Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Zoom lecture: Why are the Dead Sea Scrolls so Sensational?

BY INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES UCL:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-are-the-dead-sea-scrolls-so-sensational-tickets-134122777839

Why are the Dead Sea Scrolls so Sensational?

by Institute of Jewish Studies UCL

Lecture explaining why scholars concur that the recovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is the most sensational discovery of ancient writings

Date And Time:
Thursday, 14 January 2021, 13:00 – 14:00 EST
Thursday, 14 January 2021, 18:00 – 19:00 GMT
Location: Online Event
Free

About this Event

Since the early 1960s, Professor James Charlesworth has focused his research on the scrolls found in eleven caves on the western shores of the Dead Sea: The Dead Sea Scrolls. In this lecture, Charlesworth seeks to explain why scholars concur that the recovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is the most sensational discovery of ancient writings. Throughout the world the perspective on Early Judaism and the Origins of Christianity have received a paradigm shift. Why? It is because of the startling and unexpected thoughts found in these scrolls that take us back to a time in the Holy Land from 200 BCE to 67 CE. How and in what ways, if at all, were John the Baptizer and Jesus from Nazareth influenced by the unique symbolic language in these scrolls?

ONLINE EVENT
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