MORE ON GEZA VERMES'S LECTURE TOUR in the United States:

Dead Sea Scrolls talk opens Jewish Studies series

(The Chapel Hill News)

A talk by a pioneer of Dead Sea Scrolls research will kick off a series of community events sponsored by the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill.

The events for the 2009-10 academic year will begin with the Sept. 14 lecture by Geza Vermes, emeritus professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford University. He will discuss the scrolls and evaluate their contribution to the study of ancient Judaism and early Christianity.

Vermes' talk will be this year's Eli N. Evans Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies at 7:30 p.m. at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education. It is free to the public.

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Background here.

Also, Professor Vermes e-mails the following:

As you kindly posted the notice of my talk at ULM on the historical Jesus, you may like to note that during my American escapade I am also lecturing on the DSS at UNC Chapel Hill on 14 Sept., Johns Hopkins in Baltimore on 22 Sept. and at ULS in Baton Rouge on 29 Sept. Furthermore I am scheduled for a graduate seminar at Duke on 17 Sept. on History in the DSS.