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Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Dead Sea Scrolls Conference (June 6 - 9, 2021): NYU fourth of 4 days agenda

 

Legal and Sectarian Texts

Chair:  Sidnie White Crawford, University of Nebraska

'Bringing the Messiah(s) Through Law': Reflections upon Completing a New Commentary to the Damascus Document
    Steven Fraade, Yale University

Inter-sectarian Polemic in Miqsat Ma`asei Ha-Torah (4QMMT)
    Vered Noam, Tel Aviv University

On Timing and Law: A Multimodal Analysis of the Maskil in 4Q259
    James M. Tucker, University of Toronto

The Temple Scroll and Mishnah Middot:  A Literary Comparison
    Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University

11:00 - 11:30 AM EDT [6:00 - 6:30 PM IDT]: Break

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM EDT [6:30 - 8:00 PM IDT]: Scripture, Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism


Chair: Alison Schofield, University of Denver

Why Did Moses Stay for Forty Days and Forty Nights on Mt. Sinai?
    Ariel Feldman, Brite Divinity School

Lived Wisdom in Early Judaism
    Elisa Uusimäki, Aarhus University

Are the Dead Sea Scrolls Authentic? Insights from Early Qumran Scholarship
    Michael Langlois, University of Strasbourg

1:00 - 1:30 PM EDT [8:00 - 8:30 IDT]: Break

1:30 - 2:30 PM EDT [8:30 - 9:30 PM IDT]: War and Violence in the Scrolls

Chair: Liane Feldman, New York University

“Deep into that darkness peering “: New Light on the War Scroll (1QM)
    Guy Stiebel, Tel Aviv University

The Origins of Violence in the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Sociological Perspective
    Alex Jassen, New York University

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