Joan Taylor on The Mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls

PROFESSOR JOAN TAYLOR is lecturing on the Dead Sea Scrolls in New Zealand:

The Mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Thursday, 16 August 2012, 9:16 am
Press Release: University of Waikato

16 August 2012

The Mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls

To celebrate 25 years of Religious Studies, the University of Waikato is hosting a free public lecture next week that will focus on the mystery surrounding the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls.

The seminar titled The Mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls will be presented by former Waikato University Religious Studies and History Senior Lecturer Dr Joan Taylor, who is now a Professor of Christian Origins and the Second Temple Judaism at King’s College London.

Professor Douglas Pratt from the Religious Studies programme at Waikato is delighted that Dr Taylor will be giving a lecture to mark this 25 year milestone. “Joan’s scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls is second to none. She is a world-ranked scholar in this field,” he says.

Dr Taylor will present part of her forthcoming book, The Essenes, The Scrolls and the Dead Sea, which will be published later this year by Oxford University Press.

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Professor Taylor is also presenting a paper on "The Herodians and the Essenes" at the annual meeting of the British New Testament Society, in London next month, in the New Testament and Second Temple Judaism Seminar, which Dr. Darrell Hannah and I chair.