JIM VANDERKAM'S 60th birthday is being honored by the University of Notre Dame with a symposium next month. Here's the program, which was sent to me by Notre Dame postgraduate Sam Thomas. (Registration is already closed.) Congratulations, Jim!

Reading Between the Lines:
Scripture and Community in the Dead Scrolls
A Symposium in Honor of James C. VanderKam

March 5-6, 2006
University of Notre Dame
McKenna Hall
Sunday, March 5

Afternoon Session

4:00pm “Whose Scripture? Whose Community? Reflections on the Dead Sea Scrolls Then and Now”
Rob Kugler – Lewis & Clark College

4:45 “The Unfinished Scroll: The End of the Temple Scroll”
Lawrence Schiffman – New York University

5:30 “Decoration, Debauchery and Destruction: Reflections on 1 Enoch 8 in Light of 4QEnb”
Kelley Coblentz Bautch – St. Edward’s University

Keynote Address – Introduction by Greg Sterling, University of Notre Dame

8:00 “A Holy House for Aaron: The Aims of the Yahad”
John J. Collins – Yale University

Monday, March 6

Graduate Student Session

8:30am “Scripts, Scrolls and Textual Communities: A New Model for Reading the Serekh Versions”
Alison Schofield – University of Denver

9:00 “The ‘Mystery’ Community: Raz in the Dead Sea Scrolls”
Sam Thomas – University of Notre Dame

9:30 “Geography as an Evaluative Tool in the Genesis Apocryphon”
Dan Machiela – University of Notre Dame

Late Morning Session

10:30 “What Happened to the Laws? The Treatment of Legal Material in 4QReworked Pentateuch”
Moshe Bernstein – Yeshiva University

11:15 “The Community of the Community Hymns”
Angela Kim – Duquesne University

11:45 “Pseudonymity and Exemplarity: The Case of 4Ezra”
Hindy Najman – University of Toronto

Afternoon Session

1:30 “Qumran Self-Identity and the Eschatological Restoration of Israel”
John Bergsma – Franciscan University of Steubenville

2:00 “Some Conceptions of Sin in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the Book of Daniel”
Gary A. Anderson – University of Notre Dame

2:45 “Methodological Reflections on Determining Scriptural Status in First Century Judaism”
Eugene Ulrich – University of Notre Dame

3:15-3:30 Conclusion of Symposium
Dan Harlow – Calvin College