An Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls

With Steven Fraade, Director of Graduate Studies, Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism, Yale University

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An Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls

 A survey of some of the most important of the Dead Sea Scrolls, incorporating the history and ideology of the Jewish sectarian movement that produced them.  The talk will focus on archaeological slides and ancient texts.

Steven D. Fraade is the Mark Taper Professor Emeritus of the History of Judaism at Yale University, in the Department of Religious Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies. He graduated from Brown University in 1970 with an B.A. in Religious Studies, and received the  degree of Ph.D. in 1980 from the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Oriental Studies, in “post-biblical studies.” He joined the faculty of Yale in 1979 and became full professor in 1989. Professor Fraade has published widely in the history of ancient Judaism, rabbinic literature, multilingualism in antiquity, scriptural translation and interpretation, ancient Jewish legal rhetoric, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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