Mar 17, 2009
Speaker: Hershel Shanks, Founder & Editor
of Biblical Archaeology Review
Location: Washington DCJCC
Part one discusses the ruins of Qumran near the 11 caves in the
Judean Desert where more than 900 scrolls were found, comprising
what has been called the greatest archaeological discovery of the
20th century. This lecture considers whether the people living at
Qumran were a strange sect of Jews called Essenes, what the scrolls
tell us about the development of the Hebrew Bible, and how the
scrolls also help to elucidate Judaism in the crucial period before
the Roman destruction of Jerusalem.