Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary opens an exhibit next month entitled “Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible.” In addition to the display of 16 fragments, the Fort Worth school is also hosting a weekly lecture series on Tuesday evenings. Tickets for the lectures are $20 and details are available at the exhibition website.
July 10: Shalom Paul, “The Ever-Alive Dead Sea Scrolls and their Significance for the Understanding of the Bible, Early Judaism and the Birth of Christianity”
July 17: Steven Ortiz, “The Search for Solomon: Recent Excavations at Tel Gezer”
July 24: Matthias Henze, “A Dead Sea Scroll on Stone? The Gabriel Revelation and its Significance?”
July 31: Randall Price, “Evangelicals and the Dead Sea Scrolls”
August 7: Peter Flint, “The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible: Ancient Texts and New Readings”
August 14: Lawrence H. Schiffman, “The Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism”
August 21: Ryan Stokes, “Satan in the Dead Sea Scrolls”
August 28: Steven Collins, “Sodom: Discovery of a Lost City”
September 4: Ziad Al-Saad, “The Lost Archaeological Treasures of Jordan”
September 11: Emmanuel Tov, “The Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls”
September 18: Jim Hoffmeier, “Where is Mt. Sinai and Why It Does Not Matter”
September 25: Bruce Zuckerman, “New Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls”
October 2: Yosef Garfinkel, “Khirbet Qeiyafa Excavations: New Light on King David”
October 9: Kenneth Mathews, “The Living Among the Dead: The Dead Sea Scrolls”
October 23: Martin Abegg, “The Influence of the Modern New International Version of the Bible on the Ancient Jewish Scribes”
October 30: Tom Davis, “Archaeology, Cyprus and the Apostle Paul: New Evidence on the Transformation of Christianity”
November 27: Amnon Ben-Tor, “Archaeology (Hazor)-Bible-Politics—the Unholy Trinity”
December 4: Weston Fields, “100 New Dead Sea Scroll fragments from Qumran Cave 4: How Did It Happen?”
2 thoughts on “Lecture Series at Southwestern Seminary”
Todd: Do you know if videos of these talks, or papers or any other medium will be available for those of us who do not attend these talks?
Mike – I haven't heard. I know they make available lectures from other series, so perhaps they will for this also. If I hear anything, I'll pass it on.