PROFESSOR LAWRENCE SCHIFFMAN gave a lecture on the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Solon Chabad Jewish Center a week ago.

Scholar traces history of the Dead Sea Scrolls

By: ALAN SMASON, Staff Reporter (Cleveland Jewish News)

Were there a real Indiana Jones, one of the places he would undoubtedly explore first would be the ancient area of Qumran, now located in Israel.


The famous Dead Sea Scrolls, written by the Qumran sect of the second and first century B.C.E., reveal important details about the habits and beliefs of the Jews who lived at that time, according to Professor Lawrence H. Schiffman, an archaeologist and renowned researcher of the scrolls.

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