marcello Fidanzio, Faculty of Theology, Lugano
Inkwells residues as a Pre-screening Tool for Characterizing DSS Ink – Ilit Cohen-Ofri, Israel Antiquities Authority
Trade and Manufacture at Qumran, with Special Attention to the Inscriptions – Sidnie White Crawford, University of Nebraska
Mimetic Performance in Ancient Judaism
Chair: Alison Schofield, University of Denver
Mimetic and Literary Performance in Ancient Judaism – Hindy Najman, Oxford University
Mimetic and Scribal Performance in Ancient Judaism – Eibert Tigchelaar, KU Leuven
Interpreting Dead Sea Scrolls Texts
Chair: Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University
Jubilees and the Visions of Amram – James C. VanderKam, University of Notre Dame
Deciphering Fragments: Tefillin or an Amulet? – Ariel Feldman, Brite Divinity School
Reimagining Israel: The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls and Judaism in the Hellenistic Period – Daniel Machiela, McMaster University
Digital Exploration of the Dead Sea Scrolls with Scripta Qumranica Electronica – Bronson Brown-deVost, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
DAY 3: Tuesday, May 19
Science, Technology and the Scrolls
Chair: Robert Cargill, University of Iowa
Researching the DSS with Imaging Technologies – Orit Rosengarten, Israel Antiquities Authority
Modern Forgeries: The Scientific Analysis of Dead Sea Scroll Fragments in the Museum of the Bible Collection – Colette Loll, Art Fraud Insights, LLC
The Hands that Wrote the Bible. Digital Palaeography of the Dead Sea Scrolls for Identifying and Dating Manuscripts – Mladen Popović and Maruf Dhali, University of Groningen
Ideology and Theology
Chair: Erik Larson, Florida International University
Virtue Signaling in the Dead Sea Scrolls – Charlotte Hempel, University of Birmingham
Metaphysics of Financial Relations in Qumran Wisdom – Jonathan Ben-Dov, Haifa University
Patterns of Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls – George Brooke, University of Manchester
Qumran and the Sect
Chair: Moshe Bernstein, Yeshiva University
Women in the Sectarian Texts from Qumran – Esther Chazon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for Reconstructing the Life and Message of Jesus – Cecilia Wassén, Uppsala University
Why NOT the Essenes: How to Talk about the Dead Sea Sectarians – Maxine Grossman, University of Maryland
The Sectarian Movement and Qumran – John Collins, Yale University
DAY 4: Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Hebrew Bible and it Interpretation
Chair: Cana Werman, Ben-Gurion University
The Many Faces of the Bible in the Dead Sea Scrolls – Emanuel Tov, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“2300 Evenings and Mornings” (Dan 8:13-14) Recalculated according to the Damascus Document – Michael Segal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Perfect Marriage in the Genesis Apocryphon – Esther Eshel, Bar-Ilan University
Cave 11 and the Temple Scroll
Chair: Joseph Angel, Yeshiva University
Treasures from a Small Box: Recently Discovered Fragments from Cave 11 – Oren Ableman, Israel Antiquities Authority
The Hydra-headed Mysteries of the Temple Scroll – Andrew D. Gross, Catholic University of America
The Utopian Temple Plan of the Temple Scroll – Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University
Law and Liturgy
Chair: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Haifa University
What Was Given on Mt. Sinai? – Cana Werman, Ben-Gurion University
The Early Study of Jewish Law in the Damascus Document – Alex Jassen, New York University
Close of Conference and Thanks
Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University &
Emily Master, Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority
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