ADOLFO ROITMAN lectured in Billings, Montana, last night:

Curator focuses on temples' role in history

By SUSAN OLP
Of The [Billings] Gazette Staff

Men have always built temples, Adolfo Roitman told an auditorium full of people Tuesday night.

Roitman, curator of the museum that houses the Dead Sea Scrolls in Israel, traced the thread of temples from the time of Moses in the Old Testament to Jesus and beyond.

He was the second of three internationally known experts to speak this week at Rocky Mountain College on the "Historical Jesus in the 21st Century." He spoke to a packed house of about 250 people in Taylor Auditorium.

Roitman is curator of the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, one of the world's leading archaeological museums. A senior lecturer at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, he also lectures widely on early Jewish literature, the history and significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls and biblical interpretation.

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