This is behind a pay wall and doesn’t reveal much that you don’t already know, but I thought I would note this piece from CHE. Scholars Try to Piece Together Whats Best Done With the Dead Sea Scrolls – Research – The Chronicle of Higher Education. The story will be […]
Dead Sea Scrolls
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International Organization for Qumran Studies Seventh Meeting HELSINKI, FINLAND AUGUST 2–4, 2010 Call for Papers The Scrolls and Biblical Traditions For the special topic of this seventh meeting of the IOQS, we invite papers that discuss any aspect of the transmission, use, or interpretation of biblical traditions in the Scrolls […]
UPDATE: Now Time magazine is covering this non-story. Time has succombed to sensationalism as much as any rag. I love this line: Now a prominent Israeli scholar, Rachel Elior, disputes that the Essenes ever existed at all — a claim that has shaken the bedrock of biblical scholarship. “Shaken the […]
Dead Sea Scrolls scholar responds to son’s arrest — chicagotribune.com He seems to concede that his son Raphael Golb did as he is accused: “The fact of the matter is that if I understand it, Raphael was responding to the attacks on me,” the elder Golb said in Saturday’s editions […]
I was getting ready to post this story from the Chronicle when I realized I should check Jim West’s blog first and, sure enough, Jim has a very full and consistently updated post documenting this development and with links to all the stories you could want on the matter. The […]
I really think we are not taking seriously enough the potential for abuse. Bad Reporter by Don Asmussen
I just came across this blog today, “Further Up & Further In: A C.S. Lewis & Inklings Resource Blog,” by Dr. Bruce L. Edwards of Bowling Green State. Others may know of him already, I did not, but his info looks impressive and sound and the site looks very interesting. […]
I should preface by saying that although Prof. Vermes had formally retired by the time I was doing graduate work at Oxford I had the great honor to attend seminars and sessions with him and to copy edit DJD vol. 26 which he wrote with Philip Alexander. I can only […]