Monday, July 14, 2008

RACHEL ELIOR is speaking on the Dead Sea Scrolls at the North Carolina exhibit:
PROFESSOR WILL SPEAK ON DEAD SEA SCROLLS

Israeli professor Rachel Elior will present the first lecture of the series "Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Were They Written?" on Thursday at 7 p.m. at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences.

The lecture is part of a series the museum is holding with The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit. Elior is the John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Jewish Mystical Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She will speak about topics on which the scrolls were written, their authors and the circumstances under which they were written.

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Exhibit background here. More on Professor Elior's work on the Dead Sea Scrolls here.